Omni Focus and AppleScript to recreate a task on a task

Here is an AppleScript that you can recreate a task based on an initial task. It is useful when you send someone a mail and need to wait for the mail. So in this case you will have a delegated task in accordance to David Allen’s GTD rule.

So Curt Clifton who is a developer in Omni Group created the AppleScript above to process the case.

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How to make your statusbar style white in iOS9

Sometimes I am a little irrated by making the statusbar white in iOS development. It looks simple. But, the way to do it is a little complicated.

How to make your status bar style white in iOS9

Put the code below into your controller file or AppDelegate file.

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black

When you type it, you might get serveral options for UIBarStyle. But BlackOpaque and BlackTranslucent were deprecated. So don’t be hesitated to choose one of them. If you want to make your statusbar white, choose UIBarStyle.Black. That’s simple.

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The latest Swift's Regular Expression Tutorial

Recently I needed to extract a data from Apple’s HealthKit. They provide various queries in HealthKit framework. But it didns’t meet my intention.
So I started to use NSString substring function to extract the data. But, it wasn’t good to match the data that I want.
Finally I got the exact result by using NSRegularExpression and during the process this tutorial was really helpful.

And I think that this is the latest NSRegularExpression tutorial on the web.

So if you want to learn how to use a regular expression in Swift, I recommend the link above.

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NSBatchUpdateRequest doesn't support updating relationship in Core Data

NSBatchUpdateRequest allows that you can directly store and modify your records rather than with an object graph.

By the way it seems that it doesn’t support updating or modifying a relationship in a core data.

If you want to learn how to use NSBatchUpdateRequest, here is a great and recent tutorial that I found.

So NSBatchUpdateRequest is essential that you handle with lots of data by using Core Data.

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How to put a padding into a UITextField ?

In iOS development you can put a padding into a UITextField with a code below.

First of all , you can create a customized UITextField class for giving it an inset . And then you can put a code below into the class inherited UITextField class.

let padding = UIEdgeInsets(top: 7, left: 0, bottom: 7, right: 0)

override func textRectForBounds(bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
    return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
}
override func placeholderRectForBounds(bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
    return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
}
override func editingRectForBounds(bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
    return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
}

UIEdgeInsets Type

UIEdgeInsets is defining a inset distnaces for views. You can easily customize your insets for a view with this type. Positive values will shrink the view and negative value will expand the view.

UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect Function

UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect adjusts a rectangle by the given edge insets. In this code you can adjust a rectangle for textfield’s text and etc with UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect. It receives UIEdgeInsets structure type as a parameter.

I hope that Apple provides a function or an interface that we can easily adjut insets through the interface builder.

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Keynote Tutorial Character Style , How to use a character style in Keynote

I have a quote to present. By the way I want to emphasize specific text in the quote. Also, I don’t like a font for the quotation mark of the base font of the quote text. So in this case I need two different styles for specific text or a character. How can we solve this problem?

Keynote provides a style function that you can create a pre-defined style format for all kinds of objects. And we can use three styles related to text objects in Keynote.

One is a style for a text object.
Second one is a style for a character.
Last one is a style for a bullet text.

Through this tutorial we are going to create two different styles as a character style. And we will adopt them into our sample quote in a slide.

See you the result of the tutorial below,

What you will learn through this tutorial

You are going to learn how to create a character style in Keynote and how to adopt the styles into your texts in an object. Also, you will get acknowleged how overriding a style is worked in Keynote.

Animate them with a Keynote animation

Through this tutorial I try to create a sample animation for practical use in your presentation. So in this tutorial you are going to see how an animation with character styles will work as a practical way.

What is ‘Final Keynote’ ?

Final Keynote is a tutorial for Apple Keynote application. Since 2007 I have taught people how to use Keynote. So I am trying to make a comprehensive tutorial for Keynote use.
So stay tuned.

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Keynote Tutorial , How to make an embossed or an engraved text effect with Keynote

Design in presentation is not a decoration. Design is taking care of your audience. One message in a slide has been frequently told in many presentation books or trainings. So how can we make the sentence which tell the message remarkable? Because the text should be impressive to the audience.

In Keynote we can use a shadow effect to text objects. Actually the shadow effect is not the only one. There is one more shadow effect which you can adopt into your text object at the same time. So you can make a special effect for your text.

The first effect is adopting it into text object. The other one is adopting it into each character of texts. That is a difference between two shadow effects which are able to be adopted into text objects.

See the sample of the shadow effects.

Keynote doesn’t have an inner shadow effect.

An engraved text effect in Keynote is a little hard to create. Because Keynoe doesn’t have a function to add an inner shadow effect in a text object.

Through this tutorial we are going to make a difference a border color and a fill color of text with Keynote’s shadow effect.

Keynote7 , give me a function to convert from text to shape object

Keynote is a vector based graphic tool. By the way, it’s not fully functional if we compare Keynote with Sketch or illustrator. But, the reason that Keynote is very powreful is that Keynote is really easy to use.

Therefore normal users who are not related to graphic fields can easily learn and use Keynote to design something. So I hope that Apple add a new Keynote feature which we can convert from a text object to a shape object.

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