Gah! No! OS X Lion looks naff. Why would I want my computer to behave like an iPhone? An iPhone has limited screen space and you poke with a finger. My computer has a huge monitor and a proper keyboard and mouse instead because… it’s a computer! I hate the idea of all those icons [...]
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How to determine if an NSTextView is scrolled to the end
Posted by arcana on March 29th, 2010
I found a several articles explaining how to scroll an NSTextView to the end, but I didn’t find any that explained how to do it only if it was already at the end before new text was appended. Consider this scenario. You have an NSTextView scrolled to the end and as new text appears in [...]
Posted in Mac, Programming 
Tags: Cocoa, NSScrollView, NSTextView, Objective-C, scroll to end, scrollbar, scrollbar position, scrolling 
1 Comment »Dodgy OS X File Sharing
Posted by arcana on September 19th, 2009
I’ve been pulling my hair out for the last hour, while trying to copy files from my iMac to my Macbook Pro across my network.
Sudo and Mac OS X Applications
Posted by arcana on September 3rd, 2009
Occasionally I need to edit system files that belong to root and I found that it can be quite annoying as I always end up using nano in the terminal as it doesn’t seem possible to elevate the privileges of an application from Finder. For example if I wanted to edit my /etc/hosts file then [...]
Oops! I guess I needed that libcrypto.dylib file…
Posted by arcana on August 20th, 2009
I was trying to get wine working on my Mac. It’s been erroring about something or another so I ran winedbg to see what it was complaining about. The last function on the callstack seemed to be in the libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib library in the /usr/lib directory so in my infinite wisdom I renamed it to see if [...]
