Last year, I had the great privilege of attending “Effective Concurrency” by Herb Sutter; I say great because it was an eye opener for me. Now, you all know that I’m a Mac developer, so, seeing that I was the only guy in the room with a MacBookPro, I got a humorous look from Herb. … Read more
Thanks to my coworker for showing me this: pbpaste | c++filt | mate I use this to take a really long text output from GDB and de-mangle the code into something I can read. I copy the output in the GDB console to the clipboard and the command takes those contents and pastes the results … Read more
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
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
I wanted to get rid of the “build” directories in my source folders before prepping my source folders for git, so I used the following command to get rid of them: find . -iname “build” -type d -print -execdir rm -R ‘{}’ \;
If you need to set a boost shared_ptr to NULL, then you can do it like this: boost::shared_ptr(); So, if you have a function that returns a boost shared_ptr and you want to pass NULL to represent either an error state or a not-found state, you can do this: #include typedef boost::shared_ptr OohClassPtr; typedef std::map< ... Read more
There used to be a button that would toggle you between the header file and implementation file that currently had the focus in Visual Studio. For reasons unknown to me, that feature was taken out in Visual Studio. Here is a macro though that brings that functionality back: I want my toggle button back!
Within a Visual Studio C++ solution, you can copy a file to a known location as part of the build process. To do that, you have so set the “Custom Build Step” parameters found in the Visual Studio project’s property page: Command line: copy “$(InputPath)” “$(TargetDir)” > nul Description: Copying $(InputFileName) Outputs: $(TargetDir)$(InputFileName) Note, the … Read more