Brendan MolloyI could really use some help with macOS UI work for this Mastodon client I'm working on. I'm struggling ridiculously with the core concept of NSTableView cell resizing.
Please boost.
John~🐺@piecritic wish you the best of luck friend, if I weren't swamped I'd be all for helping ✌️
@eurasierboy ahhh doing it in iOS is so much easier though, ahahaha. The Cocoa API has not only been left to rot, but is badly documented as well, and actually has broken parts since it "evolved" that nobody has documented either.
Some things like "intrinsic height doesn't work unless you do view.stringValue = view.stringValue before checking it" is seriously voodoo nightmares.
@piecritic yeah, can't say I've had an experience in macOS dev that didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. You hit the nail on the head on the piss poor documentation 😔
@eurasierboy one thing you could help me with without doing anything is just telling me the approach you took to parsing the `content` field of the Status entity. :D
@piecritic stripped all the tags using an NSScanner 😛
@eurasierboy LOL that is what i was going to do. fuck
@piecritic it's hardly optimal but given everything is 500 char or less (not including the tags but you get the point) it works Good Enough™. It'd be nice if we'd be able to just get a clean string to begin with though
@eurasierboy we could ask @Gargron nicely for an opt-in query flag that makes it plain text? ;)
ePirat@piecritic @eurasierboy Maybe NSAttributedString initialized with the HTML?
@eurasierboy @ePirat do that now, it's very slow
@eurasierboy I have found a bunch of HTML parsers that are similar to Nokigiri written in Swift that I will probably use once I give up on this terrible WebKit NSAttributedString parsing hack I've undertaken as a short term nightmare.