As I try new and interesting programming techniques, I often find that little snippets of code can do a lot of work. As I find these little gems, I'll post them here for the entire world to enjoy.

Use a new thread to print:

NSPrintOperation *printOp;
[printOp setCanSpawnSeparateThread:YES];

Launch a URL in the deafult web browser:

[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.bhsweb.dk/giantmike"]];

Open a simple alert panel via a sheet (windowForSheet is a pointer to the NSWindow to which the sheet will be attached):

NSBeginAlertSheet(@"Title", @"Default button name", nil, nil, windowForSheet, nil, nil, nil, nil, @"Alert message");

Detect the number of CPUs currently available for spawning threads:

#import <sys/sysctl.h>

int getCPUCount()
{

int cpus;
size_t intsize=sizeof(cpus);

if (sysctlbyname("hw.activecpu",&cpus,&intsize,NULL,0))

return 1;

return cpus;

}