Archive for April, 2010

Playing a sound file in Quartz composer.

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 this patch for a toddler’s game [...]

April 23, 2010 · tom · No Comments
Posted in: Quartz Composer

Adding Controls to HUD Windows

// 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

April 17, 2010 · tom · No Comments
Posted in: Cocoa

Objective-C Proper Class init

Proper Objective-C init for classes. – (id)init; { if ((self = [super init]) == nil) return nil; [***initialize any necessary code]; return self; }

April 7, 2010 · tom · 2 Comments
Posted in: Cocoa

Cocoa Recipes updated

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 Vermont Recipes.  This book is one [...]

April 4, 2010 · tom · No Comments
Posted in: Cocoa

SerialChannel channel changing software updated

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 the channel through an ethernet [...]

April 1, 2010 · tom · No Comments
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