Cocoa
Hint
03/09/08 01:10
After realising that my dream of a "Fantastic stand-alone RW helper program" was a fantasy, doomed from its inception, I hid in the wardrobe and sulked.
While I was there, I had an epiphany. My epiphany was constructed of two small epiphanies, neither more important than the other:
1) My wardrobe is not bad. Honestly, I'd rather live there than a lot of places I've stayed in the past.
2) Developing an application using Java that will be run solely on Macs is silly - sooner or later I'll have to learn Cocoa, might as well be sooner.
Sulk over, I promptly forgot about my journey of self-discovery and the wisdom it had bestowed upon me. University got busy for awhile - heaps of Chickens and Chinese. I spent a lot of time each day writing Chinese characters, as part of my continued efforts aimed at one day enabling me to read a Chinese Science Fiction novel, if they exist. Two and a half years after starting, I can almost almost read the blurb of a novel. Almost.
One weekend I spent such a long time writing characters, and could see so little progress from my effort that I decided I'd write a program that tracked the characters I write each day (or didn't write, as is so often the case), and display the numbers to me along with a daily average. I hadn't learned any Cocoa at that stage, so it was to be in Java. The app works pretty well - it took a little fiddling to get it to enter the days I hadn't written characters into the save file when the program starts, but now it all works.
Here's a screenshot of the program (note the abysmal daily average):
It works. My favourite aspect is the icon.
One and a half weeks ago, my average was 3000 per day. It's dropped, because I've been spending every waking moment on a new project: Slider.
It's a plugin for our beloved Rapid Weaver. I'm sure you'll all like it, but I'm afraid I can't say much more than that now. It should be out within a week, I'll release more details closer to the time.
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While I was there, I had an epiphany. My epiphany was constructed of two small epiphanies, neither more important than the other:
1) My wardrobe is not bad. Honestly, I'd rather live there than a lot of places I've stayed in the past.
2) Developing an application using Java that will be run solely on Macs is silly - sooner or later I'll have to learn Cocoa, might as well be sooner.
Sulk over, I promptly forgot about my journey of self-discovery and the wisdom it had bestowed upon me. University got busy for awhile - heaps of Chickens and Chinese. I spent a lot of time each day writing Chinese characters, as part of my continued efforts aimed at one day enabling me to read a Chinese Science Fiction novel, if they exist. Two and a half years after starting, I can almost almost read the blurb of a novel. Almost.
One weekend I spent such a long time writing characters, and could see so little progress from my effort that I decided I'd write a program that tracked the characters I write each day (or didn't write, as is so often the case), and display the numbers to me along with a daily average. I hadn't learned any Cocoa at that stage, so it was to be in Java. The app works pretty well - it took a little fiddling to get it to enter the days I hadn't written characters into the save file when the program starts, but now it all works.
Here's a screenshot of the program (note the abysmal daily average):
It works. My favourite aspect is the icon.
One and a half weeks ago, my average was 3000 per day. It's dropped, because I've been spending every waking moment on a new project: Slider.
It's a plugin for our beloved Rapid Weaver. I'm sure you'll all like it, but I'm afraid I can't say much more than that now. It should be out within a week, I'll release more details closer to the time.
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Feel Like A Cup of Cocoa?
30/06/08 22:13
I released the Smart Buttons last night, and displayed them with my new store layout.
GreyBox is so good, I keep thinking of new ways to use it.
Now that the Smart Buttons have finished, I feel it is time to move onto another RW related idea. This will be a stand-alone program - a RW helper if you will.
And that’s about all I have to say on the subject at this time.
I’m off to read the Cocoa manual.
GreyBox is so good, I keep thinking of new ways to use it.
Now that the Smart Buttons have finished, I feel it is time to move onto another RW related idea. This will be a stand-alone program - a RW helper if you will.
And that’s about all I have to say on the subject at this time.
I’m off to read the Cocoa manual.