I noticed this bug in NSTextField already back last year but I procrastinated until I saw it the second time in the second Mac app I am building. I did have a workaround for the bug, so it was not that pressing.
But I guess we should consider it our duty as Mac developers to make sure that Apple knows about bugs for this platform. So finally here’s my Radar for it. rdar://13006140
Let’s say you are building an app that does some sort of file handling where you want to be able to open any and all file types in your app. When your app then launches it would do something with the file, like upload it to a server.
I was not quite certain how to achieve this effect myself, so I turned to Dropbox who are doing exactly that. If you have the Dropbox iOS app install you can open any file in Dropbox. Then you can choose where to put it in your online storage.
How did they do that? Did they register for a truckload of file types? Or is there a shortcut that I didn’t know about yet?
You know I love to hear from developers who are making good use of my open source or commercial components in released apps. A shining example of lat is Ziner.
Ziner is the latest entry in the battle for the best Google Reader client, fighting it out with other heavyweights Reeder, Feedly, Flipboard, Mr. Reader, FeeddlerRSS and Newsify.
I asked Ziner’s developer Jay Zhao to share with us a bit of the back story of Ziner.
Somebody asked on StackOverflow:
how to send image to Remote server from the below code last string is placed with image
NSString *reqString=[NSString stringWithFormat:@”http://projeceads.info/spir/productinfo/productadd/%@/%@/%@/%@/%@/%@/%@/%@”,ownerId,productNameTxt.text,QuantityTxt.text,sizeTxt.text,ageTxt.text,priceTxt.text,descriptionView.text,imgstr]; NSURL *reqUrl=[NSURL URLWithString:reqString]; NSURLConnection *connection=[[NSURLConnection alloc]initWithRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:reqUrl] delegate:self];
[connection start]; }
Now there are several things wrong with this question. This is the very first question this person asked on StackOverflow and he didn’t even set a proper user name yet. The code is not formatted as such, the English is bad and to most casual onlookers it is unclear what this question is about.
Still I felt an urge to give a good answer because often it is non-sensical questions like this that challenge our ability to parse the intent of the asking person and our knowledge of the subject matter. It is also such a situation where you can give an answer that exactly matches the question as well as a second answer that is a better way of achieving the intent.
When using HTML to represent text that the user can edit you will meet a problem: HTML compresses whitespace. Tabs or newlines or even multiple spaces all get compressed to single spaces. That is, unless you enable the same sort of whitespace handling that PRE tags are using.
I was curious how Apple’s own NSHTMLWriter would be avoiding whitespace compression. And there I found a creative approach and adopted the same technique in my DTHTMLWriter which allows you to generate HTML from attributed strings.
I recently revealed that app sales only make up about 4% of our company revenues. Because of this we don’t have much budget to invest into our apps and the reasonable view is to see them as glorified hobby projects.
Nevertheless it is nice to go back over the past year in reviews to pick out the ones that transport the best emotions. There are many people who use app reviews as a sounding board for themselves and write things there that they never would say to a developer in person. Thus it is permissible to pick out the few reviews that give us the best feeling and ignore the rest.
Other people take off the Christmas holidays to have fun. I delight in using the time away from normal programming work to work on DTCoreText.
There are many wide-reaching changes to warrant an increase in version number on the second digit. I need to sum them up in this location because you might have projects that rely on DTCoreText for displaying attributed strings.
Over the past week I’ve been working on enhancing DTRichTextEditor and – by extension – some of the enhancements also went into DTCoreText, which is in charge of HTML parsing, generation and display of thusly generated NSAttributedStrings. Today I present version 1.1 which brings these fine enhancements:
This work was sponsored by Rick Meyers who is including DTRichTextEditor in his e-Sword HD iPad app.
I had my PDF experiments inside DTFoundation. Those included a rather large (compared to the other source code) PDF file I was using for testing and the Demo. The problem with this was that I’m using DTFoundation almost everywhere now, being the central repository for all my generally reusable code.
Because of this file every cloning of the repository would take forever. So I decided to split the PDF stuff into its own repository and I deleted the file. However – since git keeps all history forever – the clones would still take long.
In June we announced that we had begun a private BETA of Airship Commander. Several of our clients had also began to use the app internally to push notifications to users of their apps. Today we are happy to announce that we submitted version 1.0 to Apple for approval.
License:
