_D_diyu·Mar 10, 2018
Hey this reminds me of Bahamut which I made for similar reasons: https://github.com/sdegutis/Bahamut/blob/master/README.md
In Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Macsdegutis
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The tiny OS X music player
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5 sourcesI'm really surprised at how similar their new checkboxes are to the ones I designed for my music player Bahamut[1] last year.
Which makes it kind of ironic and upsetting that the UI APIs they provide for writing Bahamut (AppKit) made it so incredibly difficult to make it look that way.
[1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/bahamut
In Mac OS X Yosemite Under the Magnifying GlassThe ones I sold:
- AppGrid, a simple GUI-configured window manager for OS X 10.7+, predecessor to Zephyros
- DeskLabels, lets you put labels on your desktop so you can label groups of icons
- Mail Ping, pretty much a clone of Gmail Notifier, but works with multiple gmail accounts
- LoginControl, lets you reorder your login items in Mac OS X 10.5
- Docks, an Mac OS X 10.5 app that let you swap out the apps/documents in your dock quickly (featured in MacWorld magazine a few years ago, leading to the only month I had any real sales)
- TunesBar, showing your iTunes song in your menu bar; now integrated into Bahamut[1]
- QuickApps, icon in your menu-bar that gave you quick mouse-based access to all your apps
- QuickTimer, a simple microwave-style timer for your desktop
- TiltRecall, an iPhone OS 3 simon-clone based on tilting your iPhone
(I'm
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probably forgetting a few.)
I've since open-sourced many of these apps. The repo[2] was forked a lot, and then I deleted my own repo.
[1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/bahamut
[2]: https://github.com/fuseelements/grs
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* cleancoders.com: a web app written in Clojure, ClojureScript, Datomic, Ring, Compojure, and Hiccup. I wrote both the front-end and back-end, designed the architecture, and have been the sole developer.
* Bahamut: a lightweight music player for Mac OS X, written in native Cocoa and Objective-C. Source code on github: https://github.com/sdegutis/bahamut
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Singletons aren't always bad. I use a few in my Objective-C Cocoa apps to share common behavior. For example in my music player Bahamut[1], I have a singleton for actually playing music. This way, you can have several Bahamut windows open at a time which all control the same music player.
Sure, you could store this variable as a property on AppDelegate or some other parent in the object graph, and then either pass it down to each window controller which needs it, or give them access to it, either directly or via delegates or something. But these are all very convoluted compared to having a single class-method in the class itself which returns a shared (static) object.
The only caveat is to make sure that you don't introduce race conditions by poor design. For example, don't do stuff in -init on your singleton, and especially don't do stuf
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f that might call other stuff that might access the singleton via the public accessor. Doing so could turn into an infinite loop if -init is called when creating the singleton. (I've done this before.) Instead, just add a new -setup method and call that somewhere in -applicationDidFinishLaunching: or whatever. It's also a good idea to use dispatch_once to create the singleton[2].
EDIT: Of course, these suggestions don't only apply to Objective-C apps, although your entry points and race-condition-avoiding functions will certainly be different in other environments.
[1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/bahamut
[2]: https://github.com/sdegutis/bahamut/blob/master/Bahamut/SDMu...