Monthly Archives: August 2009

Camera Capture Issues

By Krist | Published: August 23, 2009

I seem to have run into a brick wall. I can’t seem to enable the NSStatusBar items. The source code I found had menu items disabled. The setEnabled method doesn’t seem to do it. Other source code I found were implemented differently that won’t work with mine. On top of that, it seems that there [...]

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NSStatusBar

By Krist | Published: August 20, 2009

I was gonna spend more time reading more Cocoa and Objective-C books. But knowing myself, this will only set the trend for procastination and getting lazy until the initial inspiration that made me think of this project wears off. I need to push myself to get started. Even if I don’t know what I’m doing. [...]

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Objective-C 101

By Krist | Published: August 18, 2009

Okay i’ve got Xcode setup, I’ve downloaded some sample source code, now it’s time to get started. Before I can do that I browsed some books on learning Objective-C. Here are some of my first impressions: Methods in Objective-C are called messages. And they’re invoked differently as well. For example, to call an init method [...]

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Mac OS X development

By Krist | Published: August 17, 2009

One of the pleasant surprises that’ll greet any Mac newbie developer is that OS X is a platform that is ready for development out of the box. Given its Unix base, the usual open source suspects of ruby, python, gcc.. et al should be expected. But Apple doesn’t stop there, it provides you with a [...]

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I don’t know objective-C

By Krist | Published: August 15, 2009

I subscribe to the belief that for a program to take advantage of the operating system’s full power, it has to be written it the native language

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