Any way to change the UI for browse previous versions?

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Created Mar ’25

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My UI is very heavyweight, so I'd like to show the previous versions using a lighter weight - almost like quick look - UI.

This would also allow me to 'zoom to fit' so the entire document can be seen.

I am using SwiftUI, but I wouldn't mind jumping into AppKit and/or UIKit to implement this.

Answered by robaho in 828325022

The ScenePhase only seems to update on the last document opened, so it doesn't work properly.

The only way I could make this work was by checking if the url passed in contains "com.apple.documentVersions".

Kind of a hack, but it is the only thing that seemed to work reliably.

Hopefully someone else has a better solution.

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Answer 1

Mar ’25

Not sure if this is correct, but the browse previous versions has the scene phase as background, and I can inspect this and create an alternate UI.

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Answer 2

Mar ’25

Accepted Answer

The ScenePhase only seems to update on the last document opened, so it doesn't work properly.

The only way I could make this work was by checking if the url passed in contains "com.apple.documentVersions".

Kind of a hack, but it is the only thing that seemed to work reliably.

Hopefully someone else has a better solution.

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Answer 3

Mar ’25

a SwiftUI FileDocument doesn't expose the 'isBrowsingVersions' so the previous answer was the best I could manage.

I had too many problems with SwiftUI DoucmentGroup that I needed to move to using a NSDocument based system.

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