ScriptingBridge framework in Cocoa can be used to access features from any scriptable application. In this article I will discuss how to access the features of iTunes such as current playing track, duration of the track, playlists etc by using ScriptingBridge.framework in a Cocoa Application. However you can follow the same steps to allow your application to interact with any other scriptable application.
How to get selected text and its coordinates from any system wide application using Accessibility API?
Suppose, I want to create a application which will monitor the typing and say if “macdevelopers” is typed anywhere be it in TextEdit or Mail etc. the application will perform a operation for example automatically opening the website in a browser.
The text value from any System wide Application can be accessed using the Accessibility API. In this article I will discuss about accessing the text value from any application like Text Edit or other applications if its current focused element is some text field or text view in it. Thus using this you can implement the functionality to access the active application’s text field value. Read the rest of this entry
Undo/Redo functionality in a Cocoa application – NSUndoManager
This article will give you an overview of adding undo and redo functionality to a cocoa application by an example that undo/redo addition and deletion of rows in a TableView.
Lets start with How Undo Manager works?
As per Apple’s Reference Guide “You register an undo operation by specifying the object that’s changing (or the owner of that object), along with a method to invoke to revert its state, and the arguments for that method. When performing undo an
NSUndoManager saves the operations reverted so that you can redo the undos.” Read the rest of this entry
What are Protocol Buffers? Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data. Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data like XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the “old” format.
How to use Protocol Buffers with Objective C?
Circular progress indicator We all are familiar with native progress bar but a circular progress bar might be required in a project. In circular progress bar, progress of process will be shown by a bar filling in clockwise or anti-clockwise direction. Here I am providing the code to create a circular progress bar as shown in the image below: Read the rest of this entry