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MGViewAnimation update

Another slight update to MGViewAnimation (available on the Cocoa Source Code page). This one just adds an override of the -stopAnimation method to behave like NSViewAnimation’s does (i.e. move all animations to their end frame), and a slight optimization. I also got around to including the license in the actual download.
Same license as before, and [...]

DS9 The Fallen for Mac Patches

Can anyone help me with this?
A few years back I bought a copy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen for Mac, and I remember enjoying playing it. I found the CD recently and I really want to play it, but it crashes upon launch (it runs in Classic, of course). Now, I [...]

Winter Beard

Winter isn’t that far off now, so since I’m a software developer, that must mean… it’s Winter Beard time! This is what I look like at the moment, so who knows what Christmas will bring? (Probably more frequent beard-trimming, if Lauren has anything to say about it.)

And yes, it does get rather red; I know. [...]

Setting the text color of an NSButton

I wrote a little category on NSButton tonight to allow getting/setting the color of the label text, e.g. on checkboxes and such. Handy for putting controls in HUD Windows, where you’ll usually want white text instead of the default black.
Since the code is so short, I decided to make it the inaugural entry on pastebuffer.com, [...]

MAAttachedWindow NSWindow subclass

I once again come bearing gifts for you: this time it’s MAAttachedWindow, an NSWindow subclass that lets you visually attach borderless windows to other windows or just to specified points on the screen. It’s potentially useful for displaying contextual help, options related to a part of your UI, or just for drawing attention to things.
Take [...]