Posted in Cocoa, F-Script on December 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
F-Script.app 2.0 is automatically linked with a number of new frameworks found in Leopard. This is convenient for quickly exploring Leopard's capabilities.
Let me illustrate this on a practical example: I'm currently experimenting with the new Image Kit framework introduced in Leopard. I can launch F-Script.app and directly enter the following code:
IKPictureTaker pictureTaker orderFront:nil
It will [...]
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Posted in Cocoa, F-Script on December 10, 2007 | 8 Comments »
The Web is abuzz with a new Google service: a Web API for creating charts.
The Google Chart API returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.
Accessing [...]
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Posted in F-Script on December 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last week, I gave a presentation about, guess what :-), F-Script, at our yearly french speaking Smalltalk Party in Paris. This event is organized by Serge Stinckwich for the French Smalltalk User Group and was hosted this year at OCTO Technology, thanks to my colleague Bernard Notarianni. This time, the organizers had to close the [...]
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New in Leopard is a 64 bit Objective-C runtime and support for 64 bit in the Cocoa frameworks. F-Script 2.0 provides complete 64 bit support. You can still run in 32 bit mode and you can use the F-Script framework in 64 bit and 32 bit applications.
The F-Script API now exposes 64 bit capable interfaces, [...]
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