List of code and widgets which can prove useful for development.

Command Line Tool

goldin is targeted as a replacement for /Developer/Tools/SplitForks with the following improvements:

• It is open source.
• It does not use deprecated APIs.
• It does not include some bugs of SplitForks.
• Accidentally, it's currently faster in some cases.

GitHub Repository

emmett is a tool with a limited set of features: adding items to the Dock and removing them. It works on Mac OS X v10.5 an later.

Examples:

emmett add /Applications/Dictionary.app

emmett remove /Applications/Dictionary.app

GitHub Repository

Cocoa code

Project that uses some of the code used in Packages for the JavaScript source code editor.

BSD License. Some of the code is copyrighted Todd Ditchendorf (BSD License too).

Download:  JavaScriptEditor.zip

The WBOpenWithMenu class is an utility class to build an "Open With" menu from a file path.

It currently only works on Mac OS X 10.3 and pure Carbon applications are not supported in the version sort.

Download:  WBOpenWithMenu.h | WBOpenWithMenu.m

Cocoa Widgets

The ICPresentationWindowView view is a widget that draws a window frame.

Download:  Archive

The WBSearchTextField control is a clone of the control used by Mail.app to search Mails. It supports all the feature of the Mail.app control but the heartbeat: method.

The images used to build the background of the control are not in the archive (for potential copyrights reasons). You will need to get them by yourself from the Mail.app package.

Download:  Archive | WBSearchTextField.h | WBSearchTextField.m | Sample project

The WBTimeControl in its second incarnation supports bindings and international localization (with huge portions of code contributed by Sean McBride)

The old version is still available below.

Download:  Archive

The WBTimeControl control is a clone of the control used by the Date & Time Preference Pane to set/display the current time. It supports all the feature of the Date & Time control but the direction and setTime:unit:methods.

The NSStepper is optional.

Download:  Archive | WBTimeControl.h | WBTimeControl.m | Sample project

The WBDateControl control is the equivalent of the WBTimeControl for Date.

The NSStepper is optional.

Download:  WBDateControl.h | WBDateControl.m |

The WBCalendarControl control is a clone of the control used by the Date & Time Preference Pane to set/display the current day. It supports all the feature of the Date & Time control but strangely some data members are not used.

The images used to build the background of the control is not in the archive (for potential copyrights reasons). You will need to get it by yourself from the Date & Time Preference Pane at the following path: /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DateAndTime.prefPane/Contents/Resources/DateTime.prefPane/Contents/Resources/CalendarBack.tiff

Download:  Archive | WBCalendarControl.h | WBCalendarControl.m | Sample project

The WBIPv4Control control is a control which allows to display and enter an IPv4 formatted IP address.

Download:  WBIPv4Control.h | WBIPv4Control.m | Sample project

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