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— The language of Automation — How it works in theory Suppose you write some AppleScript that is generic and that you would like to use in other AppleScript applications. The solution is to create a library from it and store it in a standard place where your other AppleScript applications can find them. MacOS …
The process to create an help book for a MacOS is not very well documented. The available documentation is old and archived: link. From that old documentation and some of the information found on the Apple Developer Forum I was able to create an Help book for a SwiftUI application. The book structure Assume that …
This walkthrough shows how to get an example application as present in the core-plot library working using SwiftUI on MacOS. Although this example is done on the Mac, there is no reason to assume that the same process would not work for IOS. 1. Create the project Select: File -> New -> Project… Make certain …
The examples provided in the documentation from Apple CryptoKit show examples where you use the same key bot for encryption and decryption. What it doesn’t specify how this practically works. How do you make the key and how do you make such thing work in practice. This article given an example how this can be …
Being on a Mac my initial development was using Xcode. There is nothing wrong with that but occonially I would like to just use the command line. That is where SPM comes into play. So suppose you want to make a new tool named smith you would take the following steps: $ mkdir smith $ …
Summary Swift is available for Linux. At the moment it is only available for Ubuntu linux. If you want it on another Linux flavor you have to compile it from source. This is a log of the steps to do this on Debian linux.This installation has been done on the Debian “jessie” release. It should …
Summary You may have run into this problem that you paste your SSH key and get the reply that your key is too long. The whole idea about long keys is that increase security. As it turns out you can still enter this using the pkf format. This post explains how. Converting your existing key …
I’m using my DS412 to centrally collect my mail from various mail boxes I have around the world. One of the mail account I have is with Google. Unfortunately out of the box fetchmail gives all kind of weird SSL errors which prohibit normal use. These problems can be fixed. This blog explains how this …
I am trying out a new editor called TextMate. So far I am impressed. The real strength of TextMate is the context awareness.. I known there are many editors that allow this but TextMate shows some features I have never seen in any other editor. Tab Completion Take for example the ruby mode. Create an …
I am a registered user of the application Groupcal 3. Groupcal is an application that will sync your iCal calendar with an exchange server. It works great. After I upgraded to Leopard I discovered that the application won’t run anymore. First I thought, just go to the website of snerdware and get a new version. …