Week 3 - Blip - What the fuck

This week ended with a big annoyance — and I still have no idea how to fix it. What I want to do seems so easy, but it isn’t working.

At this point I’m not sure if it is worth sticking with SwiftUI. Or if I should require Big Sur (and thus SwiftUI2 as a minimum) … or switch to AppKit/Cocoa entirely.

All I wanted to accomplish was to list out every entry in a list so you can view it and copy the text. Sounds easy right? Not so fast. Somehow, for an unexplainable reason I can’t get long text to wrap around properly. Either the text gets truncated or the lines get cut off.

I’ve tried every StackOverflow and search query I could think of. No dice. Either I am misunderstanding how SwiftUI works in this regard or the version I am using is bugged. May have to download Big Sur and install it on a separate partition just to check.

Either way, I’m this close to kick SwiftUI in the bin and redo everything in good old Cocoa.

Oh and by the way: SwiftUI doesn’t seem to have a way to make selectable Text?! Sigh.

Not all is lost though. I’ve managed to get what I planned last week done. I actually though I had the summary view I worked on today planned as well, but that was a bonus objective! So feeling a bit better. Only a bit though.

I’ve also discovered a bit of a fail in how I’ve handled SwiftUI state which gave me something to write about.

For next week: Figure out how to wrap text?! I am at a loss at this point and it is really grinding my gears.

The entry panel changed again a bit. I am quite happy with this layout now and don’t think it’ll change anymore.