Feb 13 2018
Once you start looking into what file creation and reading involves, you may feel an urge to run away screaming. I certainly did. So far, I have managed to write posts on – NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel – Basic FileManager paths/URLs – custom file types – Codable/NSCoding These posts do not touch on – file coordinators and -presenters […]
Feb 7 2018
macOS 10.12; Swift 4 Basics Opening and saving files is part of many, if not most Mac Apps, and there are many ways of achieving this. I wanted to review my practice and hope to arrive at a clean, swifty way of file handling. In this post, I will concentrate on NSOpenPanel and NSSavePanel, rather […]
Feb 7 2018
macOS 10.12; Swift 4 This post started as an offshoot of the NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel post. Frequently I want to navigate to certain locations – eg, my apps ApplicationSupport folder, or the user’s document folder – and I could never remember how to get to them. (Spoiler: I think this API has been updated a lot since […]
Feb 27 2018
Saving Files with Codable
macOS 10.12.6; Xcode 9.2; Swift 4.0 This is the basic ‘create a file’ post; you still need to register your filetype with the Finder and tell your app what it means to open a file when the user double-clicks it in the Finder; there is a separate post on Filetypes and UTIs which builds on […]
By Extelligent Cocoa • File Handling, Tutorials, Wiki • • Tags: Codable, NSCoding, NSKeyedArchiver, NSKeyedUnarchiver, NSOpenPanel, NSSavePanel