Was visiting a friend who was playing a video game on his iPhone, and wanted to share it with a larger group. My mind was blown when he plugged it in to his mac, opened QuickTime Player.app and chose File > New movie Recording, then clicked the arrow and chose his iPhone as the source. Result: full screen iOS screen shows up on his mac (with sound).
I know you can use SharePlay to share iOS to macOS but this requires the latest macOS, and runs over wifi - the Quicktime Player trick works with older macOS and has better performance since it’s over USB.
I could see how this could be useful for development and debugging.
You can add keyboard shortcuts to any menu item of any app using the Shortcuts Tab of the Keyboard Preferences. This will also change the keyboard shortcut if it already has one.
In this example I added a keyboard shortcut for Documentation in Xojo. (I know you can also change or add menu item keyboard shortcuts for Xojo inside Xojo’s preferences).
In a Save dialog, if you drag a file from a Finder window into the dialog, it will set the dialog to that directory.
In an Open dialog, if if you drag a file from a Finder window into the dialog, it will set the dialog to that directory with that file selected.
In a Save dialog, if you click on an existing greyed-out file in the chosen directory, it will set the file to be saved to the same name, which then can be edited to make it slightly different.
Combine this feature with Mail.app, Flags and Smart Mailboxes and you can set up a miniature organizing system. If you look at the Flagged mailbox, you will see different colored flags. You can rename these to create a “ToDo” system. Here’s mine:
I have set up keyboard shortcuts for each of these, which are now muscle-memory. So I can easily look at each incoming email and decide : Junk? Delete? Keep? DoNow? DoSoon?.. with a single keypress.
In the Open / Save Dialog, you can rename the files, put them into Trash… with a right-click (maybe other things, but I do not used them).
Useful when you realize you’ve made a mistake when exporting a file (wrong type) and avoid a duplicate / going to the folder.
I saw a macOS beta where the "drop an item’ into a dialog resulted to a move to there, just like in Windows. This was removed in the next beta.
Right-click in the window’s name allows to navigate in that Item folder hierarchy. Nice for opening the current project’s folder in Xojo’s IDE (and not only).
I suspect that’s intentional. Because the UIState is embedded in binary projects if it ever became corrupted, holding Option down will skip the uistate data. That existed long before apple decided that Option should close the previous window.
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