Archive for December, 2007

Louise and I did a short unicycle ride today. Well, 8:20 – 12:45pm, so not really short.

The route:

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Corbin-s-House-Reservoir

Distance: 40.4 km

Ascend: 1323 m

Descend: 1751 m

Soft Gravel: 2 km

RTL Rating: 206

RTL == “Ride the Lobster”, a unicycle race we are planning to do next year:

http://www.ridethelobster.com/

…now, for tomorrow, another ride:

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/shel-to-rob-s-route

Distance: 66.7km

Ascend: 771

Descend: 764

Prev rating: 206

Soft Gravel: 15km

Total rating: 190

–corbin

It recently came up where someone needed to override some of the default shortcut keys in the NSOpenPanel or NSSavePanel. This is quite trivial to do. First off, the “easy way” would be to add a hidden NSPopUpButton in an accessory view that has the appropriate shortcuts. However, that won’t override the defaults (ie: cmd-r == reveal in finder, cmd-i == finder info window, cmd-a == select all, etc). To override these, you would subclass the appropriate panel:

@interface MyOpenPanel : NSOpenPanel

@end

@implementation MyOpenPanel

- (BOOL)performKeyEquivalent:(NSEvent *)theEvent {

NSLog(@”…test”); // an example of where you would do your key testing

return [super performKeyEquivalent:theEvent];

}

@end

You would then use it via something like:

[MyOpenPanel openPanel]

Easy to do…

I have been making custom unicycle handlebars (also known as “touring handles” or “touring handlebars”). They make the unicycle more comfortable when riding long distances. I’m hoping to make a write up on how I create them, but here are a few pictures, and more importantly, I did a design of it in SketchUp!

First, I took a series of pictures of the building process, and final handle for Louise: http://picasaweb.google.com/corbin.dunn/UnicyclesAndParts

Best of all, I did a *rough* outline of it in SketchUp. Here is the SketchUp picture, and download UniBar v3.zip

I have been making custom unicycle handlebars (also known as “touring handles” or “touring handlebars”). They make the unicycle more comfortable when riding long distances. I’m hoping to make a write up on how I create them, but here are a few pictures, and more importantly, I did a design of it in SketchUp!

First, I took a series of pictures of the building process, and final handle for Louise: http://picasaweb.google.com/corbin.dunn/UnicyclesAndParts

Best of all, I did a *rough* outline of it in SketchUp. Here is the SketchUp picture, and download UniBar v3.zip