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Created February 13, 2024 16:55 — forked from importRyan/whenHovered.md
Reliable SwiftUI mouse hover

Reliable mouseEnter/Exit for SwiftUI

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On Mac, SwiftUI's .onHover closure is not always called on mouse exit, particularly with high cursor velocity. A grid of targets or with finer target shapes will often have multiple targets falsely active after the mouse has moved on.

It is easy to run back to AppKit's safety. Below is a SwiftUI-like modifier for reliable mouse-tracking. You can easily adapt it for other mouse tracking needs.

import SwiftUI