it’s hard to believe, but it was a year ago that we did the last SIDESCROLLER event, so we’re WAY overdue. Come join us Saturnday, November 8th, from 6:00pm to midnight-ish for a night of retro and not-retro games in the genre of the futuristic side scrolling shooter. $5 donation is requested so we can help pay the rent and electricity bill at Works/San Jose. OMGWTF?! Sidescroller is t3h awesome!1!

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arduino project box construction timelapse from stevecooley on Vimeo.

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This one does a huge list of browsers, with a somewhat significant waiting period for your results.

http://browsershots.org

This one does just IE (5.5, 6, 7, 8b), but it does it fast.

http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php

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download the source here: http://macheist.com/SantaSnaps/SantaSnapsProject.zip, unzip it, and open it up in Xcode.

This one.. “SantaSnaps.xcodeproj”. If you have Xcode, you should be able to just double click the file.
Locate “Controller.m” in the classes folder as illustrated below….

See that there on line 26? @”santa hat”, @”santa glasses”, @”santa beard”, etc? This is the line you’re going to be changing.

Now, It doesn’t really matter how you generate your PNG files with their alpha channel in tact, as long as you do. I used to work for Adobe, so I use Photoshop. Take one of your photos that you took with SantaSnaps and open it up in whatever image editor you’re using. This will give you the frame size to use as well as a good indication as to where to place whatever new graphics you’re going to be placing. Then place your graphic where it should go, turn off the background layer, and save the file as a PNG file.

Back to Xcode. In controller.m, on line 26, change the name of the first item @”Santa Hat” to @”whatever your file name was”. Drag your new PNG file into the “Resources” folder inside of the santasnaps xcode window. I’ve illustrated several changes that all happen the same way. Change each item in the “NSArray arrayWithObjects” list, and drag the actual graphic file into the resources folder. The order corresponds to the button order in the interface, so… keep that in mind.

At this point you could hit that “Build and Go” button and when you hit the santa hat icon in the application, your new graphic should show up.

This is the majority of the hard part. The other part is to edit the nib file, which in my opinion is much easier to do than digging through code. To replace the existing buttons with ones that match your new graphics, you’ll need two states for each new button you want to change. The selected state and the unselected state.
unselected



selected

Find SantaSnaps.nib either in the project folder in Xcode or the finder and double click on it. It’ll look something like this:


Drag your two button graphics, one at a time, into the nib file’s graphics tab. It’ll say something like “you want to add this to santasnaps project, yeah?” Yeah, you do. See below for “grill_selected” and “grill_unselected” :


and then drag and drop your unselected state graphic to the corresponding button you want to change, as seen in the upper left corner of this graphic:

The last bit is to bring up the inspector palette and change the alt-icon state to the other graphic’s name. See below:

see above… Icon: grill_unselected
alt. Icon: (change from “Santa Hat Button Pressed” to:) grill_selected

That’s it! Easy! Save the nib file and re-[build-and-go] from Xcode. Once you get the first one working, you’ll get into a regular rhythm for the other 8. Good luck! This is all I know, I don’t know anything else, I can’t help you any further.

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I originally had this posted on my blog, but then I had a server failure, so this is being reposted to try to unbreak the links people made to this page.

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check out my new tea cup design on zazzle

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I was looking at that turntable drawing I did and thought it would look cool with treads and an antenna. Yep, looks cool.

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domestic price is US$5, overseas is US$6.  Slap one on a favorite hat or jacket, and see what conversations it starts for you… for me, it’s been pretty amazing so far.

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If you were handed an OMGWTF patch recently, that was me. You can get a small sewing kit from the grocery store in the “gadget section”… usually next to lik, the shoe polish, combination locks, and lightbulbs. You don’t need to get real fancy, you just need to get it to stay on whatever you’re going to put it on. Your backpack is a pretty good place, or a purse, a shoe, or maybe at the hem of your jeans or something. Please send me a photo of your OMGWTF patch in action!

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Go drool yourself dry and check out the other shots illustrations. thanks honey!

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Ok, so, why? my favorite lazy gallery software PHPix3 is really just killing me with the PHP internal GD thumbnail generation time. I’m thinking it’s about time to take advantage of the internal tool available to me since I’m rockin’ tiger server. So, I’m thinking all I need to do is go locate the code the determines whether the image tool the scripts use is “int” or “ext” and maybe add another piece of logic to act on “sips” as the value. Hopefully it will run faster than GD. If not, I guess I can go back to ImageMagick. Although it would be nicer if apple’s command line tool were fastest… we shall seeeee…

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