Chemical Diagram Editor

For some time now we have been developing a new application for MacOS for creating structure diagrams in chemistry. This application is used to create graphics of chemical structures or reactions for scientific articles, books or online content.

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Interface Inspector

I finally finished first my own software product called Interface Inspector. I wrote the Interface Inspector to debug my own applications during the development to see which are the visible views and their properties. I often have the problem that I don’t know why specific views are not visible or display a wrong content. With this tool I can now inspect the running application and see all necessary information. Moreover I can introspect other applications to see how they manage to build a specific design. A great way to learn from others.

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Debug all called Objective-C methods

Once in a while I need to know which methods are called in my code. The simplest solution is to add a breakpoint on the function called objc_msgSend. This function is responsible for the call of every method in Objective-C

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Implementation of an inspector tab bar

For my own project I tried to create a similar tab bar like I have seen in the Xcode
inspector. Some of you might be interested in the source code, so I made it free and without any
restriction.

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NSRulerView und NSRulerMarker

Ich wollte für ein kleines Demoprogram (für  grafische Eingabe) Lineale und Guides hinzufügen, ähnlich wie bei Photoshop und anderen Programmen. Guides sind Hilfslinien, die Linealen hinzugefügt werden, um Objekte an diesen Hilfslinien auszurichten.

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