I was thinking recently that it would be nice to get an idea of who’s using my Cocoa source code, whether it’s in shipping apps or otherwise. Plenty of you have emailed me when you’ve used some of my code, but I know it’s easy to forget to do that, especially if the release date [...]
I wrote a quick category on NSImage allowing you to get an image containing a Quick Look preview of the file at a given path. You can specify the size, and whether the preview should be rendered as an icon (i.e. with a document border, drop-shadow, page-curl and file type/extension label superimposed). So, you can [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tracking rectangles in NSViews, eh? They’re kind of crap. Getting the events is a bit hit-and-miss, and if you move the mouse too fast you’ll often find that you miss a mouseExited: event and your view is left looking stupid. It’s an old problem, and it’s very annoying. It certainly annoys me.
Rumour has it that [...]
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