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NSTextFinder Magic
NSTextFinder is a new Cocoa class added in OS X 10.7. It is basically a container for a find bar to be used with a NSScrollView and lets the user search (and optionally replace) text inside the NSScrollView associated with it. NSTextFinder is more...
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Exchanging NSScrollView's contentView
Trying to use a custom NSClipView in a NSScrollView. Noticed that it is not enough just to have this:
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PubSub Framework Recipes: Sandboxing
If you’ve ever wondered how to use Apple’s Publication Subscription Framework in a sandboxed application environment, just read this post written by Sasmito Adibowo from Basil Salad Software.
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PubSub Framework Recipes: Feed Auto-Discovery
Apple’s Publication Subscription (“PubSub”) Framework is not among the best-documented frameworks. There is a small programming guide as well as a framework reference, but all in all the documentation is scarce. Among the lesser known features of ...
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Beautiful Docset Model
The following is the docset data model, found in Xocde’s Lion docset bundle. The SQLite database and a Search Kit index file are also contained in the docset bundle:
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Things I don't like about feed readers
Mac RSS feed reader apps are a booming software genre. Every few months a new powerful app is published, with a polished interface and lots of cool functions. I argue that feed reader apps shouldn’t be designed as if they had to cover complicated ...
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Mac App Store Statistics 3
And yet another chart, this time with the growth of the overall number of apps for each Mac App Store category. The chart below shows the percentage growth of the number of paid and unpaid apps tagged with a specific category between August 24 and...
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Mac App Store Statistics 2
Four weeks ago I prepared a short statistics on the success of the 21 app categories in the Mac App Store. Today, I visited the store again and compared the number of apps of each category in the US paid apps top 180 list with the number of four w...
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Cocoa Harvest, 2011
The days get shorter, the nights longer, and people retreat to the fireplace reading books. Publishers have announced quite a number of forthcoming Mac OS X programming titles for autumn and winter. Such announcements don‘t mean that titles are ac...
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Sandbox of Doom
It is said that from November 2011 on all apps on the Mac App Store will have to implement Application Sandboxing. Basically, this mean that an app will run inside its private little sandbox and has only limited access to the world outside the san...
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