Show HN: Kasimba – Simple macOS app that converts Windows paths to SMB addresses

by bobnarizes • 1 year ago

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90s_dev3• 1 year ago

Useful for Mac users who need to access Windows network shares.

Looks great.

Related story. In late 2010 a client asked me to write effectively the same thing for him as a Mac app, using that one protocol I can't remember the name of, but which had promise and never quite caught on. All I can remember about it is that I implemented JavaScript's `for await (...)` in 2010-era Objective-C, and I felt like a genius because I had never even heard of such a concept before, and came up with it on my own just to solve a problem in that project. That function worked amazingly and only took like 100 loc or something. I wonder if he still has that source code around somewhere.

90s_dev3• 1 year ago

WebDAV! I just remembered it was webdav.

90s_dev3• 1 year ago

// Custom TextField wrapper that supports keyboard shortcuts
struct FocusableTextField: NSViewRepresentable {

Did things change? We used to use "responder chains" to do this. In fact that concept was created to avoid having to subclass for keyboard shortcuts.

bobnarizes• 1 year ago

SwiftUI uses a different event handling model than AppKit's responder chain. This NSViewRepresentable approach is afaik the recommended way to access AppKit's event handling capabilities from SwiftUI.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/nsviewrepr...

stuaxo• 1 year ago

These things are useful.

For windows users you can install a little script as a URL handler for smb addresses to go the other way.

Show HN: Kasimba – Simple macOS app that converts Windows paths to SMB addresses

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