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SVN server for Mac OSX

I used to use Visual SVN on Windows. Now I am on Mac OSX. Does anyone know of an SVN server for MAC OSX which is as easy to use as Visual SVN on Windows? I don't want to be typing in console commands, I'd like a nice and simple UI :-) Cheers ...

Editing .resx files on a Mac

Is there any app that I can use to edit .resx files on a Mac running OSX? I just need to be able to edit string resources. Edit. I know .resx files are XML files. However, I am looking for an app that can edit .resx files using a clean user interface, very much like Visual Studio does, hiding the complexity of the XML. I don't want use...

Set AWK delimiter to parse "airport -s" output

I have very little experience with AWK, but it seems like the best tool for my purpose now. I am trying to get a list of nearby BSSIDs by using the airport -s command in OS X. Output looks like this: SSID BSSID RSSI CHANNEL HT CC SECURITY (auth/unicast/group) MyWireless 00:11:22:33:44:55 -85 64 ...

Where are core dumps written to in Mac OS X?

On Mac OS X, if I send SIGQUIT to my C program, it terminates, but there is no core dump file. Do you have to manually enable core dumps on Mac OS X (how?), or are they written to somewhere else instead of the working directory? ...

Detect SSD in Mac OS X (Cocoa)

Is there a reliable, quick, deterministic way (definitely not benchmark) to check whether system drive in Mac OS X is on Solid State Drive? Is there any other indicator how well disk handles parallel access? I'm trying to adjust number of threads that my program is going to use for disk-bound operations. I'm not interested in raw spee...

Enabling open file menu item in a non-document-based application

I would like to enable the grayed out open file menu item within a non-document-based application. Document-based applications automatically give you a nice open file dialog with file extension filters based on plist entries etc... Surely, a simple elegant method exist to re-enable this functionality. I have... Added document types to...

How to deploy highly iterative updates

I have a set of binary assets (swf files) each about 150Kb in size. I am developing them locally on my home computer and I want to periodically deploy them for review. My current strategy is: Copy the .swf's into a transfer directory that is also a hg (mercurial) repo. hg push the changes to my slicehost VPN ssh onto my slicehost VPN ...

extended ascii chars and ansi in the mac osx terminal app

i wanted to create some shellscripts that display pretty ansi colored graphics for osx but unfortunately i find just very little information about that topic. osx seems to use monaco 10 as its default console font. is there some way to find out all displayable characters for this font? osx terminal runs in UTF-8 per default as far as i...

Guides, Tutorials or Books about building MacOSX GUI apps with C++ in Xcode?

Hi, with GUI apps I mean not just a Unix command line application, but the whole .app bundle and a full Cocoa or Carbon application. Thanks! PS: I wasn't totally accurate with GUI application. I meant an application with a window and a menu, as opposed to a Unix command line application. Actually I got to a tutorial about programming wi...

Updating a current CoreData entry

How do you update a existing core data entry? ...

Fullpath in OS X

I am a few steps before starting my first real programming project and I am preparing my machine. I noticed that my fullpath (what I get when I "echo $PATH" in the terminal) does not look like a "normal" one (as I see "usr/bin" quite a lot of times). What does it mean? How does it affect my use of the terminal? And how, if, can I change ...

How to programmatically determine a Cocoa plugin bundle's garbage collection settings?

On Mac OS X using Objective-C 2, plugin bundles can be compiled with one of three garbage collection settings: Not Supported Supported (-fobjc-gc) Required (-fobjc-gc-only) How can one programmatically query a compiled plugin bundle to determine which of these three settings was used? ...

MacOSX: How to collect dependencies into a local bundle?

I am creating a plugin application (dylib) that depends on several other libraries. These other libraries are installed on my system, but are not guaranteed to be installed on any user's system. So I need to find a way bundle the dependencies along with my application. I found that I can use otool to list or change the paths to other dy...

Objective-C Cocoa-Iphone Bind label to variable

Hi all, I am a complete newbie to mac/objective-c. My question is: I wonder if it's possible to bind a UILabel text to a variable, for not having to manually set the text when value change. I explain it better, on mac os, when I open a new finder window and delete a file, then the global free space in the taskbar is changing. And that ...

How can I find out which Perl version was available on older Mac OS X versions?

I want to create Perl scripts that run on older OS X machines as well as on current versions. Is there a list or a resource where I can find out which Perl versions were distributed with older Mac OS X Versions (10.0 to 10.6)? ...

Cocoa webView to display a web page

Hello, I am trying to develop an export aperture plugin, I have designed some views/windows and everything runs smoothly, but trying to now add a webView on one of the window, and cannot make it to display the linked url (hard typed in the code). Is webView not supported because I'm running it within aperture? anyone having problem with...

Looking to for info about checking the allbit of an image observer in Java/Swing

I am having an issue where I try and load some images using the ToolKit class, this is done like this: Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); Image image = tk.createImage(imageFile.getPath()); but when I try to later draw these images onto my canvas (located inside JFrames) oftentimes it only draws some of the images on the ca...

Suppressing the default event handler when using GetEventMonitorTarget()

I have an application that borrows code from the Apple event handling sample. It looks like: InstallEventHandler(GetEventMonitorTarget(), MonitorHandler, GetEventTypeCount(kEvents), kEvents, 0, &sHandler ); GetEventMonitorTarget() is all about getting events for other applications. But from what I've read the event is sort of forked...

Error installing Ruby 1.9 with RVM under Snow Leopard

Hello I've got some problems to get Ruby 1.9.2 compiling with rvm (Ruby Version Manger) under Snow Leopard. I want everything possibly to be 64-Bit so I already added ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" to my .bash_profile. Then, when running: rvm install 1.9.2 -C --enable-shared I get an error during compiling. Here is the make.error.log: ...

Trouble with using Joomla templet with XAMPP 1.7.2 which has PHP 5.3.0 in mac os x

Hi! I am using a joomla templet with XAMPP 1.7.2 which has PHP 5.3.0 in mac os x 10.5.7 i am having lots of trouble like Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/templet01/plugins/system/tbox.php on line 98 Joomla itself is not functioning properly. Please help. -Daniel ...