I had a weird thing happen where if I create a TCHAR variable[MAX_PATH] and populate that using any Win32 function, then take that variable and memcpy it into a const char * that has been new’d, I get a HEAP corruption message when I call delete[] on the const char *. Now the funny thing … Read more
When you need to clean up the CRT warnings about unsecure functions, like printf or sprintf, in favor for secure functions like printf_s or sprintf_s, you don’t have to scour through all of your code to clean up the warnings. You can declare the following for Visual Studio builds and the functions are overridden with … Read more
This is for me, not you, a reference for me. So if you are wondering why I wrote this… it’s because it’s for me. Here is a regex string I used in TextWrangler to search and replace paths in a Xcode project file… you know, the one that is inside the .xcodeproj bundle… Search string: … Read more
How do you make team-work work?
I read this and said to myself, this is so true. Thinking about this, if you don’t take the time to think about the comments, there is a good chance that the code below/next to/above the comments wasn’t well thought out either.
I’m writing this blog entry just in case other people come across the same problem and can’t seem to figure out what’s going on. I found it in Xcode 2.5 that hasn’t been fixed in the latest version of Xcode that I have, version 3.1.3. The bug I’m referring to is when you create a … Read more
I have a PC and a Mac that I work with, but mostly I use the Mac. Of course on the Mac, you can do a lot with the Terminal.app and Bash. For example, you can dump out a file listing into a text file: ls *.cpp > ../implementation_files.txt
Recently, I needed to automate printing a Word document to a PDF file and have it saved to a predefined location. There were some good articles on the web about how to do the printing part, or the PDF part but not how to save the output. So, here’s my stab at printing a Word … Read more
In my previous post, I showed how you can leverage AppleScript to check out a file or a project that resides on a Perforce server. The reason for this is that Xcode 3.x does not work well with Perforce. Now, I figured out how to do this with the build in scripts menu in Xcode. … Read more
I use Perforce and I love it! Over the years I’ve used Visual SourceSafe, CVS, SVN and I experimented with other tools, but none of them have come close to the usefulness of Perforce. I also use Xcode for my Mac coding but when you use Xcode with Perforce, you get some wierd behaviour. Xcode … Read more