When using the absolutePathForApplication(withBundleIdentifier:) api, I find
that if the path is on an external mount, the api will return nil / none if the
uid is 0, when it will return an actual path when the uid is a valid user login
id (eg, 501, 502 etc).
To reproduce, mount a .dmg contain
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> Better still, don’t store the attributed string persistently anywhere, but
> pass it through the background processing then on to the main thread as a
> parameter to the updateUI function.
Thanks for that suggestion; it wasn’t the answer, but it did lead me to rewrite
significant portions
Yeah, I should probably have explained the structure.
After years of objective-c this is my first time with both swift and
storyboards, so…that may well be where the problem lies.
Anyway, it goes like this, the ViewController instantiates an instance of my
subclassed NSTextView.
The subclasse
gets sent it in the last line of the updateUI
func.
What made you think that it comes from the textview?
>> On Oct 27, 2017, at 7:03 AM, sqwarqDev wrote:
>>
>> I have a subclass of NSTextView which I'm trying to update in my UI. When
>> the user clicks a but
I have a subclass of NSTextView which I'm trying to update in my UI. When the
user clicks a button in the main UI, I run a bunch of processes in the
background, save their output to an attributed string, then update the
textview's textstorage on the main thread using performSelector(onMainThread
Fair enough.
I’d seen (and had) the issue with an existing installer during the beta updates
and figured it was the same.
Glad you got it sorted!
Best
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>> On Sep 26, 2017, at 7:00 AM, sqwarqDev wrote:
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> On 18 Mar 2017, at 23:05, Jerome Krinock wrote:
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> To generalize your question, you want to reverse-engineer some other app to
> reveal some status information. I’ve had to do this a couple times.
Thanks for the thought, but my question was really just a sanity check to make
sure that ther
I have an app that uses MSMetadataQuery. As expected, this returns very fast
results. However, there is an edge case when Spotlight chooses to re-index the
whole disk (indicated in Spotlight's GUI by the blue progress bar underneath
during a search).
When this happens my app’s search is severel
> On 17 Feb 2017, at 22:35, sqwarqDev wrote:
>
> mdfind on the command line returns all the results from the /Application
> Support folder. NSMetadataQuery doesn’t return anything at all.
Search scope is set to NSMetadataQueryLocalComputerScope in case anyone was
going to as
> On 17 Feb 2017, at 22:25, Keary Suska wrote:
>
> The correct syntax is probably:
>
> kMDItemFSName ==[c] *%@*
>
Yeah, I’ve just been playing with that since my last post. Indeed, I discovered
that the docs claim that this should be equivalent to contains:
kMDItem…. == “*paris
r:
“Unknown type of NSComparisonPredicate given to NSMetadataQuery”.
LIKE works, but as I said doesn’t give me the right results. MATCHES fails, as
does CONTAINS. I’m beginning to think this is a bug in NSMetadataQuery.
Best
P
> On 17 Feb 2017, at 18:16, sqwarqDev wrote:
>
> Suggestions fr
Suggestions from Shane and Steve:
> Use LIKE instead of CONTAINS?
Yeah, that was my first thought. Alas, it doesn’t return the correct results.
> Try quoting the right side? "kMDItemFSName contains[cd] '%@‘"
Doesn’t return the correct results in 10.11. There aren’t any spaces in my
actual ta
Still looking for help with this, if anyone’s got any idea?
> On 15 Feb 2017, at 22:50, sqwarqDev wrote:
>
> Building with Xcode 7.3.1, macOS 10.11.6
>
> I’m using an NSPredicate with the form:
>
> NSString *targetString = @“some string or other”;
> NSPredicate *search
Building with Xcode 7.3.1, macOS 10.11.6
I’m using an NSPredicate with the form:
NSString *targetString = @“some string or other”;
NSPredicate *searchPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"kMDItemFSName
contains[cd] %@“, targetString]];
When I build and run my app, this runs fine on 10
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Got it. Should have been using fileURLWithPath.
Thanks to dangerWill…I hadn’t posted the code I wouldn’t have spotted that!!
> On 30 May 2016, at 18:08, sqwarqDev wrote:
>
>
>> On 30 May 2016, at 17:42, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>&g
[0];
NSURL *previewPath = [[NSURL URLWithString:pathString] absoluteURL];
return previewPath; //returns ‘Users/phil/Documents/sample.txt'
}
Best
Phil
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>> On May 30, 2016, at 7:20 PM, sqwarqDev > <mailto:sqwarq...@icloud.com>> wrote
Hoping someone can get me over the final hurdle…
I have an NSTableView and I want the user to be able to hit the space bar to
invoke a QuickLook preview of the selected item. These items are not custom
objects, just regular text files.
I’m following the sample code provided by Apple in QuickLoo
> On 4 May 2016, at 10:48, Charles Srstka wrote:
>
> In the earlier downloadable OS X installers, the InstallESD was bootable; in
> the current ones it’s not. I don’t remember when that changed,
10.7 I believe.
> Aha, ArsTechnica to the rescue.
Also, don’t quote me on it, but I believe tha
Aha, ArsTechnica to the rescue.
Here’s the full skinny on how it’s done:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/how-to-create-a-bootable-backup-mountain-lion-install-disk/
Best
Phil
> On 4 May 2016, at 10:38, sqwarqDev wrote:
>
>
>> On 4 May 2016, at 10:34, sqwarqDev
> On 4 May 2016, at 10:34, sqwarqDev wrote:
>
> I don’t know exactly what that does or if its the same function
From the new DU’s help, step 1 refers to the destination, step 2 the InstallESD:
Select the volume in the sidebar you want to restore, then select Edit >
Restore.
> On 4 May 2016, at 10:28, Graham Cox wrote:
>
> This seems to be the bulk of the installer. I take it that’s the *REAL*
> install image. Can I install directly from that, and if so, how?
Yes you can. The old way was mount the InstallESD image in the Finder and then
use Disk Utility’s ‘Resto
> On 4 May 2016, at 10:08, Carl Hoefs wrote:
>
> I don't know why, but you'll find that none of your previously purchased
> items will be grayed out there.
What’s installed isn’t a historical record attached to your account. As
indicated in my earlier post, it’s actually a live search of the
> On 4 May 2016, at 09:18, Graham Cox wrote:
>
> I could not download 10.9 as the button was greyed out with “downloaded” on
> it.
Yeah, about that.
Whenever you download from the App Store, save a copy of the installer BEFORE
you run it.
Copy it off onto some removable media device. If y
> On 4 May 2016, at 09:18, Graham Cox wrote:
>
> but at that point it gave an error that the installer could not be verified
> and ‘may’ be corrupt.
Yeah, I’ve been through this. I now have disks with every OS from 10.6 through
to 10.11 and a couple of old MBPs to run them on. Treat them like
| On Apr 20, 2016, at 05:00 PM, sqwarqDev wrote:
| If your app is sandboxed you'll need to call it via NSUserAppleScriptTask
Correction: NSUserScriptTask
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSUserScriptTask_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/o
lrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe the correct answer is LaunchAgent plist, XPC helper LaunchAgent or instruct users to manually add it in system preferences or provide a script they can manually run once.
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 20, 2016, at 6:01 PM, sqwarqDev wrote:
If you’re
If you’re willing (or able: beware sandboxing issues) to call either osascript
or NSAppleScript, you can do this via a bit of AppleScript magic:
tell application "Finder" to set aPath to POSIX path of (application file id
”com.yourBundleID.yourApp" as string)
tell application "System Events”
Sorry, iCloud UI-wreck stripped the formatting for some reason.
On Mar 20, 2016, at 08:23 PM, sqwarqDev wrote:
On Mar 20, 2016, at 05:13 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:rently
selected row in the table.
How are you making the outline view "select" the first match?
By clicking on
On Mar 20, 2016, at 05:13 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:rently
selected row in the table.
How are you making the outline view "select" the first match?
By clicking on it before clicking in the NSTextField/SearchField.
Show your code.
Well, as I said in my OP, I get the problem with an empty stub. N
I have an OutlineView inside a SplitView in an NSPanel.
I've been trying to implement an NSSearchField for the OutlineView. The
behaviour I want is simply for the outline view to select the first hit that
matches the search term. I've had no problems getting the actual search to work
just fine
Silly me, forgot to add error checking. Adjusted script:
set plistContents to ""
set x to (path to startup disk) as text
set pathToAppFolder to x & "Applications:" as alias
set infoFilePath to "Contents:info.plist"
set theApp to ""
set sparkleAppsList to {}
set theAppList to do shell script "find
> You might get an automated email when a future build is available asking you
> to re-test. You may get a note that your bug is a duplicate. You may never
> get a response at all.
Or…
…yesterday I got feedback asking if a bug I reported in an early *Yosemite*
seed was resolved in the latest
What I “think” (...read: “hope", cos I really need to be getting on with other
stuff, like updating the Sparkle version in my own apps…) is my final version of the
script to check for vulnerable Sparkle frameworks and prefPanes (system wide,
including backups if connected):
Script version 1.6:
Thanks largely to folks over on the AppleScript users list, the rough script I
was providing yesterday has been significantly improved. Here’s the latest
version.
Credits go to Al Varnell and Yvan Koenig for suggestions and rewriting of my
earlier drafts.
Added: apps in /Applications subfold
I've removed some duplications in the code, but functionally identical to the
last version.
Again, I'll point out that this is only going to show you apps in
/Applications, and it's not going to find those that hide the appcast url in
the binary (DriveDx, for one, but there are others). Bear i
On 10 Feb 2016, at 22:55, Peter Teeson wrote:
find /Applications -path '*Autoupdate.app/Contents/Info.plist' -exec echo {} \;
-exec grep -A1 CFBundleShortVersionString '{}' \; | grep -v
CFBundleShortVersionString
That produces a list of apps that are on earlier versions of Sparkle than 1.13.
OK, I've started adding version numbers to this script now to avoid confusion.
:~!
Latest 'update' is v1.3 (fixed: the 'choose folder' option now works correctly):
I don't think this is the last version...there's at least one outstanding
problem one person's having that I'm waiting to here mor
On Feb 10, 2016, at 07:39, diede...@tenhorses.com wrote:
You can do that in the terminal, I found this terminal command online:
find /Applications -name Sparkle.framework | awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | awk
-F'.' '{print $1}'
Sorry, some posting problems. Here’s the latest version of the scrip
On Feb 10, 2016, at 07:39, diede...@tenhorses.com wrote:
You can do that in the terminal, I found this terminal command online:
find /Applications -name Sparkle.framework | awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | awk
-F'.' '{print $1}'
Here’s an AppleScript that will output the insecure http apps from your
On 10 Feb 2016, at 13:59, diede...@tenhorses.com wrote:
tell them how they can find out which apps use
Sparkle??
On 10 Feb 2016, at 13:59, diede...@tenhorses.com wrote:
tell them how they can find out which apps use
Sparkle??
I was thinking of writing a script for this, checking for SUFeedURL
> On 10 Feb 2016, at 09:08, Charles Srstka wrote:
>
> If your app is accessing your appcast via HTTP, that could be intercepted
> just the same as your relnotes, and then the attacker could set the relnotes
> URL to whatever s/he wants.
Can I just double-check my understanding here:
1. If t
main:NSUserDomainMask
appropriateForURL:nil create:YES error:&myErr];
NSURL *fileURL = [desktopURL URLByAppendingPathComponent:@"somefile.txt"];
NSString *hw = @"hello world";
[hw writeToURL:fileURL atomically:YES encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
> On 15 Jan 2016, at 17:38, sqwarqDev wrote:
>
> tell application "Xcode"
> tell source document 1
> set _sourceCode to contents
>
> -- do shell script //do all your formatting here
BTW, please don’t put a
tell
Best
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> On 18 Dec 2015, at 06:34, Graham Cox wrote:
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> If it happened accidentally it was most likely due to setting up a situation
> that caused extreme low performance
No, it wasn’t.
> You could just gradually add characters from the original string to a
> ‘display’ string using a timer and
A couple of years ago I was messing around with NSTextView and NSTextStorage
and accidentally ended up with a method that printed my string (could have
been attributed string) to my textview one character at a time, rather like an
old fashioned teleprinter.
At the time, that wasn’t the effect
On 14 Sep 2015, at 01:09, John Daniel wrote:
>
> MacBook8,1 covers all colours of the new MacBook.
> I am trying to differentiate the silver, from the space grey, from the gold.
Since the machines are physically identical save the paint job, I don’t think
anything like sysctl or any other har
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On 13 Sep 2015, at 17:58, sqwarqDev wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Bill.
> On 13 Sep 2015, at 17:51, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
> I believe you would have to use GUI Scripting
I’m know my way around AppleScript, but that’s not an option. It has to be done
without opening the System Prefe
Is there a way to get a list of the apps currently allowed access to the
Accessibility API (I’m talking about the apps listed in the System Preferences
> Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility pane and which are allowed to
GUI script the computer)?
I’ve found two “hackarounds”, neither of
> On 13 Sep 2015, at 00:43, SevenBits wrote:
>
> That document doesn't mention an API…
>
Hence, since that is the current documentation, my conclusion : “Don’t think
so”.
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> I'll assume by the raging silence that there is no such API.
Don’t think so. The current documentation is here:
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Security/Conceptual/System_Integrity_Protection_Guide/System_Integ
n 26 Aug 2015, at 23:45, Conrad Shultz wrote:
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>
>> On Aug 26, 2015, at 8:11 AM, sqwarqDev wrote:
>> In Cocoa, the value of the error out parameter is not guaranteed in the
>> success case. You should test the return value of -removeItemAtPath:error:
>> (
I built my app in Xcode 6.4 on 10.10.5.
Runs without issue on Yosemite and Mavericks. However, when I boot into Lion
10.7, I get an “unrecognized selector” error on the “removeItemAtPath” line.
Here’s the snippet"
NSError *err;
int i;
for (i=0; i < offendersList.count; i++)
{
> On 24 Aug 2015, at 06:42, Ken Thomases wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, another standard behavior is Option-up
Ah, the secrets of the option key. 12 years a mac user and they just keep on
giving.
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I have an NSPopupButton in my app with half a dozen or more menu item choices.
When a user clicks on the button, they can navigate up and down the menu items
by using the up and down arrow keys.
When the user navigates to the last item in the list, further presses on the
down arrow key do noth
> On 13 Aug 2015, at 11:37, Graham Cox wrote:
> But the linker fails to find the framework:
>
> ld: warning: directory not found for option
> '-F"/Users/grahamcox/Projects/Mapdiva
> Projects/Artboard/../../Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Drawkit-gzweppsofrkdiyasaleyeleblyor/Build/Products
rmission from the user. I can achieve this simply enough with applescript,
but I was hoping there was a Cocoa solution.
Best
Phil
> On 18 Jun 2015, at 09:13, Sean McBride wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:16:48 +0700, sqwarqDev said:
>
>> Hi list
>>
>> I'
Hi list
I'm trying to move some files to the trash with my app, but I need OS X to
throw an authentication dialog when the requested file needs permission to be
moved.
I need a solution that will work from 10.6 onwards, so I've been looking at
NSWorkspace's recycleURLs rather than NSFileManag
>
> On 10.9 I am seeing
>
> "unlockFocus called too many times.
Can't help with the "why", but try putting
[button lockFocus];
in that method. Even when there isn't an explicit unlockFocus call, I've had
this error message a couple of times and adding an explicit lockFocus cured it.
B
> On 24 Feb 2015, at 05:08, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
>> On Feb 23, 2015, at 8:49 AM, sqwarqDev <2551p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> How do I programmatically tell each NSControl to increase its text size
>> proportionally as its bounds increase?
>
>
> On 23 Jan 2015, at 20:50, Charles Jenkins wrote:
>
> I have turned off Autocorrect and Check Spelling While Typing to eliminate
> the significant pause that happens each time you finish a word and hit the
> space bar.
That's a local issue you've got there.
1. Create a new user. Restart and
Can anyone point me in the right direction for the (simplest) solution to
validate a DSA key in my OS X app?
I've looked at both CocoaFob and AquaticPrime; both contain deprecations and
look as if they are more or less dead. In neither case have I been able to get
my head around the incomplete
>
> On 17 Dec 2014, at 12:24, Brian Christmas wrote:
>
> For stopping a vanilla applescript from running, press Command-. ( that’s
> Command - full stop)
Hi Bria
To my surprise, it turns out that that's a system wide keychord that my own
editor app can also utilise, and not just a shortcut r
> > Is there any way to programmatically stop a script once it's running
> > without using OSAScriptController's 'stopScript' IBAction?
>
> See OSASetActiveProc() in the Retired Documents library:
>
> https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Open_Scripti_Architec
> On 17 Dec 2014, at 19:07, Jonathan Mitchell wrote:
>
> Can you show us how you launch the script.
>
The script is just in a bog standard NSTextView, with a bit of tinkering to the
text attributes, and then it's simply a call to OSAScript:
NSString *source = [textView string];
NS
Once again, apologies for cross posting, but again this is partly an
AppleScript question and partly a Cocoa question. To wit:
Is there any way to programmatically stop a script once it's running without
using OSAScriptController's 'stopScript' IBAction?
My attempts to bend OSAScriptController
> IMO you're almost certainly wasting your time.
I've been told this since I first mentioned it over a year and a half ago. I'm
not a professional developer, it's a hobby. Wasting my time on this is no worse
than watching re-runs of "Kung Fu" and sure beats suffering on the sofa
watching Leeds
> On 7 Dec 2014, at 18:59, sqwarqDev <2551p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> AEDescriptor is:
>>> >> 'want':'cfol', 'seld':'utxt'("Fusion:Users:sphil:Desktop:"), ...,
>
>> What you've shown ab
Ken, many thanks for taking the time to respond.
Yes, I'm very familiar with OSAKit framework, but only in the sense that the
more I look at it the more infuriating it becomes...
> What you've shown above is just the description string of the
> NSAppleEventDescriptor. It's not its native cont
Apologies for cross-posting, but I suspect there could be experts on both sides
of the divide that may be able to help me.
As the title suggests, I'm building an AppleScript editor (Objective-C, not
Swift). I've got reasonably far replicating the abilities of the in-built
Script editor and ha
Hi folks
Pretty uneducated in anything other than the basics of debugging, so I have a
bug in my app which I can't reproduce my end, but I get several user reports
that all show the same console.log errors. The bug is near-fatal, i.e. doesn't
crash the app, but stops it displaying a window cont
> On 11 Nov 2014, at 23:01, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> -needsDisplay schedules a view’s -drawRect: for the next pass through the
> runloop. You’re putting your process to sleep at the OS level, so the runloop
> is suspended along with everything else.
>
> What you posted is evidently a minimal ca
Using Xcode Version 6.1 (6A1052d) on the latest developer build of Yosemite.
I'm confused as to whether this is a bug, or if I'm just doing something wrong.
I have an NSTextView, whose string I want to update while I wait for another
method to complete. Since this method is going to take aroun
> On 6 Nov 2014, at 22:35, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> I wrote this post about the general principles of a secure license key
> scheme:
> http://sigpipe.macromates.com/2004/09/05/using-openssl-for-license-keys/
Ahh nice. Thanks. That's the kind of nitty gritty I've been looking for and
struggling
> On 6 Nov 2014, at 21:31, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
>
>
> One answer, which I prefer, is to contract with a commercial e-commerce
> provider.
Thanks, Bill. I had looked at Kagi in the past, but I didn't realise e-commerce
providers would actually help with incorporating all the necessary the c
Apologies in advance. I'm sure this has been asked a million times before, but
my google-fu has let me down, and that which I can find is all iOS related. No
good for me as this concerns an OS X, non-App store app.
I have a reasonably well-developed free OS X app (i.e., by well-developed I
mean
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