YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It seems to me that the rainy season has started. Maybe, it’s because of Typhoon No. 6 that it’s been raining all day in the Tokyo area. Yet, according to the weather forecast, it’s going to be rainy next week.

It’s been just a week since I released the last software title? I thought that was two or three weeks ago. The last development project was relatively large, and I spent quite a lot of time for it although the initial iOS release took me just a week or less. Anyway, I’m ready to announce a new macOS software title. This new release is called Split 1-2-3.

Split 1-2-3 is a once-forgotten desktop application development project. I was forced to abandon it after spending two or three weeks because of Image Renderer, which rarely works in SwiftUI.

Split 1-2-3 is a mosaic style desktop application that lets you display a few dozen images in a grid at a time. The user starts by choosing a grid layout (for example, 3 rows by 4 columns), and the application splits the entire window into those exact divisions using interactive split view components. Each individual cell acts as an independent grid space where you can drag-and-drop or select an image file to display, scale, and reposition. Additionally, you can uniquely adjust the size of each space in the grid. If you select the Horizontal adjustment at the Startup screen, the grid space at 1,0 may have a width of 150 while the grid space at 2,0 may have a width of 200. Or you can adjust the height of each space if you select the Vertical adjustment at the Startup screen. The goal of using this application is to display fractional part of each of a few dozen images in a grid and then to export the exact layout as an image to disk.   Continue reading →