Recent content by smeger

Haven't tried it, but I ported a VNC client that uses TightEncoding. Check out Chicken of the VNC on versiontracker.com.

One more quick note: According to Apple's Objective-C language reference, you can safely send a message to a nil object provided that the message returns an object. The returned object will always be nil. However, if the return value is not an object, the return value is undefined. So, you...

I'd be interested in seeing some working code, too. I thought I needed to write some awhile ago and found a few resources, which I've now lost. I recall that apple had a page explaining the mnemonics, as did motorola. Google is your friend. By the way, I wound up not needing assembly, so...

You can also try CocoaDev and the Cocoadev mailing list archives .

Apple has been discouraging developers from using Resource forks, so tacking an image into the resource fork is a bad solution. I'd guess that the Finder is using the operating system's filter services somehow to generate its previews. It might be possible to write a filter service for a new...

If you can dig up some sample code for a PB plugin, I'll lend a hand.

Supposedly, it's possible, but I haven't seen any documentation on how to do it.

Try this

I guess I'm sort of on the fence. I notice that as my code evolves, I tend to move towards a MVC paradigm. This happens because I write something that's monolithic and then later discover, "Oh, I need this view for some other data type." So, I separate the view. Then, I discover that I can...

I don't know why any one program in particular is doing this, but I'm pretty sure that I know "why" it happens. This is the technical reason... When one writes a mac program, one doesn't write all of the code that handles displaying windows, fetching data from the internet, drawing menus...

If anyone's still interested, I've finally gotten around to making the VNC Client I discussed above available for download. It's on Version Tracker .

Not as many as I'd like - try CocoaDev, OmniGroup and StepWise. Oh, and the programming forum in MacNN Forums.

sorry I didn't respond in time. It sounds like you had changed the access method in dselect. If this happens again (or someone else has the same problem), you can do 'sudo dselect' to launch dselect. Options 0 and 1 let you change the access method and the list of servers that dselect uses...

Hmmm, I'm not getting anything relating to lastlog when I grep /var/log and /Library/Logs - maybe there are multiple causes. It would make sense that it's a reverse DNS problem, though. I always connect using a numeric IP.

Well, you could do sudo dselect and look through the programs that you can download with Fink. Each one has a brief description. Look for something exciting and try it out.