http://www.thohensee.com Ranting of a cocoa nut Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:42:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently created a quartz composer patch which will play a sound file in a Quartz Composer composition. It is very useful for playing a short sound file for a sound cue to an event or a basically any sound you want to include in a composition. I created ... http://www.thohensee.com/?p=266 // Although not intended by apple to have controls, HUD windows can have controls added to them. This is accomplished by any one of the 3 frameworks listed below BWToolkit - http://www.brandonwalkin.com/bwtoolkit/ BGHUDAppKit - http://www.binarymethod.com/bghudappkit/ HMBlkAppKit - http://shiira.jp/hmblkappkit/en.html http://www.thohensee.com/?p=259 Proper Objective-C init for classes. - (id)init; { if ((self = [super init]) == nil) return nil; [***initialize any necessary code]; return self; } http://www.thohensee.com/?p=256 Recently I noticed that one of my favorite books for learning cocoa was updated to it's second version.  Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X (2nd Edition) is a hands on approach to teaching cocoa. The orginal Cocoa Receipes was conceived from a web site  from the same author called ... http://www.thohensee.com/?p=238 Recently I updated my SerialChannel and SerialChannelIR applications for EyeTV and Directv.  These new versions provide several new features as well as bug fixes and performance improvements.  SerialChannel now supports cable boxes in addition to Directv.  It also overs a new ethernet connection options which allows a user to change ... http://www.thohensee.com/?p=226 After almost 12 years of C  programming under my belt I often find myself answering questions from people asking me how to get started.  Most will ask what I think is the one single book to read when learning how to program in C or do I need to know ... http://www.thohensee.com/?p=209 If you are looking to connect your Mac's EyeTV application to a set top box such as Directv, Dish Network, Sky Boxes or virtually any other box there are several low cost options that make it easy. If you have Directv you have two options 1.  SerialChannel.  SerialChannel provides a reliable and ... http://www.thohensee.com/?p=176 When you record something on mythtv it creates a entry in the database and names the resulting recorded file.  However, if you were to look in the recordings directory you would see that the given name is a bit hard to figure out.  In this post I will show you ... http://www.thohensee.com/?p=164 For many of you who have emailed me to have SerialChannel support the Sky boxes, SerialChannelSky is complete and can be found on www.cooldvr.com soon. SerialChannelSky uses a usb dusky-control box to control the Sky box.  SerialChannelSky is snow leopard compatible. I would like to thank the developer of dusky-control ... http://www.thohensee.com/?p=102 Lately I have been working on two projects to integrate USB hardware with my SerialChannel software. Both of these pieces of hardware have drivers written against libusb. Libusb was born into Linux and provides a portable usb api accross multiple platforms including Windows. On OS X however, it has ... http://www.thohensee.com/?p=67