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Filetypes and UTIs

Mar 11 2018

Filetypes and UTIs

macOS 10.12 (I will update this post once I’ve moved to 10.13) UTIs are necessary for – creating/setting filetypes for a document-based app (whether using NSDocument or not) – telling the system which filetypes your apps will open On macOS, you’re more likely to encounter UTIs in the both context; the importing of files (eg […]

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Saving Files with Codable

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 […]

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NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel

Feb 7 2018

NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel

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 […]

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