by Marc Maset
This has taken quite some time to crack as there was not that much available information online. I wanted a very simple way to change the NSViewController of a window on the fly by using code. The solution I ended up with is quite easy, on the NSWindowController I load the default NSViewController by typing …
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Yup, not much else to add. Here it is: let randomColor = NSColor(red: CGFloat(drand48()), green: CGFloat(drand48()), blue: CGFloat(drand48()), alpha: 1.0) For iOS developers out there just change NSColor to UIColor. Marc PS: Drand48 will create a random number between 0 and 1.
Looking for Swift 3.0 version? -> Click here Well, having recharged batteries after vacation I’m back into coding! And yet again I was faced with another simple problem: how to get the day, month or year from a date. This is the simpler solution I’ve found in Swift 2: //Here I’m creating the calendar …
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I’m writing this lines from Hue, in Vietnam. I’m on a three week vacation trip, we started a week ago in the north of the country and we’re slowly heading south. We don’t have anything planned, this gives us the flexibility to do whatever we feel like doing (as long as we are able to …
Another topic that has been changed in Swift 2.0 is how to work with dates. I’m digging into this topic for my upcoming app and I’ve found that most documentation on the web refers to Swift 1.2. So here are some snippets to create dates using components: //CreateDateFromComponents (1st January 2016) var …
This morning I’ve been working in a Swift function to detect the width of a given text and return a CGFloat. I’ve not found that many examples on the web for OSX, so here you have what I’ve done in all of its glory: func evaluateStringWidth (textToEvaluate: String) -> CGFloat{ letfont = NSFont.userFontOfSize(NSFont.systemFontSize()) …
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One of the features I’m adding to an upcoming app is the ability to import CSV files. For that purpose I looked around for code already available (and found several options, see below), however none of them compelled me enough so I decided to create my own. The main objective was to make it as …
Prison Architect is getting better and better, and now it has a release month: this Octover. If you like simulation games, check it out. Marc
Great post from a long time Android user & security journalist. Worth a read: Goodbye, Android: http://t.co/p4QwqSx75P http://t.co/uiQ2lWiTeD Frankly I hope Google would change his ways on this. Marc
Today both Excelling and Notio have been received a compatibility update to ensure they work great under iOS9. Provided that Apple approves them both should be available for users in about a week. And now back to focusing on the new app. Marc