A while back I posted my tweak to some Xcode testing for asynchronous calls. Here’s an update I did in Swift for XCTestCase. extension XCTestCase { /** For use testing async functions. Will wait for completion of the function. You need to provide a test function for when the call is completed. The ultimate timeout … Read more
After a power outage, my iMac (27″, Late 2012) with macOS Sierra (10.12.2) booted into a black screen with the mouse in the upper left. Notifications seemed to be showing up (as they do on the login screen). Several leads didn’t pan out. Ones that were basically different kind of resets. Mark Gibbs tipped me … Read more
SpriteKit physics bodies behave differently iOS 7.0 v 7.1 (bug report 16495814 – if you know how to find it) – driving me crazy.
I’ve been playing with CocosBuilder 2.0 and it’s definitely an improvement over hand coding layout for Cocos2D menus. It does have a bit of a learning curve, especially with the lack of documentation (which will likely linger for a while). Much of the tool is non-intuitive in the world of wysiwyg, but if you are … Read more
Xcode includes a testing library which is useful for unit testing. Simple unit tests are easy to manage, but it tends to be (A) perform operation, and (B) test the state of your objects. I was recently doing some asynchronous programming and wanted to build some tests against my code. A little searching led me … Read more
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