Excuse me for not quite a programming question, but I need to burn a disc that would be autoplayed both on Windows and OSX. I read somewhere, that OSX disables autoplay feature by default (?) regarding to some security issues or wtf. However, posting the problem here in hope Stackoverflow knows how to hack / enable it.
And yes, I know that:
For Windows, we can setup Autorun to automatically launch the app and, for Mac, we can use special folder formatting to make it clear what the user should do.
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BTW, the content to be played is MM Flash.
You can't enable it. The feature isn't disabled — it isn't there at all. The only way to do it would be to have a program already on the computer to respond to the disk insertion, but that's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it?
This looks as if it may be of help to you: Creating a multiplatform autorun CD
UPDATE: After reading it seems that a Mac OS 9 tool was required, which isn't much use nowadays
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I would like to know options to run custom windows application (delphi) on MacOS.
I know that the optimal solution would be to re-write the application in objective-c,
but that would take over a year of development.
I know that I could use "bootcamp" or virtual solution.
That includes the expenses of windows + virtual enviroments that is a no-go.
But I wonder if there is a way to actually run windows applications the easy (one click installer) way such as CrossOver or any other similar solutions.
I would be most grateful If you share your ideas!
The way I've done so, after getting feedback from others on other web sites for Beyond Compare, is use Wine. Now I am not certain what all the options are for wine, binary-wise.
I didn't have the time to invest in figuring it out, but someone on twitter, and the beyond compare account itself, recommended Wine Bottler.
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
When using wine/wine bottler, the windows apps will see the local file system in a curious way. The real mac local drive appears as "Desktop\My Computer\Z:", and what seems to be a new virtual drive appears as "Desktop\My Computer\C:" with the typical windows folders. Also under desktop: a folder called "/" which is the same as z:
I'm sure someone who has a lot of experience could have answered this question with better elaboration, but these are at least based in my own limited and successful experience.
I'm surprised no one has asked this yet. What's the best way (if any) to get a Vi experience in Xcode? I know about ViMate but TextMate doesn't come close to Xcode in terms of integration and code completion.
BTW, I am using Xcode 4.
You might want to try out xVim which seems to be an active project. The currently indicate that it works with XCode 4.2, Espresso and Chocolat. Presumably you could selectively enable it with other applications.
Here's another plugin which I made a few weeks ago.
http://programming.jugglershu.net/softwares/xvim.html
This is currently developed for personal (my) use. So you may feel bad with some lack of implementation. Give me a feed back(feature request) then. I'll add some keybinds if I have enough time.
The closest you'll get is http://www.corsofamily.net/jcorso/vi/, or configuring an external editor. This has been a long-standing deficiency with XCode. (If you ask any vi user that is..)
OSX and XCode in general favors Emacs key bindings.
More info on general key-binding strategy for OSX: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060317045211408
Right now, I productively use XVim†. I'll probably try $20 ViCiOUS, which seems more polished; I like having source access to my tool-chain, but this is for Xcode, so c'mon me.
† Not xVim, which I just discovered, but apparently face down in the pool. In the [Xx][Vv]im namespace, Xvim (à la Xcode) would have made more sense to me. There, I said it.
Here's another choice: KeyRemap4MacBook.
I need to test my web application on a Mac/Safari - especially stuff related to keyboard handling. I couldn't find any service that simply lets me connect to a hosted OSX instance. Is there something like this?
IOW, is there a way to test my software on a mac without buying a mac?
If by "keyboard handling" you mean typing into standard controls the risk is probably quite low. It also depends on whether you will need to provide support for the system as well: it might be frustrating to debug an issue a customer has without having somewhat similar equipment. The keyboard layout is all different to Windows and Linux and even frequently used characters such as # and \ may be challenging - of course it all depends on how well programmed the controls are.
So to put it short, if I were you I'd spend 200$ on an used iMac running whatever OSX version just to be sure. 200$ isn't much compared to tens or hundreds of hours of debugging. With that investment you can also verify that the layout and other functionality works ok on Safari and OSX.
Can't say I've used them but you could look at cloud4mac.com
You can run OS X inside a VM fairly easily these days. You don't get 3D acceleration but it sounds like you don't need it for your testing anyway.
I wish to build my own application which can send keyboard commands(messages) to the Windows OS.
For example when I press the combination ctrl+shift+n, I wish to launch the notepad.exe . How can I do that? Do you have some advice for me about the concept used.
I've read that is possible when are used keyboard hooks? That's the only way? Do you know a free and open-source application which does this as simple is possible?
Your particular example can be done without any programming at all, by right clicking on Notepad, selecting Properties, and setting the "hot key" (various Windows versions might call it by a different name) to Ctrl+Shift+N.
If you still would like to write a program to do this, have a look at the RegisterHotKey Win32 API function.
AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows.
You can automate many tasks with the above utility, check it out.
Things to bear in mind:
A system-wide keyboard hook requires the writing of a DLL. There's example keyboard hook code on my website here.
Hooks cannot be installed from a low to a high integrity level application in Vista and Windows 7/8/10. So there's no guarantee your hook will work, depending upon what the foreground application is when the key gets hit.
As Greg pointed out, a lot of the time, RegisterHotKey is a much simpler solution for this problem.
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After having read that QuickSilver was no longer supported by BlackTree and has since gone open source, I noticed more and more people switching to/suggesting other app launchers i.e. Buttler and LaunchBar.
Is QuickSilver still relevant? Has anyone experienced any instability since it's gone open source?
Quicksilver is still alive and well. There are at least a couple of endeavours to keep it going, up to date and restructure and clean up the code base. Check out the code from Google Code.
As for launching apps, not even Spotlight comes close to how fast it is in Quicksilver.
Of course the real joy of Quicksilver is past just launching apps and using triggers, scripts and the many plugins. My workflow goes to a new level with Quicksilver. I'd be lost without it.
Update: Since posting this I switched and use LaunchBar for a while. This was during the time that QuickSilver seemed to be almost close to death. Loved LaunchBar and didn't need to switch back to QuickSilver. Recently though, I have left LaunchBar and have been using Alfred. I would highly recommend it. For me, LaunchBar and Alfred are pretty close. But, aesthetically and operationally, Alfred suits my tastes more than LaunchBar.
It still runs stably for me. I would be miserable without it.
And yeah, I would recommend switching if you only use it for an "app launcher", but launching apps is like white belt Quicksilver. I don't know of any program that lets you simply tell your computer what to do in such a simple way. And even Spotlight won't remember the keys you usually type to identify an object or action.
Ubiquity for Firefox is pretty good, but it's locked inside a browser...
I haven't used OS X in a while, but the impression I get is that Spotlight has largely negated the reason for using a launcher in the first place. Quicksilver has some cool things like direct objects built in, but by and large it was mostly used for launching apps, and Spotlight can now do that just as fast.
I also gave up on QuickSilver for a while when Leopard came out. I tried Spotlight. I gave up on that and returned. QuickSilver is much faster, and it does so much more that I missed.
I have not noticed any instability (Leopard) running B54 (3815) - it looks like the open-source version is B56A3 though.
QuickSilver is awesome when integrated with Parallels/VMWare Fusion to launch Windows apps too. You don't get the deep integration as with the various OSX plugins, but it definitely helps the dual-OS usability.
I love QS and agree that it is so productive that I am willing to put up with its flaws. I usually have to launch it several times before it gets up and running, though. To fix that issue I created a little quicksilver launcher app.
I use quicksilver all day (on latest version of OSX); and no spotlight doesn't negate it... quicksilver is still much faster for launching applications.
After Quicksilver stopped being updated for a while, I migrated to LaunchBar. Quicksilver had some occasional crashes and could be very resource intensive. LaunchBar has largely the same functionality without these problems. It is not free though.
The one thing I do miss was using QS to quickly send attachments via email to people in my address book. Highlighting the file, activate QS, Current Selection tab Mail to.. tab Person's name was just awesome.
After the 10.5.5 update, I find Spotlight to solve 99% of the things I originally used Quicksilver for and the speed is nearly identical now. Spotlight is invaluable for finding information you may not remember where or when you last saw it. Unless a major rewrite of QS causes me to reevaluate it again, I suspect Spotlight will be all I need and use.
There are a couple branches out there that are active, I think I'm currently running B56 and loving it. I have too many scripts, triggers, objects that I rely on daily...I would be lost without it.
It's 201 and it's still running strong!
QuickSilver is still alive, and well.
You can find the hub-website for all activities at http://qsapp.com/
GitHub (used for source code and issues tracking) is at https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver
The latest version, B58 (3841) is quite stable on Snow Leopard (10.6.6).
No. It's back, baby.
I didn't know Quicksilver wasn't being as actively supported.
It does all I need it to do at the moment though.
Just installed LaunchBar but I can't set it to be Option + Space to "launch", I can't deal with it not using that, I'm too use to Spotlight on Command + Space and Ctrl + Space is for VS 2008 :P