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The Ohanaware Weblog
For a while now I've been wanting to reboot our blog. Had to shut the last one down due to it being an attack vector for our web site. I finally built our own custom solution (and your reading from it). Right now it's incredibly bare bones and does the absolute minimum needed. Who knows, maybe we'll turn it into an actual product?
Lovin' SwiftUI
Started learning Swift and SwiftUI in October 2023 and I'm almost ready to show you what we've built.
Sleep Aid 1.4 with fixes for macOS Sonama
Declarative UI is the future.
Time to move on ... continued
Restless Mac Syndrome
Time to move on
Ventura and hourly wakes
Can Bluetooth Preferences keep a Mac awake?
Extending Sleep Aid's functionality using Scripts
AOP endpoint 42
Sleep Aid 1.2 Energy Efficiency
Hot Bag MacBook
Have you ever travelled somewhere to find that your MacBook is nice and warm, with next to no battery left? If so, these are the common causes of a "Hot Bag MacBook" that we've found so far.
Sleep Aid 1.1
Does your battery drain while your MacBook is sleeping? Do your headphones wake your Mac? Does your Mac flash its screen, keyboard or mouse during the night? Solve these problems and more with Ohanaware's Sleep Aid.
App Wrapper 4.5
Sleep Aid Launch
Does your battery drain while your MacBook is sleeping? Do your headphones wake your Mac? Does your Mac flash its screen, keyboard or mouse during the night? Solve these problems and more with Ohanaware's Sleep Aid.
The Mac App Store in 2022
On Janurary the 6th 2021, the Mac App Store was 10 years old, however it really needs an overhaul and more than just visual
Mac App Store Receipt Verification Failures
WKWebKit, Xojo HTMLViewer and the App Sandbox
App Wrapper 4.4 Prerelease
Improving Mac App exposure [upd]
New App: Notched Up
Ohanaware App Kit 2021 Release 3 is out today
Ohanaware App Kit 2021 Release 2.1
IOException 1 and code signing issues
Ohanaware App Kit 2021r2
App Wrapper 4.3.1 Release now available
App Wrapper 4.3.1 contains 5 bug fixes and is recommend for all customers, especially those running macOS 11.4 Big Sur
lifeboat
OWStackView2021
How to purge and re-install code signing identities
Sometimes identities get messed up, keys go missing and it seems like a clear-out and start again is the best solution.
HDRtist NX 2 - App Store issues
App Wrapper 4.3 Release
Site Outages
Let the macOS manage your Window menu
OWListboxForAqua
Failed retrieving request UUID for upload
no-one downloads, no-one sees
Iconographer Mini 1.2
Where to place files inside a Mac .app bundle
Permissions Reset 2.0
Permissions Reset attempts to restore permissions based on file type.
Manually Generate Code Signing Certificates from Apple
Iconographer Mini 1.1 Update
Theme Compliant Preferences for Big Sur and below
Preferences Dialog in macOS Big Sur
You don't have permission to open the application or App will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash.
Trouble shooting a permissions problem, that is just weird.
App Wrapper 4.1 Release
This release adds features which will help even more developers prepare their Mac apps for Apple App Store Submission and Website Distribution.
App Rejected for Revoked Certificate
Xojo Mac Apps handling Sym Links & Bookmarks (aliases)
macOS CPU Architecture
Apple provides many ways to get at architecture information, each with its own quirks. Which one to use?
App Wrapper 4.0.1 and Xojo 2020r2.1
Xojo 2020r2.1 includes functionality that allows build scripts to fire after the entire app is built, rather than each architecture.
Xojo 2020r2.1 includes functionality that allows build scripts to fire after the entire app is built, rather than each architecture.
Using AppleScript in your apps with App Wrapper 4
Xojo 2020r2
Xojo 2020r2 adds "Apple Silicon" but also has a problem with build scripts.
Xojo 2020r2 add the ability to build "Apple Silicon" but also has a problem with build scripts. Read on to find out how to work around them.
Preparing your Xojo made Mac App for macOS Big Sur
Continuing on the preparing your Xojo made Mac app for macOS Big Sur, this article will Toolbar Styles
For this quick one, I'm going to show you the various toolbar styles that are now available in macOS 11 Big Sur
Getting started with scripting App Wrapper from Xojo
Take advantage of Xojo's powerful IDE scripting to automatically add App Wrapper 4 into your app development workflow.
macOS 11.0 or 10.16 - Spot the difference
There are differences between macOS 10.16 and macOS 11.0, both called Big Sur, what are they and what can I do about them?
Xojo 2020r2 - First Impressions
Preparing your Xojo made Mac App for macOS Big Sur
Continuing on the preparing your Xojo made Mac app for macOS Big Sur, this article will cover SF Symbols.
Using the Ohanaware App Kit and App Wrapper 4 to make your Xojo made Mac Apps feel great in the new UI.
Black Friday 2020
Iconographer Mini
Iconographer Mini is a quick and easy way to take a logo and create either a Mac Iconset (for use with Xcode) or a compressed ICNS file for use with other Mac development tools (like Xojo).
AppleScript, Catalina & Xojo made Mac Apps
Ohanaware App Kit 1.1 Release
Profiling Sandboxed apps with App Wrapper 3
HDRtist #1 app in App Store search
Getting Started with the Ohanaware App Kit 2020
Changes to payment processing
We're migrating our payment services over to join FastSpring
Omegabundle for 2020
This is a fantastic bundle of Xojo developer tools worth over $4,217.00 for $399.99.
September the 9th 2020
And that's it folks for this years Omegabundle. We hope that y'all enjoyed the benefits of this years bundle. It was really great for us as we debuted the Ohanaware App Kit with this years bundle and I was shocked by how much interest there was for the Ohanaware App Kit. I am so happy that there's so many people out there who want to take their Mac apps to the next level, but didn't know how.
Xojo Made Mac app with a Big Sur content alignment issue solved
Updated with an alternative solution from Valdemar De Sousa
Omegabundle Whats to come
Building a better Mac app with Xojo
Ohanaware App Kit 1.0.6 Released
Proudly announcing the immediate availability of version 1.0.6 of our App Kit.
Building a better Mac App with Xojo
Drag and Drop is easy with Xojo, but the final piece for illustrating that a control can accept a drop is not.
It is no secret that for the last few months, I've been hard at work on App Wrapper. I came across an interesting scenario, something which I appear to have forgotten in recent years. The correct way to highlight an area or control which can accept a dropped item.
Ohanaware App Kit 1.0.5
Proudly announcing the immediate availability of version 1.0.5 of our App Kit.
Preparing your Xojo made Mac App for macOS Big Sur
Continuing on the preparing your Xojo made Mac app for macOS Big Sur, this article will cover SF Symbols.
Getting started with App Wrapper 3
A guide to getting started with App Wrapper 3, specifically around Code signing and Notarization.
A guide to getting started with App Wrapper 3, specifically around Code signing and Notarization. The set-up process for the first Notarization may seem daunting, but I've broken it down into several chunks which should help.
Ohanaware Apps on macOS Big Sur
Check to see how our applications fare on macOS Big Sur Beta 4.
Updated for Beta 4 of Big Sur
App Report Beta 2
Improved performance and UI in beta 2 of App Report
Preparing your Xojo made Mac App for macOS Big Sur
Information on how to customize your Xojo made Mac application so it looks good on Catalina, Mojave and macOS Big Sur.
Continuing on from the last article, I'm going to talk about some other controls and code that can help complete the look of a Big Sur app.
Ohanaware App Kit 1.0.4 Released
Very proud to announce the immediate availability of version 1.0.4 of our App Kit.
Xojo apps rejected from the Mac App Store
Apple introduced a new check to the Mac App Store that's preventing Xojo Developers from selling their wares on the Mac App Store
Several users have posted in the Xojo forum https://forum.xojo.com/61457-mas-app-rejected-because-uses-non-public-apis-symbols-getsectio about having their latest Mac App rejected by Apple.
Updated: Thursday, July 30th, 2020 as this was a false positive from Apple.
Preparing your Xojo made Mac App for macOS Big Sur
Information on how to customize your Xojo made Mac application so it looks good on Catalina, Mojave and macOS Big Sur.
