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Closed 10 years ago.
i have made a Mac OS application, that i was wanting to add a feature to. The user adds data to a NSTableView, then the data is compiled into a .xml file. What i want to do is upload that .xml file to a server, and overwrite the existing file named that. How would i do this? I have hear of Apple's Version, but it is for iPhone and looks a bit confusing. I am only 16, and was wanting to know if there is an easier way of uploading a file to a remote server. Thanks!
There are at least a couple built-in ways to do ftp'ing from an OSX application.
Apple has a useful article available here which shows how to do uploading. I'm not certain (it may be dependent on server implementation) if an upload overwrites a previous file or throws an error if a file already exists.
There's also a commercial Objective C library found here ($300) that might have everything you need available. There may be other hints available on related Stack Overflow questions as well.
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So I'm further along in building my app and am construction complex sql queries. Using trial'n'error is getting cumbersome here. Is there any better way? I'm mostly developing on iOS...
You tagged your question AppConKit, so I'll assume you need help there. When you are developing iOS Apps with the AppConKit, an SQLite Database is automatically created on the device.
You can easily copy the current SQLite database from your device.
To be sure your latest data changes are stored to the database file, close your app.
Connect your device to your Mac/PC and open iTunes.
In iTunes go to your device and click the Apps tab.
On the File Sharing section select the AppConClient. Here's a file named ibizclient.sqlite which you can save with the save button above.
With a free SQLite viewer you can open the database and check what you want to know.
Windows SQLite viewer: SQLiteSpy
Mac SQLite viewer: SQLiteManager
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I am working on an Mac OS X application, and I would like to know a few things:
What are log files that will be updated when an application is run? and their paths? Would it be possible to turn off logging (programmatically)? If so, would it be possible to do that for a particular application? I want my app to run covertly. so, any other ideas?
There isn't any standard "Here's every application that was ever launched" log on the system, nor do applications automatically log anything in particular upon launch. For GUI apps, the "Recent Applications" preference will be updated. But any number of things could be updated in response to something your application does, and there's not any finite list of these things or where they might be located (e.g. I could write a custom script that watches for program launches and writes the name of the program and the file handles it holds to ~/Documents/InnocuousFile.tbz).
Basically, as long as you don't log anything yourself, you're doing about as much as you reasonably can do on this front. But this doesn't really make your app covert in any meaningful way, as there are many ways to notice a program's presence other than logs, and I wouldn't even think logs are a big one.
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Closed 9 years ago.
I have an App that is translated to four languages. I find that updating and maintaining the strings files extremely tedious.
Is there a way to edit different translations side by side similar to what IntelliJ provides:
(source: jetbrains.com)
I would also be happy with a simply MS-Excel to Strings conversion script, where the Excel would be the master and the .strings files would be generated.
These apps saved me from a world of hurt. There's no guide, so you'd have to figure it out yourself. The apps are free though and very well designed.
http://www.loc-suite.org/
My company use a tool called Localization Helper from Mac App Store. I reckon it's pretty good.
How about Linguan?
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Closed 9 years ago.
I'd like to create a flowchart/map visualization of how my project works, what is the best software available for this purpose? I'm not looking for something to do it automatically, I'd like to manually create the flowchart.
This is for a project done in Objective-C if that helps/matters.
OmniGraffle is pretty good. It even creates class diagrams from an Xcode 3.x project.
Other web applications that do this, that are not already mentioned:
draw.io, is free and uses Google Drive or Dropbox for storage (including Google Drive Realtime). I co-founded this.
Lucidchart is native JavaScript, like draw.io.
Creately and Cacoo are Flash implementations, although Cacoo are moving away from Flash.
Aside from my obvious bias, I would suggest Lucidchart or Gliffy (mentioned above).
If you (a) like gliffy and (b) want a desktop-based app that does the same thing, take a look at yEd. Supports BPMN and traditional flowcharts (as well as myriad other drawing notations). Nice and easy to use, cross-platform. Oh, and free :-)
hth.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I am using WIX at the moment, but keep on running into limitations (such as ability to expand properties as the value of another property). Also not sure if I ran into a bug with the FileSearch element, because it is not working as expected (does not find a file that is definitely there). I can go the route of using custom actions built into a dll, but was just wondering if there is a beter way.
I think the best tool (maturity, features, documentation, easy-of-use) is currently AdvancedInstaller. I'm not usually recommending commercial tools but this one is really good value for money.
They also have freeware edition for basic needs.
I have been using Installshield almost a decade by now.