I want to be able to write a cross-platform screensaver that works on both Windows and macOS using the Pygame 2D graphics library in Python. On Windows, this is super easy - you just write your program with three possible command line arguments: /p for preview mode, /c for the configuration dialog mode, and /s for the actual full-screen screensaver mode. Then you just use pyinstaller to build an .exe file and rename the extension to .scr, and you're good to go. However, it seems that making a screensaver on macOS is a pretty convoluted process, and there was stuff about specific Objective-C functions that you had to write, and I didn't really understand the documentation. Could you please tell me if there is any way to simply get my Python Pygame program to build as a proper .saver file? Thanks!

I have a string of the form “Mon 22nd April”. I’m trying to extract the day (i.e. Mon), the date (i.e. 22nd) and the month (i.e. April) using this Applescript: set originalDateString to “Mon 22nd April” -- Extract the components by splitting the string set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " " set dayOfWeekAbbrev to text item 1 of originalDateString set dayOfMonth to text item 2 of originalDateString set monthName to text item 3 of originalDateString When I run this on its own it works as expected: dayOfWeekAbbrev is set to “Mon” dayOfMonth is set to “22nd” monthName is set to “April” When I run this inside a bigger script involving Numbers, the text item delimiters fails to work, no compile or run time errors occur and I end up with: dayOfWeekAbbrev is set to “M” dayOfMonth is set to “o” monthName is set to “n” I.e the first three characters of the string. If I replace originalDateString with the literal string “Mon 22nd April” I get the same result. In other words, text items and being recognized as individual characters, no delimiter (or delimiter is null). Totally confused.

I use Kotlin Multiplayer Development to develop iOS applications. I access the methods in the Kotlin class of the shared module in the ContentView.swift file. Functions without parameters can be used normally, but functions with parameters cannot. For example, the 78th line of code on the left side of the screenshot works, but the 79th line does not. Can someone please tell me the reason? Thank you!

Hi To All. I have recently started a course that will teach me how to use C++ coding, so I can improve my career prospects. I have come across an obstacle when it comes to downloading a programming tool and that is, they are not compatible with Sequoia 1.15.1. This includes Xcode, Clion, Codelite and Vs, I am at a crossroads in my decision making on how to overcome this problem please. Can someone help withme with a solution please. Thank you.

I am developing a simple camera JNI interface program in Objc. I managed to compile. But I get the following link error. I use the following command. Is there anything I can add to solve this problem? Note that I use Intel MacMini. g++ -framework Foundation -framework AVFoundation CameraMacOS.m Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_CMVideoFormatDescriptionGetDimensions", referenced from: _openCamera in CameraMacOS-517c44.o _listWebcamNamesAndSizes in CameraMacOS-517c44.o "_CVPixelBufferGetBaseAddress", referenced from: -[CaptureDelegate captureOutput:didFinishProcessingPhoto:error:] in CameraMacOS-517c44.o "_CVPixelBufferGetBytesPerRow", referenced from: -[CaptureDelegate captureOutput:didFinishProcessingPhoto:error:] in CameraMacOS-517c44.o "_CVPixelBufferGetHeight", referenced from: -[CaptureDelegate captureOutput:didFinishProcessingPhoto:error:] in CameraMacOS-517c44.o "_CVPixelBufferGetWidth", referenced from: -[CaptureDelegate captureOutput:didFinishProcessingPhoto:error:] in CameraMacOS-517c44.o "_CVPixelBufferLockBaseAddress", referenced from: -[CaptureDelegate captureOutput:didFinishProcessingPhoto:error:] in CameraMacOS-517c44.o "_CVPixelBufferUnlockBaseAddress", referenced from: -[CaptureDelegate captureOutput:didFinishProcessingPhoto:error:] in CameraMacOS-517c44.o ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I have a multi-platform application made with Delphi which uses FTDI D2XX drivers. All is well in other platforms but i have this issue in MacOS when i try to start the application: Termination Reason: Namespace DYLD, Code 1 Library missing Library not loaded: libftd2xx.dylib Referenced from: <CD2148C0-F76F-35D5-8E65-2BE51F201302> /Users/USER/*/USB_Editor.app/Contents/MacOS/USB_Editor Reason: tried: 'libftd2xx.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OSlibftd2xx.dylib' (no such file), 'libftd2xx.dylib' (no such file), '//libftd2xx.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS//libftd2xx.dylib' (no such file), '//libftd2xx.dylib' (no such file) (terminated at launch; ignore backtrace) If i try to run the executable i get a similar error which includes the users/user folder in the paths specified above. So if i copy libftd2xx.dylib to users/user the app can start from the executable and the USB library works well. The library is bundled in Contents/Framework as this seems to be the best (or only) accepted practice. Btw the app only starts during deployment if the library is found in Contents/MacOS. Library version is the most recent from FTDI site for the ARM architecture and followed their instructions to install. If i try the otool command on the library i get this: otool -L libftd2xx.dylib libftd2xx.dylib: libftd2xx.dylib (compatibility version 1.1.0, current version 1.4.30) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1336.61.1) /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 228.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 275.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 2202.0.0) I'm a Mac user since last week so my knowledge of the system is not so good yet (:

Stiamo sviluppando una App per iOS con Flutter, usiamo: Flutter barcode_scan2: ^4.3.3. Gli smartphone iOS cercano di riconoscere il tipo di codice a barre letto. Se il sistema crede che il codice sia gtin13 ma le cifre risultano 12, aggiunge uno zero iniziale. Come potremmo risolvere ? Grazie Settore sviluppo App Firenze Web Division

Hi there, I’m having issue with the python3 installation provided by Xcode’s toolchain. I’m currently writing a LLDB plugin, using the LLDB python API, to allow the user to visualize audio data from the current debugged program in a GUI, using tkinter and matplotlib. I'm using those because I'm developing a cross-platform plugin, as I'm initially a Linux developer who wants to make this available to my fellow Apple audio devs. My issue arise at least on two setups MacOS 12.7.6 Monterey with Xcode 14.2 MacOS 14 with Xcode 15.4 (not my machine) Because I wanna support Xcode’s toolchain, I want to use Xcode’s lldb. Xcode’s lldb uses Xcode’s provided python, which I’m having issues with when loading tkinter.The issue can be reproduced like this : > xcrun python3 -c "import tkinter;tkinter._test()" macOS 12 (1207) or later required, have instead 12 (1206) ! zsh: abort xcrun python3 -c "import tkinter;tkinter._test()" On MacOS 14 the version numbers are : macOS 14 (1407) or later required, have instead 14 (1406) ! You can see it fails to load tkinter. From what I understood so far, it looks like the tkinter/tcl/tk version distributed with Xcode is not supported by MacOS ?I checked and the imported tkinter module is definitely the one provided by Xcode’s toolchain : # Checking where tkinter is installed > fd "^tkinter$" /Applications/Xcode.app /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/tkinter/ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/tkinter/ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/future/moves/tkinter/ # Checking that Xcode python uses the right module - it matches > xcrun python3 -c "import tkinter;print(tkinter.sys.modules['tkinter'])" <module 'tkinter' from '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/tkinter/__init__.py'> I can get a working tkinter working by installing it using homebrew or macports, but I’m not able to use it with Xcode’s python installation. I tried overwriting sys.path to force Xcode’s python to import homebrew’s tkinter module, but it still loads Xcode’s tkinter .so. In the crash report I can see it indeed loads tcl/tk 8.5 and loads _tkinter.cpython-39-darwin.so from Xcode. I could disable the SIP (System Integrity Protection) to force to load another version of the library, but that wouldn’t be something I can ask the users. On the LLDB forum, they advise against using another python interpreter that the one provided by the toolchain. So is there a way to get the provided tkinter/tcl/tk installation to work ? If not I’m confused about why it’s provided in the first place. Thanks a lot for your time and please tell me if you have any questions. PS: if possible i'll post the head of the crash report in the comment of this post

after updating to macOS sequoia C++ compiler on vscode is not working is it just me or it is a common issue ?

Hi I was using Xcode for c++ (for competitive programming purposes, not sure if this is the standard choice but using it anyway) I included a &lt;bits/stdc++.h&gt; to the include file for XCode.app and they didn't show any error. But then when I ran my code, it showed "Build Succeeded" although no output was visible.

Note that I am trying to build my project for IOS 18 using XCode version 16 Beta 6. I have version 18.0 of the iOS beta installed on my iPhone. My project includes pods for Firebase and GRPC-Core. I ran pod update and it installed Firebase (11.1.0), BoringSSL-GRPC 0.0.36, OpenSSL-Universal 3.3.1000, and gRPC-Core 1.65.5. When I try to build my project I encounter the following error: Undefined symbol: _c2i_ASN1_INTEGER This symbol is not referenced in my code. It's unclear which pod references this symbol - although Firebase is a likely candidate. Is anyone else encountering this issue? I'm wondering if I could safely go back to a version of Firebase that does, as the previous version I had installed (10.22.0) didn't have this issue.

I have a sandboxed app in /Applications. I'm attempting to shoot a problem with LLDB, so I cd to /Applications/app-name/Contents/MacOS and do lldb programname. However, once I fire it off with "r" it dies instantly with: error: process exited with status -1 (lost connection) Should this work? Should I try signing the lldb executable? Thanks!

I am trying to embed a python file that uses a python library in c, to do this I need to include python.h but I don't see it anywhere on my mac. Right now when I try to compile I just get a missing Python.h compile error. I tried using the search bar to find it in /usr and /library. Neither had the file. I tried doing #include <Python/python.h> and that doesn't change anything. Is trying to setup a virtual env the issue?

My app creates dynamic copies of UI controls that are based on a custom UIButton subclass using this legacy approach: let archivedButton = try NSKeyedArchiver.archivedData(withRootObject: self, requiringSecureCoding: false) guard let buttonDuplicate = try NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveTopLevelObjectWithData(archivedButton) as? UIWagerButton else {return nil } I am currently trying to work passed the deprecation of NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveTopLevelObjectWithData(data: Data) Per the guidance, I should be replacing that line with the following and ensuring that the custom class implements NSSecureCoding guard let buttonDuplicate = try NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchivedObject(ofClass: UIWagerButton.self, from: archivedButton) else {return nil} However, while the code does compile and run, decoding the data reference throws the following error: value for key 'UIButtonStatefulContent' was of unexpected class 'NSMutableDictionary' I can only assume that if I get passed this specific property, there will be other properties that are also problematic. Question: Is this a bug? Or, am I now responsible for navigating the underlying property matrix of this UIControl to specifically, manually, handle the encoding and decoding of each of it's properties?

Hi, is there an intrinsic instruction to shift a vector from another a shift vector? thank

I want to implement a stack that works quite like a circular buffer. void** pp = malloc(sizeof(id) * 100); pp[index] = someObject; // later on somewhere: MyObject* myObj = (MyObject*)pp[index]; Is this correct? Does this approach work with ARC?

I'm investigating an odd problem that surfaced with macOS Sequoia related to CoreGraphics (CGColorSpaceCreateWithICCData()). I couldn't find a reliable way to track the lifetime (retain/releases) of a CGColorSpaceRef (any pointers appreciated) so I was hoping to use objc_setAssociatedObject() to attach an instance of my own class that would be deallocated when the "owning" CGColorSpaceRef is deallocated. In this way I could set a breakpoint on my own code, presumably invoked when the CGColorSpaceRef is itself going away. While objc_setAssociatedObject() does seem to work, the results don't seem deterministic. Is it because objc_setAssociatedObject() simply won't work reliably with CF types?

I'm looking to do conditional programming with NEON. I try the __ARN_NEON tag. it doesn't work can you help me?

using assembly in xcode.

Hey guys, so I have a problem regarding the testIDs on my react native that is reproducible only on iOS DOM meaning that I set the ids individually on the elements on a page but the problem is that somehow the ids are concatenated between them and inherits all the ids under the parent. As you can see and imagine in the accessibility inspector, this is what my DOM looks like. I want to point out that the problem does not reproduce on Android, only on iOS. Can somebody help me with this and tell me if there is a way to disable this concatenation? What's relevant to tell you it's the fact that I need each element to have an unique ID for browserstack automated tests. But as you can see in the image an element contains all IDs concatenated for some reason. And here is the code for the page with this issue