Freeware/Shareware App you couldn't live without?

[Jezza]

I just realised that I have the Widget installed! It's called ResCalc.

What you gonna do when Leopard ships? Carbon is nearly dead and despite earlier promises there will be no 64 bit carbon support at all and nothing for G 3 processors...

[rocketjam]

Originally Posted by Jezza

I just realised that I have the Widget installed! It's called ResCalc.

What you gonna do when Leopard ships? Carbon is nearly dead and despite earlier promises there will be no 64 bit carbon support at all and nothing for G 3 processors...

I presume ResCalc is this? But, Scaletron! is more than that. It was originally and is still foremost, a scaling calculator. A proportion wheel for your computer. Calculates enlargement and reduction percentages, or new sizes at a given percentage. I originally wrote it so I wouldn't have to track down a proportion wheel when I was doing scans. The resolution calculation feature was just added in version 3.

As to the Carbon issue. It's not a Carbon application. AppleScript Studio is an OS X/Cocoa environment. Any apps written with it are Cocoa apps, not Carbon apps. It's all done in Xcode, but you use AppleScript instead of ObjC for the program's event handling and logic, although you can throw ObjC methods in if needed (and if you know any ObjC, heh).

[Jezza]

Yeah that's the widget alright.

However, apple script is a Carbon application (correct me if I'm wrong the Finder in Leopard is as well, although recordable in Leopard), though xcode is Cocoa it's only an API and Cocoa still makes calls to Carbon functions.

Check out, if you don't already...

http://cocoablogs.com/

Scott kindly linked to a post I made here

http://nergalicious.wordpress.com/20...a-differences/

The comments are worth a look, and despite how long ago it was posted I still get at least a visit a week becuase of it.

Quite a nice threadjack as well, my fault not yours

[rocketjam]

Thanks for the link to the cocoablogs. I added it to my del.icio.us bookmarks and will check it out more closely when I have time.

As for AppleScript support in OS X, this page from Apple's developer site gives a good overview and specifically includes this bit of relevant information:

"AppleScript Studio applications are Cocoa applications with additional capabilities provided by the AppleScriptKit framework. You can write AppleScript Studio applications using just AppleScript or a combination of AppleScript and system programming languages, such as C, Objective-C, and Java. As part of the free Xcode suite of development tools, AppleScript Studio takes advantage of a combination of technologies, including AppleScript, Cocoa, Xcode, and Interface Builder, supporting user-interface items such as windows, buttons, text fields, tabs, tables, and progress bars."

As to the threadjack... heh, it's getting further and futher away from it's original topic.

[Jezza]

I'll stand corrected then, (I think ) or something.

Scotts other sites are

http://cocoadevcentral.com/

and

http://theocacao.com/

don't get me wrong, I can't right software, I only test it a bit, though I did build a browser - that worked - using nothing but interface builder. I've left a message at your site as well.

[Damo]

There hasn't been much for us PC people ... but here's my two cents:

A great little app called CleanUp! at http://www.stevengould.org/index.php...=15&Itemi d=1

I run it once a month, it clears out all that crap that accumulates on PCs - temp files, internet cache, etc. It's free, small and quick. I love it!