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Limit NSNotifications to Notify Within NSBundle Instances Only

NSNotifications are wonderful. So long as when using them within an NSBundle, one keeps the fact that notifications are broadcast to all instances of the bundle in mind. To limit certain notifications to be bundle instance specific, one could append a unique id to each notification name. For notifications sent and received by one class, [...]

Detecting Presence of a Framework Within an NSBundle (Plugin) Introduction Jump to Tutorial In light of Cocoa Warning: Implicitly...

How to Open Rapid Weaver in Terminal

You use Rapid Weaver. You’ve downloaded the latest greatest plugin and can’t wait to try it out. You install it …and… nothing. After contacting the developer, and they go through basic trouble shooting with you. That goes no-where. Eager for more information on the issue, the developer asks you to please open Rapid Weaver in [...]

Installing JDownloader in Ubuntu JDownloader is an excellent download manager. When I had a...
Scroll to Anchors With jQuery This post will introduce and explain the "scroll to anchor"...
Slider 2.1 Released! I’m happy to announce the release of Slider 2.1. The...

Listing Methods at Runtime in Objective C

Before getting into creating my next Rapid Weaver plugin, I needed to do some experimentation to make sure what I wanted to achieve was possible. Wanting to manipulate some aspects of RWPage objects, I first required a list of methods for the RWPage class. Thanks to Matt Gallagher’s IMP of the current method entry, I [...]

Sliding Modal Dialogs in Cocoa Applications & Bundles Example project available on GitHub – CIModalSheetDialog One thing I...
Using NSError to Increase Robustness & Useability It wasn’t until we (long ago) decided to use the...
Extracting hex value from NSColor Example project available on GitHub – CINSColor+Hex This category on...

Slider 2.1 Released!

I’m happy to announce the release of Slider 2.1. The first major upgrade to Slider 2 represents a vast array of bugfixes and tweaks. The GUI has been re-worked, and a major feature has been added: the Slidebrary. Get Slider 2.1 Now! The Slidebrary allows one to save your favourite Slider 2 settings for use [...]

Slider Progress: Slider Styling Option Pane During the great rewrite, I’ve been trying to focus on...
Slider Update – Tab Feature Coming Together As I finally reached a programming goal I had set...
The Mutations of Slider’s Tab Option Pane During the past week, I’ve been working on Slider’s new...

Doxygen Graph Generation Issue “Error: dot: can’t open {dot file}”

Running Doxygen (1.7.4, Ubuntu 11.10) over one of the larger PHP applications we use at PANmedia, I ran into this error: Error: dot: can't open /var/workspace/app/documentation/html/class_a_d_o_d_b___data_dict_a4ad217393b4e364e233cc70336d93ae8_cgraph.dot Experimentation led to the following solution: switch DOT_CLEAN off, either via the Doxygen GUI (pictured) or directly in the Doxygen configuration file. DOT_CLEANUP = NO What does this do? [...]

Error Configuring db46 – MacPorts After running into problems installing flood with Macports, specifically: Error:...
Auto-Notification of Broken Links, Fantastic Pre-Written Anti-Spam .htaccess File! Aaron Logan has graciously made his .htaccess file available to...
jQuery Error: ‘g is undefined’ Discovered the cause of this annoying (but seemingly impotent) error...

Facebook “Like” Button Proxy Error

While attempting to embed the Facebook “Like” button in this blog, I ran into the following error: uncaught exception: Error: Permission denied for to get property Proxy.InstallTrigger This was due to my failure to include meta information regarding the Facebook administrators of this site. For me, the simplest way was to insert this meta tag [...] No related posts.

Excellent Online Markdown Editor

When writing readme files for Github repositories, one must use Markdown. Until I found this excellent online markdown editor with a live preview, I failed at quickly putting together basic readme files. It’s based on WMD, the editor from the Stack Exchange sites. Online Markdown Editor I’ve found it very helpful, allowing me to create [...] No related posts.

Extracting hex value from NSColor

Example project available on GitHub – CINSColor+Hex This category on NSColor allows one to get or set an NSColor’s colour using hex values. Intitialising an NSColor with a hexadecimal colour: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 @try { // Both shorthand and full forms of hexadecimal colours are accepted [colorWell setColor:[NSColor colorWithHex:@"#F00"]]; [colorWell [...]

Tile an NSImage Within an NSBezierPath Another snippet I had to write during the great Slider...
Fill a Path With A Scaled Image, Ignoring Image Proportions While continuing to rebuild Slider’s background image features, I was...
Accessing Primitives From NSDictionarys in Cocoa… This “gotcha” had me scratching my head for a little...

Using NSError to Increase Robustness & Useability

It wasn’t until we (long ago) decided to use the hardcore ‘E_ALL‘ error reporting level in our development environment that I started to realize the value of being overly paranoid when coding. Long ago I recall I did this, but I think PHP made me a little lazy – it’s a very forgiving language, so [...]

Detecting Presence of a Framework Within an NSBundle (Plugin) Introduction Jump to Tutorial In light of Cocoa Warning: Implicitly...
Tile an NSImage Within an NSBezierPath Another snippet I had to write during the great Slider...
More Usability-Oriented Method for Disabling an NSTabViewItem Jump to tutorial I was unable to find a way...

Cocoa Warning: Implicitly declaring C library function ‘objc_getClass’

In Slider 2, I needed to check for the presence for Sparkle, and only load Slider 2′s included version when Sparkle isn’t found. The code I used to do this is included below, but the point of this article is really to provide a solution to the following warning I encountered: warning: Semantic Issue: Implicitly [...]

Detecting Presence of a Framework Within an NSBundle (Plugin) Introduction Jump to Tutorial In light of Cocoa Warning: Implicitly...
Sliding Modal Dialogs in Cocoa Applications & Bundles Example project available on GitHub – CIModalSheetDialog One thing I...
Return an NSMutableString as NSString Avoiding “Uncaught Error 11″ with Cocoa Another stumbling block on the road to Slider completion was...