CyphersTECH Consulting » clients http://www.cypherstech.com turning possibilities in to realities Sun, 16 May 2010 15:29:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A Quick Survey http://www.cypherstech.com/2010/04/a-quick-survey/ http://www.cypherstech.com/2010/04/a-quick-survey/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:11:41 +0000 Anthony G. Cyphers http://www.cypherstech.com/?p=839 If you are a customer, please take the time to fill out this survey. Using these responses, we will determine our course for the rest of 2010.

]]> http://www.cypherstech.com/2010/04/a-quick-survey/feed/ 0 REALbasic and Snow Leopard: Redraw what?! http://www.cypherstech.com/2010/01/realbasic-and-snow-leopard-redraw-what/ http://www.cypherstech.com/2010/01/realbasic-and-snow-leopard-redraw-what/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:15:35 +0000 Anthony G. Cyphers http://www.cypherstech.com/?p=746 A customer has tasked me with updating some of the UI elements in their application. Among the problems they listed was a redraw bug in Snow Leopard, where the controls on windows with a set background color would display a slightly different color in their background even with the Composite property set to True. After about an hour of testing different workarounds, I found what I believe to be an excellent solution.

In this application, all of the windows have a set background color, but only a few displayed the error. I had absolutely no luck in determining the difference, so I can only assume that it’s an inconsistent REALbasic bug. Here’s how I fixed it:

  1. Add a new object to your project, mine is named “WindowHack,” and set it’s Super to “Window.”
  2. Open the window subclass, and navigate to the “Paint” event.
  3. Inside the “Paint” event, add the following block of code:
    #if TargetMacOS then
    If Me.HasBackColor Then
    g.ForeColor = me.BackColor
    g.FillRect( 0, 0, g.Width, g.Height )
    End If
    #endif
  4. Now set the Super of the windows with the problem to “WindowHack” and test.

This seemed to be the most elegant solution I could find to the problem and, quite honestly, the root of the issue still eludes me. Any thoughts on what might be causing this inconsistency?

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Also, we’re always looking for new customers, and we think your business would make a great addition! Check out some of our work, give us a call or submit a ticket, and see what we can do for you.

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We will be closed December 24rd, 2009 through December 27th, 2009. All support requests and purchases will be processed upon our return.

]]> http://www.cypherstech.com/2009/12/happy-holidays/feed/ 0 Scheduled Downtime http://www.cypherstech.com/2009/12/scheduled-downtime/ http://www.cypherstech.com/2009/12/scheduled-downtime/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:26:07 +0000 Anthony G. Cyphers http://www.cypherstech.com/?p=622 During the after noon, and in to the evening tomorrow, all customers will experience a brief outage as we move one of our servers and perform some quick maintenance tasks. This shouldn’t take more than an hour or so.

]]> http://www.cypherstech.com/2009/12/scheduled-downtime/feed/ 0 Welcoming Another Customer http://www.cypherstech.com/2009/12/welcoming-another-customer/ http://www.cypherstech.com/2009/12/welcoming-another-customer/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:45:07 +0000 Anthony G. Cyphers http://www.cypherstech.com/?p=617 This one has been in our network for some time now, but I’d like to give them some much-deserved attention.

http://www.buckymabe.com/

This is an excellent blog which covers futures trading and the like. It’s a wonderful read in your spare time, so give it a once over.

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As part of the deal, we trained them on the efficient use of Twitter, LinkedIn, FaceBook, and a bunch of other social outlets for marketing. Their new site is up, their new image is already bringing in customers, and we did it all in two weeks! From start to finish!

So head on over to http://www.brenew.com/ and give them a bit of patronage for joining the family.

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Our fair prices and excellent work will have you coming back, time and again.

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