I thought for some reason this code was in FlowCover. It’s not, so here it is. The following routine, if added below -startAnimation: will cause the tiles to scroll to the specified tile, with pos specified from 0 to the max-1 tile. – (void)runToPos:(int)pos { int max = [self numTiles]-1; if (pos < 0) pos [...]
1. Override and implement methods. It’d be nice if there was some way to indicate that the Objective-C and C++ class could automatically generate the proper header modifications in a C++ or Objective-C class declaration, and create an empty method call in the source file, to override a virtual method (in C++) or a message [...]
Java Integration Document. The classes used to hook into Finder. Testing to see if you’re running on MacOS X, so you can set up your LAF to resemble a Macintosh application. It’s interesting that it doesn’t take a lot of work to get a working application that has the correct look and feel on MacOS [...]
If you posted a comment to this blog, my apologies if they weren’t approved. I get so few comments–and for whatever reason, the e-mail indicating I have comments went to spam instead. (*sigh*)
Something I keep forgetting, which I’m recording here so I can remember in the future. When creating a new annotation which is to be parsed during execution with Java Reflection, you must change the retention policy with the @Retention annotation. So, for example: @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) public @interface MyCustomAnnotation { … } This will keep the annotation [...]
Mine arrived today: USB Typewriter, and it worked like a charm. It’s a rather amazing accomplishment: ordering a used typewriter retrofitted to work as a USB keyboard. Me, I love old mechanical typewriters. I love old mechanical calculators. And the fact that this one can be used as a modern USB typewriter? *squeeeee!* No; I [...]
Software developers take a long time to get rolling on a project, and once going it takes a long time to complete a task. So when you set up a meeting, for 30 minutes before I really can’t start a task, and it takes about 30 minutes afterwards for me to get started again. Calling [...]
If I don’t respond to requests about FlowCover, it’s because I’m busy with a day job that demands most of my time. I’d be happy to clear up time for a consulting fee–but unfortunately my current job takes up all of my time, so I don’t even have time to consult for money. :-( Thus [...]
This came up at work. Now that I’m leading a team I’ve gotten suggestions from a couple of people about using external frameworks or how we should rearrange our code. Some of the suggestions have been made by people outside of my team, some have come from inside my team. And it makes sense: anyone [...]
New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler Damn. I am this close, and I really mean this close to having a working cross compiler system that can parse Java class files and convert them to Objective C. The goal is to allow me to write a computational module in Java, then [...]