I'm trying to save a file in macOS using Swift. I have the following settings in my app:
In the info.plist I have this key set with a message I need access to the desktop:
Privacy - AppleEvents Sending Usage Description
Though I never see the app make this request.
In my sandbox I have read/write set for User Selected File
I use NSOpenPanel to let the user select a file. The app then programmatically makes changes to the file selected. I display the changes in a textview. I then provide the option for the user to save the changes. This is done with a NSSavePanel and this code:
if let thisFileURL = currentFileURL {
guard let window = view.window else { return }
let panel = NSSavePanel()
panel.directoryURL = FileManager.default.homeDirectoryForCurrentUser
panel.nameFieldStringValue = thisFileURL.lastPathComponent
panel.title = "Saving changes...";
panel.showsResizeIndicator = true;
panel.showsHiddenFiles = false;
panel.canCreateDirectories = true;
panel.allowedFileTypes = ["html"]
panel.beginSheetModal(for: window) { (result) in
if (panel.runModal() == NSApplication.ModalResponse.OK), let saveFileURL = panel.url, let strToSave = self.strCleanContents {
do {
try strToSave.write(to: saveFileURL, atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)
} catch {
self.myAppManager.displayInfoAlert("Unmable to save file:\n\(error.localizedDescription)", self, [], false, response: {(bResponse:Bool) in })
}
}
}
currentFileURL is the URL to the file the user initially selected.
strCleanContents is the edited string from the file the user selected.
When I test this no error is thrown. But nothing happens either. The SavePanel opens, I can navigate to a location, if I select the same location where the original file was located it ask if I want to overwrite the file. Clicking save though does nothing, the panel just sits there. I can't cancel the process, it doesn't close, the file is not written.
beginSheetModalorrunModal, not both. – Willeke