Digital sundial

Has anybody had luck getting a Catalyst app to restore window frame (size & position) after closing all windows of the app and then tapping the dock icon to launch the app again?

If I quit the app and re-launch, it remembers the frame fine using my current mechanism, but if I close all windows and re-launch from dock, it places the app at the default position rather than the previously remembered position.

I got this to work correctly for a #SwiftUI app under macOS after a bit of tinkering but that was using `NSApplicationDelegate` methods. Haven’t had much luck with `UIApplicationDelegate` methods for the Catalyst app so far because my previous method involved using `applicationShouldHandleReopen` which is not there in `UIApplicationDelegate` ….

So wondering if anybody has run into this before and fixed it before I do a deeper dive …

#macOS #Swift #Coding #Catalyst #SwiftUI

#SilentSunday

#silentsunday

There are certain roles where it’s a joy to watch Murali Sharma act 🙂 Generally, not the ones where he is an out-and-out villain, but the ones where he plays a normal (or more-or-less normal) person ….

I haven’t finished the movie, or even gotten more than 10 minutes in for that matter, but “Stand Up Rahul” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14806338) feels like a movie where I’m going to really enjoy seeing Murali Sharma’s character ...

#Movies #Telugu #FirstImpressions

All the talk of donuts today (for breakfast) reminded me of the Donut browser — at least, I think that was what it was called ...

Way back in 1999 or so, I think came across a browser written in C/C++ which was called Donut. I don’t remember much about it now but I think it hosted the IE engine?

I think I used that source code as a starting point to write my own C/C++ browser called Scope:

https://farook.org/Scope.htm

Scope hosted both the IE and Mozilla engines and if I recall correctly, I later re-wrote it in Delphi when I switched over to Delphi as my main development language instead of C/C++. But it was so long ago, that most of this is just a hazy memory 😛

I did a quick Google search for Donut to verify my facts but can’t find any reference to the old browser — only something for Android was there in most search results.

#Donut #Browser #Delphi #C #CPlusPlus #OldSoftware

Now this is something that has been bugging me so long … And while I did download Xcode 15 beta 3, I still haven’t gotten around to using it and had no idea that the 10-view limit was gone. Rejoice!

From: @twostraws
https://mastodon.social/@twostraws/110678626975697398

#SwiftUI #XcodeBeta #Xcode15

#trees #tree #treesofmastodon #photo #nature #naturepic #photography #photos #Photomonday #foto #fotos #Fotomontag #fotografie #fotograf #fotographie #pic #pics #picture #pictures

The search for SwiftUI developers has got me going down so many interesting rabbit holes 🙂

One person’s profile that I browsed had this article about how somebody has decompiled all the old Sierra games (at least, I think that was what the post said, it’s been a while and I’ve been going through a lot of profiles). I bookmarked the article to read but no time yet ..

https://www.benshoof.org/blog/sci-scripts

Somebody else mentioned a recipes app they had settled on:

https://mela.recipes/

Recipes apps hold a special place in my heart since I’ve done a few in my time since the wife wanted one which worked just right 😛 This bookmark was mostly for her but I’m curious as to what this app gets right as opposed to the ones we’ve tried …

#NewStuff #RabbitHoles

OK, finally got the donut order in .. whew!

It seems to me that the Talabat app opens order every half hour when they run out of delivery capacity or have too many orders? I had been trying every few minutes since like 6:35 but it wouldn’t go through but once I got to 7:00am it went through fine …

Once might have been accidental, but this is the second time that this has happened.

On the other hand, according to Ian Fleming, “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and three times it’s enemy action.” 😛

#Donuts

The wife wanted donuts for breakfast and I was supposed to order them since I get up early. I forgot all about it since I was busy going through the profiles of Swift devs and following them on here …

Now the delivery app says that there are too many deliveries in my area and I should try in half an hour 😛 The perils of distraction ...

#Life #Donuts #FindingPeople

Where are the Swift/SwiftUI developers at? 🙂

This is something interesting I saw over on Threads — people asking for Swift developers so that they can connect. I should have thought of that myself over here 😛

I would like to connect with other developers — if you do Swift, much better since I can talk at least halfway intelligently about that, but I’ve done development in a bunch of other languages including Python, Kotlin, Java, PHP, Perl, Pascal, xBase (if you really want to dig deep …).

But I’m looking for people who post about their current development journey — what you are working on, what issues you’re running into, what interests you etc. Doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner, expert, or somewhere in-between, I’m just interested in people who post and who want to have a conversation …

If you do post about this stuff regularly, ping me. I’m interested in following you 🙂

#Swift #SwiftUI #Mobile #iOS #macOS #FindingPeople #Coding

I don't always like Arya's movies, but with both “Sarpatta Parambarai" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11580854) and “Kather Basha Endra Muthuramalingam” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24227018) it feels as if he has come into his own 🙂

I’m watching “Kather Basha Endra Muthuramalingam” at the moment and while it’s mostly an average movie with a lot of fights and violence, it does have some interesting moments …

#Movies #Tamil #Arya

I wanted to do some engagement comparisons between Mastodon, T2, and Threads but unfortunately, the character counts foil me 😛

I guess I write way too long posts? 😀

On T2, you get a limit of 280 chars, on Threads 500, and here (on Akkoma) I can have an 8,000 char long post …

In that respect T2 is the hardest to get the full post/intent across on for me.

#Comparisons #Fediverse #Threads #T2

Tried both T2 and Threads over the past week and they have just so very different vibes …

On T2, as soon as I introduced myself, there were people saying hello.

On Threads … crickets 😛

I wasn’t following anybody (or at least many people) on either platform at that point.

The interesting thing is, on Threads there are a lot of people interacting if you are a celeb — but it appears to be transactional. Not a lot of actual conversations.

But, Threads also has the numbers and so there are a lot more people to find for a particular field/subject — iOS/Swift devs, for example 🙂 On the other hand, it’s not easy to find anybody since there is no search except for search by name …

Overall though, Threads doesn’t have the public square feel that they say they want to foster. It feels more like a very crowded mall where everybody wants something but aren’t really interested in those around them …

#Threads #T2 #SocialNetworks #Conversations

We started watching "Tarla" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27816768) yesterday. It is the story of Tarla Dalal, an Indian chef and author of more than a hundred cookbooks. Despite all of this, I had never heard of her and was expecting the story to be similar to that of Julia Child (and the HBO series, "Julia") given the similar time periods, but so far "Tarla" is going down a different path and we are both enjoying the story immensely 🙂

If you love food, cooking, or just learning about india from like 40 - 50 years ago, you might like it too. It's certainly different from the usual Bollywood fare these days ...

#Movies #Bollywood #BioPic #Cooking #RealPeople

After trying out Threads for a while, found a bunch of things which makes it harder to deal with for me personally:

* There is a character limit to posts but no character counter. So I won’t know if I’m hitting the limit till I actually hit it.

* No desktop version. I don’t use mobile that much and switching away from the desktop to use Threads means I’ll use it less often. (Yes, I know about the website and the ability to view profiles, but there's no way to see the post timeline, that I know of, via web)

* No hashtag support. I find hashtags make searching for content so much easier …

* Speaking of search, you can only search for people — not content. So I can’t find people posting about interesting stuff unless I know who these people are in the first place. Or, find them serendipitously by coming across a post of theirs in the main timeline.

* The main timeline appears to be algorithmic, but geared towards those you follow and their follows maybe? I know that I’ve run into duplicates pretty quickly when I scroll down …

* No edit functionality. Which I miss sorely after being on the Fediverse 😛

* No personal timeline — so if you want to see only posts from those you follow, you’re out of luck.

#Threads #FirstImpressions #TwitterReplacements