class-dump path_to_executable If the tool nm and its wealth of information seems impressive, class-dump is amazing. Feed it an executable and get back a complete list of class names, internal variables, and methods, even as a set of header files, thanks to its deep understanding of Objective-C and Mach-O. Apple’s product might be stripped of [...]
nm -a path_to_executable When Mac applications are compiled, Xcode has a setting to include or exclude debugging symbols: the “Strip Style”. When set to fully strip, the bundled executable (AppName.app/Contents/MacOS/AppName) contains very few symbols, but when all the symbols are included, the executable is a wealth of information. Unfortunately, Xcode’s default Release configuration includes all [...]
Dollar Clock 2.0 got accepted yesterday, complete with landscape mode and iPad support. Now you can track meeting waste in HD!
In porting Dollar Clock from the iPhone to the iPad, I switched from using a flip view (using UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal) to a popover view (UIPopoverController). But a strange thing happened: the UITableView in the popover lost its initial selection, after viewDidAppear was called. Regardless of what I did, the row was always deselected, and indexPathForSelectedRow would [...]
In writing Multicast Ping for the Mac, I needed a two-way communication pipe between the interface (parent process) and the privileged tool (child process) and a clean method for terminating the tool through that pipe. NSTask provides setStandardInput and setStandardOutput for just this reason. However, I cannot launch a privileged tool with NSTask; instead, I [...]
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