Thanks dreness, I'll check out that link. I created a little script for making play lists easy, its pretty straight forward, but I would like to see what extra features this scrip…

osXbar is a project dedicated to making OS X the most usable OS on the market. We are shooting to make a Windows Task Bar like application for OS X. The dock is pretty but pretty d…

What do you have in mind for the bar? A "start" button? A rearrangement of the dock?

I have created a mock screen shot of what I am shooting for. I have created the Nib file and thats about it so far. I am still laying out the schema and Im considering writing up s…

Platinum window frames are 5px on the sides and bottom, and 22px on top (titlebar). Can someone tell me what it is for Aqua? (I do not have OS X.) I'm going to write a window til…

Quote: Originally posted by Boodlums: <STRONG>Platinum window frames are 5px on the sides and bottom, and 22px on top (titlebar). Can someone tell me what it is f…

Hehehe, actually that is who I am! Opera is what I'm scripting. :-) I guess I could've just asked this question there, then, huh. ::grin:: So long, and thanks for all the pixels!…

Oh, I also need to know the menubar height. Is it still 19px? thanks!

looks like it's slightly taller to me, about 22px.

looks like? Are there no screen measurement utilities for OS X? Egads. Would Pixel Spy work in the background in Classic? http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~bhorling/pixelspy/

/Developer/Applications/Pixie Menubar is 22.

Thank you everyone!! -Walter

trolltech has released Qt for Mac. Now for those of you who really want to port applications to and from Win, Linux and OSX you can!

Yes, if you have lots of money to through away! And also note that this is just a public beta, not a final version, AFAIK.

Well, Qt *IS* GPL.... if your application is too. If you have a commercial application, it's $1500 per developer. Metrowerks asks for $15 000 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) for windows powerpl…

Well, Qt *IS* GPL.... if your application is too. If you have a commercial application, it's $1500 per developer. Metrowerks asks for $15 000 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) for windows powerpl…

Would it be fair to compare this to Swing? In Java you use swing to draw buttons, lists and drawing panels and they draw on any platform in the way users expect for that platform. …

As far as I know, Swing is VERY SLOW. This is because it is a completely cross-platform, interpreted windowing system and widget collection. I actually remember hearing that the …

Qt provides the HI wrapups, true, but it's also much more. It provides wrappers for almost everything else, and has lots of unique features itself. It has a 'designer' program that…

Quote: Originally posted by Apocalypse: <STRONG>As far as I know, Swing is VERY SLOW. This is because it is a completely cross-platform, interpreted windowing sys…

Quote: Originally posted by Kristoff: <STRONG> Swing is not THAT slow. You make it sound unusable. </STRONG> It *IS* unusable.

I am taking an introductory course in programming that is based on Java. Since the first few programs are small and are CLI only. The programs complie and run in Project Builder …

Ahh, the "Black Art" of the executable .jar. The .jar needs to be told which class holds the main() method. The Manifest holds this little bit of information and you can create …

just wanted to let you know that online-members can now download them, just discovered that. if that's been covered elsewhere -- sorry for wasting your bandwidth.

Yay! Time to try them when I get home from school btw seb, did you ever get my email? :-p