So I made a macOS thing. It's a fidget spinner, but with a twist.
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So I made a macOS thing. It's a fidget spinner, but with a twist.
Made possible thanks to @samhenrigold posting about his own experiments with these private APIs.
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Gos de l'hortolà :estelada:replied to Gregory last edited by
@grishka
Why not contribute to an open source operating system instead. I mean, you are posting about it on mastodon after all
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Gregoryreplied to Gos de l'hortolà :estelada: last edited by
@pdh_sedlr @samhenrigold I've yet to see an open-source desktop OS that doesn't suck (sorry). I'm not the kind of person who would inconvenience themselves out of principle.
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@grishka @samhenrigold next challenge is to make the center of the fidget spinner stay still while you spin the window
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@grishka @samhenrigold "but with a twist"
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@grishka @samhenrigold How’s that even possible? lmao
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@rmasoni @samhenrigold the private API is CGSSetWindowTransform. It allows you to set an arbitrary affine transform on a window. There's also CGSSetWindowWarp that takes a mesh, this is the one Sam is experimenting with, it's used by the system for that genie animation when you minimize a window.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] is the title bar still completely functional?
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@grishka @samhenrigold Ooh! That makes sense! Thanks for the explanation.
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@georgemoody @samhenrigold unfortunately not *completely*. The hit testing seems to be broken for dragging, and if you do manage to start dragging it, it would jump like 100 pixels. The buttons do work.
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@Crates @samhenrigold should be easy, didn't think of that, heh
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@samhenrigold @Crates oh this was me today trying to set up censorship bypass tools on my new router
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Now available on Github! And the center part does not rotate. And the momentum now feels more like the real thing.
GitHub - grishka/WidgetSpinner: A fidget spinner for your Mac
A fidget spinner for your Mac. Contribute to grishka/WidgetSpinner development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub (github.com)
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While it does run on older macOS versions, it glitches a lot on anything 10.x. Not sure why this happens but it might be related to how the window server draws shadows.
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Anyway, now that I'm done with this, I'm gonna go back to photo albums in Smithereen
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@grishka @samhenrigold omfg it's so cursed... I love it
Why does this API even exist? What uses it?
