AppKit

Including Services in contextual menus in SwiftUI

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Screenshot of the good Services submenu (as found in the application menu), with more options, app icons, and better grouping.

SwiftUI provides a way to provide a contextual menu for a view, with contextMenu(menuItems:) and friends, but it requires you to manually specify the entire contents of the contextual menu. That means it does not include the standard Services submenu. A brief history of Contextual Menus Contextual menus were introduced [to the Mac] in 1997… Read more

NSImage is dangerous

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Screenshot of an excerpt from Xcode's debug console showing the output of AddressSanitizer, having detected data race involving NSImage.

NSImage is formally documented as largely not thread-safe: The following classes and functions are generally not thread-safe. In most cases, you can use these classes from any thread as long as you use them from only one thread at a time. Check the class documentation for additional details. Apple’s Threading Programming Guide > Appendix A:… Read more