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Apple did a fairly nice job with the @IBAction mechanism. It’s easy to add code to handle a menu item action in a macOS program. It’s the same with iOS for button taps and other UI actions. But with the menu items, there is a severe oversight that…
Continue readingI hope no one ever thinks that the Tabletop Score Calculator is just a physical calculator that is too big to stick in your pocket! The Tabletop Score Calculator is an iOS app I’m working on that will have virtual score sheets for various tabletop games. After another…
Continue readingI’m working on a board game scoring app. It’s an iOS app because I frankly don’t like writing Java for Android. This is an iOS app written in Swift and it runs on iOS 10 and newer. The score calculator uses some basic iOS UI elements like a…
Continue readingI fixed the selection box issue and the control points are included. There actually are control points associated with the line segments of the curve but they are not used and not displayed. I have been adding code to allow for editing of curves in the context of…
Continue readingI did a little work last night to the node smoothing code for the end points of the Bezier curves. I also added code to handle line segments withing the compound curve. Fancier Compound Curves The first and last segments are now lines instead of curves. Notice that…
Continue readingI spent some time designing data structures to hold the compound curves that will be used for enhanced drawing elements and cams in the Linkage software. The data structure is designed with the idea that there is a single Curve type of object that contains nodes and segments…
Continue readingI am about to add curve drawing to the Linkage program. The curves will be compound curves, or whatever you would call a chain of elements that can be lines, arcs, or Bezier curves. To start work on this, the first thing I did was remind myself how…
Continue readingI finally figured out why printing was screwy when printing full size on multiple sheets. There was a mistake in the pages not being centered on the right spot in the document. So check out the latest Beta: http://www.rectorsquid.com/beta/linkage.msi http://www.rectorsquid.com/beta/linkageXP.msi http://www.rectorsquid.com/beta/linkage64.msi
Continue readingI did a quick Google search of “assign swift closure as variable” and got a bunch of result of people asking about this and many answers that were informative and downright useful. Of course, I’ve been writing Swift code for a year and I already know most of…
Continue readingI created the FormattedString that I mentioned in a previous post. I wanted to encapsulate some basic formatting options in my own class that would use the NSAttributedString class internally. I also want to use the variadic function capability in Swift to make formatting text as simple and…
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