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{ Monthly Archives } November 2007

Leopard hates custom views that draw focus rings

The Cocoa release notes say this: To help guarantee correct redraw of focus rings, AppKit may automatically draw additional parts of a window beyond those that application code marked as needing display. It may do this for the first responder view in the application’s key window, if that first responder view’s focusRingType property is set [...]

10.5 Release Note Gems

Here are some things I’ve found amusing as I’ve read through the release notes. Foundation: Use of NSCalendarDate discouraged Developers should abandon hope for NSCalendarDate bug fixes. Avoid ‘long double’ and ‘_Complex’ types We strongly recommend avoiding all use of the “long double” type and the various C99 “_Complex” types other than — at most [...]

class-dump 3.1.2 is now available

A new version of class-dump is now available. This release includes several bug fixes and a few minor enhancements. It’s recommended for all users of Mac OS X 10.4 or later. You can download it from the links on the class-dump project page, and see a detailed summary of the changes. New Features My favorite [...]

Installing Trac on Leopard

Here are some notes on installing Trac, so that I have a good reference to help me the next time I need to install it, and maybe it’ll help someone else too. The latest version of trac is 0.10.4. This still uses ClearSilver, so we need to install that. (ClearSilver gets replaced by Genshi in [...]