NSView and CALayer

I recently come across animation problem in building macOS app. I was not able to display a transformed layer properly. Things went funky. Thus I decided to spend some time in reading the documentation once again.

Messing around with NSCollectionViewItem

Are you Mac App Developer? Did you use the latest NSCollectionView with APIs updated in 2015? If you have used this, you probably faced the same issues I had. Let’s take a look.

Storyboard does not set properly

Animate NSCollectionViewItem during dragging

macOS applications have the innate capability that iOS does not have. Drag and Drop comes with desktop applications. In iOS, in order to implement a similar feature, we first make use of UIPanGesture, and then trigger measure the CGPoint of current…

Mac App Animation Takeaways

I am developing a Mac App which needs some animations to be done. In fact, I am quite new to animation topics on Mac App. For instance, I have the animation code working in iOS, but I want to port to Mac App. Here are some takeaways in an animation which rotates a layer along…

Exploring NSTextField

Recently, I’m toying around NSTextField in a simple todo list application. I want to include an editable text string in…