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An iMac running Windows 10 that I wanted to use as a monitor at my internship crashed while installing the "Wireless Display" feature and is now stuck in an Automatic Repair blue screen boot ...
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I have a macOS menu bar app. It is a SwiftUI app using MenuBarExtra, with LSUIElement = true. After the app has been launched and running for a short time, the system sometimes terminates it. There is ...
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I usually program in Android Studio, but for my first KMP project, I installed macOS in Docker in the docurr/macos project, copied my project to the macOS Documents folder, and developed it in Xcode. ...
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Created "Kotlin Multiplatform quickstart" for a "web": https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform/quickstart.html Using: IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 Build #IU-262.8665.258, built on July ...
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This is in Macos Sequioa 15.5. I have this folder /Users/max/work/charanga/elearn_container/fake_ebs and i want to make a symlink to it called ebs in /, so /ebs will link to /Users/max/work/charanga/...
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I downloaded the source code from https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover/source but I don't know how to compile it. After extracting there are a lot of folders in it. Does compiling it requires manual ...
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I have an audio player app on macOS built on top of AVPlayer, I want to add the ability to scrub the audio, and hear the audio frames based on the playhead's position whether going forwards or ...
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I have brought over a Visual Studio MAUI solution to VS Code on Mac. When I build, AppResources.Designer.cs is not auto-generated from Resx/AppResources.resx. Everything works with a pre-existing ...
Tooling
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I’ve started my software learning journey with C#, but the courses on YouTube and Udemy consistently proceed using Windows PCs. I use a MacBook Air, so I’m unable to build the Windows Forms ...
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I'm working on an application. My main intent for now is to make the App communicate with a Safari extension so that they could trigger things on the browser. However I'm having an issue with the ...
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I am experiencing different results with the locale library on macOS. Consider the below C program: #include <stdio.h> #include <locale.h> #include <wchar.h> #include <wctype.h>...
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I'm facing an issue on macOS where npm/npx commands hang only inside the VS Code integrated terminal, while the exact same commands work perfectly in the native macOS Terminal. Environment: macOS VS ...
Advice
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I'm looking for a way to prevent my app from displaying in screenshots and screen recordings. There appears to be plenty of options for UIKit/iOS but nothing I can find for macOS. ...
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I have a C interpreter that I'm trying to get working again under modern macOS. I want to use dlopen() to open the C library .dylib file, so that I can call functions like printf() dynamically. Once ...
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I'm currently adding macOS and visionOS support to my SignDict. Everything looks perfect on iPadOS, but I'm seeing an issue on macOS. I have a custom search view in the SwiftUI with a ToolbarItem: ...
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The general advice from WWDC26 is to move away from overriding mouseDown: or using own event tracking loops. While something as simple as if ([event clickCount] == 2) { can be replaced with ...
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I am getting an error that I am not able to see any resource around the internet for. I tried a lot of different things but none are able to resolve this issue: Audio input timestamp overlaps or ...
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I am converting a project from Qt5 to Qt6.11 on macOS using QMake. My .PRO file specifies: QT += core gui help uitools widgets printsupport network xml sql Platforms.files += $$(QTDIR)/plugins/...
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I have a macOS menu-bar app (Swift, macOS 26.5, Apple Silicon, SIP enabled) that "pins" a live thumbnail of another app's window in a small floating NSPanel. The panel uses ...
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I need help getting wxUIActionSimulator to work. I have a simple test that checks whether wxEVT_ENTER_WINDOW is registered; I squeezed it in App::OnRun() for simplicity: int App::OnRun() { App&...
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Where does kMDItemPhysicalSize come from for .app bundles? I'm building a Mac utility that uses mdfind -attr kMDItemPhysicalSize as a fast size-hint source for .app bundles in /Applications. On my ...
Advice
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We have a managed (i.e., Apple-hosted) on-demand asset pack (via Managed Background Assets) that we download at the start of our iOS/macOS app. We first present the user with the download size and the ...
Advice
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I am trying to programmatically create custom, dynamic NSImage icons based on SF Symbols that look and behave exactly like the icons found in macOS System Settings (an SF Symbol centered inside a ...
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I'm trying to use PyObjC (a bridge between the Python and Objective-C), version 12.1_3, to find the original file of a Finder alias, but I can't seem to get it right: Python 3.13.13 (main, Apr 8 2026,...
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So I am trying to create a formula that will automatically match all of the keywords from a source cell with their corresponding ID codes, then return all of the matched ID codes in another cell. How ...
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Spotlight wasn't finding stuff I knew was there, so I ran this Applescript: do shell script"sudo mdutil -Ea"with administrator privileges and got this error: Error: CoreSpotlight reset ...
Best practices
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I'm wondering whether the result of comparing collation sort keys (= already pre-processed strings for faster collation-compatible sorting/searching) is a strong or weak ordering. The implementation ...
Advice
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I’m building a macOS app in SwiftUI that loads Gmail in a WebView while also using the Gmail API for some additional features (e.g., unread counts, notifications, etc.). Since Google Blocks OAuth ...
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Form picker (no button, aligns to right). Outside form, the picker .menu style aligns left and width expands to widest content in menu with button-pill as container for selections. Is it possible to ...
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I'm working on MacOS 26.1 and Xcode 26.2. I'm wring a software simulator of a computer on Mac and want to have a panel that shows the current stack (which grows down). Note, my memory array is in ...
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I started with the following code which shows a Picker : import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { enum MenuOption: String, CaseIterable { case sort = "Sort" case search ...
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I am trying to launch an isolated Google Chrome instance on macOS with a specific user-data-dir and proxy settings. My goal is to restrict WebRTC to only use the configured proxy (hide the real public ...
Advice
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I followed instructions found online but no luck with installing pygame on my Mac Mini. It was easy to install on my Windows based laptop but not so with Apple version of VS Code. The Apple version ...
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I am working making an assembler that compiles bf code into an executable that can be run on macOS. Essentially, I run the compiler, which outputs a raw arm64 binary to output.bin (i.e., a binary that ...
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I'm attempting to use the gcc compiler installed at /usr/bin/gcc by homebrew on my MacBook running Tahoe. Every time I run it, it defaults to Xcode's clang instead. I am attempting to compile C++20 ...
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As the title suggests, I have been working on a cross-platform project where I want to create apps for the macOS backend programmatically (without Xcode) through a combination of C and Objective-C, ...
Advice
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I updated to macOS 26.2, and then SourceTree was unable to connect to internal network addresses like “172.x.x.x”, although connecting to domains worked fine. I spent a whole night figuring this out.😣...
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I am working on a form to allow the user to enter some input. Here is my code: import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @State private var searchString = "TEST" @State private var ...
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The Finder has a "Rename…" (formerly "Rename X items…") command that offers interactive pattern match & replace: I like to invoke this operation from my own program. Is that ...
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I have written a shell script that I want to run every time I log on to my Macbook, and I'm trying to execute it via launchd. My script is not a persistent daemon, it's supposed to write some text to ...
Best practices
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How to avoid of covering a magnificant object by the "loupe" tool in macos "preview"? There is now way / cheat to shift away over the zoomed target. Any LLM suggestions aren't ...
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I've got a .NET Xamarin app running on Mac. It's been working fine, but I've been upgrading it to .NET 10 and macOS 26. After the upgrade, I have one dialog that is acting weird. It's the popup to ...
Tooling
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Question: I’m exploring the architecture for a desktop application that needs to: Capture both microphone input and system audio (e.g. Zoom/Meet calls) Process the audio stream in near real-time (...
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I want to use Spotlight to retrieve files. It should consider both the file name and the text content. However I get completely different search results than within the finder or with a manual mdfind. ...
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I am developing a game in Unreal Engine 5 (running on macOS with JetBrains Rider) and I'm running into a silent failure with the Enhanced Input system. The Problem: My C++ logic for adding an Input ...
Best practices
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The background: As mentioned in previous posts, I'm rewriting an older Mac kaleidoscope generating app written in Objective C and OpenGL as a multi-platform  macOS/iOS/iPadOS app in SwiftUI and Metal....
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I'm working on macOS (case-insensitive filesystem) and ran into an issue where renaming files only by casing caused problems in Git and deployment. Example: someComponent.jsx SomeComponent.jsx Locally ...
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Running tput cols inside a command substitution, while redirecting stderr always make it fallback to 80. Unless I redirect it to a terminal device file tput cols # Output: actual ...
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This is my function #!/usr/bin/env bash function run_aws_ssm_delete_parameters() { local -r enable_logging="$1" local -n parameter_names="$2" shift 2 local -a ...
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I've had Flutter installed on my mac since at least 2023 (version 3.13.8) and haven't been using it in a long time now. I tried upgrading (newest available 3.41.6) but it got me this error: Building ...

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