Is anyone out there using Devmate as a means of handling licensing in their Mac apps? If so, you’ll know it’s deprecated as of December, and so far Fastspring, who bought out Devmate, appear not to ha

Ah, that worked a treat!!! Thanks so much Sandor. —Graham

Hi Chris, actually I think I am doing that. it’s a while since i put this code together, and exactly what the arguments are is not so clear now. I set the NSTask.standardOutput to an NSPipe, and I hav

Hi all, In my app I use NSTask to launch a copy of ffmpeg as a child process to do some work in the background on a video stream. I pass parameters to this task via the command line arguments through

OK, makes sense. A simple NSString category using NSScanner internally makes it easy enough. Thanks for the help, —Graham

Yes, I think it’s putting these 6 characters into the string. The original data is an HTML page, and these strings come from some embedded javascript on the page - I’m scraping the page to extract spe

I’m converting some NSData to a NSString using UTF8 encoding, which is what I believe it should be. But the strings are sometimes ending up with embedded codes that are not converting, like @“this is

Ah, fair point! How hard is it then to make your own About box? To bring it up instead of the prebuilt one is a very small change to the ‘About’ menu item, to target a different method. Making your ow

In Interface Builder, just check the “Hides on Deactivate” checkbox for the panel. That should do it… have you tried it? —G

Thanks for that - that’s quite a nice effect. I realised after posting and doing a bit more Googling that I have to apply the tint colours myself. It makes sense. I think I only need to colourise the

Hi all, I have some custom controls (views) that I’m updating to be Dark Mode aware. The view’s background is filled using the relevant semantic colour (controlBackgroundColor), and the icon is render

Well, it does. So if yours does not, rather than go round the houses trying to figure out how to “correct” for that, why not find out why yours isn’t doing what the rest of our apps does do? Something

Well duh. Thanks Quincey, that was it. I use so little C++ myself now that I’ve honestly never seen this before. It’s still a bit of a mystery why just the presence of the added framework in the works

Hi all, I have a long-standing app project/workspace that embeds several sub projects, which build as embedded frameworks. It all builds and runs fine as it should. I add a new framework subproject -

No other response so far… That particular crash is just one example. There are numerous crash reports with the same basic crash, but not always in a CATransaction callback, though that is a very commo

Hi all, We’ve received a number of reports from users of a crash due to a SIGILL as follows: Exception Type: SIGILL Exception Codes: ILL_ILLOPC at 0x7fff32837454 Crashed Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0

Of course, but they’re not drawn by -drawRect:, they’re drawn by an internal private method that calls -drawRect: Normally, drawRect is concerned only with the drawing pertaining to itself and nothing

I’ve gone for something slightly different that’s a little more generic (it’ll work for any view, not relying on it being a specific class). It still wouldn’t work for a layer backed or hosting view t

Cool - I’ll give that a shot. Thanks! —Graham

I’ve never called super, nor understand why it would be needed. I know the boilerplate calls it, but it appears to do nothing. If there has been a change in the recommendation for this since 10.2 or s