This Thanksgiving I truly have something to be thankful for. It isn’t my Wife, my home, my family, my friends, my health or my business. Although I am thankful for all those things. What I’m most thankful for this Thanksgiving is: I got me a stalker!!!
Yep. I’ve got my very own nutjob on the internet [...]
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You’d think that a rather uncommon last name like “Wight” would be a relatively easy name for others to spell correctly. It is uncommon enough that I’ve never met any other Wights outside of “my family“. And yet people seem to have trouble with it. People seem to think that it should be spelled more [...]
Thanks to Matt Gemmell for pointing out that Apple has finally provided a pie chart style NSProgressIndicator for the circular/determinate modes. This style is new to Leopard. This means my Toxic Progress Indicator class can be retired, at least for 10.5+ only applications. Leopard has really helped to retire a lot of my code (for [...]
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Ask not what Ironcoder can do for you…
I recently needed to embed the ‘Discrete’ variant of the NSLevelIndicatorCell into an NSTableView. The discrete cell looks like this:
Unfortunately adding the cell caused drawing of the table’s window to slow to crawl. The spinning beachball of death would often appear when I was merely resizing the window. After some quick experimented I narrowed [...]