Archive for the 'Cocoa' Category
Monday, February 12th, 2007
I’m working on an application that has some simple networking needs, among them fetching small bits of data off of a variety of user-configured web sites. Since the needs are so straight-forward I thought using NSURL and its “resourceDataUsingCache:” method would be the way to go. It so happens that this application already has a […]
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
Implementing reordering table views is something of a first-time obstacle in Cocoa. The basic gist is you take responsibility for dragging from and to the table view in question, and thereby implicitly support drag reordering. This technique is demonstrated by Apple’s DragNDropOutlineView example. Faced with the desire to implement such functionality in a bindings-oriented application […]
Posted in Cocoa, Free Code, Programming | 18 Comments »
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
When I chose to purchase an existing Java-based Cocoa application, I knew I was taking on some risk. Mac OS X still has a technology within it called the Cocoa-Java bridge, which makes it relatively easy for Java classes to participate in the Cocoa runtime, automatically translating objects like arrays and strings to their language-specific […]
Posted in Apple, Business, Cocoa, Debugging, Hacking, Intel, Programming, Technology | 15 Comments »
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Way back in the MPW days, I used to rely heavily on an extension for the IDE that put powerful pasteboard manipulation tools in the window header. Essentially these tools let you treat your pasteboard like a stack, so you could easily accumulate multiple copies and then paste them all out at once. For some […]
Posted in Carbon, Cocoa, Usability, Xcode | 9 Comments »