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Neil Smyth
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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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40.4 Modifying the ImageDocDemoDocument.swift File

Although we have changed the type identifiers to support images instead of plain text, the document declaration is still implemented for handling text-based content. Select the ImageDocDemoDocument.swift file to load it into the editor and begin by modifying the UTType extension so that it reads as follows:

extension UTType {

    static var exampleImage: UTType {

        UTType(importedAs: "com.ebookfrenzy.image")

    }

}

Next, locate the readableContentTypes variable and modify it to use the new UTType:

static var readableContentTypes: [UTType] { [.exampleImage] }

With the necessary type changes made, the next step is to modify the structure to work with images instead of string data. Remaining in the ImageDocDemoDocument.swift file, change the text variable from a string to an image and modify the first initializer to...

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SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition
Published in: May 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801813228

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Neil Smyth

Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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