Mac OS X Externals

[shaosean]

Got bored. Figured out how to make externals with Xcode 4. Here you go. I will be posting them as I make them, they are all released in to the public domain and if you like them feel free to bribe me via PayPal

Some will be small little one off features, others will be larger in scope.. I am writing them in Xcode 4.6.3 on a MacBook Pro running 10.8, so no idea if they will actually run on lower OS versions, but I do not see why not..

[shaosean]

Description
Displays the "poof" animation.

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ShowAnimationEffect

[Klaus]

Nice


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[shaosean]

Forgot to mention that these externals are for Intel-only.. If you still need a PPC version of any of them, let me know and I will see about getting a PPC version made..

[shaosean]

Description
This one allows you to enable the secured input feature.. When your application quits or you application is made inactive, the external automatically disables secured input (if required)..

When secure event input mode is enabled, keyboard input goes only to the application with keyboard focus and is not echoed to other applications that might be using the event monitor target to watch keyboard input. If your application implements its own password entry, you should enable secure event input while the user enters text.

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EnableSecureInput
DisableSecureInput
IsSecureInputEnabled() -- returns a boolean

[shaosean]

Description
Just something simple to get the height of the menu bar (yeah, it pretty much has always been 22 pixels, but things can change)..

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MenuBarHeight()  -- returns an integer

[shaosean]

Description
Returns the long and short user names

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UserName()  -- returns the long user name; i.e.: Shao Sean
ShortUserName()  -- returns the short user name; i.e.: shaosean

ps.. yes, those are really mine

[Mag]

Description
Just something simple to get the height of the menu bar (yeah, it pretty much has always been 22 pixels, but things can change)..

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MenuBarHeight()  -- returns an integer

Great pieces of software. Maybe the height of the menubar could help to learn if the display is Retina (provided it give the size in pixels and not points)?

[shaosean]

Maybe I can write an external to check for Retina or not, I think I posted something about it a while back..

[Mag]

Maybe I can write an external to check for Retina or not, I think I posted something about it a while back..

This would be absolutely great. It could fill a gap quite heavy LC. I'm not sure but then there need also a way to say to LC to use the device resolution (like iphoneUseDeviceResolution in iOS), in this way you can use the appropriate images dependind on the retina/nonretina info.

PS
BTW I downloaded ShowAnimationEffect.bundle but I don't know how to install (and call) it

[shaosean]

How To Install 3rd Party Externals For Use in the IDE and Standalone Builder

[shaosean]

Description
Allows you to hide a window from Expose.
Allows you to show a window on all Spaces.

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VisibleInExpose windowID, boolean  -- show/hide a window from Expose
IsVisibleInExpose(windowID)  -- returns true if the window is visible in Expose, false otherwise

VisibleInAllSpaces windowID, boolean  -- show a window on all Spaces (when the user switches desktop spaces, the window moves to the new Space)
IsVisibleInAllSpace(windowID)  -- returns true is the window is visible in all space, false otherwise

[Kangaroo SW]

Hello Sean thanks for your great externals I love the poof one !!!!!

[shaosean]

Thanks.. They're nothing overly fancy, but figured that they could help someone out..

[dave_probertGA6e24]

Heyup Sean,

Thanks for all you are doing here - I'm now a happy user of a non-rev external.

Your showAnimationEffect is now exploding on every button I press in my private Program - Yeah, I'm sure I'll get bored of it, but it's fun just now and so nice and simple to implement.

Mag: Once installed (follow the instructions from other post) then just put 'ShowAnimationEffect' in an on mouseUp handle on a button. Then click the button.

Keep up the great work.

Cheers,
Dave

BTW, if you feel bored one evening you might want to do a very plain tutorial on the creation of an external - I'm sure that it would be very well received. Many people (well, ok, probably just me!) don't have a clue which external SDK stuff to get (and from where) and how to setup XCode for the work flow. And then the basics of the Obj-C/C++/C/? that is used to do something like the showAnimEffect.