This, of course, means that the couple-of-minutes task of making a preview for a view to see if I can figure out why it was drawing wrong has now taken me about three hours.

But hey - that's actually quite quick in my experience of trying to use previews for anything in the real world…

For what it's worth, the solution I found - and which often works for me - was to move the views into a package.

Selecting the auto-generated scheme for the package and viewing the preview that way works a lot more reliably than with the app scheme.

This is quite a big commitment, since […]

I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and make a non-catalyst macOS build.

Getting it to build isn’t that bad (I've done it already), but now it looks ugly as hell and I'm going to have to tweak lots of things to fix it.

I want to share the view code between platforms where possible […]

@sdarlington yeah, they seem like a bit of a hot mess.

If I could switch bits of Xcode I don't need/like for ones that suit me, I'd be happy.

I never use its source control, for example - I use Fork. And yet I'm happy to use the git integration in VSCode, because I can set it up how I like it.

If I (or, more likely, Dan) could plug Fork into XCode […]