jaimerios I found some pages on the web on how to run an AppleScript from the terminal, but this seems to be the only one that works in my situation: echo ‘tell application “Google Chrome” to quit’ | /usr/bin/osascript In my case, my keyboard stopped working so I wanted to safely shut down the programs via … Read more
I found some very useful environment variables you can set on the application you are debugging when you need to see what symbols are being recorded by dlopen when it opens all of the libraries in your application: click on me, click on me please! So, from your Xcode project, double click your debug app: … Read more
I’ve been getting warning messages in my Console log stating the “Adobe Unit Types.osax” has deprecated functions. Then, when I starting scripting Xcode with AppleScript, I’ve been getting a bunch of errors about the above listed library. Well, Adobe had something to say about that: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/516/cpsid_51615.html
Thanks to thefirearmblog.com for sharing this video:
I had to duplicate a file… over a thousand times, for a test. For the MacOS, I created a shell script to do this: #!/usr/bin/env bash # I’m passing in the filename as a parameter to the shell script, # which is accesible through $1 for (( i = 0; i < 2000; i++ )); ... Read more
Apple announced the iCloud service and for someone like me, this is a great service. For a while, I have been battling with the problem of having access to common data on multiple computers, whether that be documents, calendaring information, or other documents from multiple computers. Having access to that data without having to rely … Read more
Here is another way that I am able to check out a file using the Xcode Script Menu and a keyboard hot key: #!/bin/sh # This shell script checks out the current file from Perforce # Get the file’s path components FULL_FILE_PATH=”%%%{PBXFilePath}%%%” SRC_FILE=${FULL_FILE_PATH##*/} FILE_PATH=${FULL_FILE_PATH%/*} # This line brings in my settings so that Perforce knows … Read more
If you ever needed to open Google’s web browser Chrome, without having the previous session brought back, you can actually do this from the command line. On the MacOS, you can use the Terminal.app application to type in the following commands: $ cd /Applications $ ./Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome –home Google Chrome should start up for … Read more
According to Microsoft, this is turned off by default for performance reasons: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/668650/task-list-is-not-working You can turn this on again in “Tools->Options->Text Editor->C/C++->Formatting-> Miscellaneous->Enumerate Comment Tasks”
Oh. My. God. I. Can’t. Wait.