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How to make quicksilver remember custom trigger

I am trying to make a custom trigger for my shell/apple script file to run so I can just launch my dev environment at the push of a button. So basically: I have a shell script(and some apple script included) in ~ named start_server.sh which does 3 things: start up solr server start up memcached start up script/server I have a saved ...

Umbraco, Macintosh and some working blog software

I have a website that is using Umbraco as it's CMS. Everything is working great on a PC. Am able to use Windows Live Writer to create blogs with no problems at all. My problem comes when the Macintosh users try to blog. I have tried loads of different software packages, MarsEdit, Bloggo etc. but none seem to work. Has anyone had any...

How can I compile libpoppler-qt with Nokia's Qt SDK

Morning ! I would like to compile libpoppler and libpoppler-qt4 (the Qt Api/bindings) with the Nokia's mac sdk available on the website. I've tried a lots of configure switch but it does not works. Any hint ? ...

How to change JAR icon on mac?

Hi, I have a JAR file on my mac called Test.jar, and the file works perfectly fine when I click on it. All it does is it just opens a small window, and displays "Test", so it's a simple application (I am new to Java programming). My question is how do I change the icon of the jar file to a different icon of my choice? I have yet to figu...

where can I get a good SDEF editor?

I'm writing an objective C program which will need to be applescriptable. so, I need to create and edit an SDF file. I'd MUCH rather not have to write XML if I don't have to, so I'm hoping that someone can point me to a good editor... I've found SDEF EDitor but I'd like a couple of options to play around with... Surprisingly, the apple...

Running external tools in Eclipse on Mac OS X

I'm using Flash Builder 4 on a mac. I've created a JSFL file for building a few fla's and then testing my main SWF file. I'm trying to run this JSFL file as an external tool from Flash Builder 4 but when I select Adobe Flash CS4.app as the file to run the JSFL Eclipse warns "External tool location specified is not a file." I have Parall...

Compiling program that uses libpcap on Mac OSX using iPhone 3.1.1 SDK for use on iPhone

Hey SOV users, I have a question that I'm hoping some iPhone Developers may be able to help with. I had a look at statically compiling a binary on my Mac and moving it over to the iPhone for execution. I have managed to get this bit of it working by installing the iPhone 3.1.3 SDK on my Mac and setting the architecture to the iPhone in ...

Compile C++ program on Mac to run on Linux

Possible Duplicate: How to cross compile from Mac OS X to Linux x86? I have an application that I wrote in C++/SDL, using FMOD library. The app is portable and compiles without any code change on Mac and on Linux. But one annoyance is that when I want to ship Linux version, I have to run my Linux box, copy the source code over...

top nav menu jumps down in mac safari

hi, http://japaneseplus.com/product.php?subcategoryid=1 Try to move mouse over the top menu and try to select "Products" and see in MAC + Safari, it shifts the text down, PC working fine for all browsers. Any help is appreciated ...

Problem with exuberant ctags on Mac OS X

I'm trying to generate tags for the C Standard Lib using Exuberant Ctags 5.8, however it seems that the headers are not parsed completely... For example, when I generate the tags for /usr/include/string.h, I get this: !_TAG_FILE_FORMAT 2 /extended format; --format=1 will not append ;" to lines/ !_TAG_FILE_SORTED 1 /0=unsorted, 1...

Is it possible to build a Mac binary on a non-Mac unix machine?

I would like to set up a Mac buildbot slave, but unfortunately it's not possible to install Mac OS X 10.5 on my XenServer hypervisor. So, I've had an idea, but not quite sure whether or not it'll work. The application is C++, and on Mac it's compile using GNU Make. I have a Mac desktop PC, and I was hoping I could copy the .h and .lib fi...

How to enable a two-finger drag on a mac in Silverlight?

In a Silverlight 4 application I have a ScrollViewer which I enable the user to scroll with the mouse wheel by using SetIsMouseWheelScrollingEnabled(): <ScrollViewer x:Name="CodeBoxScrollViewerModelSingular" tk:DockPanel.Dock="Left" Style="{StaticResource ScrollViewerCodeBoxStyle}"> <TextBox Text="{Binding SingularMode...

How to change the order of opening windows in cocoa?

I had a mutil windows cocoa porject. and now I want to change the order of opening windows , How to do it ? Thank you very much! ...

Screen overlay with Python, paint over an active window with background python script

Hi I'm writing a python script that runs in the background and takes screenshots of another application that is active. Then it analyses the screenshots and now it should overlay a certain image over the active app or the screen. I still need to be able to make mouse and keyboard inputs in the active app. So I need a way to overlay/pai...

How to start with Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

Is there any good tutorial on how to get things installed and working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard? Also which tools do you use? TextMate? Or something else? I am trying my first steps with RoR after years of ASP.NET development on Windows platform but I am getting curious to learn other things as well to become a better developer. ...

Play a beep in C, MacOS

How can my program play a beep? Also Is it possible to play a sound with frequency and duration? ...

How can I determine the arguments for a private API function?

I want to create a replacement for the app switcher (aka 'cmd + tab'). I know that it's possible because Lite Switch X does it. What I've got achieved so far: By force quitting the dock and calling CPSRegisterForKey() (which is a private API function) I can prevent the default cmd+tab from working. The second step is two register the...

scripting addition : doing code injection in the mac os x dock

Hello, I am trying to inject code in the dock using scripting additions methods. I've searched on the net but was unable to find a correct example showing all the necessary steps. Do you have documentation to acheive this? thanks in advance for your help. regards, ...

Warning about duplicate NSNotification observations

This isn't a question so much as a warning to others to save them some time. NSNotificationCenter on iOS 3/iPhone OS 3 (I'm assuming also Mac OS X and iOS 4) has the following behavior: If you register yourself multiple times for the exact specific notification, NSNotificationCenter will NOT recognize the redundancy and instead will fi...

Problems installing PEAR MDB2 with MAMP

I've installed a copy of MAMP on my macbook so I can run my php/mysql based website locally. The MAMP package itself seems to work fine but I needed the PEAR MDB2 Package. I did the following to install pear install MDB2 pear install MDB2_Driver_mysql pear channel-update pear.php.net All apparently worked and if I try again, they s...