njr 3.0

On the last day of MacHack, Eric Albert gave Andrew Downs some help with porting his Java dock tile app he wrote for a MacTech article from JNI to JDirect. My first thought was to adapt it for showing my webcam to my parents—finally, a valid use of dock magnification. I spent an hour rewriting the code in Cocoa after spending some time on the Java version earlier today: it was a lot faster than getting the Java version to do what I wanted.

My application was very bare-bones, but it did what I wanted: displayed the webcam image in the application's dock icon and a separate window. PhotoStickies is far more full-featured, but it doesn't update its windows in the dock. If I get a spare hour later this week, I'll add a simple user interface to my code and post it.

I'm not feeling too well right now, so I'm about to go home and sleep; hopefully I will be better in time for our group meetings tomorrow morning.

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Chuck Shotton: Doctors vs. Geeks. As an aspiring doctor and geek, it's always been my goal to have the opportunity to make some inroads in these issues. Thanks for building the awareness of them.

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