Suddenly you care about Spotlight? [/fans flames]

Oh... I understand now. Sorry for wasting everyone's time with a stupid question. Duh... I should have know all that developer stuff... what was I thinking??? By the way... I run …

+1!

"What I think goMac is trying to say is something like this: ShapeShifter is acting like a secret agent who infiltrates your office and replaces your files every time you go to loo…

this thread sucks. not surprising considering.... aren't you supposed to be on panther anyways.... ugh.

Quote: Originally Posted by TheSpaz I got lost in all of that Programmer language stuff. So basically those files are not actually in that folder... or am I wrong? Let’s sa…

Ah.. the great Namdnar Speaks! Sheesh... R

Fud

Quote: Originally Posted by TheSpaz So what I want to know... how did the name of that file change? ShapeShifter must have done SOMETHING to Search.bundle to rename those System…

So what I want to know... how did the name of that file change? ShapeShifter must have done SOMETHING to Search.bundle to rename those System files or replace what was in there. I'…

I got lost in all of that Programmer language stuff. So basically those files are not actually in that folder... or am I wrong? What would happen if I was running a ShapeShifter t…

Quote: Originally Posted by BatmanPPC nope, doesnt modify the file .. do this in terminal and see for yourself: % cp /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/Resourc…

It doesn't modify the file per say. It tricks the file system into pointing to a different file instead of the one in the system folder. Spotlight finds MDSearchWidget_Pressed, and…

Quote: Originally Posted by TheSpaz For those of you who thought shapeshifter was so great because it doesn't modify System files... you are wrong. Look at what I found. I insta…

I am sure there will be a logical explanation.

For those of you who thought shapeshifter was so great because it doesn't modify System files... you are wrong. Look at what I found. I installed the theme Siro with ShapeShifter 2…

Quote: Originally Posted by Person Man Yes but, Applications built using these toolkits on the Mac won't FEEL like Macintosh applications. If an application doesn't FEEL like a…

Well, I consider myself a Mac guy at heart... But I'm starting my own business and I was having too many issues trying to develop on my powerbook. For one, I kept having to borrow…

Quote: Originally Posted by itistoday That's a pretty crappy attitude, and an insult to the developers that spent their time making them. They could have just as easily ditched…

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Quote: Originally Posted by TampaDeveloper I plan to release my applications first on Mac. Mac is my favorite environment. I have done extra work simply out of that love. So …

Quote: Originally Posted by flatcatch Can anyone suggest some good places to start? Books? I was checking out The Mac Xcode 2 Book but it's not out yet it looks like. Maybe the…

Quote: Originally Posted by TampaDeveloper I would love to get in contact with a developer that has successfully ported their Objective-C application to a PC and gone on to mark…

Quote: Originally Posted by Person Man Yes but, Applications built using these toolkits on the Mac won't FEEL like Macintosh applications. If an application doesn't FEEL like a…

BTW, if I could write code in Objective-C and deploy it on Windows as a second-class citizen to my Mac version, I would. But it doesn't require a vast amount of evaluating to come…