After spending the past couple nights with them, I can say with ease: Cocoa’s Distributed Objects are very nice. I’ve used other IPC mechanisms before (FIFOs or named pipes, sockets, etc.). Distributed objects remove at least %90 of the work compared to traditional IPC mechanisms. Cocoa continues to please.

To build an Xcode project from the command line, run “xcodebuild” in your project directory. Here are some useful examples: xcodebuild -configuration Debug xcodebuild -configuration Release clean build Consult ‘man xcodebuild’ for more information.

I just wasted ~2 hours debugging a problem that was the result of my “IBOutlet NSTableView *profileTableView” not being wired up in Interface Builder. When IB knows about an outlet or action that isn’t wired up, the icon in the instances tab gets an exclamation point in its lower left hand corner. This is a […]

File this under “I hope there’s a better way, but this is how I did it”: spotlight search for xctxtmacro. Open C.xctxtmacro (mine opened with textedit) go to the end and copy and paste the “c.separatorcomment” block massage new entry accordingly restart Xcode use new text macro I recommend three different ways for executing your macro, I make use of […]

I’m interested in being able to take an iMovie project and directly transcode that to some other movie type from within my software. My first thought was to learn how to parse the .iMovieProject and put the movie together myself. This scared me. After depressingly staring at a sample project’s XML for some […]

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To hide the little grid between multiple selected cells is an NSTableView, use setIntercellSpacing: [yourTableView setIntercellSpacing:NSMakeSize(0,0)];

NSColor has many useful functions to easily get the NSColor you want. The default color of the selection of an NSTableView is [NSColor alternateSelectedControlColor] Don’t forget the alternates.

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 […]