Talk:Portal:Mac

  Note: A list of macOS items, native code techniques etc to document in the Mac Portal

Trev's Mac Portal ToDo List

Done

• The open command (man open) for external applications, documents, urls etc
• Drag and drop files on form example
• Bouncing application dock icons example
• Get macOS default application name
• macOS file associations (see macOS_tips.txt)
• Implement NSSound delegate for macOS NSSound
• Finish off System Sound Services, eg completion handler, error msgs for macOS Play Alert Sound
• How to hide the dock when starting an application (macOS_tips.txt)
• AVMidiPlayer (MacPortalToDo.txt)
• NSBundle paths (apart from Resource)
• NSProcessInfo
• Finish the code and description for macOS NSURLConnection.
• macOS NSURLSession started; system-provided delegates & completion handler example done. Custom delegates done.
• Example of using macOS Gestures for a trackpad
• macOS App Nap
• Clarify unloading of dynamic library to macOS Dynamic Libraries
• NSApplication Delegates - done for macOS App Nap
• macOS Application Dock Menu to do ...
• Protected Resources: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/protected_resources
• macOS Drawers examples done.
• Cocoa About Boxes
• macOS SCNetworkReachability API * Detect Internet access or not (laz_network_reachable)
• NSUserDefaults - serious problems iOS 9 & macOS 10.12/10.13
• NSAlert modal dialog or sheet attached to a window. See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsalert
• macOS NSRegularExpression article
• macOS NSString Regular Expressions article
• Save form state (position and size) using Mac preferences system: macOS Form Position Save and Restore‎‎
• AVPlayer - AVKit and AVFoundation macOS Video Player
• macOS Progress Indicators
• Updating the GUI from a non-main thread (eg NSURLSession progress etc)
• Adding application status items to the menu bar

In progress

• macOS daemons and agents new macOS daemons and agents page - done but:
  • awaiting code examples: boot script; monitor script; login agent to do(?)
  • system-wide launch daemons - done (still need launch_activate_socket() for servers)
• macOS Energy Efficiency Guide - started, in progress
• Add full project source code to SourceForge for all my examples... will take a while.

Stalled

• UNUserNotificationCenter notification for Big Sur [stalled]

To do

• Retrieving file attributes
• Alain's AudioQueue example
• AVSpeechSynthesizer
• NSFileManager (mentioned in macOS NSURLSession)
• 64 bit Global HotKey (Carbon units needed - see MacPortalToDo.txt)
• Screenshot (see MacPortalToDo.txt)
• File System Events + packages/univint/src/FSEvents.pas
• Preventing Insecure Network Connections
  • Cocoa Keys
• macoS versions and missing features in older versions page (see this page section for the approach).
• Using WKWebView (10.10+) - see this forum thread
• Logging in macOS: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/os/logging
• String assignment post 2019 (find it and add to Tips) ???
• Detect "best" web browser - up to 10.15 LSCopyAllHandlersForURLScheme(CFSTR("https")) then LSCopyApplicationURLsForURL - see LSInfo.pas
• Distribute via app store https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/128166
• To reload the plist file manually (avoid cached copy), use defaults read <filename>.plist to read the new plist values or maybe

killall cfprefsd && killall Finder