I wrote a PHAssets class back in 2019 to handle access to the photo albums.
This has always worked fine on my old iPhone 7 running iOS 15.
Recently I had to get a more modern iPhone 12 so I could access iOS 18.
iOS 18 broke my class - which was a major dilemma because I don't have much of a handle on Objective C.
After a couple of days mucking around I manage to isolate the first Objective C routine that bombed and in utter frustration asked MS Copilot if it could see what was wrong.
It quickly came back with a number of improvements which wonder of wonders fixed the problem.
So I got it to revise all the other Objective C routines in the class - and am happy to report my new class works fine on iOS 15 and 18.
The new PHAssets class is at https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...ment-library-based-on-phasset.110812/#content
I SHOULD ADD: my experience with Copilot is now quite extensive covering HTML and Javascript primarily but also Windows Powershell and occasional B4X stuff - and now Objective C.
I am uniformly impressed at my results with one caveat - you have to keep the questions relatively simple - in this case the Objective C routines rarely exceeded a dozen lines.
I don't think it would handle a request to write a non trivial subroutine very well - let alone a whole project.
This has always worked fine on my old iPhone 7 running iOS 15.
Recently I had to get a more modern iPhone 12 so I could access iOS 18.
iOS 18 broke my class - which was a major dilemma because I don't have much of a handle on Objective C.
After a couple of days mucking around I manage to isolate the first Objective C routine that bombed and in utter frustration asked MS Copilot if it could see what was wrong.
It quickly came back with a number of improvements which wonder of wonders fixed the problem.
So I got it to revise all the other Objective C routines in the class - and am happy to report my new class works fine on iOS 15 and 18.
The new PHAssets class is at https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...ment-library-based-on-phasset.110812/#content
I SHOULD ADD: my experience with Copilot is now quite extensive covering HTML and Javascript primarily but also Windows Powershell and occasional B4X stuff - and now Objective C.
I am uniformly impressed at my results with one caveat - you have to keep the questions relatively simple - in this case the Objective C routines rarely exceeded a dozen lines.
I don't think it would handle a request to write a non trivial subroutine very well - let alone a whole project.
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