Doing a very cursed thing because people keep asking...

Doing a very cursed thing because people keep asking me to make my NearDrop app work on Catalina (would be funny if it overwrites my Mojave install anyway, it really acts like I'm not supposed to have multiple OS versions on a single Mac, even though this is what Apple officially allows)

Like 22 May at 18:24 | Open on mastodon.social

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Gregory

I did make it work in the end. I don't know why the background is peeking through. Enabling layers for these NSTextViews didn't do anything. If anyone with expertise in Apple UI frameworks knows how to fix it, please tell me. It doesn't do this on Ventura.

Now I can safely forget about this project for 6 more months, until Google breaks their shit on the Android side again.

22 May at 21:30 | Open on mastodon.social

Gregory

In other news, Swift is a terrible programming language. Even C++ template errors are more actionable than THIS

22 May at 21:32 | Open on mastodon.social

Gregory

Maybe I should just rewrite this thing in Objective-C, then it will work flawlessly all the way down to 10.5 or something. The downside is that I'll have to support Growl for notifications.

edit: actually no, share extensions are kinda required, I don't remember when they appeared but that was definitely later than even 10.9, the last one with good design

22 May at 21:34 | Open on mastodon.social

Maxim Lebedev

@grishka I'll bring my bit of humor art to here as well:

22 May at 23:40 | Open on mstdn.io

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