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PDFView left-anchors to window edge instead of centering between sidebar and inspector (macOS Tahoe)
I'm building a document viewer on macOS Tahoe with a 3-column NSSplitViewController (sidebar | detail | inspector), trying to replicate how Preview displays PDFs with the page centered in the visible gap between the panels, with content bleeding under them when panning or zooming. I'm using the approach from Build an AppKit app with the new design (WWDC25): detailItem.automaticallyAdjustsSafeAreaInsets = true safeAreaInsets reports the correct values (e.g. left: 208, right: 240), and the frame does extend under both panels. But PDFView with autoScales = true anchors the page to the left edge of the window instead of centering it in the visible gap between the sidebar and inspector. I can get the page to center correctly by constraining PDFView to view.safeAreaLayoutGuide, but then content no longer extends under the panels when panning or zooming, which defeats the whole purpose. What's the correct way to center PDFView content within the visible gap while keeping the frame full-width so content bleeds under the panels? I've attached pictures of how Preview does it.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: AppKit
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NSBrowser -deselectAll: broken on macOS Tahoe 26.4
So if I have a selection in NSBrowser. I hit Option+Command+A to invoke "Deselect" the selection in the parent for the last column drops its selections, as expected. But the column doesn't drop off the browser. The delegate method (void)browser:(NSBrowser *)browser didChangeLastColumn:(NSInteger)oldLastColumn toColumn:(NSInteger)column NS_SWIFT_UI_ACTOR; Never fires (since the column isn't dropped off). But we have. dangling last column with no selection in the previous column. Now if there's enough room for me to deselect by clicking the background, the last column drops off, as expected. This seems to be fairly new? Anyone else experiencing this? These 26point updates seem to keep punching me in the face. And yes. deselect all seems somewhat broken in Column view in the Finder as well, but in a seemingly different way. In Finder it just seems to change the selection color like it deactivated the window but doesn't drop the selection. For me, the selection IS dropped but the column remains visible. Maybe they are using Cocoa bindings or something that resyncs the selection after the mess up. I dk.
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NSWorkspace - macOS Tahoe 26.4 -activateFileViewerSelectingURLs: Crashes When Called Off The Main Thread
So I just installed the 26.4 update and unfortunately I have to debug this newly introduced issue (that may work its way into a separate thread). In my debugging steps I'm testing something related to files and I used -activateFileViewerSelectingURLs: to show the file in Finder. Now I am off the main thread. I added this line for testing purposes and I get a crash: NSWindow should only be instantiated on the main thread!' terminating due to uncaught exception of type NSException. So apparently - NSWorkspace is calling through to NSServices APIs and for some reason the system wants to present an NSError, which is a subtopic and other bug on its own because the 'Show in Finder" functionality actually WORKS but it crashed my app! #22in +[NSAlert alertWithError:] () #23in -[NSApplication(NSErrorPresentation) presentError:] () #24 +[NSServicesMenuHandler _performServiceFromEntry:withPasteboard:withRequestor:withInvocationSourceType:withCarbonFocus:withSendTypes:withReturnTypes:canReleasePasteboardImmediately:] () #25 +[NSServicesMenuHandler _performServiceWithoutAlternatesFromEntry:withPasteboard:withRequestor:withInvocationSourceType:] () #26 +[NSServicesMenuHandler _performServiceFromEntry:withPasteboard:withRequestor:withInvocationSourceType:] () #27 [NSWorkspace activateFileViewerSelectingURLs:] What error it is trying to present.. I have no idea. I'm not sure if I actually have a code path that calls this method off the main thread but I guess I'll have to check. This clearly goes against the documentation. NSWorkspace documentation clearly states: -activateFileViewerSelectingURLs: Discussion You can safely call this method from any thread of your app. Is this new in 26.4? I'm not sure but I just noticed. I definitely use other NSWorkspace methods off the main thread in areas of my app. Like -activateFileViewerSelectingURLs: the documentation for those other methods claims you can safely call them off the main thread. So now I'm concerned.
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NSPathControl Causing Disk I/O Reading NSURL Resource Values On the Main Thread
Sort of a continuation of - https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/813641 I've made a great effort to get NSURL -getResourceValue:forKey: calls etc off the main thread. Great progress. So now I'm working with a file on a really slow network volume I discovered a little hang and luckily enough I'm attached to the debugger so I paused that thing. I see where I'm at. It is: NSPathControl's setURL:. It goes a little something like this: in realpath$DARWIN_EXTSN () +fileSystemRealPath () +[FSNode(SandboxChecks) canAccessURL:withAuditToken:operation:] () +FSNode(SandboxChecks) canReadFromSandboxWithAuditToken:] () LaunchServices::URLPropertyProvider::prepareLocalizedNameValue () LaunchServices::URLPropertyProvider::prepareValues () prepareValuesForBitmap () FSURLCopyResourcePropertiesForKeysInternal () CFURLCopyResourcePropertiesForKeys () -[NSURL resourceValuesForKeys:error:] () in function signature specialization <Arg[1] = Dead> of Foundation._NSFileManagerBridge.displayName(atPath: Swift.String) -> Swift.String () in displayName () -[NSPathCell _autoUpdateCellContents] () -[NSPathCell setURL:] () Could maybe, NSPathControl get the display name etc. asynchronously? and maybe just stick raw path components in as a placeholder while it is reading async? Or something like that? If I can preload the resource keys it needs I would but once the NSURL asks on the main main thread I think it will just dump the cache out, per the run loop rules.
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Bug or Feature: Changes to Window Reopen Behavior in macOS 26
Since macOS 26 Beta 1, I notice that the window reopening behavior had changed. Say there are two desktops (spaces), one might: open an app window in desktop 1 close that window switch to desktop 2 reopen the app window (by click on dock tile, spotlight search...) Prior to macOS 26, that window will always reopen in current desktop. This is IMO the right behavior because these windows are most likely transient (message app, chat app, utilities app or note app). In macOS 26, however, will switch to desktop 1 (where the window is closed) and reopen the window in desktop 1. This is weird to me because: Window is "closed", hence it should not be attached to desktop 1 anymore, unlike minimize. Switching desktop interrupts user's current workflow. It's annoying to switch back specially when there're many desktops. This behavior is inconsistent. Some reopen in current desktop, some reopen in previous desktop. Apps like Music, Notes and Calendar reopened in previous desktop, while Mail, Messages, and Freeform reopened in current desktop. I did a little bit of experiment, and find out that apps that reopened in current desktop are most likely because they take an extra step to release the window when it's closed. I believe this is a bug, so I fire a feedback (FB18016497) back in beta 1. But I did not get any response or similar report from others, to a point that I kinda wonder if this is intended. I can easily force my app to reopen in current desktop by nullifying my window controller in windowWillClose, but this behavior essentially change how one can use the Spaces feature that I think I should bring this up to the community and see what other developers or engineers thinks about it.
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NSImage with HDR-disabled image causes freezing for window resize
I have regular NSImage from iPhone and the drawing get's extremely choppy during window resize (especially at small window sizes below 100px). When the window size is large there is no problem with drawing and CPU utilization is low. I have tried kCGImageSourceDecodeToSDR + or another NSImage from CGImage but the CPU utilization is extreme at small sizes. Non-HDR images don't have problems with drawing at small sizes. Video example: https://youtu.be/x8iAYGCyACs import AppKit import AVFoundation class ImageBackgroundView: NSView { @Invalidating(.display) var image: NSImage? = nil override var clipsToBounds: Bool { set { } get { true } } override func draw(_ dirtyRect: NSRect) { super.draw(dirtyRect) NSColor.red.setFill() dirtyRect.fill() guard let image = image else { return } // Calculate aspect-fit rect using AVFoundation let imageSize = image.size let targetRect = bounds let drawRect = AVMakeRect(aspectRatio: imageSize, insideRect: targetRect) image.draw(in: drawRect) } } Copy import Cocoa import UniformTypeIdentifiers class ViewController: NSViewController { @IBOutlet weak var imageView: ImageBackgroundView! @IBAction func buttonAction(_ sender: Any) { let panel = NSOpenPanel() panel.allowedContentTypes = NSImage.imageTypes.compactMap { UTType($0) } panel.begin { response in let nonHDROptions = [ kCGImageSourceDecodeRequest : kCGImageSourceDecodeToSDR, kCGImageSourceDecodeRequestOptions: [kCGComputeHDRStats: false] ] as CFDictionary guard response == .OK, let url = panel.url, let source = CGImageSourceCreateWithURL(url as CFURL, nil), let cgImage = CGImageSourceCreateImageAtIndex(source, 0, nonHDROptions) else { return } self.imageView.image = NSImage(cgImage: cgImage, size: NSMakeSize(CGFloat(cgImage.width), CGFloat(cgImage.height))) } } } Time profiler with HDR NSImage: Time profiler with NSImage + kCGImageSourceDecodeToSDR:
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NSSavePanel accessory view doesn't react to enter keypress
I have a textfield in accessory view of NSSavePanel. For user convenience there are default actions supported natively by macOS (such as pressing Enter, keyEquivalent). However this doesn't work for enter under Sonoma. Escape key works. Is enter keypress dangerous for malicious actors so it's not supported? I have workaround below but I am not confident if I am not violating sandbox (future proof). Original code demonstrating the issue: class ViewController: NSViewController, NSTextFieldDelegate, NSControlTextEditingDelegate { let savePanel = NSSavePanel() override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let customView = NSView() let textField = NSTextField(string: "11111111") textField.delegate = self // to get focus using tab keypress savePanel.accessoryView = textField } override func viewWillAppear() { savePanel.runModal() } } Workaround: // variable set to true in delegate method controlTextDidEndEditing var didUseTextFieldWithEnterPressed = false override func performKeyEquivalent(with event: NSEvent) -> Bool { if #unavailable(macOS 14) { return super.performKeyEquivalent(with: event) } guard let panel, didUseTextFieldWithEnterPressed == true, event.type == .keyDown && (event.keyCode == UInt16(kVK_Return) || event.keyCode == UInt16(kVK_ANSI_KeypadEnter)) else { return super.performKeyEquivalent(with: event) } return panel.performKeyEquivalent(with: event) }
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Cannot remove an observer <TUINSCursorUIController 0x600001844340> for the key path "visible" from <NSSavePanel 0x10ff05200> because it is not registered as an observer.
I have two NSTextField as an accessoryView of NSSavePanel. When I try to change focus in between them with a caps lock on the whole panel will crash. This will also happen when NSTextField if focused with caps lock on and i press cmd+tab (app switching). This happens on Sonoma + Sequoia beta. On top I have noticed editing NSTextField in accessoryView is completely broken on Sonoma and I can only edit it ONLY when the textfiled is using bindings. I am trying to find a workaround for the caps lock indicator being displayed. The only idea I have ATM is to observe NSApp.windows and look for TUINSWindow and force close it when it's visible. Is there any other workaround to prevent this crash? https://youtu.be/BCVjZH7684U Sample code: import Cocoa class ViewController: NSViewController { let savePanel = NSSavePanel() override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let view = NSGridView(views: [[NSTextField(string: "111111")], [NSTextField(string: "22222222")]]) savePanel.accessoryView = view } override func viewWillAppear() { savePanel.runModal() } } Crash report: Cannot remove an observer <TUINSCursorUIController 0x600001844340> for the key path "visible" from <NSSavePanel 0x10ff05200> because it is not registered as an observer. ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a2522ec __exceptionPreprocess + 176 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000199d36158 objc_exception_throw + 60 2 Foundation 0x000000019b30436c -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverRegistration) _removeObserver:forProperty:] + 628 3 Foundation 0x000000019b3040a4 -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverRegistration) removeObserver:forKeyPath:] + 136 4 TextInputUIMacHelper 0x0000000253d9e598 -[TUINSCursorUIController deactivate:] + 416 5 AppKit 0x000000019dbda3e4 -[NSTextInputContext deactivate] + 288 6 AppKit 0x000000019da3fff4 +[NSTextInputContext currentInputContext_withFirstResponderSync:] + 228 7 AppKit 0x000000019da4f084 -[NSView _setWindow:] + 692 8 AppKit 0x000000019db7d880 -[NSTextView(NSPrivate) _setWindow:] + 216 9 AppKit 0x000000019e4da778 __21-[NSView _setWindow:]_block_invoke.146 + 268 10 CoreAutoLayout 0x00000001a2aba588 -[NSISEngine withBehaviors:performModifications:] + 88 11 AppKit 0x000000019da4f4b4 -[NSView _setWindow:] + 1764 12 AppKit 0x000000019da7712c -[NSView removeFromSuperview] + 168 13 AppKit 0x000000019dc7c0e8 -[_NSKeyboardFocusClipView removeFromSuperview] + 56 14 AppKit 0x000000019dbc5474 -[NSWindow endEditingFor:] + 368 15 AppKit 0x000000019da770d0 -[NSView removeFromSuperview] + 76 16 AppKit 0x000000019dc7c0e8 -[_NSKeyboardFocusClipView removeFromSuperview] + 56 17 AppKit 0x000000019dc7be00 -[NSCell endEditing:] + 452 18 AppKit 0x000000019dc7b994 -[NSTextField textDidEndEditing:] + 264 19 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a1d2144 __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 148 20 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a2663d8 ___CFXRegistrationPost_block_invoke + 88 21 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a266320 _CFXRegistrationPost + 440 22 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a1a0678 _CFXNotificationPost + 768 23 Foundation 0x000000019b2bd2c4 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 88 24 AppKit 0x000000019dc7b5fc -[NSTextView(NSSharing) resignFirstResponder] + 668 25 AppKit 0x000000019db2ca80 -[NSWindow _realMakeFirstResponder:] + 196 26 AppKit 0x000000019dcc1764 -[NSWindow _makeParentWindowHaveFirstResponder:] + 76 27 ViewBridge 0x00000001a296c8c0 -[NSAccessoryViewWindow makeFirstResponder:] + 80 28 AppKit 0x000000019dbdbb9c -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _handleMouseDownEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 3148 29 AppKit 0x000000019db67504 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 288 30 AppKit 0x000000019db67210 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 284 31 ViewBridge 0x00000001a296cecc -[NSAccessoryViewWindow sendEvent:] + 64 32 AppKit 0x000000019e2304f0 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 1604 33 AppKit 0x000000019dc6df6c -[NSApplication _doModalLoop:peek:] + 276 34 AppKit 0x000000019dc6ce38 __35-[NSApplication runModalForWindow:]_block_invoke_2 + 56 35 AppKit 0x000000019dc6cde4 __35-[NSApplication runModalForWindow:]_block_invoke + 108 36 AppKit 0x000000019dc6c6b0 _NSTryRunModal + 100 37 AppKit 0x000000019dc6c570 -[NSApplication runModalForWindow:] + 292 38 AppKit 0x000000019e690490 -[NSSavePanel runModal] + 340 39 SavePanelAccessory 0x0000000100435ad4 $s18SavePanelAccessory14ViewControllerC14viewWillAppearyyF + 60 40 SavePanelAccessory 0x0000000100435b0c $s18SavePanelAccessory14ViewControllerC14viewWillAppearyyFTo + 36 41 AppKit 0x000000019db387f4 -[NSViewController _sendViewWillAppear] + 32 42 AppKit 0x000000019db386bc -[NSViewController _windowWillOrderOnScreen] + 80 43 AppKit 0x000000019e4e7b38 -[NSView _windowWillOrderOnScreen] + 56 44 AppKit 0x000000019e4e7ba4 -[NSView _windowWillOrderOnScreen] + 164 45 AppKit 0x000000019db38570 -[NSWindow _doWindowWillBeVisibleAsSheet:] + 40 46 AppKit 0x000000019e4fc418 -[NSWindow _reallyDoOrderWindowAboveOrBelow:] + 1028 47 AppKit 0x000000019e4fcfec -[NSWindow _reallyDoOrderWindow:] + 64 SHORTENED
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NSProgress - way to publish progress to make the file url unselectable in Finder?
So I'm in the middle of an asynchronous file operation. I publish an NSProgress and it displays wonderfully in Finder. But it is a folder and while the operation is in progress the user should not be allowed to enter it, modify it, etc, while the work is being done. I want to do this to protect the user from doing something silly. But Finder does not prevent the selection with the published progress. And while it would be kind of dumb to do - the user can just go about adding/removing contents to the folder while it has progress. If I remember correctly publishing an NSProgress did use to prevent the file from being selectable in Finder until either the progress finished or my app is quit (or maybe not)? But now the user is free to select, edit, modify during progress which could cause problems if the user does something unexpectedly silly. Is there a way to mark the file 'unselectable' with the published progress? Thanks in advance.
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Can two NSPanel windows both display active/focused appearance simultaneously on macOS 26?
I'm building a macOS app with two separate NSPanel windows, both using the new liquid glass material (NSVisualEffectView / macOS 26). The UI intentionally has two separate floating panels visible at the same time. The problem: only the key window displays the active liquid glass appearance. The non-key panel always renders with the inactive/foggy appearance, even with: NSWindowStyleMaskNonactivatingPanel canBecomeKeyWindow = false orderFrontRegardless() addChildWindow(_:ordered:) Is there any way — documented or otherwise — to force the active liquid glass appearance on a non-key NSPanel? Or is this fundamentally a compositor-level restriction? If it's impossible with two separate windows, is there an alternative approach to achieve two visually separate liquid glass boxes that both appear active simultaneously?
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How do you support Preferred Font Size / Dynamic Type on macOS?
On macOS 26, how do you support the Preferred Text Size value as defined in the Accessibility Settings? Historically, "Dynamic Type" has not been available on macOS. However, the user has some control over text size through the Accessibility Settings. On macOS 26, a small subset of applications are honouring changes to that value include Finder, Mail, and sidebars in many applications. Dynamic sizing in table views has been available on macOS for awhile. But Mail.app, in particular, is also adjusting the font sizes used in the message's body pane while the Finder is adjusting font sizes used for Desktop icons. I can't find an NSNotification that is fired when the user adjusts the Accessibility Text Size slider, nor can I find an API to read the current value. NSFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle:options:) looks promising but the fonts returned do not appear to take the user's Accessibility setting into account. (Nor do they update dynamically.) SwiftUI's Text("Apple").font(.body) performs similarly to NSFont in that it does respect the style, but it does not honour dynamic sizing. NSFontDescriptor has a bunch of interesting methods, but none that seem to apply to Accessibility Text Size. Given an AppKit label: let label = NSTextField(labelWithString: "AppKit") label.font = NSFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .body) Or a SwiftUI label: Text("SwiftUI").font(.body) How do I make either of them responsive to the user's Text Size setting under Accessibility? Note this is on macOS 26 / Xcode 26. I realize there have been some previous forum posts related to this issue but hoping that things might have improved since then.
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macOS 26: NSTokenField crashes due to NSGenericException caused by too many Update Constraints
This example application crashes when entering any text to the token field with FAULT: NSGenericException: The window has been marked as needing another Update Constraints in Window pass, but it has already had more Update Constraints in Window passes than there are views in the window. The app uses controlTextDidChange to update a live preview where it accesses the objectValue of the token field. If one character is entered, it also looks like the NSTokenFieldDelegate methods tokenField(_:styleForRepresentedObject:) tokenField(_:editingStringForRepresentedObject:) tokenField(_:representedObjectForEditing:) are called more than 10000 times until the example app crashes on macOS Tahoe 26 beta 6. I've reported this issue with beta 1 as FB18088608, but haven't heard back so far. I have multiple occurrences of this issue in my app, which is working fine on previous versions of macOS. I haven't found a workaround yet, and I’m getting anxious of this issue persisting into the official release.
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Is there a way in AppKit to apply the Liquid Glass soft edge effect to a view placed outside an NSScrollView?
I’m developing a text editor that provides a line number view. This view is placed next to the NSScrollView that contains the main text view, rather than inside the scroll view. The line number view updates its drawing in sync with the NSScrollView’s scrolling and text editing in the NSTextView, so it can display the correct line numbers. This approach worked fine through macOS 15, but on macOS 26 with Liquid Glass, the line numbers end up being drawn without the expected blur/soft edge effect under the window toolbar area. In AppKit, some view controllers provide APIs to switch edge effects between soft/hard, but I can’t find any API to control this for the window toolbar region. I considered simply not drawing the numbers outside the content area, but if possible I’d like to apply the Tahoe-style soft edge effect instead. Does anyone have ideas? Is this currently impossible, meaning the only option is to file a feedback/API request? Also, for various reasons, the traditional approach of implementing line numbers by subclassing NSRulerView is difficult for my app.
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How do you disable split view tracking separators in macOS 26 Tahoe?
In the attached screenshot, we have an NSSplitViewController with three split view items. The first two are viewController split view items, while the third is an inspector split view item. The NSWindow is configured for full screen content so that the inspector split view items is full height itself. However, when we enable full height content view, AppKit is automatically adding a tracking separator into the toolbar when we don't want one. (Neither of the two split views are sidebars.) This tracking separator is out of place, cannot be dragged itself, and is drawn under the center aligned segmented control. We've tried a multitude of permutations to configure the NSWindow, NSToolbar and NSSplitViewItem but to no avail. Surely we're just missing the magic combo but a lot of the properties appear to be no-ops in macOS 26. How do we use an NSSplitViewController, in a full screen content window, such that we get a full height inspector but we don't get tracking separators for the main split view divider?
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Incorrect menu consistency warnings logged in Tahoe for NSStatusItem, performance issues related?
Is anyone else getting new warning about menu items with submenus when running on Tahoe? I'm getting big performance problems using my menu as well as seeing these messages and I'm wondering if there's a connection. My app is faceless with a NSStatusItem with an NSMenu. Specifically it's my own subclass of NSMenu where I have a lot of code to manage the menu's dynamic behavior. This code is directly in the menu subclass instead of in a controller because the app I forked had it this way, a little wacky but I don't see it being a problem. A nib defines the contents of the menu, and it's instantiated manually with code like: var nibObjects: NSArray? = [] guard let nib = NSNib(nibNamed: "AppMenu", bundle: nil) else { ... } guard nib.instantiate(withOwner: owner, topLevelObjects: &nibObjects) else { ... } guard let menu = nibObjects?.compactMap({ $0 as? Self }).first else { ... } Within that nib.instantiate call I see a warning logged that seems new to Tahoe, before the menu's awakeFromNib is called, that says (edited): Internal inconsistency in menus - menu <NSMenu: 0x6000034e5340> believes it has <My_StatusItem_App.AppMenu: 0x7f9570c1a440> as a supermenu, but the supermenu does not seem to have any item with that submenu My_StatusItem_App.AppMenu: 0x7f9570c1a440 is my menu belonging to the NSStatusItem, NSMenu: 0x6000034e5340 is the submenu of one of its menu items. At a breakpoint in the NSMenu subclass's awakeFromNib I print self and see clear evidence of the warning's incorrectness. Below is a snippet of the console including the full warning, only edited for clarity and brevity. It shows on line 32 menu item with placeholder title "prototype batch item" that indeed has that submenu. Internal inconsistency in menus - menu <NSMenu: 0x6000034e5340> Title: Supermenu: 0x7f9570c1a440 (My StatusItem App), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4fa0 Do The Thing Again, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e5040 Customize\U2026, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e50e0, ke mask='<none>'>" ) believes it has <My_StatusItem_App.AppMenu: 0x7f9570c1a440> Title: My StatusItem App Supermenu: 0x0 (None), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( ) as a supermenu, but the supermenu does not seem to have any item with that submenu (lldb) po self <My_StatusItem_App.AppMenu: 0x7f9570c1a440> Title: My StatusItem App Supermenu: 0x0 (None), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fd7c0 About My StatusItem App\U2026, ke mask='<none>', action: showAbout:, action image: info.circle>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fd860 Show Onboarding Window\U2026, ke mask='Shift', action: showIntro:>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fd900 Update Available\U2026, ke mask='<none>', action: installUpdate:, standard image: icloud.and.arrow.down, hidden>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e46e0, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4780 Start The Thing, ke mask='<none>', action: startTheThing:>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4dc0 \U2318-\U232b key detector item, ke mask='<none>', view: <My_StatusItem_App.KeyDetectorView: 0x7f9570c1a010>>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4e60, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4f00 saved batches heading item, ke mask='<none>', view: <NSView: 0x7f9570b4be10>, hidden>", "<My_StatusItem_App.BatchMenuItem: 0x6000016e02c0 prototype batch item, ke mask='<none>', action: replaySavedBatch:, submenu: 0x6000034e5340 ()>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010f7d40, ke mask='<none>'>", "<My_StatusItem_App.ClipMenuItem: 0x7f956ef14fd0 prototype copy clip item, ke mask='<none>', action: copyClip:>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fa620 Settings\U2026, ke='Command-,', action: showSettings:>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fa6c0, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fa760 Quit My StatusItem App, ke='Command-Q', action: quit:>" ) Is this seemingly incorrect inconsistency message harmless? Am I only grasping at straws to think it has some connection to the performance issues with this menu?
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URLByResolvingAliasFileAtURL: Appears to Be Broken - resolves to the the wrong folder
So if I create an Alias of a folder in Finder and hand the alias to my app (I also moved the alias file to a new folder, but I did not move the original folder)...so then my app resolves the alias using: NSURL +URLByResolvingAliasFileAtURL: What happens? The resolved URL points to a completely different folder. Well not completely different. It resolves to a folder that happens to share same last path component as the original folder...but this folder is inside the same parent folder the alias file is in. It does not resolve to the original folder I created the alias of. So then once my app touches the alias with +URLByResolvingAliasFileAtURL: the alias now resolves to this new (wrong) location (even in Finder). Couple details: My app is not sandboxed. I have permission to access the original folder in my app (but even if I didn't the alias shouldn't be mutated just by merely resolving it). Only seems to happen if the folder I move the alias to happens to contain a sibling folder that has the same title as the original folder. Like it's just deleting the last path component of the alias and then appending the last path component of the original filename and just going with that. I hope that makes sense. I tried creating the alias myself using -bookmarkDataWithOptions: and going the other way (to Finder) but Finder must be resolving the alias using a different API because it resolves to the original location as expected.
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macOS Tahoe 26.3 - System Is Playing NSBeep At Inappropriate Times When Text Editing Ends Via -cancelOperation: (field editor)
When I end editing pressing the escape key, the system sometimes plays NSBeep(). I noticed this with NSBrowser. Every time I press escape to end editing the system beeps. At first I thought it was somewhere in my app but I set a symbolic breakpoint and discovered it was not coming from my code. I filed FB22127038. Since then I discovered that NSBeep playing at inappropriate times is not exclusive to NSBrowser. It appears if there is a NSTableView in the window and you just press the escape key (even if you aren't editing anything) AppKit beeps. It can be traced to: #0 0x0000000199e3184c in NSBeep () #1 0x000000019aa03fac in -[NSWindow doCommandBySelector:] () #2 0x000000019ac1d01c in -[NSTableView(NSTableViewViewBased) cancelOperation:] ()
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Internal inconsistency in menus - menu warnings...
I get warnings like this on each project I build while debugging.. Internal inconsistency in menus - menu <NSMenu: 0x8b4b49ec0> Title: Help Supermenu: 0x8b4b49f80 (Main Menu), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( "<NSMenuItem: 0x8b5771720 Metal4C Help, ke='Command-?'>" ) believes it has <NSMenu: 0x8b4b49f80> Title: Main Menu Supermenu: 0x0 (None), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( ) as a supermenu, but the supermenu does not seem to have any item with that submenu What am I doing wrong? I get these errors even if I create a default app with no code?
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Obscure assertion crash in com.apple.NSScrollingConcurrentVBLMonitor thread
I have received a few crash reports for my app "Find Any File" with an assertion failure as follows: assertion failure: "displayTiming != ((void *)0)" -&gt; %lld Googling this turns up nothing, though. I wonder if someone has some insight into why this might happen, and how to prevent it. One reporting user suggests that it happens when my app shows a very long list of items in an NSTableView (&gt;10000 elements). I have 4 reports from 3 users, and the main thread is doing something related to the table view each time, though not the same (the few other threads are all idle): Crash 1, in macOS 14.0 (23A344: Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x182c69400 objc_msgSend + 0 1 AppKit 0x186f15400 -[CALayer(NSViewVisibleRect) NS_viewVisibleRectDidChange] + 40 2 AppKit 0x186900e10 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 276 3 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 4 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 5 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 6 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 7 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 8 AppKit 0x1869990e0 -[NSView translateOriginToPoint:] + 164 9 AppKit 0x186984108 -[NSClipView _immediateScrollToPoint:] + 420 10 AppKit 0x186983eb8 -[NSClipView scrollToPoint:] + 184 11 AppKit 0x186998d80 -[NSScrollView scrollClipView:toPoint:] + 84 12 AppKit 0x1869448dc -[NSClipView _scrollTo:animateScroll:flashScrollerKnobs:] + 480 13 AppKit 0x186b65b24 __62-[NSScrollingBehaviorConcurrentVBL _stopGestureScrollTracking]_block_invoke + 192 14 AppKit 0x186e6a6e8 ___NSMainRunLoopPerformBlockInModes_block_invoke + 44 15 CoreFoundation 0x18310b8c0 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 28 Crash 2, in macOS 14.1.1 (23B81): Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 CoreFoundation 0x18ba401f4 DYLD-STUB$$_Block_object_assign + 0 1 libsystem_blocks.dylib 0x18b506118 _call_copy_helpers_excp + 80 2 libsystem_blocks.dylib 0x18b505c68 _Block_copy + 376 3 libdispatch.dylib 0x18b641c7c _dispatch_Block_copy + 32 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x18b658df0 _dispatch_source_set_handler + 92 5 CoreFoundation 0x18b99e1e4 __CFRunLoopCopyMode + 540 6 CoreFoundation 0x18b8b7458 CFRunLoopAddObserver + 220 7 AppKit 0x18f0a687c _PerfAddRunLoopObserver + 192 8 AppKit 0x18f87cd60 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 368 9 AppKit 0x18f323318 -[_NSScrollingConcurrentEventMonitor startMonitoring] + 380 10 AppKit 0x18f321df8 -[NSScrollingBehaviorConcurrentVBL _scrollView:trackGestureScrollWithEvent:] + 884 11 AppKit 0x18f2e67f8 -[NSScrollingBehaviorConcurrentVBL scrollView:scrollWheelWithEvent:] + 512 12 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 13 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 14 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 15 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 16 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 17 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 18 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 19 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 20 AppKit 0x18fc45880 -[NSCollectionView scrollWheel:] + 180 21 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 22 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 23 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 24 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 25 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 26 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 27 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 28 AppKit 0x18f1d27b0 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 652 As you can see, there's no code of mine involved at the time of crash. The other (and older) reports are similar, in macOS 13.6.1 and macOS 13.1. All four happened on ARM architecture (which may not be significant due to small number of samples). Memory use of app was not critical (in one case it was about 9 GB total, in others below 4 GB). The "Binary Images" section only lists Apple libs, apart from my app's. So, there seems to be no 3rd party ext involved. I've attached a full report as well. Full report of Crash 1
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PDFView left-anchors to window edge instead of centering between sidebar and inspector (macOS Tahoe)
I'm building a document viewer on macOS Tahoe with a 3-column NSSplitViewController (sidebar | detail | inspector), trying to replicate how Preview displays PDFs with the page centered in the visible gap between the panels, with content bleeding under them when panning or zooming. I'm using the approach from Build an AppKit app with the new design (WWDC25): detailItem.automaticallyAdjustsSafeAreaInsets = true safeAreaInsets reports the correct values (e.g. left: 208, right: 240), and the frame does extend under both panels. But PDFView with autoScales = true anchors the page to the left edge of the window instead of centering it in the visible gap between the sidebar and inspector. I can get the page to center correctly by constraining PDFView to view.safeAreaLayoutGuide, but then content no longer extends under the panels when panning or zooming, which defeats the whole purpose. What's the correct way to center PDFView content within the visible gap while keeping the frame full-width so content bleeds under the panels? I've attached pictures of how Preview does it.
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NSBrowser -deselectAll: broken on macOS Tahoe 26.4
So if I have a selection in NSBrowser. I hit Option+Command+A to invoke "Deselect" the selection in the parent for the last column drops its selections, as expected. But the column doesn't drop off the browser. The delegate method (void)browser:(NSBrowser *)browser didChangeLastColumn:(NSInteger)oldLastColumn toColumn:(NSInteger)column NS_SWIFT_UI_ACTOR; Never fires (since the column isn't dropped off). But we have. dangling last column with no selection in the previous column. Now if there's enough room for me to deselect by clicking the background, the last column drops off, as expected. This seems to be fairly new? Anyone else experiencing this? These 26point updates seem to keep punching me in the face. And yes. deselect all seems somewhat broken in Column view in the Finder as well, but in a seemingly different way. In Finder it just seems to change the selection color like it deactivated the window but doesn't drop the selection. For me, the selection IS dropped but the column remains visible. Maybe they are using Cocoa bindings or something that resyncs the selection after the mess up. I dk.
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QLThumbnailGenerator macOS 26.4 No Longer Honors Users 'Folder Color' Preference When Making Icons for Folders
I use QLThumbnailGenerator to generate icons. After updating to macOS Tahoe 26.4 the folder color preference of the user is no longer respected. It just makes the icon default 'light blue.'
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NSWorkspace - macOS Tahoe 26.4 -activateFileViewerSelectingURLs: Crashes When Called Off The Main Thread
So I just installed the 26.4 update and unfortunately I have to debug this newly introduced issue (that may work its way into a separate thread). In my debugging steps I'm testing something related to files and I used -activateFileViewerSelectingURLs: to show the file in Finder. Now I am off the main thread. I added this line for testing purposes and I get a crash: NSWindow should only be instantiated on the main thread!' terminating due to uncaught exception of type NSException. So apparently - NSWorkspace is calling through to NSServices APIs and for some reason the system wants to present an NSError, which is a subtopic and other bug on its own because the 'Show in Finder" functionality actually WORKS but it crashed my app! #22in +[NSAlert alertWithError:] () #23in -[NSApplication(NSErrorPresentation) presentError:] () #24 +[NSServicesMenuHandler _performServiceFromEntry:withPasteboard:withRequestor:withInvocationSourceType:withCarbonFocus:withSendTypes:withReturnTypes:canReleasePasteboardImmediately:] () #25 +[NSServicesMenuHandler _performServiceWithoutAlternatesFromEntry:withPasteboard:withRequestor:withInvocationSourceType:] () #26 +[NSServicesMenuHandler _performServiceFromEntry:withPasteboard:withRequestor:withInvocationSourceType:] () #27 [NSWorkspace activateFileViewerSelectingURLs:] What error it is trying to present.. I have no idea. I'm not sure if I actually have a code path that calls this method off the main thread but I guess I'll have to check. This clearly goes against the documentation. NSWorkspace documentation clearly states: -activateFileViewerSelectingURLs: Discussion You can safely call this method from any thread of your app. Is this new in 26.4? I'm not sure but I just noticed. I definitely use other NSWorkspace methods off the main thread in areas of my app. Like -activateFileViewerSelectingURLs: the documentation for those other methods claims you can safely call them off the main thread. So now I'm concerned.
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NSPathControl Causing Disk I/O Reading NSURL Resource Values On the Main Thread
Sort of a continuation of - https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/813641 I've made a great effort to get NSURL -getResourceValue:forKey: calls etc off the main thread. Great progress. So now I'm working with a file on a really slow network volume I discovered a little hang and luckily enough I'm attached to the debugger so I paused that thing. I see where I'm at. It is: NSPathControl's setURL:. It goes a little something like this: in realpath$DARWIN_EXTSN () +fileSystemRealPath () +[FSNode(SandboxChecks) canAccessURL:withAuditToken:operation:] () +FSNode(SandboxChecks) canReadFromSandboxWithAuditToken:] () LaunchServices::URLPropertyProvider::prepareLocalizedNameValue () LaunchServices::URLPropertyProvider::prepareValues () prepareValuesForBitmap () FSURLCopyResourcePropertiesForKeysInternal () CFURLCopyResourcePropertiesForKeys () -[NSURL resourceValuesForKeys:error:] () in function signature specialization <Arg[1] = Dead> of Foundation._NSFileManagerBridge.displayName(atPath: Swift.String) -> Swift.String () in displayName () -[NSPathCell _autoUpdateCellContents] () -[NSPathCell setURL:] () Could maybe, NSPathControl get the display name etc. asynchronously? and maybe just stick raw path components in as a placeholder while it is reading async? Or something like that? If I can preload the resource keys it needs I would but once the NSURL asks on the main main thread I think it will just dump the cache out, per the run loop rules.
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Bug or Feature: Changes to Window Reopen Behavior in macOS 26
Since macOS 26 Beta 1, I notice that the window reopening behavior had changed. Say there are two desktops (spaces), one might: open an app window in desktop 1 close that window switch to desktop 2 reopen the app window (by click on dock tile, spotlight search...) Prior to macOS 26, that window will always reopen in current desktop. This is IMO the right behavior because these windows are most likely transient (message app, chat app, utilities app or note app). In macOS 26, however, will switch to desktop 1 (where the window is closed) and reopen the window in desktop 1. This is weird to me because: Window is "closed", hence it should not be attached to desktop 1 anymore, unlike minimize. Switching desktop interrupts user's current workflow. It's annoying to switch back specially when there're many desktops. This behavior is inconsistent. Some reopen in current desktop, some reopen in previous desktop. Apps like Music, Notes and Calendar reopened in previous desktop, while Mail, Messages, and Freeform reopened in current desktop. I did a little bit of experiment, and find out that apps that reopened in current desktop are most likely because they take an extra step to release the window when it's closed. I believe this is a bug, so I fire a feedback (FB18016497) back in beta 1. But I did not get any response or similar report from others, to a point that I kinda wonder if this is intended. I can easily force my app to reopen in current desktop by nullifying my window controller in windowWillClose, but this behavior essentially change how one can use the Spaces feature that I think I should bring this up to the community and see what other developers or engineers thinks about it.
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NSImage with HDR-disabled image causes freezing for window resize
I have regular NSImage from iPhone and the drawing get's extremely choppy during window resize (especially at small window sizes below 100px). When the window size is large there is no problem with drawing and CPU utilization is low. I have tried kCGImageSourceDecodeToSDR + or another NSImage from CGImage but the CPU utilization is extreme at small sizes. Non-HDR images don't have problems with drawing at small sizes. Video example: https://youtu.be/x8iAYGCyACs import AppKit import AVFoundation class ImageBackgroundView: NSView { @Invalidating(.display) var image: NSImage? = nil override var clipsToBounds: Bool { set { } get { true } } override func draw(_ dirtyRect: NSRect) { super.draw(dirtyRect) NSColor.red.setFill() dirtyRect.fill() guard let image = image else { return } // Calculate aspect-fit rect using AVFoundation let imageSize = image.size let targetRect = bounds let drawRect = AVMakeRect(aspectRatio: imageSize, insideRect: targetRect) image.draw(in: drawRect) } } Copy import Cocoa import UniformTypeIdentifiers class ViewController: NSViewController { @IBOutlet weak var imageView: ImageBackgroundView! @IBAction func buttonAction(_ sender: Any) { let panel = NSOpenPanel() panel.allowedContentTypes = NSImage.imageTypes.compactMap { UTType($0) } panel.begin { response in let nonHDROptions = [ kCGImageSourceDecodeRequest : kCGImageSourceDecodeToSDR, kCGImageSourceDecodeRequestOptions: [kCGComputeHDRStats: false] ] as CFDictionary guard response == .OK, let url = panel.url, let source = CGImageSourceCreateWithURL(url as CFURL, nil), let cgImage = CGImageSourceCreateImageAtIndex(source, 0, nonHDROptions) else { return } self.imageView.image = NSImage(cgImage: cgImage, size: NSMakeSize(CGFloat(cgImage.width), CGFloat(cgImage.height))) } } } Time profiler with HDR NSImage: Time profiler with NSImage + kCGImageSourceDecodeToSDR:
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NSSavePanel accessory view doesn't react to enter keypress
I have a textfield in accessory view of NSSavePanel. For user convenience there are default actions supported natively by macOS (such as pressing Enter, keyEquivalent). However this doesn't work for enter under Sonoma. Escape key works. Is enter keypress dangerous for malicious actors so it's not supported? I have workaround below but I am not confident if I am not violating sandbox (future proof). Original code demonstrating the issue: class ViewController: NSViewController, NSTextFieldDelegate, NSControlTextEditingDelegate { let savePanel = NSSavePanel() override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let customView = NSView() let textField = NSTextField(string: "11111111") textField.delegate = self // to get focus using tab keypress savePanel.accessoryView = textField } override func viewWillAppear() { savePanel.runModal() } } Workaround: // variable set to true in delegate method controlTextDidEndEditing var didUseTextFieldWithEnterPressed = false override func performKeyEquivalent(with event: NSEvent) -> Bool { if #unavailable(macOS 14) { return super.performKeyEquivalent(with: event) } guard let panel, didUseTextFieldWithEnterPressed == true, event.type == .keyDown && (event.keyCode == UInt16(kVK_Return) || event.keyCode == UInt16(kVK_ANSI_KeypadEnter)) else { return super.performKeyEquivalent(with: event) } return panel.performKeyEquivalent(with: event) }
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Cannot remove an observer <TUINSCursorUIController 0x600001844340> for the key path "visible" from <NSSavePanel 0x10ff05200> because it is not registered as an observer.
I have two NSTextField as an accessoryView of NSSavePanel. When I try to change focus in between them with a caps lock on the whole panel will crash. This will also happen when NSTextField if focused with caps lock on and i press cmd+tab (app switching). This happens on Sonoma + Sequoia beta. On top I have noticed editing NSTextField in accessoryView is completely broken on Sonoma and I can only edit it ONLY when the textfiled is using bindings. I am trying to find a workaround for the caps lock indicator being displayed. The only idea I have ATM is to observe NSApp.windows and look for TUINSWindow and force close it when it's visible. Is there any other workaround to prevent this crash? https://youtu.be/BCVjZH7684U Sample code: import Cocoa class ViewController: NSViewController { let savePanel = NSSavePanel() override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let view = NSGridView(views: [[NSTextField(string: "111111")], [NSTextField(string: "22222222")]]) savePanel.accessoryView = view } override func viewWillAppear() { savePanel.runModal() } } Crash report: Cannot remove an observer <TUINSCursorUIController 0x600001844340> for the key path "visible" from <NSSavePanel 0x10ff05200> because it is not registered as an observer. ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a2522ec __exceptionPreprocess + 176 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000199d36158 objc_exception_throw + 60 2 Foundation 0x000000019b30436c -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverRegistration) _removeObserver:forProperty:] + 628 3 Foundation 0x000000019b3040a4 -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObserverRegistration) removeObserver:forKeyPath:] + 136 4 TextInputUIMacHelper 0x0000000253d9e598 -[TUINSCursorUIController deactivate:] + 416 5 AppKit 0x000000019dbda3e4 -[NSTextInputContext deactivate] + 288 6 AppKit 0x000000019da3fff4 +[NSTextInputContext currentInputContext_withFirstResponderSync:] + 228 7 AppKit 0x000000019da4f084 -[NSView _setWindow:] + 692 8 AppKit 0x000000019db7d880 -[NSTextView(NSPrivate) _setWindow:] + 216 9 AppKit 0x000000019e4da778 __21-[NSView _setWindow:]_block_invoke.146 + 268 10 CoreAutoLayout 0x00000001a2aba588 -[NSISEngine withBehaviors:performModifications:] + 88 11 AppKit 0x000000019da4f4b4 -[NSView _setWindow:] + 1764 12 AppKit 0x000000019da7712c -[NSView removeFromSuperview] + 168 13 AppKit 0x000000019dc7c0e8 -[_NSKeyboardFocusClipView removeFromSuperview] + 56 14 AppKit 0x000000019dbc5474 -[NSWindow endEditingFor:] + 368 15 AppKit 0x000000019da770d0 -[NSView removeFromSuperview] + 76 16 AppKit 0x000000019dc7c0e8 -[_NSKeyboardFocusClipView removeFromSuperview] + 56 17 AppKit 0x000000019dc7be00 -[NSCell endEditing:] + 452 18 AppKit 0x000000019dc7b994 -[NSTextField textDidEndEditing:] + 264 19 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a1d2144 __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 148 20 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a2663d8 ___CFXRegistrationPost_block_invoke + 88 21 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a266320 _CFXRegistrationPost + 440 22 CoreFoundation 0x000000019a1a0678 _CFXNotificationPost + 768 23 Foundation 0x000000019b2bd2c4 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 88 24 AppKit 0x000000019dc7b5fc -[NSTextView(NSSharing) resignFirstResponder] + 668 25 AppKit 0x000000019db2ca80 -[NSWindow _realMakeFirstResponder:] + 196 26 AppKit 0x000000019dcc1764 -[NSWindow _makeParentWindowHaveFirstResponder:] + 76 27 ViewBridge 0x00000001a296c8c0 -[NSAccessoryViewWindow makeFirstResponder:] + 80 28 AppKit 0x000000019dbdbb9c -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _handleMouseDownEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 3148 29 AppKit 0x000000019db67504 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 288 30 AppKit 0x000000019db67210 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 284 31 ViewBridge 0x00000001a296cecc -[NSAccessoryViewWindow sendEvent:] + 64 32 AppKit 0x000000019e2304f0 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) sendEvent:] + 1604 33 AppKit 0x000000019dc6df6c -[NSApplication _doModalLoop:peek:] + 276 34 AppKit 0x000000019dc6ce38 __35-[NSApplication runModalForWindow:]_block_invoke_2 + 56 35 AppKit 0x000000019dc6cde4 __35-[NSApplication runModalForWindow:]_block_invoke + 108 36 AppKit 0x000000019dc6c6b0 _NSTryRunModal + 100 37 AppKit 0x000000019dc6c570 -[NSApplication runModalForWindow:] + 292 38 AppKit 0x000000019e690490 -[NSSavePanel runModal] + 340 39 SavePanelAccessory 0x0000000100435ad4 $s18SavePanelAccessory14ViewControllerC14viewWillAppearyyF + 60 40 SavePanelAccessory 0x0000000100435b0c $s18SavePanelAccessory14ViewControllerC14viewWillAppearyyFTo + 36 41 AppKit 0x000000019db387f4 -[NSViewController _sendViewWillAppear] + 32 42 AppKit 0x000000019db386bc -[NSViewController _windowWillOrderOnScreen] + 80 43 AppKit 0x000000019e4e7b38 -[NSView _windowWillOrderOnScreen] + 56 44 AppKit 0x000000019e4e7ba4 -[NSView _windowWillOrderOnScreen] + 164 45 AppKit 0x000000019db38570 -[NSWindow _doWindowWillBeVisibleAsSheet:] + 40 46 AppKit 0x000000019e4fc418 -[NSWindow _reallyDoOrderWindowAboveOrBelow:] + 1028 47 AppKit 0x000000019e4fcfec -[NSWindow _reallyDoOrderWindow:] + 64 SHORTENED
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NSProgress - way to publish progress to make the file url unselectable in Finder?
So I'm in the middle of an asynchronous file operation. I publish an NSProgress and it displays wonderfully in Finder. But it is a folder and while the operation is in progress the user should not be allowed to enter it, modify it, etc, while the work is being done. I want to do this to protect the user from doing something silly. But Finder does not prevent the selection with the published progress. And while it would be kind of dumb to do - the user can just go about adding/removing contents to the folder while it has progress. If I remember correctly publishing an NSProgress did use to prevent the file from being selectable in Finder until either the progress finished or my app is quit (or maybe not)? But now the user is free to select, edit, modify during progress which could cause problems if the user does something unexpectedly silly. Is there a way to mark the file 'unselectable' with the published progress? Thanks in advance.
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Can two NSPanel windows both display active/focused appearance simultaneously on macOS 26?
I'm building a macOS app with two separate NSPanel windows, both using the new liquid glass material (NSVisualEffectView / macOS 26). The UI intentionally has two separate floating panels visible at the same time. The problem: only the key window displays the active liquid glass appearance. The non-key panel always renders with the inactive/foggy appearance, even with: NSWindowStyleMaskNonactivatingPanel canBecomeKeyWindow = false orderFrontRegardless() addChildWindow(_:ordered:) Is there any way — documented or otherwise — to force the active liquid glass appearance on a non-key NSPanel? Or is this fundamentally a compositor-level restriction? If it's impossible with two separate windows, is there an alternative approach to achieve two visually separate liquid glass boxes that both appear active simultaneously?
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How do you support Preferred Font Size / Dynamic Type on macOS?
On macOS 26, how do you support the Preferred Text Size value as defined in the Accessibility Settings? Historically, "Dynamic Type" has not been available on macOS. However, the user has some control over text size through the Accessibility Settings. On macOS 26, a small subset of applications are honouring changes to that value include Finder, Mail, and sidebars in many applications. Dynamic sizing in table views has been available on macOS for awhile. But Mail.app, in particular, is also adjusting the font sizes used in the message's body pane while the Finder is adjusting font sizes used for Desktop icons. I can't find an NSNotification that is fired when the user adjusts the Accessibility Text Size slider, nor can I find an API to read the current value. NSFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle:options:) looks promising but the fonts returned do not appear to take the user's Accessibility setting into account. (Nor do they update dynamically.) SwiftUI's Text("Apple").font(.body) performs similarly to NSFont in that it does respect the style, but it does not honour dynamic sizing. NSFontDescriptor has a bunch of interesting methods, but none that seem to apply to Accessibility Text Size. Given an AppKit label: let label = NSTextField(labelWithString: "AppKit") label.font = NSFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .body) Or a SwiftUI label: Text("SwiftUI").font(.body) How do I make either of them responsive to the user's Text Size setting under Accessibility? Note this is on macOS 26 / Xcode 26. I realize there have been some previous forum posts related to this issue but hoping that things might have improved since then.
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macOS 26: NSTokenField crashes due to NSGenericException caused by too many Update Constraints
This example application crashes when entering any text to the token field with FAULT: NSGenericException: The window has been marked as needing another Update Constraints in Window pass, but it has already had more Update Constraints in Window passes than there are views in the window. The app uses controlTextDidChange to update a live preview where it accesses the objectValue of the token field. If one character is entered, it also looks like the NSTokenFieldDelegate methods tokenField(_:styleForRepresentedObject:) tokenField(_:editingStringForRepresentedObject:) tokenField(_:representedObjectForEditing:) are called more than 10000 times until the example app crashes on macOS Tahoe 26 beta 6. I've reported this issue with beta 1 as FB18088608, but haven't heard back so far. I have multiple occurrences of this issue in my app, which is working fine on previous versions of macOS. I haven't found a workaround yet, and I’m getting anxious of this issue persisting into the official release.
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Is there a way in AppKit to apply the Liquid Glass soft edge effect to a view placed outside an NSScrollView?
I’m developing a text editor that provides a line number view. This view is placed next to the NSScrollView that contains the main text view, rather than inside the scroll view. The line number view updates its drawing in sync with the NSScrollView’s scrolling and text editing in the NSTextView, so it can display the correct line numbers. This approach worked fine through macOS 15, but on macOS 26 with Liquid Glass, the line numbers end up being drawn without the expected blur/soft edge effect under the window toolbar area. In AppKit, some view controllers provide APIs to switch edge effects between soft/hard, but I can’t find any API to control this for the window toolbar region. I considered simply not drawing the numbers outside the content area, but if possible I’d like to apply the Tahoe-style soft edge effect instead. Does anyone have ideas? Is this currently impossible, meaning the only option is to file a feedback/API request? Also, for various reasons, the traditional approach of implementing line numbers by subclassing NSRulerView is difficult for my app.
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How do you disable split view tracking separators in macOS 26 Tahoe?
In the attached screenshot, we have an NSSplitViewController with three split view items. The first two are viewController split view items, while the third is an inspector split view item. The NSWindow is configured for full screen content so that the inspector split view items is full height itself. However, when we enable full height content view, AppKit is automatically adding a tracking separator into the toolbar when we don't want one. (Neither of the two split views are sidebars.) This tracking separator is out of place, cannot be dragged itself, and is drawn under the center aligned segmented control. We've tried a multitude of permutations to configure the NSWindow, NSToolbar and NSSplitViewItem but to no avail. Surely we're just missing the magic combo but a lot of the properties appear to be no-ops in macOS 26. How do we use an NSSplitViewController, in a full screen content window, such that we get a full height inspector but we don't get tracking separators for the main split view divider?
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Incorrect menu consistency warnings logged in Tahoe for NSStatusItem, performance issues related?
Is anyone else getting new warning about menu items with submenus when running on Tahoe? I'm getting big performance problems using my menu as well as seeing these messages and I'm wondering if there's a connection. My app is faceless with a NSStatusItem with an NSMenu. Specifically it's my own subclass of NSMenu where I have a lot of code to manage the menu's dynamic behavior. This code is directly in the menu subclass instead of in a controller because the app I forked had it this way, a little wacky but I don't see it being a problem. A nib defines the contents of the menu, and it's instantiated manually with code like: var nibObjects: NSArray? = [] guard let nib = NSNib(nibNamed: "AppMenu", bundle: nil) else { ... } guard nib.instantiate(withOwner: owner, topLevelObjects: &nibObjects) else { ... } guard let menu = nibObjects?.compactMap({ $0 as? Self }).first else { ... } Within that nib.instantiate call I see a warning logged that seems new to Tahoe, before the menu's awakeFromNib is called, that says (edited): Internal inconsistency in menus - menu <NSMenu: 0x6000034e5340> believes it has <My_StatusItem_App.AppMenu: 0x7f9570c1a440> as a supermenu, but the supermenu does not seem to have any item with that submenu My_StatusItem_App.AppMenu: 0x7f9570c1a440 is my menu belonging to the NSStatusItem, NSMenu: 0x6000034e5340 is the submenu of one of its menu items. At a breakpoint in the NSMenu subclass's awakeFromNib I print self and see clear evidence of the warning's incorrectness. Below is a snippet of the console including the full warning, only edited for clarity and brevity. It shows on line 32 menu item with placeholder title "prototype batch item" that indeed has that submenu. Internal inconsistency in menus - menu <NSMenu: 0x6000034e5340> Title: Supermenu: 0x7f9570c1a440 (My StatusItem App), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4fa0 Do The Thing Again, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e5040 Customize\U2026, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e50e0, ke mask='<none>'>" ) believes it has <My_StatusItem_App.AppMenu: 0x7f9570c1a440> Title: My StatusItem App Supermenu: 0x0 (None), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( ) as a supermenu, but the supermenu does not seem to have any item with that submenu (lldb) po self <My_StatusItem_App.AppMenu: 0x7f9570c1a440> Title: My StatusItem App Supermenu: 0x0 (None), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fd7c0 About My StatusItem App\U2026, ke mask='<none>', action: showAbout:, action image: info.circle>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fd860 Show Onboarding Window\U2026, ke mask='Shift', action: showIntro:>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fd900 Update Available\U2026, ke mask='<none>', action: installUpdate:, standard image: icloud.and.arrow.down, hidden>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e46e0, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4780 Start The Thing, ke mask='<none>', action: startTheThing:>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4dc0 \U2318-\U232b key detector item, ke mask='<none>', view: <My_StatusItem_App.KeyDetectorView: 0x7f9570c1a010>>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4e60, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010e4f00 saved batches heading item, ke mask='<none>', view: <NSView: 0x7f9570b4be10>, hidden>", "<My_StatusItem_App.BatchMenuItem: 0x6000016e02c0 prototype batch item, ke mask='<none>', action: replaySavedBatch:, submenu: 0x6000034e5340 ()>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010f7d40, ke mask='<none>'>", "<My_StatusItem_App.ClipMenuItem: 0x7f956ef14fd0 prototype copy clip item, ke mask='<none>', action: copyClip:>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fa620 Settings\U2026, ke='Command-,', action: showSettings:>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fa6c0, ke mask='<none>'>", "<NSMenuItem: 0x6000010fa760 Quit My StatusItem App, ke='Command-Q', action: quit:>" ) Is this seemingly incorrect inconsistency message harmless? Am I only grasping at straws to think it has some connection to the performance issues with this menu?
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URLByResolvingAliasFileAtURL: Appears to Be Broken - resolves to the the wrong folder
So if I create an Alias of a folder in Finder and hand the alias to my app (I also moved the alias file to a new folder, but I did not move the original folder)...so then my app resolves the alias using: NSURL +URLByResolvingAliasFileAtURL: What happens? The resolved URL points to a completely different folder. Well not completely different. It resolves to a folder that happens to share same last path component as the original folder...but this folder is inside the same parent folder the alias file is in. It does not resolve to the original folder I created the alias of. So then once my app touches the alias with +URLByResolvingAliasFileAtURL: the alias now resolves to this new (wrong) location (even in Finder). Couple details: My app is not sandboxed. I have permission to access the original folder in my app (but even if I didn't the alias shouldn't be mutated just by merely resolving it). Only seems to happen if the folder I move the alias to happens to contain a sibling folder that has the same title as the original folder. Like it's just deleting the last path component of the alias and then appending the last path component of the original filename and just going with that. I hope that makes sense. I tried creating the alias myself using -bookmarkDataWithOptions: and going the other way (to Finder) but Finder must be resolving the alias using a different API because it resolves to the original location as expected.
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macOS Tahoe 26.3 - System Is Playing NSBeep At Inappropriate Times When Text Editing Ends Via -cancelOperation: (field editor)
When I end editing pressing the escape key, the system sometimes plays NSBeep(). I noticed this with NSBrowser. Every time I press escape to end editing the system beeps. At first I thought it was somewhere in my app but I set a symbolic breakpoint and discovered it was not coming from my code. I filed FB22127038. Since then I discovered that NSBeep playing at inappropriate times is not exclusive to NSBrowser. It appears if there is a NSTableView in the window and you just press the escape key (even if you aren't editing anything) AppKit beeps. It can be traced to: #0 0x0000000199e3184c in NSBeep () #1 0x000000019aa03fac in -[NSWindow doCommandBySelector:] () #2 0x000000019ac1d01c in -[NSTableView(NSTableViewViewBased) cancelOperation:] ()
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Internal inconsistency in menus - menu warnings...
I get warnings like this on each project I build while debugging.. Internal inconsistency in menus - menu <NSMenu: 0x8b4b49ec0> Title: Help Supermenu: 0x8b4b49f80 (Main Menu), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( "<NSMenuItem: 0x8b5771720 Metal4C Help, ke='Command-?'>" ) believes it has <NSMenu: 0x8b4b49f80> Title: Main Menu Supermenu: 0x0 (None), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( ) as a supermenu, but the supermenu does not seem to have any item with that submenu What am I doing wrong? I get these errors even if I create a default app with no code?
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Obscure assertion crash in com.apple.NSScrollingConcurrentVBLMonitor thread
I have received a few crash reports for my app "Find Any File" with an assertion failure as follows: assertion failure: "displayTiming != ((void *)0)" -&gt; %lld Googling this turns up nothing, though. I wonder if someone has some insight into why this might happen, and how to prevent it. One reporting user suggests that it happens when my app shows a very long list of items in an NSTableView (&gt;10000 elements). I have 4 reports from 3 users, and the main thread is doing something related to the table view each time, though not the same (the few other threads are all idle): Crash 1, in macOS 14.0 (23A344: Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x182c69400 objc_msgSend + 0 1 AppKit 0x186f15400 -[CALayer(NSViewVisibleRect) NS_viewVisibleRectDidChange] + 40 2 AppKit 0x186900e10 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 276 3 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 4 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 5 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 6 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 7 AppKit 0x186900db0 NSViewHierarchyInvalidateVisibleRect + 180 8 AppKit 0x1869990e0 -[NSView translateOriginToPoint:] + 164 9 AppKit 0x186984108 -[NSClipView _immediateScrollToPoint:] + 420 10 AppKit 0x186983eb8 -[NSClipView scrollToPoint:] + 184 11 AppKit 0x186998d80 -[NSScrollView scrollClipView:toPoint:] + 84 12 AppKit 0x1869448dc -[NSClipView _scrollTo:animateScroll:flashScrollerKnobs:] + 480 13 AppKit 0x186b65b24 __62-[NSScrollingBehaviorConcurrentVBL _stopGestureScrollTracking]_block_invoke + 192 14 AppKit 0x186e6a6e8 ___NSMainRunLoopPerformBlockInModes_block_invoke + 44 15 CoreFoundation 0x18310b8c0 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 28 Crash 2, in macOS 14.1.1 (23B81): Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 CoreFoundation 0x18ba401f4 DYLD-STUB$$_Block_object_assign + 0 1 libsystem_blocks.dylib 0x18b506118 _call_copy_helpers_excp + 80 2 libsystem_blocks.dylib 0x18b505c68 _Block_copy + 376 3 libdispatch.dylib 0x18b641c7c _dispatch_Block_copy + 32 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x18b658df0 _dispatch_source_set_handler + 92 5 CoreFoundation 0x18b99e1e4 __CFRunLoopCopyMode + 540 6 CoreFoundation 0x18b8b7458 CFRunLoopAddObserver + 220 7 AppKit 0x18f0a687c _PerfAddRunLoopObserver + 192 8 AppKit 0x18f87cd60 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 368 9 AppKit 0x18f323318 -[_NSScrollingConcurrentEventMonitor startMonitoring] + 380 10 AppKit 0x18f321df8 -[NSScrollingBehaviorConcurrentVBL _scrollView:trackGestureScrollWithEvent:] + 884 11 AppKit 0x18f2e67f8 -[NSScrollingBehaviorConcurrentVBL scrollView:scrollWheelWithEvent:] + 512 12 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 13 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 14 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 15 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 16 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 17 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 18 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 19 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 20 AppKit 0x18fc45880 -[NSCollectionView scrollWheel:] + 180 21 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 22 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 23 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 24 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 25 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 26 AppKit 0x18f241770 forwardMethod + 252 27 AppKit 0x18f2e62a0 -[NSView scrollWheel:] + 408 28 AppKit 0x18f1d27b0 -[NSWindow(NSEventRouting) _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 652 As you can see, there's no code of mine involved at the time of crash. The other (and older) reports are similar, in macOS 13.6.1 and macOS 13.1. All four happened on ARM architecture (which may not be significant due to small number of samples). Memory use of app was not critical (in one case it was about 9 GB total, in others below 4 GB). The "Binary Images" section only lists Apple libs, apart from my app's. So, there seems to be no 3rd party ext involved. I've attached a full report as well. Full report of Crash 1
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