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get CGWindow id of focussed window

Hello, Do you know how I can get the CGWindow Id of any focussed window (belonging or not to the current application) ? Thanks in advance for your help :) Regards, ...

Is there any implementation of .NET for Mac OS?

I know this might sound awful. Is there any implementation of .NET for Mac computers so I can write C++.NET apps for the library (like GTK+ etc.)? ...

JavaApplicationStub with CFBundleDocumentTypes

I'm trying to use CFBundleDocumentTypes to associate a custom file extension with my application. As far as I can tell, this seems to "work" -- JavaApplicationStub launches my application when I double click the file. However, no callback is registered through the ApplicationListener events I setup in java. I used the code listed in ht...

Port a Rails App from Windows to Mac or Linux

Hello I've been a Rails developer on Windows for quite some time now, but I recently completed my biggest project yet (it's quite extensive, took me over a year to build) but I am having trouble deploying it. The combination of it's size, complexity and a windows environment is making it needlessly complex to deploy. I am thinking about...

Removing python and then re-installing on Mac OSX

I was wondering if anyone had tips on how to completely remove a python installation form Mac OSX (10.5.8) ... including virtual environments and its related binaries. Over the past few years I've completely messed up the installed site-packages, virtual-environments, etc. and the only way I can see to fix it is to just uninstall everyt...

Java OS X - No app icon in dock

I am using Jar Bundler to create a .app file out of my .jar file. When I launch the app, I do not want a dock icon to show at all. I have already tried modifying my .plist file to include: <string>NSUIElement</string> <key>1</key> But it does not work... Any help? ...

Getting a JFrame's actual current location

Hello community, I am trying to create a (child) JFrame which slides out from underneath one side of a second (parent) JFrame. The goal is to then have the child follow the parent around when it is moved, and respond to resizing events. This is somewhat related to this question. I have tried using a ComponentListener, but with this met...

Encrypting password in compiled C or C++ code

Hello!, I know how to compile C and C++ Source files using GCC and CC in the terminal, however i would like to know if its safe to include passwords in these files, once compiled. For example.. i check user input for a certain password e.g 123, but it appears compiled C/C++ programs is possible to be decompiled. Is there anyway to com...

Mac C run in window

Hello, Is it possible to run compiled C and C++ Files on a mac without opening and running it in terminal? E.G is there a separate GUI i can use for executing compiled c programs? ...

MacBook for django development?

Hi, I'm about to buy a new laptop (Asus G62) to replace my old ubuntu desktop. I will use it mostly for django development (and some legacy win32 stuff in a virtualbox). However, since I will need to do some iPhone development in the near future, I'm starting to think that it might be a wiser to buy a MacBook Pro, instead of the Asus a...

How to save a NSImage as a new file

Hi! How can I save a NSImage as a new file (png, jpg, ...) in a certain directory? Thank you for answering my "noobish" question. ...

Using PHP with the default Mac Apache + PHP installation

Hi, I'm starting to unravel the mysteries of PHP and I configured the pre-installed Snow Leopard PHP and activated the Apache server in the system preferences. So far so good: it works if you put a PHP file in your ~/Sites directory. Since I've my projects in a code/projects directory I created a symbolic link from the ~/Sites dir to t...

Aaron Hillegass Chapter 18 Challenge Question

I am working through Aaron Hillegass' Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X and am doing the challenge for Chapter 18. Basically, the challenge is to write an app that can draw ovals using your mouse, and then additionally, add saving/loading and undo support. I'm trying to think of a good class design for this app that follows MVC. Here's what...

DrawRect on the iPhone vs. the Mac

I am an experienced iPhone dev beginning to work on my first Mac app. One thing that is really throwing me off is the differences between UIView and NSView. It seems that I cannot set the background color of a NSView via interface builder as I can with a UIView. It also seems that I cannot do it by simply sending a setBackgroundColor: me...

Snow Leopard mounted directory changes permissions sporadically

I have a smb mounted directory: /Volumes/myshare This was mounted via Finder "Connect to Server..." with smb://myservername/myshare Everything good so far. However, when I try to access the directory via PHP (running under Apache), it fails with permission denied about 10% of the time. By this I mean that repeated accesses to my page...

Quartz 2D: draw from a CGContext to another CGContext

I have a CGBitmapContext (bitmapContext) and I would like to draw some rectangle part (rect) of it to the current CGContext (context). Right now I do that way: CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(); CGImageRef cgImage = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(bitmapContext); CGContextClipToRect(context, rect); CGContextDrawImage(cont...

Creating an application that can open files of a given format

I've got an app, written in Obj-C. The info.plist has a list of file types that the app can open. I'm pretty sure that this is working because when I try to drag a file of an unacceptable type, the app doesn't highlight, but when I drag a file of an acceptable type, it does highlight, and lets me drop. When I drop, the app starts up, co...

Pretty Pixel-level Picture Painting, Programatically

My mac laptop has 1,024,000 pixels. What's the simplest way to turn my display completely black and go nuts with writing little programs to twiddle pixels to my heart's delight? To make it more concrete, say I wanted to implement the Chaos Game to draw a Sierpinski triangle, at the pixel level, with nothing else on the screen. What are ...

How to utilize OpenCL 1.1 on Mac OS X 10.6?

OpenCL 1.0 came with nVidia driver for Mac OS X 10.6. I wonder if/how it is possible to update header files to utilize OpenCL 1.1 API. Greatly appreciate in advance. ...

Using the Apple Scripting bridge with Mail to send an attachment causes the message background to go black.

Hello, When I use the Apple Scripting Bridge to send a message with an attachment the background of the message is set to black which is a problem because the text is also black. The code in question is: MailApplication *mail = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier:@"com.apple.Mail"]; /* create a new outgoing message object ...