Archive for tag: cocoa

I love to consume Cocoa!

1 August, 2008 (21:28) | Apple, Objective-C, cocoa, iPhone | By: Niels Hansen

The last three weeks have been an absolute joy!  I’ve been coding like I was 29 again and dreaming of Cocoa!  OK maybe not that part but I’ve found something that I have not felt like in 7 years.  The last time I felt like this was when .NET first came around. However for the [...]

How to Change the text Color of a NSButton in Objective-C

10 July, 2008 (23:44) | Apple, Objective-C, internet explorer, xCode, xna, youtube | By: Niels Hansen

One of the things that I need to do is simply change the text of a NSButton (or NSButtonCell) to a different color.  No problem I thought. I can easily do this in any language since I started developing Windows 3.1 Applications.
Boy was I wrong. There is no simple way to do it.   
Before the [...]

The audacity of some Windows Developers

8 July, 2008 (16:25) | .net, Apple, Software Development, open source, subversion | By: Niels Hansen

I’ve been reading an excellent blog called Cocoa is my Girlfriend and there is a post about The audacity of [some] Windows Developers.  I have to agree with him.  Windows developers can be a little bit stubborn about their ways.
I fell into the same camp when I started doing some development on the mac. I could not [...]