Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to change the brightness of your MacBook screen in Swift without using an overlay that changes the colours?
I want the effect of just pressing the F1 and F2 brightness controls but done without using system events/ Applescript popping up windows on the screen.
I think the UIScreen.brightness is something similar to what I want but it is not available for NSscreen. I can't figure out a way to do it with IOKit either.
Things like ddccl doesn't work as the screen is not an external monitor.
If there is a solution using Swift or terminal commands any help is much appreciated.
Thanks, James
Hi all,
I have found a solution that works well.
If you create a shortcut on your Mac like this.
then you can run it as a terminal command from swift like this.
func setLaptopBrightness(brightness: Float){
let command = "shortcuts run 'Set Laptop Brightness' <<< \(brightness)"
let _ = shell(command)
}
or directly from terminal like this
shortcuts run 'Set Laptop Brightness' <<< 0.5
It works well for controlling your MacBook brightness programmatically until Apple lets us do it directly via Swift.
Thanks, James