cocoa - ac

McIcon

While writing ParaDocs I spend a lot of time working on the icons... particularly the app icon the the document icon. This involves editing images in multiple sizes and making sure they end up in the right place in Xcode. It's tedious. In the end, not finding something I liked

cocoa

ParaDocs

I like to try to put some sort of help system in my apps - either using the default Mac help menu, or rolling my own for iOS apps. Producing the content for either approach usually involved writing lots of html, manually assigning links, then trying to massage the resulting

cocoa

Timezones

Unfortunately, there's no method that I can find in Cocoa for translating arbitary geographical coordinates into timezones. While calculating a simple time offset from the Greenwich Meridian is comparatively easy, the little twiddles in the actual lines of the timezones, not to mention daylight saving time, make calculating the timezone

AppStore

The AppStore and multiple binaries

I've just updated Recruitment Modeller with a Spotlight Importer. I thought it'd be reasonably simple - just create the importer as a sub project of Recruitment Modeller, sign it, and copy it to the right place (./Library/Spotlight) when building the main app. It's not so simple. It's vital not

cocoa

Showing a popover

It's not unreasonable to want to show an NSPopover from an NSToolbar - probably originating from an item on the toolbar - like this: Unfortunately, showing a popover in Cocoa relies on the method -(void)showRelativeToRect:(NSRect)positioningRect ofView:(NSView *)positioningView preferredEdge:(NSRectEdge)preferredEdge but as NSToolbarItem inherits from