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TabView inside NavigationStack is abnormal when using Xcode 26
TabView inside NavigationStack is abnormal when using Xcode 26. The y deviation is about 14. But it is right when using Xcode 16.4. It is also right without NavigationStack. import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { private enum Tab: Hashable, CaseIterable { case a case b } @State private var currentTab: Tab = .a @State private var path: NavigationPath = NavigationPath() var body: some View { NavigationStack(path: $path) { TabView(selection: $currentTab) { ForEach(Tab.allCases, id: \.self) { tab in switch tab { case .a: Color.blue // .offset(y: -14) case .b: Color.yellow } } } .tabViewStyle(.page(indexDisplayMode: .never)) .ignoresSafeArea(.all) } } }
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Internal inconsistency in menus - menu warnings...
I get warnings like this on each project I build while debugging.. Internal inconsistency in menus - menu <NSMenu: 0x8b4b49ec0> Title: Help Supermenu: 0x8b4b49f80 (Main Menu), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( "<NSMenuItem: 0x8b5771720 Metal4C Help, ke='Command-?'>" ) believes it has <NSMenu: 0x8b4b49f80> Title: Main Menu Supermenu: 0x0 (None), autoenable: YES Previous menu: 0x0 (None) Next menu: 0x0 (None) Items: ( ) as a supermenu, but the supermenu does not seem to have any item with that submenu What am I doing wrong? I get these errors even if I create a default app with no code?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: AppKit
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Smooth appearance switching
Hello every developers. I need your help. Do you know how to attach animation to appearance, like a smooth transition from dark to light and vise versa. My code here: @main struct The_Library_of_BabelonApp: App { @AppStorage("selectedAppearance") private var selectedAppearance = 0 @StateObject private var router = AppRouter() var scheme: ColorScheme? { if selectedAppearance == 1 { return .light } if selectedAppearance == 2 { return .dark } return nil } var body: some Scene { WindowGroup { RootView() .preferredColorScheme(scheme) .environmentObject(router) // this is doesn't work correctly .animation(.smooth(duration: 2), value: selectedAppearance) } } } And my appearance switching looks: struct SettingsView: View { @AppStorage("selectedAppearance") private var selectedAppearance = 0 var body: some View { List { Section(header: Text("Appearance")) { HStack(spacing: 20) { ThemePreview(title: "Light", imageName: "lightTheme", tag: 1, selection: $selectedAppearance) ThemePreview(title: "Dark", imageName: "darkTheme", tag: 2, selection: $selectedAppearance) ThemePreview(title: "System", imageName: "systemMode", tag: 0, selection: $selectedAppearance) } .padding(.vertical, 10) .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) } } } } struct ThemePreview: View { let title: String let imageName: String let tag: Int @Binding var selection: Int var body: some View { Button { selection = tag } label: { VStack { Image(imageName) .resizable() .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fill) .frame(width: 120, height: 80) .clipShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 12)) .overlay( RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 12) .stroke(selection == tag ? Color.blue : Color.clear, lineWidth: 3) ) Text(title) .font(.caption) .foregroundColor(selection == tag ? .blue : .primary) } } .buttonStyle(.plain) } } I guess my code works but animation working another way, its turn my Section, I don't know.... Thank you in advance
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ControlWidgetToggle image design
I need help designing the image of a ControlWidgetToggle. do I understand correctly that I can only use an SFSymbol as image and not my custom image (unless setup via a custom SFSymbol)? is there any way I can influence the size of the image? I tried multiple SwiftUI modifiers (.imageScale, .font, .resizable, .controlSize) none of them seem to work. My image remains too tiny the image size of the on and off state is different. Seems to be enforced by the system. Is there any way to make both images use the same size? the on-state tints the image. Is there a way to set the tint color? .tint and .foregroundstyle seem to be ignored. Thank you for your help
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Basics - Dice Demo, calculate total score
I've worked through Apple's dice demo for SwiftUI, so far so good. I've got a single Die view with a button to "roll" the die. This works perfectly using the code below: struct DieView: View { init(dieType: DieType) { self.dieValue = Int.random(in: 1...dieType.rawValue) self.dieType = dieType } @State private var dieValue: Int @State private var dieType: DieType var body: some View { VStack { if self.dieType == DieType.D6 { Image(systemName: "die.face.\(dieValue)") .resizable() .frame(width: 100, height: 100) .padding() } else {//self.dieType == DieType.D12{ Text("\(self.dieValue)") .font(.largeTitle) } Button("Roll"){ withAnimation{ dieValue = Int.random(in: 1...dieType.rawValue) } } .buttonStyle(.bordered) } Spacer() } } Now I want to do a DiceSetView with an arbitrary number of dice. I've got the UI working with the following; struct DiceSetView: View { @State private var totalScore: Int = 0 var body: some View { ScrollView(.horizontal) { HStack{ DieView(dieType: DieType.D6) DieView(dieType: DieType.D6) DieView(dieType: DieType.D6) } } HStack{ Button("Roll All"){} .buttonStyle(.bordered) Text("Score \(totalScore)") .font(.callout) } Spacer() } } Where I'm struggling is how to get the total of all the dice in a set and to roll all the dice in a set on a button click. I can't iterate through the dice, and just "click" the buttons in the child views from their parents, and I can't think how it should be structured to achieve this (I'm new to this style of programming!) - can anyone point me in the right direction for how to achieve what I want? I realise that I'm probably missing something fundamentally conceptual here....
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Basic question - dice demo project - get all values / roll all
I'm sure this is a basic question, but I'm new to this style of development, so thought Id ask... I've worked through Apple's dice roller demo, so far so good - I'm using the code below to render and roll a single die; struct DieView: View { init(dieType: DieType) { self.dieValue = Int.random(in: 1...dieType.rawValue) self.dieType = dieType } @State private var dieValue: Int @State private var dieType: DieType var body: some View { VStack { if self.dieType == DieType.D6 { Image(systemName: "die.face.\(dieValue)") .resizable() .frame(width: 100, height: 100) .padding() } else { Text("\(self.dieValue)") .font(.largeTitle) } } Button("Roll"){ withAnimation{ dieValue = Int.random(in: 1...dieType.rawValue) } } .buttonStyle(.bordered) Spacer() } } Again, so far so good - works as I'd expect. I can now also add multiple DieViews to a DiceSetView and they display as I'd expect. Where I'm stuck is in the DiceSetView, I want to both determine the total score across the dice, and also offer the ability to Roll All the dice in a set. (Ultimately I want another level above the set, so I'll be looking to roll all dice in all sets) I can't simply call a func / method on the child view (i.e. iterate through them and sum their values, and roll each), I suspect I need to change how it's all structured, but not sure where to go from here... Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Button in ToolbarItem is not completely tapable on iOS 26
I have an icon button in toolbar but only the icon is triggering tap events while outside icon button gives tap feedback but event is not firing. Code: ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) { Button(action: toggleBookmark) { Image(systemName: isBookmarked ? "bookmark.fill" : "bookmark") .resizable() .aspectRatio(0.8, contentMode: .fit) .frame(width: 20, height: 20) } } Here toggleBookmark function is only called if I click on Image but not if I click outside image but on the circular button that appears on iOS 26. See this screen recording.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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How to setup UIApplicationDelegate that uses UIScenes for mirroring with AirPlay
Hi! I am developing a game for iOS using Objective-C and C++. I am trying to migrate an app to scene-based life cycle, but having a problem while mirroring screen from iPhone to MacBook using AirPlay. At this moment I don't want to implement multi-window (or multi-scene) support. The only thing I want is to have ability of screen mirroring. From the documentation from here and here I can't understand which UISceneConfiguration should I return. If I define a UIWindowSceneDelegate for the configuration, how should I handle scene:willConnectToSession:options: if the window has been already created for main device screen? Returning nil is not documented. Is there any examples? Also, I would expect that defining UIApplicationSupportsMultipleScenes to NO in Info.plist will automatically disable second scene creating. This is mentioned in documentation here, but this is not true, because I still see second scene creation (its pointer differs from one that was already created) in UIWindowSceneDelegate. What am I doing wrong? Any hints are highly appreciated!
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit
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Menu in the bottom bar flies to the top of the screen
I have a Menu in a Toolbar (specifically, the .bottomBar). If I open the menu quickly after it appears (within a few seconds), it flies to the top of the screen. I've created a minimum woking example below. This appears to be a pretty glaring iOS 26 bug that has been present since the early betas, but I can't seem to find much discussion about it (apart from this post from 8 months ago), so I'm wondering if I might be doing something wrong. Or maybe someone managed to figure out a workaround. If the Menu is very simple (just Text items), it seems to be okay. But if the Menu is even slightly complex (e.g. includes icons), then it exhibits the flying behavior. I've also been able to reproduce this bug under different types of navigation component (e.g. NavigationSplitView). I'm seeing this behavior in the current version of iOS (26.2.1), both on device and in the simulator. MWE struct ContentView: View { var body: some View { NavigationStack { VStack { NavigationLink("Go to Detail") { DetailView() } } .navigationTitle("Root") } } } struct DetailView: View { var body: some View { VStack { Text("Detail View") } .navigationTitle("Detail") .navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline) .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .bottomBar) { Menu { Button { } label: { Label("Delete", systemImage: "trash") } } label: { Image(systemName: "ellipsis.circle") } } } } }
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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safeArea access in XCode 26, iOS 26
Hi. In my project, I use the following property to access the safe area via UIApplication: UIApplication .shared .connectedScenes .flatMap { ($0 as? UIWindowScene)?.windows ?? [] } .first { $0.isKeyWindow }?.safeAreaInsets However, in Xcode 26 and iOS 26, this no longer works, and in some cases the app crashes. Views that rely on this property stop behaving as expected. For example, if it’s a sheet, it does not appear. The same app built with Xcode 16 and distributed via TestFlight runs on iOS 26 without any issues. What is the correct and safe way to obtain safeAreaInsets outside of a View now?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Swiftui Map Leagal Text is transformed when rotationEffect is applied to Map
I have a problem when applying rotationEffect to a map in in SwiftUI. The legal text in the map is transformed as shown in this image: The following code is part of a much larger and complex view; it is a minimal example to reproduce the error: import SwiftUI import MapKit struct ContentView: View { @State private var offset = CGSize.zero var body: some View { ZStack { let drag = DragGesture() .onChanged { g in offset.width = g.translation.width offset.height = g.translation.height } Map(interactionModes: [.zoom]) .frame(width: 320, height: 220) .rotationEffect(.degrees(Double(offset.width / 12))) .highPriorityGesture(drag) } } } I hope you can help me with this problem.
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The Nightmare of Small Toolbar Icons
When building in Xcode on MacOS Tahoe, it seems it is no longer possible to dynamically specify a "small" size toolbar for NSToolbar/NSToolbarItem. It works in MacOS code compiled and linked on earlier systems. I don't want to use "SFSymbol", or "templates". I have over 60 custom-made .png toolbars, in individual Image Set files, at the previous requisite sizes of 24x24 / 48x48, and 32x32 / 64x64. Sure -- I can configure an NSToolbar with whatever size .png assets I want. I just can't dynamically switch between the two groups of sizes. According to the Apple Coding Assistant, the only solution is to change the image names of each of the NSToolbarItems at runtime. OK -- but even when attempting that, the NSToolbarItems refuse to take on their smaller size... ...unless: they are attached to a custom view NSToolbarItem with an NSButton of style "Bevel". I have about 10 of those, and YES -- I CAN change those to a "small" size. Is this REALLY what I'm forced to do?! The Apple Coding Assistant just runs me around in circles, making coding suggestions that include properties that don't exists. I've gone around and around on these issues for over a week -- it can't be this hard, right? Is there no way to make multiple NSToolbar objects, one for "large" and one for "small"?
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How to align views in a LazyVGrid to a common base-line?
I have the following snippet (but you can see my entire code in GitHub, if you want): LazyVGrid(columns: columns) { ForEach(books) { book in BookView(book: book) .draggable(Book.BookTransferable(persistanceIdentifier: book.id)) } } and BookView is: VStack { Image(nsImage: book.image) .resizable() .frame(width: 150, height: 200) .scaledToFill() Text(book.title) .lineLimit(1) .font(.headline) HStack { ForEach(book.tags.sorted(), id: \.self) { tag in TagView(tag: tag, showText: false) } } } .padding() This will render each BookView on a different base-line because of the fact that the Text view sometimes takes 1, 2 or even 3 lines (as shown). How can I have all BookViews alligned at a common base-line (as it would if Text would only take one line, for example)?
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SwiftUI toolbar items clip DocumentGroup rename affordance
Hi — I’m seeing the DocumentGroup rename/title affordance get clipped on iPad when I populate the navigation bar with SwiftUI toolbar items in .topBarLeading, .principal, and .topBarTrailing (trailing is an HStack of controls). Example: .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .topBarLeading) { UndoRedoControlsView(...) } ToolbarItem(placement: .principal) { Text(canvasInfoTitle).lineLimit(1) } ToolbarItem(placement: .topBarTrailing) { HStack { ... } } } .navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline) Is there a recommended way to structure toolbar content so the system’s document title/rename control always has space (or a way to reserve space / avoid clipping), short of removing .principal or moving items into menus?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Vision OS Persona
I’m seeing a camera/capture routing issue on visionOS when multiple WindowGroups are open at the same time. I have a SwiftUI view that starts an AVCaptureSession on onAppear and stops it on onDisappear. The camera feed is displayed in a subview that only exists inside one window. However, when I open additional windows (other WindowGroups) in the same app, the camera perspective/route changes unexpectedly — it looks like the capture is being re-associated with a different scene/window, even though the camera view never moved and no other view starts capture. Expected behavior Opening additional windows should not affect the active capture session or camera routing for the existing camera view. The camera feed should remain stable and tied to the window hosting. Actual behavior When multiple windows are open, the camera feed “switches perspective” / appears to re-route, as if the system changes which scene is considered active for capture. This happens without any explicit code calling startSession() again and without the camera view being present in the other windows. Additional context This app is running in an unbounded scene and uses Unity PolySpatial.
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Strong Password Suggestion Clears Other Secure Fields
I can't seem to find information on this but this is causing a critical bug where the Strong Password suggestion sheet presents on any secure field (UIKit) and clears the others when closing it. This means the user cannot enter a password when there is a secure confirm password field because switching fields clears the other. This looks to be a recent issue but I can't tell when this was introduced or if this is SDK / OS version related. I am finding it in both Xcode 26.2 and 16.4 when running on device (iOS 26.2.1 and XC 26 simulators). Code to reproduce: class ViewController: UIViewController { override func loadView() { let v = UIStackView() v.axis = .vertical v.layoutMargins = .init(top: 16, left: 16, bottom: 16, right: 16) v.isLayoutMarginsRelativeArrangement = true view = v let t1 = UITextField() t1.textContentType = .username t1.placeholder = "Username" v.addArrangedSubview(t1) let t2 = UITextField() t2.isSecureTextEntry = true t2.textContentType = .newPassword t2.placeholder = "Password" t2.clearsOnInsertion = false t2.clearsOnBeginEditing = false t2.passwordRules = nil t2.clearButtonMode = .always v.addArrangedSubview(t2) let t3 = UITextField() t3.isSecureTextEntry = true t3.textContentType = .newPassword t3.placeholder = "Confirm Password" t3.clearsOnInsertion = false t3.clearsOnBeginEditing = false t3.passwordRules = nil t3.clearButtonMode = .always v.addArrangedSubview(t3) v.addArrangedSubview(UIView()) } } No matter what textContentType is used the strong password still forcefully breaks the flow and blocks the user.
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NSTableView/NSScrollView jumping scroll position during NSSplitView resize
This is a very basic macOS Finder-style test app using AppKit. I am experiencing a "jump" in the vertical scroll position of my NSTableView (inside an NSScrollView) specifically when the window is resized horizontally. This happens when columns are visually added or removed. Framework: AppKit (Cocoa) Xcode/macOS: 26.2 Code: https://github.com/MorusPatre/Binder/blob/main/ContentView%20-%20Scroll%20Jump%20during%20Resize.swift
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UIScrollView Layout issue
I run into a layout problem where I cannot center an image inside ScrollView which is also inside Navigation Controller. The problem is surely the fact that there is a navigation bar because using this view without NavigationContoller works fine and the image is centered but I don’t know how to account for the space that navigation bar takes up. Here is the code: import UIKit class PhotoViewController: UIViewController { var photoName: String private lazy var photoView = { let image = UIImageView() image.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false image.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit image.clipsToBounds = true return image }() var photoViewBottomConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint? var photoViewLeadingConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint? var photoViewTopConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint? var photoViewTrailingConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint? private lazy var scrollView = { let sv = UIScrollView() sv.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false return sv }() override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() setupUI() } override func viewWillLayoutSubviews() { super.viewWillLayoutSubviews() updateMinZoomScaleForSize(view.bounds.size) } func updateMinZoomScaleForSize(_ size: CGSize) { let widthScale = size.width / photoView.bounds.width let heightScale = size.height / photoView.bounds.height let minScale = min(widthScale, heightScale) scrollView.minimumZoomScale = minScale scrollView.zoomScale = minScale } func setupUI() { photoView.image = UIImage(named: photoName) scrollView.delegate = self view.addSubview(scrollView) scrollView.addSubview(photoView) setupConstraints() } func setupConstraints() { NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ scrollView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.leadingAnchor), scrollView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.topAnchor), scrollView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.trailingAnchor), scrollView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.bottomAnchor) ]) photoViewLeadingConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint( item: photoView, attribute: .leading, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: scrollView, attribute: .leading, multiplier: 1, constant: 0 ) photoViewTopConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint( item: photoView, attribute: .top, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: scrollView, attribute: .top, multiplier: 1, constant: 0 ) photoViewTrailingConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint( item: photoView, attribute: .trailing, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: scrollView, attribute: .trailing, multiplier: 1, constant: 0 ) photoViewBottomConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint( item: photoView, attribute: .bottom, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: scrollView, attribute: .bottom, multiplier: 1, constant: 0 ) photoViewLeadingConstraint?.isActive = true photoViewTopConstraint?.isActive = true photoViewTrailingConstraint?.isActive = true photoViewBottomConstraint?.isActive = true } init(photoName: String) { self.photoName = photoName super.init(nibName: nil, bundle: nil) } required init?(coder: NSCoder) { fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented") } } extension PhotoViewController: UIScrollViewDelegate { func viewForZooming(in scrollView: UIScrollView) -> UIView? { photoView } func scrollViewDidZoom(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) { updateConstraintsForSize(view.bounds.size) } func updateConstraintsForSize(_ size: CGSize) { let yOffset = max(0, (size.height - photoView.frame.height) / 2) photoViewTopConstraint?.constant = yOffset photoViewBottomConstraint?.constant = yOffset let xOffset = max(0, (size.width - photoView.frame.width) / 2) photoViewLeadingConstraint?.constant = xOffset photoViewTrailingConstraint?.constant = xOffset view.layoutIfNeeded() } }
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Crash/Exception thrown in UITableView initialization stack
Hello, We are seeing an intermittent crash when initializing a base UITableView with Apple's [initWithFrame:style:] initializer. Crash stack: Role: Foreground OS Version: iOS 26.1 Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS EXC_BREAKPOINT: 0 libswiftCore.dylib +0x1358c0 _assertionFailure(_:_:file:line:flags:) 1 UIKitCore +0x1fdca0 0x188c26ca0 (0x188c26b20 + 384) 2 UIKitCore +0x1ffa60 0x188c28a60 (0x188c2890c + 340) 3 UIKitCore +0x2012d0 0x188c2a2d0 (0x188c2a1ec + 228) 4 UIKitCore +0x200f20 0x188c29f20 (0x188c29cac + 628) 5 UIKitCore +0x200428 0x188c29428 (0x188c29384 + 164) 6 UIKitCore +0x18af7f4 -[UITableMetricsAdapter _updateSharedSectionMetricsForListGeometry:] 7 UIKitCore +0x201da8 -[UITableMetricsAdapter tableBackgroundColor] 8 UIKitCore +0x1643a44 ___39-[UITableView _applyAppearanceDefaults]_block_invoke 9 UIKitCore +0x196f3d0 +[UIView _performSystemAppearanceModifications:] 10 UIKitCore +0x1643978 -[UITableView _applyAppearanceDefaults] 11 UIKitCore +0x202854 -[UITableView _setupTableViewCommon] 12 UIKitCore +0x1643760 -[UITableView initWithFrame:style:] 13 Application +0x30b6a40 closure #1 in variable initialization expression of MyAppClass.tableView 14 Application +0x30b6ef0 MyAppClass.init(frame:) Has anyone else seen something like this? Any insights or advice is much appreciated, thank you!
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Severe Frame Drops When Resizing macOS Window with Dynamic LazyVGrid
Context: I am building a macOS file (currently image only) browser using SwiftUI. The core view is a ScrollView containing a LazyVGrid. The layout is dynamic: as the window resizes, I calculate the optimal number of columns and spacing using a GeometryReader. The Issue: While scrolling is pretty smooth (thanks to custom image caching and prefetching), window resizing is significantly laggy. After having scrolled the UI stutters and drops frames heavily while dragging the window edge. The Code: https://github.com/MorusPatre/Binder
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