Friday, December 12, 2008 - 5:06 PM

This is my first cocoa application !

For those who know this is the objective-c version of a tool I've created some month ago in applescript. For those who don't know this little tool allow you to modify the About This Mac window.

You can modify the About This Mac Screen:

• The image
• The cpu name
• The amount of memory

And you can modify the Login screen

• The logo
• The image below the logo (Mac OS X (or Mac OS X Server) by default)
• Your computer name (needs a reboot) (by changing this you change your computer name AND your localhost name)
• The background image of the login screen

A little explanation of what you can do.

• You can drop an image of any size. It will be automatically resized to fit the About This Mac window.
• For the cpu and memory fields, I've set a maximum number of characters to 22. This is the maximum size before the window stretches to show the whole string.
• If your cpu is detected as an AMD the Activity Monitor application will show it as such (if you run in 64 bits too)

I wanted to implement a logout panel but I made up my mind and instead once you've clicked "Apply" a sheet will open, warning you that you must logout for the change to take effect (only if the image is changed, text changes doesn't need a logout to take effect). I prefer that the user choose to logout when he wants.

That's all you have to know !

More Cocoa apps will come in a near future. (Essentially those I've already "almost" done, the port is in progress.)