Command key to Meta in Emacs
I'm using a Mac keyboard on Ubuntu at work. What do I add to my .emacs file to turn the command key to Meta? I tried (setq mac-command-key-is-meta t) and (setq mac-command-key 'meta) and neither works. ...
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How can I install Ruby on Rails 3 on OSX?
Hey i got an White Macbook and, has to go in 10 hours to a conference. And I'm having a lot of problems. First, I wanted to have Rails 3, so I used MacPorts to install Ruby 1.8.7. It worked well ;) So now I was thinking I should install Rails 3.. but no, no!.. it says.. $ sudo gem install rails --pre ERROR: Error installing...
Mac OS : creating a background periodic simple script
Hi folks ! I have a friend who wants something quite easy : he has a mac, and he would like a very simple script/app that runs in the background. The goal is to replace a file every 5 minutes with one downloaded from the internet. I would also like a menu on the top bar (like the clock on Mac Os, the wifi, the sound, Dropbox,...) What wo...
How to create quick-entry dialog with system-wide shortcut?
I really like how Things gives us ability to capture todos without switching to the app. How to do this? I can't find any relevant code with google. Any ideas, urls or maybe code snippets? ...
dismissPopUp is not recognized
Assuming button1 is an NSPopUpButton Assuming menu attached to button1 is displayed and being tracked. [[button1 cell] dismissPopUp] --- dismissPopUp is not recognized. Why is the dismissPopUp method not recognized? Thanks ...
CFPreferences for another (or all) users
I'm working on a background service which needs to ask several users' iTunes settings (the users will opt-in via a helper application which they run from their login). Is there an easy way to read the preferences for another user, than the current one, using CFPreferences ? The docs, for example for CFPreferencesCopyValue, explicitly sta...
How to avoid Mercurial repo corruption when sharing a repository between Windows/Mac?
I have several projects which are shared between Windows and Mac. The dev machine is a Mac running Parallels: the files are stored on the Mac side, and the source is shared to the Windows side. This is very convenient, as I can switch back and forth between Windows and Mac tools rapidly without having to sync files. Recently I swit...
Silverlight clipping a string on mac
hello, I am facing a very strange issue in my silverlight app on all browsers on mac but it is working perfectly in all windows browsers. in my silverlight app there is a scenario in which I create a very long text string and then pass it to a wcf service which then saves the string in a text file server. the issue is that in mac every...
Where can I get resources for developing for Mac OS Classic?
I recently got bored and fired up my old Mac OS Classic emulator, and then got nostalgic for writing old-school applications for the system. So, my question: Where can I get dev tools that can still target Classic? (Ideally free, since this is just for fun, but if grabbing a used version of CodeWarrior on eBay is the best way to go, ...
OpenCV, Python (ctypes), and OS X 10.5: dylib errors/confusion
I have tried two brands of ctypes (ctypes-opencv and another) wrappers for OpenCV (2.0 from svn head), can use Python and OpenCV in the Python console, but whenever I try to import the packages (from ctypes_opencv import *) from another Python file, I get the following error message: OSError: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/libcv.dylib, 6): ...
How to launch java application from Dock, Mac
I have created a Java Swing application. It works fine. I have created application file (.app) for that application using jar bundler. But the main problem is that my application does not open if I click it on the Dock. I am using Mac OS. How I can launch my application by clicking on Dock Thanks Sunil Kumar Sahoo ...
Objective-C++ pre-compiled headers
I'm using a C++ library (it happens to be in an iPad application, but I'm not sure that should make any difference) and would really like to have the headers pre-compiled to speed up the builds, but xCode seems to run the pre-compiled header file through the C compiler rather than the C++ one. Is there a way to get it to use the right c...
Copy contents of Directories but excluding subdirectories in Cocoa
In Cocoa, is there any way to copy all the files in a directory without copying the directory's subdirectories along with them? ...
Remove only first instance of a character from a list of characters
Hi All, Here's what I want to do. I have 2 strings and I want to determine if one string is a permutation of another. I was thinking to simply remove the characters from string A from string B to determine if any characters are left. If no, then it passes. However, I need to make sure that only 1 instance of each letter is removed (no...
NSTimer as Alarm
Is the best practice of setting an alarm on OS X to create a NSTimer scheduled for the number of seconds between the current time and the desired time for the alarm, or is there an alternative to that method? ...
How is your Mac set up for Windows development?
Hi Guys, I'm looking at buying a MacBook Pro to replace my tiring laptop. My day to day job is as a .NET web developer so I am looking to use VMware Fusion to run VS and SQL server etc. As I've not run my dev environment in a VM before, I would like to know how others are setup. What apps to you have installed? In which environment? Wh...
Creating a Multiwindowed Cocoa Program - Launching Procedure Suggestions?
I'm porting an application I developed in Visual Studio 2008 over to Cocoa. I'm currently doing a 'learn-as-you-go' approach to Cocoa, so I can experiment with different ideas and techniques in smaller, simpler projects and eventually combine them into one big application. My program logic is as follows (in a dumbed-down sense). Items...
using QTkit for recording audio
It looks like using core audio to record audio is overly complicated. While QTkit is basic and down to earth However. All of the examples I have see integrate video and audio together. Does some one have or know an example of using QTkit for recording audio? rw ...
iphone sdk 3.0 requirements...
I have Mac OS X 10.5.8 and wanted to get its compatible iphone sdk version. i got iphone sdk 3.2 but lllater find out it requires 10.6.2 which i can't get for some reason. i just wanted to know where can i get (exact link if pssible) compatible version of iphone sdk for mac 10.5.8 ... no matter its iphone sdk 3.0 or 3.1 3.2... pls guide....
Handling Hide/Show dock icon menu in AIR on OS X
I'm trying to figure out how to access the Show/Hide option that OS X automatically adds to the dock icon menu. The problem is that no matter what I do to hide my app, the dock icon menu will always show Hide and only if I click that option does it switch to Show. I want to have my app toggle visibility using the Invoke event but if a...