I am trying to create a custom document icon for my multi-platform (iOS 14 - macOS Big Sur) app. So, for macOS, it's pretty easy, I can either attach a legacy icon, or better, supply a combination ...

The current version of Xcode (version 12.5.1) provides a template for a Document Based App for macOS providing the following document model: struct MyDocument: FileDocument { var text: String in...

Is there anyway at all, to show an onboarding screen at the launch of a SwiftUI document-based app, before the file picker screen appears? What I can do now, is to show the onboarding screen AFTER ...

I need to delete a whole collection of documents in Raven DB. Deleting one by one (documents) is not a wise choice. Is there a way I can do this easily?

When I display an NSAlert like this, I get the response straight away: int response; NSAlert *alert = [NSAlert alertWithMessageText:... ...]; response = [alert runModal]; The problem is that thi...

I've been working on a new Document-based app, and was super glad about the new UIDocumentBrowserController...trying to roll my own solution for the document browser UI was tricky! I'm having some...

Since iOS 11 I have encountered the following error every time I am creating a new document using UIDocument API: [ERROR] Could not get attribute values for item /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Applic...

I have made a custom NSView and have implemented the keyDown: method. However, when I press keys the method is never called. Do I have to register to receive those events? fyi, I am making a docume...

I have a document-based application and I have sub-classed NSDocument and provided the required methods, but my document needs some extensive clean-up (needs to run external tasks etc). Where is th...

I want to write an application which may have multiple documents in a single window via a tabbed interface. Should I avoid the NSDocument architecture (the Cocoa Document-based Application template...

I'm trying to understand how the things in Cocoa works but I'm struggling with one thing. I saw http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/09/minimalist-cocoa-programming.html and http://casperbhansen.wordpress...

I'm dipping my feet into Cocoa for the first time. Here's a simple question. OS X Lion supports Resuming of window state when an app is terminated and relaunched. Okay, good and fine. But for doc...

This seems like it should be easy yet I must be missing something. I have a document-based application. I have also built a new XIB that has a NSTableView and three buttons on it that I intend to d...

I have been hearing a lot about document oriented data stores like CouchDB. I understand the uses of BigTable like stores such as Cassandra. After reading this question, I was wondering what the co...

I'm making a new Mac OS X application. (not an iPhone app) This is document-based application. It shows a new "Untitled" document instance automatically when it starts up. How can I block this beh...