It's easy to populate the Open Recent menu following the advice from here
UIDocument.open() automatically adds opened files to the "Open Recents" menu
However, File Save out of the Sandbox is different. I'm using code like this, where I move a file from inside the sandbox out:
let documentPicker = UIDocumentPickerViewController(forExporting: [urlOfFileInSandbox], asCopy: false)
topVC.present(documentPicker, animated: true)
This is great but the file's URL doesn't show up in the "Open Recent" menu. Is there an easy way to do this?
(I can obtain the URL in the UIDocumentPickerDelegate, of course)
The solution is pretty simple. You need a UIDocument subclass that does nothing at all when you open a file URL
/// Call .open to add the fileURL to the recent menu
private class OpenRecentMenuModifier: UIDocument {
/// no-op
override func load(fromContents contents: Any, ofType typeName: String?) throws {
debugPrint("Adding \(fileURL.absoluteString) to Open Recent Menu")
}
}
Just call this after save to pretend that you just opened the file.
User has to save a file, but I only want them saving the file in one folder. How to do this?
I have already tried implementing the delegate and forcefully setting back the directory if it is different. This does not work. The user is still able to select other folders when the save panel opens
extension Project: NSOpenSavePanelDelegate {
func panel(_ sender: Any, didChangeToDirectoryURL url: URL?) {
if url != testsFolder {
(sender as! NSSavePanel).directoryURL = testsFolder
}
}
func panel(_ sender: Any, validate url: URL) throws {
if url.deletingLastPathComponent() != testsFolder {
(sender as! NSSavePanel).directoryURL = testsFolder
throw ProjectError.scriptInitiliation
}
}
}
The thing is, the folder is already fix fixed within the app.
This is the time to acquire permission from the user to access this folder. Use a open (not save) dialog to have the user confirm selection of the folder. Think of this as a "confirm access dialog", you can:
Change the label of the "Open" button to something else using prompt
Set the title and message so the dialog is clearly a confirmation dialog
set the initial folder using directoryURL to the parent of the one you want confirmed (Note: any changes to directoryURL after the dialog is up are ignored so you cannot lock the dialog to that folder using the delegate didChangeToDirectoryURL – in the early sandbox you could but Apple has now stopped that)
Set the delegate and use its shouldEnable and validate callbacks to make sure only the folder you wish to have confirmed can be selected or the dialog cancelled.
Set canCreateDirectories & canChooseFiles to false, canChooseDirectories to true
Once the user has confirmed the folder access save a security scoped bookmark in your app's prefs. Your app can now regain access to that folder at any time. With that permission you can create and open files and folders within that folder without using NSOpenPanel or NSSavePanel again.
From this point to restrict users to saving in that folder put up your own dialog to ask for just the filename, omitting the path part, and bypass NSSavePanel –you can impersonate the standard dialogs or design your own from scratch.
HTH
How do I link a button on Xcode to a website? I have one button that works it is a "buy now" button that redirects to a online shop. I need 3 more of these buttons across my app but it is not letting me control drag to the but of code I already have?
thanks
chelsey
what you can do is in every class file and the buttons are in add this code
#IBAction func toBuyLink(_ sender: Any) {
if let url = URL(string: "https://www.store.com/buynow") { //This is an example as I dont know your link.
UIApplication.shared.open(url, options: [:])
}
}
This will open your store link in safari (I am guessing this is how you want it) Whenever you press the button.
PLEASE NOTE
You will have to reference the button action in the view class and then add the below code :)
I am working on accepting a CKShare in a macOS app in Swift 4. I've already done all the following:
Create the CKShare and save it with its rootRecord to CloudKit
Add a participant (CKShare.Participant)
I've confirmed that the CKShare is on the CloudKit server and that the person I invited has access to it. Here's a screenshot: https://d.pr/i/0sMFQq
When I click the share link associated with the CKShare, it opens my app, but nothing happens and userDidAcceptCloudKitShareWith doesn't fire.
func application(_ application: NSApplication, userDidAcceptCloudKitShareWith metadata: CKShareMetadata) {
print("Made it!") //<-- This never gets logged :(
let shareOperation = CKAcceptSharesOperation(shareMetadatas: [metadata])
shareOperation.qualityOfService = .userInteractive
shareOperation.perShareCompletionBlock = {meta, share, error in
print("meta \(meta)\nshare \(share)\nerror \(error)")
}
shareOperation.acceptSharesCompletionBlock = { error in
if let error = error{
print("error in accept share completion \(error)")
}else{
//Send your user to where they need to go in your app
print("successful share:\n\(metadata)")
}
}
CKContainer.default().add(shareOperation)
}
Is there some kind of URL scheme I have to include in my info.plist? Or perhaps a protocol I need to conform to in my NSApplicationDelegate delegate? I can't, for the life of me, figure out what to do. Thanks in advance!
Update
I've tried a few more things on this. When I open the share link in a web browser, I see this:
Clicking OK makes the screen fade away to this:
Not particularly helpful. :) After doing this, the participant's status in CloudKit is still Invited, so the share still hasn't been accepted.
When I click on a share link within Messages, I am shown a popup like this:
After I click open, a new copy of my app shows up in the dock, then the app suddenly closes. The crash log states:
Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'CKException', reason: 'The application is missing required entitlement com.apple.developer.icloud-services'
I've tried turning iCloud off and on again in the Capabilities section of Xcode, but nothing changes. I know this exception can't be right because I can start my app normally and use CloudKit all day long. Only the CKShare causes this crash.
This is a mess. Save me, Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
Yes,
You need to add this to your info.plist.
<key>CKSharingSupported</key>
<true/>
** EDITED ANSWER **
I use this code to share, I don't do it manually... not sure if this is an option under OS X I must confess. I am using iOS.
let share = CKShare(rootRecord: record2S!)
share[CKShareTitleKey] = "My Next Share" as CKRecordValue
share.publicPermission = .none
let sharingController = UICloudSharingController(preparationHandler: {(UICloudSharingController, handler:
#escaping (CKShare?, CKContainer?, Error?) -> Void) in
let modifyOp = CKModifyRecordsOperation(recordsToSave:
[record2S!, share], recordIDsToDelete: nil)
modifyOp.savePolicy = .allKeys
modifyOp.modifyRecordsCompletionBlock = { (record, recordID,
error) in
handler(share, CKContainer.default(), error)
}
CKContainer.default().privateCloudDatabase.add(modifyOp)
})
sharingController.availablePermissions = [.allowReadWrite,
.allowPrivate]
sharingController.delegate = self
sharingController.popoverPresentationController?.sourceView = self.view
DispatchQueue.main.async {
self.present(sharingController, animated:true, completion:nil)
}
This presents an activity controller in which you can choose say email and then send a link. You might also want to watch this video, focus on cloudKit JS right at the beginning.
Watch this WWDC video too https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/710/
It talks about the cloudkit JSON API, using it you can query what has and what hasn't been shared in a terminal window/simple script perhaps. I did the same when using dropbox API a few years back. Hey you can even use the cloudkit JSON API within your code in place of the native calls.
I finally got it to work! I did all of the following:
Deleted my app from ~/Library/Developer/Excode/DerivedData
Made sure I had no other copies of my app archived anywhere on my machine.
Said a prayer.
Rebooted.
Sheesh, that was rough. :)
If your app is a Mac Catalyst app running on any version of macOS Catalina at least up to and including 10.15.4 Beta 1, a UIApplicationDelegate userDidAcceptCloudKitShareWith method will never be invoked.
After some significant debugging, we discovered that the MacCatalyst UIKit doesn’t even have an implementation for userDidAcceptCloudKitShareWithMetadata in its UIApplication delegate. It’s not broken, it’s just not there. So, at least temporarily, our workaround is the following, which seems to work, even if it’s very inelegant:
// Add CloudKit sharing acceptance handling to UINSApplicationDelegate, which is missing it.
#if targetEnvironment(macCatalyst)
extension NSObject {
#objc func application(_ application: NSObject, userDidAcceptCloudKitShareWithMetadata cloudKitShareMetadata: CKShare.Metadata) {
YourClass.acceptCloudKitShare(cloudKitShareMetadata: cloudKitShareMetadata)
}
}
#endif
If you are using a SceneDelegate, implement the delegate callback there, instead of on AppDelegate.
func windowScene(_ windowScene: UIWindowScene, userDidAcceptCloudKitShareWith cloudKitShareMetadata: CKShare.Metadata) {
// ...
}
You need to create the app delegate for your SwiftUI app using #NSApplicationDelegateAdaptor:
#main
struct Sharing_ServiceApp: App
{
#NSApplicationDelegateAdaptor(AppDelegate.self) var appDelegate
var body: some Scene
{
WindowGroup
{
ContentView()
.environment(\.managedObjectContext, persistenceController.container.viewContext)
}
}
}
I put that line in and my code instantly started receiving the share requests.
I'm new at Swift 3 and I try to make a print("Test") in a Widget extension.
I tried the same code in ViewController.swift and It works ok. I don't know why it works there but it doesn't on TodayViewController.swift. I can't access to objects too.
func loadData() {
let query = PFQuery(className: "Noticias")
query.whereKey("titulo", equalTo:"Es Navidad")
query.findObjectsInBackground(block: { (objects : [PFObject]?, error: Error?) -> Void in
if error == nil {
// The find succeeded.
print("Successfully retrieved \(objects!.count) scores.")
// Do something with the found objects
if let objects = objects {
for object in objects {
print(object.objectId!)
}
}
} else {
// Log details of the failure
print("bad day homie")
print(error!)
}
})
}
I attach I picture to see it clearly. If I try to print on the file marked as Work, it works. But if I try it on the file marked ad NO, it doesn't.
It is extremely difficult to retrieve print messages from an extension. The problem is that it's an extension! It isn't running in your app, so it doesn't arrive at your console. Sometimes I find you can solve this problem by switching the debugged process in the Debug Bar at the top of the debug area (at the bottom of the screen, not shown in your screen shot), but at other times this doesn't work.
I'll illustrate a possible technique that seems to be pretty reliable. Look at this screen shot:
"Expand" is an action extension. But my containing app is called "bk2ch13...". So how will I ever manage to pause at the breakpoint shown at the right, which is in the action extension? This is what I do.
First, with the screen as shown above, I build and run my containing app.
Then, I switch the target to the action extension:
Now I build and run again. But now I am trying to run an action extension, which you can't do, so Xcode asks me what app to run:
So I choose "bk2ch13...". So now we are running my host app again, but we are debugging the extension. So I use my host app to exercise the extension, and sure enough, we pause at the breakpoints and print statements arrive into the console.
Note, in that screen shot, how the debug bar clearly shows that we are talking to the extension, not the host app.