Recently I worked on a project that had a NIB and XIB in it and for some strange reason I was getting a EXC_BAD_ACCESS error message in GDB with NSPopAutoReleasepool being the culprit. The best part about the problem was that the only indicator I had for the call stack was was four question marks … Read more
I think it was a sign. I should have know that this was how my day was going to begin. I started up my Xbox 360 and I got the red rings of death. This is not the first time this has happened to me, but I’m especially pissed since this was Microsoft’s idea of … Read more
In a previous posting, I had listing all of the applications you would need to decrypt and encrypt email messages in Apple Mail. However, I did find that after moving up to Mac OS X 10.5.6, I was unable to decrypt messages delivered from certain mail servers. I could decrypt the messages by hand, but … Read more
I use Xcode 3.1.1 at work and it does not work well with Perforce, which is sad because I really love Perforce. So, I have been using an application that a co-worker told me about called DTerm to help me check out files held in Perforce. This program is a great utility in that it … Read more
I work on large projects that are sometimes too unweildy to debug. The compile times are too long, the apps can take a while to load and when you’re looking to test something quickly, you don’t want to have to sit at your desk and wait for the IDE to finish what it’s doing. So, … Read more
When you need to dump symbols from a dylib on Mac OS or a DLL on Windows, you can use the following commands to do so: Mac OS nm -m mySpecialLibrary.dylib Windows dumpbin /exports mySpecialLibrary.dll Now sometimes, you have have a lot of symbols in one library, or you may want to find one particular symbol. … Read more
Here is something that I haven’t found on the web: an example of how to create a NSWindow programatically from Cocoa. After a little bit of reading, and some head scratching, this is what I got: NSRect windowRect = NSMakeRect(10.0f, 10.0f, 800.0f, 600.0f); NSWindow *window = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:windowRect styleMask:( NSResizableWindowMask | NSClosableWindowMask | NSTitledWindowMask) … Read more
While I was looking at my backup log in Retrospect, I saw an error message about a directory had more than 100 folders deep. What? I took a look and sure enough, Entourage had gone on a folder making frenzy and had created well over 100 folders within each other: My Project.rge/My Project.rge/My Project.rge/My Project.rge/My … Read more
I recently had to deal with this nasty bug on Mac OS 10.3.9 that only showed up when you prompted an Alert dialog box during a NSTableView selectionShouldChange method. Here’s what would happen. You have a NSTableView filled with your items. When the user selected any one of the rows, the selection of that row … Read more
2016 UpdateThe code and the Xcode project for this article is now also available on GitHub. A while ago, I worked on a project where I had to implement code in C/C++ that could calculate the distance between 2 locations within the United States. It would be nice if the Earth was flat, since this … Read more