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I just noticed that +[CIPlugIn loadAllPlugIns] has been deprecated since 10.15 (OK, I'm a little slow), along with all the other CIPlugIn methods except for loadNonExecutablePlugIns. I don't see any documentation about what I'm supposed to do instead. What's the deal?
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Is there any way to read/write preferences for a Mac app group using the defaults command? I'm talking about the stuff you would programmatically manipulate using [NSUserDefaults initWithSuiteName:], and that is stored on disk in ~/Library/Group Containers. If I just say defaults read <suite name>, it tells me the the domain does not exist.
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I'm updating some very old code, and it sends an kAESync Apple Event to the Finder to let Finder know that a file has been created or updated. Does this still serve a purpose? I know that Apple Events still exist, but creating the event involves deprecated things like FSRef and AliasHandle.
Possibly related: -[NSWorkspace noteFileSystemChanged:]. The documentation says that it informs the workspace object, so maybe it doesn't inform the Finder, and the documentation also says "Avoid calling this method if possible".
Yesterday and today, when I try to notarize a Mac app, it fails in the upload stage. And yet Apple's system status page shows a green dot next to Developer ID Notary Service.
I've tried relaunching Xcode and even rebooting the Mac.
Xcode 14.3, macOS 13.4.1
Feedback filed, FB12570950
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I'm building a plug-in for an app that I did not create, and I would like to notarize it. I know I can so that using notarytool, but it would be nice if I could do it using Xcode. However, when I archive, it creates a "generic Xcode archive". I've read TN3110: Resolving generic Xcode archive issue. Since the plugin is being created by itself rather than as part of a larger build product, I assume that I should use the SKIP_INSTALL = NO build setting. I am less sure of what to do with the INSTALL_PATH build setting. If I leave it empty, then nothing gets created in the Products folder of the archive. If I set it to some path, then the product is placed in the archive but nested in a subfolder of Products.
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The new environment constraints talk about a responsible process versus the launching process, but I'm not clear on the difference, and haven't been able to find a definition of a responsible process.
When I go to https://www.frameforge.com in Safari, the address bar doesn't contain the little padlock icon indicating proper SSL. But if I go to the same URL in FireFox, Chrome, or Edge, they do have a lock indicating that all is well. How can I figure out why Safari is not happy with this site's certificates or whatever?
I'm getting a code signing crash when I try to register a helper app as a login item, and I think this is new with macOS 13.4. That is, the crash log contains this:
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGKILL (Code Signature Invalid))
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Termination Reason: CODESIGNING 4 Launch Constraint Violation
I'm seeing one suspicious message in the system log:
tccd Prompting policy for hardened runtime; service: kTCCServiceAppleEvents requires entitlement com.apple.security.automation.apple-events but it is missing for accessing={TCCDProcess: identifier=com.jwwalker.AutoPairs.uiapp,
pid=91471, auid=501, euid=501, binary_path=/Applications/AutoPairs 4.0.1a1/AutoPairs4.0.1a1.app/Contents/MacOS/AutoPairs}, requesting={TCCDProcess: identifier=com.apple.appleeventsd, pid=531, auid=55, euid=55, binary_path=/System/Library/CoreServices/appleeventsd},
I can't figure out why the OS would think that I need an Apple Events entitlement.
I've looked a the thread Resolving Code Signing Crashes on
Launch, but it hasn't enlightened me. One problem I ran into is at the step
certtool d "authorised0.cer"
I get the output
CSSM_CL_CertGetAllFields: CSSMERR_CL_UNKNOWN_FORMAT
When I try to turn on sandboxing on a helper tool, it crashes on launch. I thought my problem was solved when I found the post Sandboxed Helper Tool Crashing in libsystem_secinit, but no. I set CODE_SIGN_INJECT_BASE_ENTITLEMENTS = NO in the target that builds the tool, and verified that the only entitlement in the built tool is that com.apple.security.app-sandbox is true, but it still crashes.
Backtrace:
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_secinit.dylib 0x7ff81af68400 _libsecinit_appsandbox.cold.7 + 49
1 libsystem_secinit.dylib 0x7ff81af6793c _libsecinit_appsandbox + 1831
2 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x7ff80f06649c _os_activity_initiate_impl + 51
3 libsystem_secinit.dylib 0x7ff81af671d4 _libsecinit_initializer + 67
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x7ff81af7b8b9 libSystem_initializer + 286
5 dyld 0x7ff80efa1618 invocation function for block in dyld4::Loader::findAndRunAllInitializers(dyld4::RuntimeState&) const + 172
6 dyld 0x7ff80efe0de9 invocation function for block in dyld3::MachOAnalyzer::forEachInitializer(Diagnostics&, dyld3::MachOAnalyzer::VMAddrConverter const&, void (unsigned int) block_pointer, void const*) const + 242
7 dyld 0x7ff80efd4ef7 invocation function for block in dyld3::MachOFile::forEachSection(void (dyld3::MachOFile::SectionInfo const&, bool, bool&) block_pointer) const + 557
8 dyld 0x7ff80ef870b7 dyld3::MachOFile::forEachLoadCommand(Diagnostics&, void (load_command const*, bool&) block_pointer) const + 245
9 dyld 0x7ff80efd40a7 dyld3::MachOFile::forEachSection(void (dyld3::MachOFile::SectionInfo const&, bool, bool&) block_pointer) const + 175
10 dyld 0x7ff80efe08d2 dyld3::MachOAnalyzer::forEachInitializer(Diagnostics&, dyld3::MachOAnalyzer::VMAddrConverter const&, void (unsigned int) block_pointer, void const*) const + 470
11 dyld 0x7ff80efa14f6 dyld4::Loader::findAndRunAllInitializers(dyld4::RuntimeState&) const + 150
12 dyld 0x7ff80efa9fd4 dyld4::PrebuiltLoader::runInitializers(dyld4::RuntimeState&) const + 30
13 dyld 0x7ff80efc100d dyld4::APIs::runAllInitializersForMain() + 71
14 dyld 0x7ff80ef8c369 dyld4::prepare(dyld4::APIs&, dyld3::MachOAnalyzer const*) + 3743
15 dyld 0x7ff80ef8b281 start + 2289
Sometimes, a Mac gets stuck in secure keyboard input mode, which prevents event taps from working. Googling indicates that this is a perennial intermittent problem. I've seen the suggestion to find the responsible process by using the command line
ioreg -l -w 0 | grep SecureInput
and looking for a PID in the output. When this happened to me today, the PID was that of the loginwindow process. That seems to be a bogus "I don't really know" result. In my case, quitting Safari cleared the problem. But is there any better way to find out the real source of the problem than quitting apps one by one?
I have a keyboard macro utility that uses a global event tap, and requires accessibility permission. It works except when typing in the edit field of a standard Save panel. Then it just beeps when I call CGEventTapPostEvent. I'm guessing that has something to do with standard open/save panels running in some special security box ( I forget the term). If I could just turn off my utility in Save panels, that would be good enough, but I can't figure out how to detect that situation. If I look at the result of CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo, I can see the Save window, but I don't see anything special about it. Nor can I think of any way of detecting that the keyboard event I posted has been rejected.
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According to the documentation of the NSApplicationActivateAllWindows flag of -[NSRunningApplication activateWithOptions:], "all of the application's windows are brought forward". That does not actually happen, and has not since at least macOS 10.15. It did work in macOS 10.13, don't know about 10.14. Is there any reasonable alternative to achieve the same effect?
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In macOS 13.2, the NSTrackingEnabledDuringMouseDrag flag for NSTrackingArea is broken, i.e., mouse-entered and mouse-exited events are not sent during a drag. This problem did not exist in macOS 12. I've filed a bug report, FB11973492, just wondering if anyone knows a workaround.
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I have a run script build phase that is trying to do custom code signing of a helper tool after it has been copied into the app package, so I have set both input and output files to the same thing, ${CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR}/$CONTENTS_FOLDER_PATH/Helpers/V40SSApp. But when I try to build, I get an error
invalid task ('PhaseScriptExecution Run\ Script /mypath/Debug/installer.build/Script-BED5B762297F4C4C00C96242.sh') with mutable output but no other virtual output node
I would guess that the "mutable" bit has something to do with the input and output being the same, but I don't get what it's complaining about.
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On my Mac (running Ventura), so long as my app is granted accessibility permission in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility, I am able to create a global event tap like so:
CFMachPortRef thePort = CGEventTapCreate(
kCGAnnotatedSessionEventTap,
kCGTailAppendEventTap,
kCGEventTapOptionDefault, // active filter
CGEventMaskBit(kCGEventKeyDown),
CTapListener::MyTapCallback,
NULL );
But on a user's computer, also running Ventura, the CGEventTapCreate call is apparently returning NULL, even though he's showing me a screen shot of the accessibility permission being turned on. Any ideas what I could be missing, or how to debug it?
JWWalker.