On 01/29/09 08:36, "Christiaan Hofman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 29 Jan 2009, at 4:24 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>> On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>> I've changed it to use Adam's ideas, so using Mail's procedures.
>>> The main reason is that it requires almost no UI, and the UI it
>>> adds is completely standard.
>>
>> Cool. I noticed that the colors look better with transparency, so
>> Jonas might want to give that a try...you can make it looks
>> reasonably close to Finder labels.
>>
>>> One small technical (incompatible) difference with Adam's approach
>>> is that I store the color as a string representing an unsigned 32
>>> bit int rather than a signed one (I solved the sign problem by
>>> reading the string using longLongValue, which is always big enough
>>> to represent an uint32_t).
>>
>> Interesting. I took the lazy way out on that, but there are many
>> different ways to do it; as long as you interpret the string the
>> same way on input/output, you get the correct 32 bit pattern back.
>> I did try moving from ppc <-> x86, and endianness didn't cause a
>> problem.
>
>
> I added a radar # 6539508 asking for unsigned variants of the NSString
> accessors. Never understood why those are missing.
OmniFoundation has them, and they just use the standard C functions. I
think you can just use uint32_t x = [s longLongValue], though, as long as
you know the extra bits aren't used.
> Remember that if you want to communicate between your 2 bibdesk
> versions they're incompatible.
I'll keep that in mind, but it doesn't happen very often :).
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