One of the reasons I started this blog was to have a place to write things down and be able to search later. Hence the tag, “If I write it down, I might not forget”. Often times it’s the small one-liners that need to be remembered. Example: To create a new NSView in Interface Builder, [...]

Apparently this storm wasn’t all hype. I shoveled the driveway twice. Once with ~4 inches of snow and then again with ~8 inches. My back hurts, but I’m thankful I took two rounds of shoveling. It’s tempting to just wait for it to end, but I’d rather not wrestle with 12 inches if I didn’t [...]

Here in New England, we’ve already had snow this season (four inches on Thanksgiving Day). That was somewhat unexpected and not really a huge deal. Tomorrow a.m. is supposed to bring in our first real storm. It’s already been decently hyped by local news stations and many school’s have already been cancelled. In a nice [...]

Reminder: A QTAtomContainer is a Handle, a Handle is a Ptr *, a Ptr is a char *, so a Ptr * is a char **. If you want the data that a Handle points to you get it via *yourHandle. Yowza. Yes, I’m new here. So, remember: typedef Handle QTAtomContainer; typedef Ptr * Handle; [...]

In the previous post, “Show user QT’s Export Video Dialog“, I showed how to present the user with the standard QuickTime export settings dialog. The next question should be “How can I figure out what they selected?”. For me, I only want to know certain settings for display purposes. If the user chooses h.264 @ [...]

Likes: Backlit keyboard: It’s useful, but really it’s just fun to show off. Performance: Feels much snappier than my iBook. A lot of that feeling probably comes from the beefier graphics card as well as the faster G4. Display: the 1440×960 display is excellent. Some complain of visual lines. If these lines exist, I don’t [...]

I’m fortunate enough to own a new 15″ PowerBook. I’ve been working on a mini-review pointing out some likes and dislikes of the PowerBook, but I thought it might be fitting to first explain how I got here. I’ve owned a total of five different Apple computers (not including the mini @ work) but have [...]

The few snippets of code that I’ve put up here have looked ugly. I first tried using the <pre> tag and with the last post, tried <code>. I think the pre was better, but neither were very satisfactory. Declaring this a problem that needed solving I went to the blogs, what are others doing? There [...]

I want to write down how I’m presenting the QuickTime compression dialog. This post will be followed by another post describing how to figure out some of the information of what the user selected from the presented dialog. First things first, displaying the dialog: ComponentInstance component = OpenDefaultComponent(MovieExportType, kQTFileTypeMovie); Boolean canceled; MovieExportDoUserDialog(component, NULL, NULL, 0, [...]

When I’m trying to get help with something Cocoa I first ask xcode, then developer.apple.com, then google. The Apple docs are great, but often times I just want a small little example snippet. Google can help here, but ninety percent of the time the results are overwhelming. Where does one go? I’ve been hitting my [...]