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Questions tagged [osx]

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Is the carriage-return char considered obsolete

I wrote an open source library that parses structured data but intentionally left out carriage-return detection because I don't see the point. It adds additional complexity and overhead for little/no benefit. To my surprise, a user submitted a bug…
Evan Plaice
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Emacs-as-OS: obsolete?

In an attempt to reach at least beginner status with such a legendary editor, I have been coding in Emacs for the last two months. I try to keep an open heart, but I find myself continally disagreeing with one core design choice: that Emacs allow…
AlcubierreDrive
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Can I write a cross-platform application (Mac and Windows) using C#?

I see lots of old information on this question, and lots of articles flying around the Interwebs, but I can't tell quite where things are at. Basically, I want to write C# code that I can then compile into a Windows application, and also compile…
Betty Crokker
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What's the Best way to create a trial version of software for OS X?

I am having someone develop a program for me and I want to sell it for like $10. I was wondering what's the best way to create a trial version that I can tell my programmer to do. Like 30 day trial. And what's one way I can make it so once they…
Scott Yu - builds stuff
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Strategy for OS X and downlevel version of C++11 library?

I think I've found myself in a situation where things are quickly spiraling out of control, and I'd like to get some feedback to select a way to proceed. BACKGROUND I'm working with a library based upon C++03. The library is cross-platform and…
user118658
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Do iOS frameworks require the same internal versioning as OSX frameworks?

I have been reading through the apple documentation for creating frameworks for OSX and iOS. Reading about the structure of frameworks, I began to wonder if there is really any need to create the symlinked folder structure described if you are…
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How to decide how backward-compatible my new Mac OS X application should be?

I'm currently contemplating writing an OS X version of my Windows software. My Windows application still supports Windows XP, and I know that if I drop support for it now, our customers will cry bloody murder. I'm new to OS X development, and as I…
haimg
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planning the same app for both OSX and iOS

I would like to ask which is the best strategy for creating an application that will be developed both on Mac and iPad, so to make minumum effort to port it from one platform to the other, starting from iPad, for example, but rather trying to make…
P5music
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What's the standard for entity design/database connectivity for a mySQL database?

I'm hosting a solution that serves as a web tier on a Ubuntu machine running Apache and Mono. I'm currently developing the project on OSX, using Mono. I understand there is no native support for Linq to SQL in Mono, so I've been going old school…
George
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In iOS, y-axis starts from the top and grows downward. It is the opposite to macOS. What is the rationale and technical advantage behind this change?

In iOS, the coordinate (0, 0) means the top left corner. In macOS it is the bottom left corner. What is the Apple's rationale or technical advantage of this coordinate system?
Anthony Kong
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Fixed window size app development for Mac OS X

I am developing a rather eye-candy application which is to be released on Mac App Store. Due to its graphics intensive use, it would save a great deal of time on UI end if the app could be released with a fixed size main frame-dialog. I did try…
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Confused about how to test Python scripts that install and configure a development setup on OSX (VMware? Docker-OSX?)

In my company we hire engineers for various "disciplines"—iOS, Android, Web, Backend, Data, etc. Engineers follow an onboarding workbook to install what they need for their discipline. iOS engineers need to install Xcode, backend engineers need to…
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Is it mandatory to obtain a licence for distributing software uses bundled Mono runtime?

My software composed of an EXE and dependent class library dlls, built on Windows using visual studio C# Compiler. I've been able to run it directly on Mac OS X using mono myApp.exe without rebuilding. Now, for the deployment, I've successfully made…
Assem
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Handling Deprecated Methods

As many of you already know Apple released a new OS last week so I installed it on my system to see if the project I'm working on works. Well, absolutely nothing works. There are a lot of deprecated methods so I would like some advice on how to…
Samantha Catania
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One Developer, Two Machines

I currently use a Mac Pro for Xcode development, but am considering buying a MacBook Air when the newer models are released. How should I collaborate with myself when using both machines on the same project? Should I use Git, or should I just…
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