On Mac OS X Leopard, AppKit’s release notes mention a great NSTableView feature: “Hitting Space will attempt to ‘performClick:’ on a NSButtonCell in the selected row, if there is only one instance in that row.” I’m not sure if this trick was built-in for free in previous OS version, but it’s a convenient keyboard action [...]
System Preferences on Mac OS X is a perfect place to put preferences and controls for a background process or framework. Instead of cluttering the user’s dock and task switcher with running application or filling their menu bar with little icons, a preference pane allows developers to hide any visual indication of their program until [...]
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