Mac Technique: Dr. Eye Chinese-English Bilingual Dictionary with macOS 10.13.4 譯典通英漢雙向字典

Dr. Eye (譯典通), a famous Chinese-English bidirectional dictionary, is now available free with macOS High Sierra 10.13.4.

After installing the latest version of macOS, select Dictionary -> Preferences and 譯典通英漢雙向字典(Traditional Chinese-English).

Now both English and Chinese words may be looked up in the dictionary:

It is interesting that the Bopomofo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) Zhuyin Mandarin Phonetic Symbols (注音符號) used in Taiwan are displayed in this dictionary.

The Dr. Eye dictionary is also available with iOS 11.3.

C language with Mac: Hello World with Mac's Terminal

This post shows how to execute a hello world program in C with the following steps:

1. In terminal, create a C file called hello.c:

nano hello.c

2. Edit the hello.c file as:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    printf("Hello, World!\n");
    return 0;
}

3. In terminal, execute the file with:

cc hello.c
./a.out

Result:

References

How to run C program on Mac OS X using Terminal? (StackOverflow)
How to print Hello World in C on Mac (YouTube)
C++ with Mac: Hello World with Mac's Terminal
Matlab: Run Hello World files in C/C++ with MEX command

C++ with Mac: Install Boost Libraries

To install the Boost C++ libraries on a Mac

1. Download the latest Boost package, e.g. the boost_1_66_0.tar.bz2 file.

2. In terminal, move the the directory with the downloaded file and type:

tar --bzip2 -xf boost_1_66_0.tar.bz2

3. There are three types of Boost libraries:

(1) Header-only libraries. Just include these files without compilation. Most files belong to this type.
(2) Libraries required to be built. e.g. Boost.System, Boost.Thread, and Boost.Timer.
(3) Optional separately-compiled binaries, e.g. Boost Math, and Boost Random.

4. Follow the instructions in section 5.1 "Easy Build and Install" of Boost's getting started guide for unix-variants.

5. Follow the instructions in section 6 "Link Your Program to a Boost Library" of Boost's getting started guide for unix-variants. The main way A to link libraries may be like this command:

c++ -I ~your_path/boost_1_66_0/ test.cpp -o test ~your_path/boost_1_66_0/stage/lib/libboost_regex.a

Follow instructions in section 6.2. The result should be like this:

References

Boost libraries (boost.org)
Install boost on Mac OSX
Getting Started on Unix VariantsGetting Started on Unix Variants

C++ with Mac: Hello World with Mac's Terminal

This post shows how to execute a C++ hello world program with the following steps:

1. In terminal, create a C++ file called hello.cpp:

nano hello.cpp

2. Edit the hello.cpp file as:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() {
    cout << "Hello, World!\n";
    return 0;
}

3. In terminal, execute the file with:

g++ hello.cpp
./a.out

Result:

References

Compiling simple Hello World program on OS X via command line (StackOverflow)
C language with Mac: Hello World with Mac's Terminal
Matlab: Run Hello World files in C/C++ with MEX command

Mac Technique: Hotkey to select emoji emotion characters

In Mac, press (control) + (command ⌘) + (Space Bar) to enable Emoji dialog:

UIButton Selector Error with Swift 4: Argument of '#selector' refers to instance method that is not exposed to Objective-C

Swift 4 (Xcode 9.0) does not work with the below Swift 3 code while drawing a UIButton:

The error message says that:

Argument of '#selector' refers to instance method 'click()' that is not exposed to Objective-C

Add '@objc' to expose this instance method to Objective-C

By clicking the "Fix" button, Xcode automatically fix this error by placing '@objc' in front of func click() as below:

The complete code to draw a button that prints a message while touching it:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {

        super.viewDidLoad()

        

        let button = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 30))

        button.center = view.center

        button.setTitle("Press", for: .normal)

        button.setTitleColor(.blue, for: .normal)

        button.setTitleColor(.cyan, for: .highlighted)

        button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(click), for: UIControlEvents.touchUpInside)

        view.addSubview(button)

    }

    @objc func click() {

        print("Pressed!")

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {

        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()

        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.

    }

}

Mac Technique: Slide show for pdf file with Preview

To display the slide show for a pdf file in Preview, open the pdf file with Preview and press the hotkey:

[command ⌘] + [shift] + [F] 

or select:

View -> Slideshow