Stealing settings from Mail.app
I've got an app that needs to send out emails. I'm trying to import mail settings from Mail.app. For some reason my keychain has passwords for smtp.gmail.com, but not for smtp.me.com. Does anyone know where Mail.app stores other passwords? Or why my keychain has smtp.gmail.com passwords, but not passwords for other smtp servers I have setup in Mail.app? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Generating PDF images (+followup question)
Thanks for the link Ken, though confusion still persists. Seems to be saying don't use -setFlipped: unless you really know what you're doing. That concurs with your own advice about not using setFlipped unless you're locking focus on the image to get a flipped context for drawing. I'm not, since I generate my PDF in a context I create for the purpose, THEN add the image rep to an image. So on the basis that I don't know what I'm doing, I've removed all calls to [NSImage setFlipped:] anywhere. In the PDF generating code quoted, I do pass YES for flipped because the object itself expects a flipped coordinate system, by which I simply mean that when I draw something BELOW something else, it has a GREATER Y coordinate value. Having no flipping anywhere now, unfortunately it's still all over the place. First, if I ask the NSPDFImageRep created using the data generated below for its -PDFRepresentation, and write it to disk as a PDF file, it's now inverted. Objects are placed in the correct positions relative to one-another, but the entire image is upside-down, including any text. So, I try setting the image to flipped when I add the single PDF image rep to it: NSPDFImageRep* rep = [NSPDFImageRep imageRepWithData:[self pdf]]; [image addRepresentation:rep]; [image setFlipped:YES]; Now this image appears right-side up in NSImageView, but still writes an inverted PDF file and comes into Preview inverted. I can't really see how this is possible, since raw PDF data doesn't have any concept of 'flipped', does it? That surely means that the original PDF generation is wrong, but if I pass NO for flipped, not only is everything still upside-down but text is screwed as well, with each glyph individually inverted (which means that if the whole image is turned right-way up, any text is inverted). I've read all the documentation on flipped coordinates and now the blog post as well. I'm afraid I'm just as confused as ever. What I need is a clear way through this mess. Turning off all flippedness seemed to be that but isn't. Now I have no idea what I need to flip and when. --Graham On 28/05/2010, at 3:20 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: NSSize size = [self bounds].size; NSRect destRect = NSZeroRect; destRect.size = size; NSMutableData* pdfData = [NSMutableData data]; CGDataConsumerRef consumer = CGDataConsumerCreateWithCFData((CFMutableDataRef) pdfData ); CGRect mediaBox = CGRectMake( 0, 0, size.width, size.height ); CGContextRef pdfContext = CGPDFContextCreate( consumer, mediaBox, NULL ); CGDataConsumerRelease( consumer ); NSGraphicsContext* newGC = [NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithGraphicsPort:pdfContext flipped:YES]; [NSGraphicsContext saveGraphicsState]; [NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:newGC]; CGPDFContextBeginPage( pdfContext, NULL ); [self drawContentInRect:destRect fromRect:NSZeroRect withStyle:nil]; CGPDFContextEndPage( pdfContext ); [NSGraphicsContext restoreGraphicsState]; CGPDFContextClose( pdfContext ); CGContextRelease( pdfContext ); return pdfData; Hi Graham, (First, for those following along, flipped images are deprecated in 10.6 along with -[NSImage setFlipped:].) I agree, flipped images are confusing, and you can more or less think of them as deprecated prior to 10.6 as well. This weblog post does a nice job of explaining what everything means and what to do about it: http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2009/02/02/understanding-flipped-coordinate-systems/. This material is also covered in depth in the WWDC 2007 talk, Cocoa Drawing Techniques. The only reason I can think of off the top of my head to call -setFlipped: on an NSImage is if you plan to lockFocus on the image and you want the context to be a flipped context during drawing. This use case is addressed in 10.6 by the addition of -[NSImage lockFocusFlipped:] which gives you a flipped context without doing anything to the internal state of the image. -Ken Cocoa Frameworks ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Generating PDF images (+followup question)
Did you read the explanation of flipped contexts vs flipped images, and how to draw an image right side up into a flipped context? Flipped contexts are not deprecated. Do you have or can you obtain access to the 2007 WWDC videos? :-) -Ken On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: Thanks for the link Ken, though confusion still persists. Seems to be saying don't use -setFlipped: unless you really know what you're doing. That concurs with your own advice about not using setFlipped unless you're locking focus on the image to get a flipped context for drawing. I'm not, since I generate my PDF in a context I create for the purpose, THEN add the image rep to an image. So on the basis that I don't know what I'm doing, I've removed all calls to [NSImage setFlipped:] anywhere. In the PDF generating code quoted, I do pass YES for flipped because the object itself expects a flipped coordinate system, by which I simply mean that when I draw something BELOW something else, it has a GREATER Y coordinate value. Having no flipping anywhere now, unfortunately it's still all over the place. First, if I ask the NSPDFImageRep created using the data generated below for its -PDFRepresentation, and write it to disk as a PDF file, it's now inverted. Objects are placed in the correct positions relative to one-another, but the entire image is upside-down, including any text. So, I try setting the image to flipped when I add the single PDF image rep to it: NSPDFImageRep* rep = [NSPDFImageRep imageRepWithData:[self pdf]]; [image addRepresentation:rep]; [image setFlipped:YES]; Now this image appears right-side up in NSImageView, but still writes an inverted PDF file and comes into Preview inverted. I can't really see how this is possible, since raw PDF data doesn't have any concept of 'flipped', does it? That surely means that the original PDF generation is wrong, but if I pass NO for flipped, not only is everything still upside-down but text is screwed as well, with each glyph individually inverted (which means that if the whole image is turned right-way up, any text is inverted). I've read all the documentation on flipped coordinates and now the blog post as well. I'm afraid I'm just as confused as ever. What I need is a clear way through this mess. Turning off all flippedness seemed to be that but isn't. Now I have no idea what I need to flip and when. --Graham On 28/05/2010, at 3:20 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: NSSize size = [self bounds].size; NSRect destRect = NSZeroRect; destRect.size = size; NSMutableData* pdfData = [NSMutableData data]; CGDataConsumerRef consumer = CGDataConsumerCreateWithCFData((CFMutableDataRef) pdfData ); CGRect mediaBox = CGRectMake( 0, 0, size.width, size.height ); CGContextRef pdfContext = CGPDFContextCreate( consumer, mediaBox, NULL ); CGDataConsumerRelease( consumer ); NSGraphicsContext* newGC = [NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithGraphicsPort:pdfContext flipped:YES]; [NSGraphicsContext saveGraphicsState]; [NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:newGC]; CGPDFContextBeginPage( pdfContext, NULL ); [self drawContentInRect:destRect fromRect:NSZeroRect withStyle:nil]; CGPDFContextEndPage( pdfContext ); [NSGraphicsContext restoreGraphicsState]; CGPDFContextClose( pdfContext ); CGContextRelease( pdfContext ); return pdfData; Hi Graham, (First, for those following along, flipped images are deprecated in 10.6 along with -[NSImage setFlipped:].) I agree, flipped images are confusing, and you can more or less think of them as deprecated prior to 10.6 as well. This weblog post does a nice job of explaining what everything means and what to do about it: http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2009/02/02/understanding-flipped-coordinate-systems/. This material is also covered in depth in the WWDC 2007 talk, Cocoa Drawing Techniques. The only reason I can think of off the top of my head to call -setFlipped: on an NSImage is if you plan to lockFocus on the image and you want the context to be a flipped context during drawing. This use case is addressed in 10.6 by the addition of -[NSImage lockFocusFlipped:] which gives you a flipped context without doing anything to the internal state of the image. -Ken Cocoa Frameworks ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to
Re: Generating PDF images (+followup question)
(Also, again for others following along, on 10.6 you just pass YES for respectFlipped in -[NSImage drawInRect:fromRect:operation:fraction:respectFlipped:hints:]. The implementation is quite similar to the method Paul gives in the post.) On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Ken Ferry kenfe...@gmail.com wrote: Did you read the explanation of flipped contexts vs flipped images, and how to draw an image right side up into a flipped context? Flipped contexts are not deprecated. Do you have or can you obtain access to the 2007 WWDC videos? :-) -Ken On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.comwrote: Thanks for the link Ken, though confusion still persists. Seems to be saying don't use -setFlipped: unless you really know what you're doing. That concurs with your own advice about not using setFlipped unless you're locking focus on the image to get a flipped context for drawing. I'm not, since I generate my PDF in a context I create for the purpose, THEN add the image rep to an image. So on the basis that I don't know what I'm doing, I've removed all calls to [NSImage setFlipped:] anywhere. In the PDF generating code quoted, I do pass YES for flipped because the object itself expects a flipped coordinate system, by which I simply mean that when I draw something BELOW something else, it has a GREATER Y coordinate value. Having no flipping anywhere now, unfortunately it's still all over the place. First, if I ask the NSPDFImageRep created using the data generated below for its -PDFRepresentation, and write it to disk as a PDF file, it's now inverted. Objects are placed in the correct positions relative to one-another, but the entire image is upside-down, including any text. So, I try setting the image to flipped when I add the single PDF image rep to it: NSPDFImageRep* rep = [NSPDFImageRep imageRepWithData:[self pdf]]; [image addRepresentation:rep]; [image setFlipped:YES]; Now this image appears right-side up in NSImageView, but still writes an inverted PDF file and comes into Preview inverted. I can't really see how this is possible, since raw PDF data doesn't have any concept of 'flipped', does it? That surely means that the original PDF generation is wrong, but if I pass NO for flipped, not only is everything still upside-down but text is screwed as well, with each glyph individually inverted (which means that if the whole image is turned right-way up, any text is inverted). I've read all the documentation on flipped coordinates and now the blog post as well. I'm afraid I'm just as confused as ever. What I need is a clear way through this mess. Turning off all flippedness seemed to be that but isn't. Now I have no idea what I need to flip and when. --Graham On 28/05/2010, at 3:20 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: NSSize size = [self bounds].size; NSRect destRect = NSZeroRect; destRect.size = size; NSMutableData* pdfData = [NSMutableData data]; CGDataConsumerRef consumer = CGDataConsumerCreateWithCFData((CFMutableDataRef) pdfData ); CGRect mediaBox = CGRectMake( 0, 0, size.width, size.height ); CGContextRef pdfContext = CGPDFContextCreate( consumer, mediaBox, NULL ); CGDataConsumerRelease( consumer ); NSGraphicsContext* newGC = [NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithGraphicsPort:pdfContext flipped:YES]; [NSGraphicsContext saveGraphicsState]; [NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:newGC]; CGPDFContextBeginPage( pdfContext, NULL ); [self drawContentInRect:destRect fromRect:NSZeroRect withStyle:nil]; CGPDFContextEndPage( pdfContext ); [NSGraphicsContext restoreGraphicsState]; CGPDFContextClose( pdfContext ); CGContextRelease( pdfContext ); return pdfData; Hi Graham, (First, for those following along, flipped images are deprecated in 10.6 along with -[NSImage setFlipped:].) I agree, flipped images are confusing, and you can more or less think of them as deprecated prior to 10.6 as well. This weblog post does a nice job of explaining what everything means and what to do about it: http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2009/02/02/understanding-flipped-coordinate-systems/. This material is also covered in depth in the WWDC 2007 talk, Cocoa Drawing Techniques. The only reason I can think of off the top of my head to call -setFlipped: on an NSImage is if you plan to lockFocus on the image and you want the context to be a flipped context during drawing. This use case is addressed in 10.6 by the addition of -[NSImage lockFocusFlipped:] which gives you a flipped context without doing anything to the internal state of the image. -Ken Cocoa Frameworks ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list
six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
hi all, I just ported a huge code base to Cocoa, Core Graphics, Core Audio, and QuickTime. Basically I had a good experience, but there were some things i noticed that i couldn't do easily in Cocoa or any other 64 bit OSX API. So just in case anyone knows a way to do the things listed below please let me know: *1) I can't hide a file, or test if a file is hidden* I had to resort to FSGetCatalogInfo -- there is no way to do it through NSFileManager, etc. Right? *2)** **I **can't **get the current caret blink rate in milliseconds* I used to call GetCaretTime, but now I just use 500 milliseconds. Eeek! Where is the current blink rate? Please don't tell me I don't need it, we implement our own scripting engine, etc. *3)** **I **can't get t**he right dimensions for a QuickTime movie or poster * I used to call GetMovieBox, so I tried using [QTMovie posterImage] but the NSImage reported a width and height of 100, and then my movie poster was really pixelated. How do I get a decent looking movie poster? How do I get the original dimensions for movie playback? *4)** **I **can't call the printing code* I know, the printing code calls me. But other platforms don't work like this. I eventually used Core Printing and the Cocoa dialogs by sub-classing and faking out NSPrintPanel. Is there a better way? *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. Thanks! Bill Appleton ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Generating PDF images (+followup question)
On 28/05/2010, at 4:17 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: Did you read the explanation of flipped contexts vs flipped images, and how to draw an image right side up into a flipped context? Flipped contexts are not deprecated. I understand that contexts can (still) be flipped. Let's break this down a bit, since I'm fighting two problems simultaneously here. First, PDF File generation. Using the code I quoted, I generate PDF data in a flipped context. The flipped context matches the coordinate system that drawn objects expect. As such, objects and text are all positioned in the correct relative locations. If I write the PDF data immediately to a file, no NSImage or rep involved, result is an upside down PDF file when it's opened in Preview. If I generate the PDF data in a non-flipped context, the PDF File is still upside down, with the added problem that text glyphs are inverted individually. So at no point have I done anything with this image like draw it anywhere. How can it even be possible for PDF data in a file to be inverted? The problem appears to be with the PDF generation, so what's wrong there? Do you have or can you obtain access to the 2007 WWDC videos? :-) Not sure - will try to find them. So far a search on ADC brings up just one result and it's in Japanese... --Graham ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Where is zlib located?
Hello, I'm trying to incorporate zip-framework (http://code.google.com/p/zip-framework/) in my project. When I compile the sources in Xcode I see this error: inflate, referenced from: -readFromEntry:buffer:length: in ZipArchive.o inflateInit2, referenced from: -entryNamed: in ZipArchive.o ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The sources import zlib.h, so I guess I need to add zlib to my project, but I cannot find it. Where is it located? Thanks, -- Tito ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Where is zlib located?
libz.dylib it's the last thing listed in the list if I go 'add framework' - 'existing frameworks'. On 28-May-2010, at 2:40 PM, Tito Ciuro wrote: Hello, I'm trying to incorporate zip-framework (http://code.google.com/p/zip-framework/) in my project. When I compile the sources in Xcode I see this error: inflate, referenced from: -readFromEntry:buffer:length: in ZipArchive.o inflateInit2, referenced from: -entryNamed: in ZipArchive.o ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The sources import zlib.h, so I guess I need to add zlib to my project, but I cannot find it. Where is it located? Thanks, -- Tito ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org This email sent to r...@rols.org ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
Hi Bill, Thanks for the postmortem. Would you mind filing bugs for the items you think are too difficult? On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Bill Appleton billapple...@dreamfactory.com wrote: hi all, I just ported a huge code base to Cocoa, Core Graphics, Core Audio, and QuickTime. Basically I had a good experience, but there were some things i noticed that i couldn't do easily in Cocoa or any other 64 bit OSX API. So just in case anyone knows a way to do the things listed below please let me know: *1) I can't hide a file, or test if a file is hidden* I had to resort to FSGetCatalogInfo -- there is no way to do it through NSFileManager, etc. Right? These two are pretty easy in 10.6. -[NSURL getResourceValue:forKey:error:] / -[NSURL setResourceValue:forKey:error:] with NSURLIsHiddenKey. Cocoa is trying to standardize on URLs rather than paths. *2)** **I **can't **get the current caret blink rate in milliseconds* I used to call GetCaretTime, but now I just use 500 milliseconds. Eeek! Where is the current blink rate? Please don't tell me I don't need it, we implement our own scripting engine, etc. The actual default rate is once per 0.56 seconds. *3)** **I **can't get t**he right dimensions for a QuickTime movie or poster * I used to call GetMovieBox, so I tried using [QTMovie posterImage] but the NSImage reported a width and height of 100, and then my movie poster was really pixelated. How do I get a decent looking movie poster? How do I get the original dimensions for movie playback? Perhaps QTMovieNaturalSizeAttribute ? I'm not familiar with this API, but there are a few size-related attributes. *4)** **I **can't call the printing code* I know, the printing code calls me. But other platforms don't work like this. I eventually used Core Printing and the Cocoa dialogs by sub-classing and faking out NSPrintPanel. Is there a better way? I don't understand this one. http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/Printing/Tasks/CreatingPrintJob.html . *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? I'm not sure how much of NSTableView's behavior you want, but it's possible you'd find NSCollectionView to be simpler. *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. NSLayoutManager might be appropriate, but there's also -[NSString boundingRectWithSize:options:attributes:]. You might find http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2008/Jan/msg00814.html helpful. -Ken Thanks! Bill Appleton ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kenferry%40gmail.com This email sent to kenfe...@gmail.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Generating PDF images (+followup question)
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: I understand that contexts can (still) be flipped. Let's break this down a bit, since I'm fighting two problems simultaneously here. First, PDF File generation. Using the code I quoted, I generate PDF data in a flipped context. The flipped context matches the coordinate system that drawn objects expect. As such, objects and text are all positioned in the correct relative locations. If I write the PDF data immediately to a file, no NSImage or rep involved, result is an upside down PDF file when it's opened in Preview. If I generate the PDF data in a non-flipped context, the PDF File is still upside down, with the added problem that text glyphs are inverted individually. So at no point have I done anything with this image like draw it anywhere. How can it even be possible for PDF data in a file to be inverted? The problem appears to be with the PDF generation, so what's wrong there? My understanding of this isn't the best, but here's how I see it: The idea of flipped/not-flipped is a Cocoa idea. But CGContexts aren't Cocoa and they don't have the notion of being flipped or not. That's exactly why the +[NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithGraphicsPort:flipped:] call has to ask if the CG context it is getting is flipped or not! If the CG context knew, NSGraphicsContext could just ask it. So, your view is flipped and all your drawing operations assume a flipped context. How do we get there for PDFs? Simple... we apply a Current Transformation Matrix (CTM) that flips the CG context! Something like this should work: // Move the origin to the top of the context CGContextTranslateCTM( pdfContext, 0.0, size.height ); // Now flip the y-axis so that it increases downwards CGContextScaleCTM( pdfContext, 1.0, -1.0 ); And now you would pass flipped:YES to +[NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithGraphicsPort:flipped:] because we just flipped it! Basically, you were almost there. You got a perfect PDF file, just upside down. Another way to look at all of this is what CTM do I need to apply to get everything right side up? The answer is, flip the y-axis over y=0 (the x-axis) and add the height. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Generating PDF images (+followup question)
Hallelujah!!! Thanks Stephen, that's the piece of the puzzle I was missing. I was assuming (or misinterpreting) that passing flipped:YES for the NSGraphicsContext ACTUALLY FLIPPED the context, not just informed it that the context had been flipped. I found I had to set the CTM after the CGPDFContextBeginPage - looks like that might be resetting it, but basically, it works, I now get a right-way up PDF file. Now I know my source data really is right-side up, I can figure out the second part which is making sure images that embody it DRAW right-side up. thanks again, greatly relieved! --Graham On 28/05/2010, at 5:11 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote: CGContextTranslateCTM( pdfContext, 0.0, size.height ); // Now flip the y-axis so that it increases downwards CGContextScaleCTM( pdfContext, 1.0, -1.0 ); ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Generating PDF images (+followup question)
Heh. Okay, glad that made sense, but as discussed in all the other resources, yes, context flippedness is a piece of _metadata_ orthogonal from the CTM. You may consult it to get the high level notion of which way should be considered up. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: Hallelujah!!! Thanks Stephen, that's the piece of the puzzle I was missing. I was assuming (or misinterpreting) that passing flipped:YES for the NSGraphicsContext ACTUALLY FLIPPED the context, not just informed it that the context had been flipped. I found I had to set the CTM after the CGPDFContextBeginPage - looks like that might be resetting it, but basically, it works, I now get a right-way up PDF file. Now I know my source data really is right-side up, I can figure out the second part which is making sure images that embody it DRAW right-side up. thanks again, greatly relieved! --Graham On 28/05/2010, at 5:11 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote: CGContextTranslateCTM( pdfContext, 0.0, size.height ); // Now flip the y-axis so that it increases downwards CGContextScaleCTM( pdfContext, 1.0, -1.0 ); ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kenferry%40gmail.com This email sent to kenfe...@gmail.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On 27 May 2010, at 20:43, Bill Appleton wrote: *1) I can't hide a file, or test if a file is hidden* I had to resort to FSGetCatalogInfo -- there is no way to do it through NSFileManager, etc. Right? chflags(), with UF_HIDDEN? And stat() to read the same? I don't think FSGet/SetCatalogInfo is deprecated on 64-bit though, so you could just use that if you're more comfortable doing it that way. *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? It's not *that* painful. In fact, if you use bindings and an NSArrayController, it's pretty much done for you. *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. NSAttributedString's -boundingRectWithSize:options: is probably helpful for this, depending on exactly what size you're after (there's more than one possible set of dimensions you might care about, depending on exactly what you're doing). Cocoa Text is, I think, a bit daunting when you first encounter it; it's very powerful and exposes a great deal of the underlying machinery behind text rendering, but the flip-side of that is that it's a huge API and that alone can be off-putting. I think once you get over that, it's actually pretty easy to use---and if you're worried that it all seems a bit heavyweight to just draw a string, remember that most of what it does is actually necessary to get the string on the display, so all of the simpler APIs you might have used previously were still doing all of the same work (give or take). Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
*3)** **I **can't get t**he right dimensions for a QuickTime movie or poster * NSSize movieSize = [[movieObject currentFrameImage] size]; I used to call GetMovieBox, so I tried using [QTMovie posterImage] but the NSImage reported a width and height of 100, and then my movie poster was really pixelated. How do I get a decent looking movie poster? How do I get the original dimensions for movie playback? *4)** **I **can't call the printing code* I know, the printing code calls me. But other platforms don't work like this. I eventually used Core Printing and the Cocoa dialogs by sub-classing and faking out NSPrintPanel. Is there a better way? *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. Thanks! Bill Appleton ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/chaitanya%40expersis.com This email sent to chaita...@expersis.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
To see if a file is hidden, I use on the URL(NSURL Class) for the file, resourceValuesForKeys and pass in the array of properties you are looking for. In the case of a hidden file, use NSURLIsHiddenKey. You should be able to make a file hidden as well by using the set counter part. Check out the NSURL class. -Tony On May 28, 2010, at 1:10 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: On 27 May 2010, at 20:43, Bill Appleton wrote: *1) I can't hide a file, or test if a file is hidden* I had to resort to FSGetCatalogInfo -- there is no way to do it through NSFileManager, etc. Right? chflags(), with UF_HIDDEN? And stat() to read the same? I don't think FSGet/SetCatalogInfo is deprecated on 64-bit though, so you could just use that if you're more comfortable doing it that way. *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? It's not *that* painful. In fact, if you use bindings and an NSArrayController, it's pretty much done for you. *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. NSAttributedString's -boundingRectWithSize:options: is probably helpful for this, depending on exactly what size you're after (there's more than one possible set of dimensions you might care about, depending on exactly what you're doing). Cocoa Text is, I think, a bit daunting when you first encounter it; it's very powerful and exposes a great deal of the underlying machinery behind text rendering, but the flip-side of that is that it's a huge API and that alone can be off-putting. I think once you get over that, it's actually pretty easy to use---and if you're worried that it all seems a bit heavyweight to just draw a string, remember that most of what it does is actually necessary to get the string on the display, so all of the simpler APIs you might have used previously were still doing all of the same work (give or take). Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/tonyrom%40hotmail.com This email sent to tony...@hotmail.com -Tony ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
NSURLConnection weirdiness
Hi, I'm experiencing a weird problem and i wonder if anybody else has noticed this: I'm using NSURLConnection as it appears in apple's examples to get xml files from a certain server (standard http get) - pretty straight forward. And most of time it works, but sometimes it's just stuck after initialing and don't get into connection's delegate methods. I'm working with WiFi 3G and the same server all the time. When it comes to didFailWithError i see that mostly it was a timeout error. When I enter same link in Safari it takes a second to bring data. And after another trial I can access the link. What might be the reason for such a weird behavior? How can I improve it? What is the role of cache policy with NSURLConnection? Thanks, Nava Nava Carmon ncar...@mac.com Think good and it will be good! ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Notification of file system modification arrives too early?
Hi, My app is set to observe a folder for changes to its contents (using UKKQueue. Thanks Uli! :-)). When files are dropped into the folder the app is notified and processes the files. This works well, except for one catch: sometimes we receive the notification and spawn the worker thread, and trying to load the file fails ( [[PDFDocument alloc] initWithURL:sourceURL] returns nil). This seems to happen predominantly with large files. I get the impression the notification happens as soon as the file transfer into the watched directory begins, and my worker thread is ready and starts loading the file before it has been fully transferred. Hence the failure to create a PDFDocument from the file. Is there a way to check whether the file has been fully transferred, or, even better, to get notified only when the file transfer has been completed? António --- What you have inside you expresses itself through both your choice of words and the level of energy you assign to them. The more healed, whole and connected you feel inside, the more healing your words will be. --Rita Goswami --- ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Notification of file system modification arrives too early?
On May 28, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Antonio Nunes wrote: My app is set to observe a folder for changes to its contents (...) I get the impression the notification happens as soon as the file transfer into the watched directory begins, and my worker thread is ready and starts loading the file before it has been fully transferred. Hence the failure to create a PDFDocument from the file. Yes. A KQueue only tells you when a *change* happens, i.e. an individual write operation. Is there a way to check whether the file has been fully transferred, or, even better, to get notified only when the file transfer has been completed? The heuristic most people use is to wait a little time (a few seconds is usually enough) and only start processing a file if a new write notification hasn't arrived in the meantime. I usually use my UKPushbackMessenger for that purpose (see http://github.com/uliwitness/UliKit/blob/master/UKPushbackMessenger.h and http://github.com/uliwitness/UliKit/blob/master/UKPushbackMessenger.m). -- Uli Kusterer The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere... ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Notification of file system modification arrives too early?
On 28 May 2010, at 11:30, Uli Kusterer wrote: The heuristic most people use is to wait a little time (a few seconds is usually enough) and only start processing a file if a new write notification hasn't arrived in the meantime. I usually use my UKPushbackMessenger for that purpose (see http://github.com/uliwitness/UliKit/blob/master/UKPushbackMessenger.h andhttp://github.com/uliwitness/UliKit/blob/master/UKPushbackMessenger.m). Gruezi Uli, I was hoping the system would provide something better for this. Looks like an enhancement request is in order. Since PDF documents can potentially be huge, and I need to keep performance as good as possible, I need something more robust than waiting a few seconds. I am now experimenting with trying to read in a PDFDocument from the url, and not spawn the worker thread until this succeeds. Initial results look promising. The thread that sets up the task waits until it can successfully read in a PDFDocument from the URL, then releases the document and launches the task. I find this a bit of a hack, but if it works, it works, and I think this provides tighter performance than waiting for a set number of seconds (which may in extreme cases not to be long enough anyway). Best, António --- Don't believe everything you think --- ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Notification of file system modification arrives too early?
On 28 May 2010, at 11:41, Antonio Nunes wrote: I was hoping the system would provide something better for this. Looks like an enhancement request is in order. Request filed. Bug ID# 8038793: Need notification of file system modification after completion of the operation. Cheers, António There is nothing as strong as real gentleness, and there is nothing as gentle as real strength. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Notification of file system modification arrives too early?
On May 28, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Antonio Nunes wrote: On 28 May 2010, at 11:41, Antonio Nunes wrote: I was hoping the system would provide something better for this. Looks like an enhancement request is in order. Request filed. Bug ID# 8038793: Need notification of file system modification after completion of the operation. Are you doing this for Finder-originated copying only? In this case, you could probably look at the file's OSType/creator. I believe they get set to some special busy-values during copying, so if you get a write notification and your file has that type, you *know* it's not intended to be processed yet. -- Uli Kusterer The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere... ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Notification of file system modification arrives too early?
Le 28 mai 2010 à 12:53, Antonio Nunes a écrit : On 28 May 2010, at 11:41, Antonio Nunes wrote: I was hoping the system would provide something better for this. Looks like an enhancement request is in order. Request filed. Bug ID# 8038793: Need notification of file system modification after completion of the operation. I hope you properly defined what you mean by operation, because on a file system point of view, this is already what kqueue does. A copy is not one operation but a bunch of operations (open, lots of write, close, set attrs, set xattrs, …), and kqueue already notify you each time an operation is done. -- Jean-Daniel ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: isKindofClass with NSData and NSKeyUnarchiver
On May 28, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Philip Vallone wrote: This is a relative question, which depends on how the data is coming and going. My question comes from the following situation. Suppose I have a GKSession that is passing information via Bluetooth. The sender can send any type of information (NSString, UIImage etc...). The receiver needs to know how to handle this data. If there is a better way... Then how? Haven't used GameKit yet, but programs rarely need to send *raw* data. What they usually need to send is some higher-level concept, in your case that could be a game command. So what you'd usually do is create some NSObject subclass that encapsulates the general API of a command. You'd in turn create separate subclasses for the individual commands. NSArchiver already knows how to recreate that object, so you'd then just call an -apply method the base class declares but the subclasses implement, and you'd have everything working automatically. The subclass would then take care of unarchiving the expected image resp. string and do with it whatever needs to be done (e.g. update the player avatar with that image, or display the given message from the other user, or apply the movements of a remote user to the local game state. (Of course, there are security/robustness considerations with any network communication to avoid trickery, or just keep cheaters from pretending their player had moved by 6 miles in a split-second and thus wasn't shot, but that's not part of this discussion) -- Uli Kusterer The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere... ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Notification of file system modification arrives too early?
On 28 May 2010, at 12:15, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: I hope you properly defined what you mean by operation, because on a file system point of view, this is already what kqueue does. A copy is not one operation but a bunch of operations (open, lots of write, close, set attrs, set xattrs, …), and kqueue already notify you each time an operation is done. Hmm, I see, better have another good look at the notifications the I can choose to listen to. Thanks. Looks like an attribute change notification and a size increase notification might be useful candidates. I'll play with them and see what results I can get. António A merry heart does good like medicine ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Notification of file system modification arrives too early?
On 28 May 2010, at 12:07, Uli Kusterer wrote: Are you doing this for Finder-originated copying only? In this case, you could probably look at the file's OSType/creator. I believe they get set to some special busy-values during copying, so if you get a write notification and your file has that type, you *know* it's not intended to be processed yet. I expect many of the files will arrive in the watched folder either through user manipulation in the Finder or through scripts/automation. I don't think I can assume only Finder-originated copying. António - Perfume is the forgiveness that the trampled flower casts upon the heel that crushes it. - ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: isKindofClass with NSData and NSKeyUnarchiver
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Philip Vallone
philip.vall...@verizon.net wrote:
This is a relative question, which depends on how the data is coming and
going. My question comes from the following situation. Suppose I have a
GKSession that is passing information via Bluetooth. The sender can send any
type of information (NSString, UIImage etc...). The receiver needs to know
how to handle this data. If there is a better way... Then how?
I appreciate the feed back and help,
I would let the sent objects handle the work themselves. A switch or
series of ifs based on class is an OOP anti-pattern. Polymorphism is
often a better alternative, and Objective-C's ability to add a
category to any class makes it easy to implement. So, I would extend
NSString, UIImage, etc. - whatever types can be sent - by adding a new
method mySuperDuperMethod (for example).
Then, what you're left with in the receiver class is simply:
if ([obj respondsToSelector(@selector(mySuperDuperMethod))]) {
[obj performSelector:@selector(mySuperDuperMethod)];
}
If the ability of a sent object to implement mySuperDuperMethod is
critical, you could add an else block to log and/or assert any such
failures.
sherm--
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http://www.camelbones.org
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Re: Where is zlib located?
Thanks a lot Roland! -- Tito On May 28, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Roland King wrote: libz.dylib it's the last thing listed in the list if I go 'add framework' - 'existing frameworks'. On 28-May-2010, at 2:40 PM, Tito Ciuro wrote: Hello, I'm trying to incorporate zip-framework (http://code.google.com/p/zip-framework/) in my project. When I compile the sources in Xcode I see this error: inflate, referenced from: -readFromEntry:buffer:length: in ZipArchive.o inflateInit2, referenced from: -entryNamed: in ZipArchive.o ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The sources import zlib.h, so I guess I need to add zlib to my project, but I cannot find it. Where is it located? Thanks, -- Tito ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org This email sent to r...@rols.org ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
NSFileManager 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' does not traverse a link?
Hello, I'm trying to replace the following deprecated NSFileManager method: /* attributesOfItemAtPath:error: returns an NSDictionary of key/value pairs containing the attributes of the item (file, directory, symlink, etc.) at the path in question. If this method returns 'nil', an NSError will be returned by reference in the 'error' parameter. This method does not traverse a terminal symlink. This method replaces fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink:. */ - (NSDictionary *)attributesOfItemAtPath:(NSString *)path error:(NSError **)error; The old statement traverses the link: NSDictionary* attr = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileAttributesAtPath:file traverseLink:YES]; The problem is that the header states that 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' that it's a replacement for 'fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink:', but provides no provision for traversing the link. How would I obtain the attributes of an item that needs to be traversed first? Thanks, -- Tito ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On May 27, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Bill Appleton wrote: *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? Have a look at NSArrayController. It makes table views a piece of cake. You set one up basically like this: 1. You create an object with an NSArray property, and write the getters and setters (or synthesize them). 2. In IB, you drag an NSObjectController into the nib and set its ‘content’ outlet to the object in step 1. 3. You now drag an NSArrayController into the nib, and in the Bindings pane of its Get Info window, enable its Content Array binding, bind it to your object controller, and set the Model Key Path to the name of the property in step 1 (leave Controller Key at the default, ‘selection’). 4. In the Attributes pane of the NSArrayController’s Get Info window, set Class Name to the name of the class of the objects that populate the array. 4. Now, the final step: you select the table column in your NSTableView (double-clicking a column body will select the column), bind it to your array controller, and set the Value binding to the following: Controller Key is arrangedObjects (the default), Model Key Path is the name of a property (or a dictionary key, if your objects are NSDictionaries) that will get a nice NSString or other displayable object to show in the table column. And you’re done. Zero code, and your table view is ready to go. Charles___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: NSFileManager 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' does not traverse a link?
On May 28, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Tito Ciuro wrote: The old statement traverses the link: NSDictionary* attr = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileAttributesAtPath:file traverseLink:YES]; The problem is that the header states that 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' that it's a replacement for 'fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink:', but provides no provision for traversing the link. How would I obtain the attributes of an item that needs to be traversed first? You can easily traverse a link just by using [file stringByResolvingSymlinksInPath] or [file stringByStandardizingPath] instead of file. Where this gets tricky is if you *don’t* want to resolve the symlink. Currently, the method doesn’t traverse symbolic links, but the documentation claims that this behavior could change in a future version of OS X, so if you need to guarantee that it won’t resolve, the only options are either to use deprecated methods, or to use Carbon or BSD APIs. Charles___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: NSFileManager 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' does not traverse a link?
Thanks Charles! -- Tito On May 28, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: On May 28, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Tito Ciuro wrote: The old statement traverses the link: NSDictionary* attr = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileAttributesAtPath:file traverseLink:YES]; The problem is that the header states that 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' that it's a replacement for 'fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink:', but provides no provision for traversing the link. How would I obtain the attributes of an item that needs to be traversed first? You can easily traverse a link just by using [file stringByResolvingSymlinksInPath] or [file stringByStandardizingPath] instead of file. Where this gets tricky is if you *don’t* want to resolve the symlink. Currently, the method doesn’t traverse symbolic links, but the documentation claims that this behavior could change in a future version of OS X, so if you need to guarantee that it won’t resolve, the only options are either to use deprecated methods, or to use Carbon or BSD APIs. Charles ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: NSFileManager 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' does not traverse a link?
That documentation is incorrect and is scheduled to be corrected. -attribtuesOfItemAtPath:error: will never automatically resolve symlinks, and that will never change. -Kevin Perry On May 28, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Charles Srstka wrote: On May 28, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Tito Ciuro wrote: The old statement traverses the link: NSDictionary* attr = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileAttributesAtPath:file traverseLink:YES]; The problem is that the header states that 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' that it's a replacement for 'fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink:', but provides no provision for traversing the link. How would I obtain the attributes of an item that needs to be traversed first? You can easily traverse a link just by using [file stringByResolvingSymlinksInPath] or [file stringByStandardizingPath] instead of file. Where this gets tricky is if you *don’t* want to resolve the symlink. Currently, the method doesn’t traverse symbolic links, but the documentation claims that this behavior could change in a future version of OS X, so if you need to guarantee that it won’t resolve, the only options are either to use deprecated methods, or to use Carbon or BSD APIs. Charles___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kperry%40apple.com This email sent to kpe...@apple.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On May 27, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Bill Appleton wrote: *4)** **I **can't call the printing code* I know, the printing code calls me. But other platforms don't work like this. I eventually used Core Printing and the Cocoa dialogs by sub-classing and faking out NSPrintPanel. Is there a better way? Can you be more specific? Have you looked at NSPrintOperation setShowsPrintPanel: ? *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? As others have said, but I'll reiterate, bindings make this ridiculously easy. *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. I have a method for doing this and once the initial data is created and cached, it takes 4 lines of code to calculate the height of text for a width. While it's not as obvious as -[NSAttributedString size], I certainly wouldn't consider it rocket science :). I believe the code originated from Apple's docs too. Kevin ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: isKindofClass with NSData and NSKeyUnarchiver
On May 28, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
I would let the sent objects handle the work themselves. A switch or
series of ifs based on class is an OOP anti-pattern. Polymorphism is
often a better alternative, and Objective-C's ability to add a
category to any class makes it easy to implement. So, I would extend
NSString, UIImage, etc. - whatever types can be sent - by adding a new
method mySuperDuperMethod (for example).
Then, what you're left with in the receiver class is simply:
if ([obj respondsToSelector(@selector(mySuperDuperMethod))]) {
[obj performSelector:@selector(mySuperDuperMethod)];
}
If the ability of a sent object to implement mySuperDuperMethod is
critical, you could add an else block to log and/or assert any such
failures.
This isn't a good choice in many cases, though. It leads people to tack a lot
of unrelated functionality onto foundational classes. You'd end up with
everything is a dictionary if you followed through on that.
-- Uli Kusterer
The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...
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Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
hi all, wow, i am getting a lot of help solving these last issues! thanks all. on printing, the problem is that i have to port an enterprise application that expects to be able to call a fx for the page layout and the page setup dialog, a fx to begin/end a page, and a fx to begin/end printing. so Cocoa has this amazing system where you initiate printing and the printing system CALLS YOU with these requirements, but i need something where i CALL THEM because i have to port lots of other code. now, Core Printing implements all this EXCEPT the dialogs, they are deprecated in 64 bit, so the missing call is PMSessionPrintDialog so [NSApp runPageLayout] handles page layout no worries, but NSPrintPanel can only run the page setup dialog in the context of printing an NSView, and then you get all the callbacks which i can't implement. so i needed a way to edit the shared printing info with the standard page setup dialog, then i can get a copy of the shared printing info call Core Printing, all is well so i did that by subclassing NSPrintPanel and makeing it return cancel to NSPrintOperation even when the shared printing info was actually edited so that is a rather nasty solution -- but basically anyone trying to port a large code base with printing is going to run right into this issue unless i'm missing something best, bill On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Kevin Wojniak kain...@kainjow.com wrote: On May 27, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Bill Appleton wrote: *4)** **I **can't call the printing code* I know, the printing code calls me. But other platforms don't work like this. I eventually used Core Printing and the Cocoa dialogs by sub-classing and faking out NSPrintPanel. Is there a better way? Can you be more specific? Have you looked at NSPrintOperation setShowsPrintPanel: ? *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? As others have said, but I'll reiterate, bindings make this ridiculously easy. *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. I have a method for doing this and once the initial data is created and cached, it takes 4 lines of code to calculate the height of text for a width. While it's not as obvious as -[NSAttributedString size], I certainly wouldn't consider it rocket science :). I believe the code originated from Apple's docs too. Kevin ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Stealing settings from Mail.app
Chris Idou wrote: I've got an app that needs to send out emails. I'm trying to import mail settings from Mail.app. For some reason my keychain has passwords for smtp.gmail.com, but not for smtp.me.com. AFAIK, there is only the one MobileMe password for all uses. Double-click your MobileMe password in Keychain Access.app and look at its Access Control tab. Note that Mail.app is always granted access by default. -- GG ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On May 28, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Bill Appleton wrote: on printing, the problem is that i have to port an enterprise application that expects to be able to call a fx for the page layout and the page setup dialog, a fx to begin/end a page, and a fx to begin/end printing. so Cocoa has this amazing system where you initiate printing and the printing system CALLS YOU with these requirements, but i need something where i CALL THEM because i have to port lots of other code. Have you considered creating a go-between object that would implement the APIs your code expects. And, would also implement the required Cocoa delegate APIs? Your app code then sets info/state on your object which in turn can be passed along when the Cocoa delegate methods get called. Note that this may be an extreme simplification. I have no idea on the order of operations of both APIs and thus don't know if they will work well together using this approach. Maintaining state in your go-between object may also get tricky. ___ Ricky A. Sharp mailto:rsh...@instantinteractive.com Instant Interactive(tm) http://www.instantinteractive.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
Hi Chaitanya, that code always returns a size of 100, 100 for every movie I try. really. and then the poster or frame is really pixelated because it is coming from such a small source. i am surely missing something here! thanks, bill On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Chaitanya Pandit chaita...@expersis.comwrote: *3)** **I **can't get t**he right dimensions for a QuickTime movie or poster * NSSize movieSize = [[movieObject currentFrameImage] size]; I used to call GetMovieBox, so I tried using [QTMovie posterImage] but the NSImage reported a width and height of 100, and then my movie poster was really pixelated. How do I get a decent looking movie poster? How do I get the original dimensions for movie playback? *4)** **I **can't call the printing code* I know, the printing code calls me. But other platforms don't work like this. I eventually used Core Printing and the Cocoa dialogs by sub-classing and faking out NSPrintPanel. Is there a better way? *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. Thanks! Bill Appleton ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/chaitanya%40expersis.com This email sent to chaita...@expersis.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Notification of file system modification arrives too early?
On May 28, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Antonio Nunes wrote: I expect many of the files will arrive in the watched folder either through user manipulation in the Finder or through scripts/automation. I don't think I can assume only Finder-originated copying. Then there's no way for the system to know when the operation is done. The file being closed would be a very good candidate, but not necessarily... Even more so, the file being open doesn't necessarily mean it's still being copied (Spotlight, for instance). Generally the most reliable way to deal with this is requirements on the process putting the file in the folder. In other words do not copy, and most certainly do not download, a file to the final name/location from where it will be picked up. Copy (or download) to a temporary file, distinguished by name or extension or type or visibility or location, then when the file is complete rename/update/move. If you're only dealing with PDF files, you could check for the presence of the PDF footer at the end of the file. That would work unless some process creates a complete PDF file, then appends pages to it. -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
Did you try QTMovieNaturalSizeAttribute? http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2005/tn2138.html#TNTAG11 On May 28, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Bill Appleton wrote: Hi Chaitanya, that code always returns a size of 100, 100 for every movie I try. really. and then the poster or frame is really pixelated because it is coming from such a small source. i am surely missing something here! thanks, bill On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Chaitanya Pandit chaita...@expersis.comwrote: *3)** **I **can't get t**he right dimensions for a QuickTime movie or poster * NSSize movieSize = [[movieObject currentFrameImage] size]; I used to call GetMovieBox, so I tried using [QTMovie posterImage] but the NSImage reported a width and height of 100, and then my movie poster was really pixelated. How do I get a decent looking movie poster? How do I get the original dimensions for movie playback? *4)** **I **can't call the printing code* I know, the printing code calls me. But other platforms don't work like this. I eventually used Core Printing and the Cocoa dialogs by sub-classing and faking out NSPrintPanel. Is there a better way? *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. Thanks! Bill Appleton ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/chaitanya%40expersis.com This email sent to chaita...@expersis.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kainjow%40kainjow.com This email sent to kain...@kainjow.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On May 28, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Kevin Wojniak wrote: *4)** **I **can't call the printing code* I know, the printing code calls me. But other platforms don't work like this. I eventually used Core Printing and the Cocoa dialogs by sub-classing and faking out NSPrintPanel. Is there a better way? Can you be more specific? Have you looked at NSPrintOperation setShowsPrintPanel: ? I haven't read the entire thread so apologies if I'm missing something, but this snippet brings back a memory and I wonder if the same thing is happening to you. I wanted to write a simple application that included printing. All I wanted to do was print my NSView. I was coming from a C++ background, so I started looking around for a print manager object to give me a printer object to subclass. I searched high and low. I could find things that looked like they were close, but nothing really matched up. How stupid could Cocoa be I thought? All I want to do is get a reference to the default printer, and call some printWithObject method and pass it my view. I spent hours looking and couldn't believe Cocoa could make something so simple so complex. The problem of course was that I was coming at it from a C++ background and trying to shoehorn my C++ thinking onto Cocoa. So, what did the solution end up being? [myView print]; The lesson? If it seems ridiculously hard, you're likely making it hard with incorrect assumptions. Cocoa likely has an easier way. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On Thu, 27 May 2010 12:43:42 -0700, Bill Appleton said: *2)** **I **can't **get the current caret blink rate in milliseconds* I used to call GetCaretTime, but now I just use 500 milliseconds. Eeek! Where is the current blink rate? Please don't tell me I don't need it, we implement our own scripting engine, etc. Oddly, GetCaretTime is not deprecated but is removed in 64 bit. So much for advanced warning. :) I thought there might be a substitute in event_status_driver.h, but didn't see anything. You could always still use GetCaretTime in a 32bit process and pass its result back to your main process. -- Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Researchwww.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On 5/27/2010 12:43 PM, Bill Appleton wrote: *1) I can't hide a file, or test if a file is hidden* I had to resort to FSGetCatalogInfo -- there is no way to do it through NSFileManager, etc. Right? Since there are several ways to hide a file, I don't think FSGetCatalogInfo will necessarily tell you if a file is invisible. The right way (before 10.6, anyway) is to use LSCopyItemAttribute with the attribute kLSItemExtensionIsHidden. -- James W. Walker, Innoventive Software LLC http://www.frameforge3d.com/ ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Spotlight SDK replacement on iPad/iPhone
Hello, I'd like to have a quick full text search on a pdf in my app. Unfortunately the NSMetadata* classes are not available in the iPhone SDK. Does someone know of a 3rd party solution or so? Thanks and regards, sebastian mecklenburg___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On 28 May 2010, at 18:25, James Walker wrote: On 5/27/2010 12:43 PM, Bill Appleton wrote: *1) I can't hide a file, or test if a file is hidden* I had to resort to FSGetCatalogInfo -- there is no way to do it through NSFileManager, etc. Right? Since there are several ways to hide a file, I don't think FSGetCatalogInfo will necessarily tell you if a file is invisible. The right way (before 10.6, anyway) is to use LSCopyItemAttribute with the attribute kLSItemExtensionIsHidden. I don't think that's the right thing at all. kLSItemExtensionIsHidden would seem to be talking about the *extension*. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On 5/28/2010 11:18 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: On 28 May 2010, at 18:25, James Walker wrote: On 5/27/2010 12:43 PM, Bill Appleton wrote: *1) I can't hide a file, or test if a file is hidden* I had to resort to FSGetCatalogInfo -- there is no way to do it through NSFileManager, etc. Right? Since there are several ways to hide a file, I don't think FSGetCatalogInfo will necessarily tell you if a file is invisible. The right way (before 10.6, anyway) is to use LSCopyItemAttribute with the attribute kLSItemExtensionIsHidden. I don't think that's the right thing at all. kLSItemExtensionIsHidden would seem to be talking about the *extension*. Oops, I was half right. Right function, wrong attribute; kLSItemIsInvisible is what is needed. -- James W. Walker, Innoventive Software LLC http://www.frameforge3d.com/ ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Changing cursors in window's bounds
I do not have a custom view, rather just the window's contentView with its various graphics, buttons, text etc. I wish to simply change the cursor anytime the mouse is inside any part of this contentView. If I did have a custom view, I understand all the machinations pertaining to changing cursors, e.g., NSView's initWithRect:, addTrackingArea:, and cursorUpdate: Thanks to Apple's TrackIt Project, it all seems straightforward. My challenge centers on trying to make this magic happen just in the window's canned contentView without creating a custom NSView within Interface Builder. My sub-classed NSDocument knows about the window via my overridden -windowControllerDidLoadNib:(NSWindowController *)aController because its window = [aController window]. Also, I have one Controller (sub to NSObject) which has knowledge of the NSDocument's NSWindow because I pass this window to it. So, how do I effect cursor tracking just in this window without creating a custom NSView in IB? John Love Touch the Future! Teach! ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
hi Kevin, sorry if this is a repost, my last one was rejected for being too big YES, the QTMovieNaturalSizeAttribute definitely returns the size i am looking for the remaining problem is that the movie posetr returns a size of 100 x 100 so when i capture the poster it is really pixelated i've tried everything -- how do other people get movie posters and/or grab movie frames? best, bill On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Kevin Wojniak kain...@kainjow.com wrote: Did you try QTMovieNaturalSizeAttribute? http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2005/tn2138.html#TNTAG11 On May 28, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Bill Appleton wrote: Hi Chaitanya, that code always returns a size of 100, 100 for every movie I try. really. and then the poster or frame is really pixelated because it is coming from such a small source. i am surely missing something here! thanks, bill On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Chaitanya Pandit chaita...@expersis.comwrote: *3)** **I **can't get t**he right dimensions for a QuickTime movie or poster * NSSize movieSize = [[movieObject currentFrameImage] size]; I used to call GetMovieBox, so I tried using [QTMovie posterImage] but the NSImage reported a width and height of 100, and then my movie poster was really pixelated. How do I get a decent looking movie poster? How do I get the original dimensions for movie playback? *4)** **I **can't call the printing code* I know, the printing code calls me. But other platforms don't work like this. I eventually used Core Printing and the Cocoa dialogs by sub-classing and faking out NSPrintPanel. Is there a better way? *5)** **I **can't create a simple list* I did it the only way I could -- with a table that has one column, etc. Man that was painful for a simple list. Is there a better way? *6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text* I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how tall the text field is. Thanks! Bill Appleton ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/chaitanya%40expersis.com This email sent to chaita...@expersis.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kainjow%40kainjow.com This email sent to kain...@kainjow.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Changing cursors in window's bounds
On May 28, 2010, at 11:55, John Love wrote: My challenge centers on trying to make this magic happen just in the window's canned contentView without creating a custom NSView within Interface Builder. My sub-classed NSDocument knows about the window via my overridden -windowControllerDidLoadNib:(NSWindowController *)aController because its window = [aController window]. Also, I have one Controller (sub to NSObject) which has knowledge of the NSDocument's NSWindow because I pass this window to it. So, how do I effect cursor tracking just in this window without creating a custom NSView in IB? A NSTrackingArea has an owner, which doesn't have to be a view, and which receives the tracking area's messages. So just make your window controller or your document the owner. The only problem is that I have a *vague* recollection that there's something special about the cursorUpdate: message. It might be that this is the only one of NSTrackingArea's generated messages that's sent to the view under the cursor instead of the owner. But I'm likely misremembering, so you should give it a try. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On 2010-05-28, at 12:02 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: i've tried everything -- how do other people get movie posters and/or grab movie frames? With classic QuickTime if there was no poster frame specifically set in the movie QuickTime would reliably return the first frame. With QuickTimeKit that is ... inconsistent. Safest to just grab the first frame yourself. As for capturing frames, here's the I believe currently recommended way to do it: NSDictionary *imageAttrs = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: QTMovieFrameImageTypeNSImage, QTMovieFrameImageType, [NSArray arrayWithObject:@NSBitmapImageRep], QTMovieFrameImageRepresentationsType, [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], QTMovieFrameImageDeinterlaceFields, [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], QTMovieFrameImageHighQuality, [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], QTMovieFrameImageSingleField, nil ]; QTTime captureTime = [0 .. self.movie.duration]; NSError *captureError = nil; NSImage *captureFullFrame = [self.movie frameImageAtTime:captureTime withAttributes:imageAttrs error:captureError ]; That allows for a variety of other image types besides QTMovieFrameImageTypeNSImage, but is QuickTime 7.2 dependent. If you need older version compatibility, use - (NSImage *)frameImageAtTime:(QTTime)time; Either way, these should only be called on the main thread. Theoretically you can detach movies and move them around between threads, but you have a good chance of running into issues doing so, particularly if you're working with QTKit captured movies; something about the rendering context I think, although the details are old enough to be kinda fuzzy now. Safer to just call performSelectorOnMainThread: to get each grabbed frame if you've got a background renderer or suchlike, I'd say. -- Alex Curylo -- a...@alexcurylo.com -- http://www.alexcurylo.com/ ...the variable PI can be given that value [3.141592653589793] with a DATA statement. This simplifies the modifying of the program, should the value of PI ever change. -- SDS Sigma series Fortran manual ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Spotlight SDK replacement on iPad/iPhone
You can try swish-e. Pretty good stuff. I still wish SearchKit would be public on the iPhoneOS Laurent Sent from my road phone On May 28, 2010, at 7:58 PM, sebi s...@happyhappyboy.de wrote: Hello, I'd like to have a quick full text search on a pdf in my app. Unfortunately the NSMetadata* classes are not available in the iPhone SDK. Does someone know of a 3rd party solution or so? Thanks and regards, sebastian mecklenburg___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/lcerveau%40me.com This email sent to lcerv...@me.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: NSURLConnection weirdiness
On May 28, 2010, at 2:58 AM, Nava Carmon wrote: sometimes it's just stuck after initialing and don't get into connection's delegate methods. I'm working with WiFi 3G and the same server all the time. When it comes to didFailWithError i see that mostly it was a timeout error. Do you mean that it does eventually fail with a timeout error, or that it never calls the delegate at all? If you’re connecting over 3G, I would expect random failures once in a while, as it’s a less reliable network. —Jens___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
Try using the QTMovie method frameImageAtTime: withAttributes: error: You can specify the image size you want returned in the attributes dictionary (along with the image format). On May 28, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Bill Appleton wrote: the remaining problem is that the movie posetr returns a size of 100 x 100 so when i capture the poster it is really pixelated i've tried everything -- how do other people get movie posters and/or grab movie frames? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: isKindofClass with NSData and NSKeyUnarchiver
On May 28, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Philip Vallone wrote: This is a relative question, which depends on how the data is coming and going. My question comes from the following situation. Suppose I have a GKSession that is passing information via Bluetooth. The sender can send any type of information (NSString, UIImage etc...). The receiver needs to know how to handle this data. If there is a better way... Then how? Wait, are you archiving and unarchiving data over a network? That’s a bad idea unless you’re extremely careful. The problem is that a malicious peer can send you an archive that expands into any codable object, not just the types you were expecting; this can be exploited to do Bad Things in your process, like crashing and possibly worse. It would be safer and easier to send property lists instead. The property list decoder is safe in that it will only ever output a known set of classes. You just have to watch out that your code never takes type types of incoming data for granted, otherwise it can throw assertion failures if it gets the wrong data. So instead of NSString *cmd = [message objectForKey: @“command”]; you have to do something like id cmd = [message objectForKey: @“command”]; if (![cmd isKindOfClass: [NSString class]]) return NO; // reject the message as invalid My MYUtilities library has a macro called $castIf that makes this really easy: NSString *cmd = $castIf(NSString, [message objectForKey: @“command”]); It returns nil if the object isn’t of the required class. Yes, checking classes at runtime is often a bad-code smell. But it’s not avoidable when working with untrusted data and untyped data structures like plists. You have to code defensively on the assumption that any message you receive might be corrupt or malicious. —Jens___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
On May 27, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Bill Appleton wrote: there were some things i noticed that i couldn't do easily in Cocoa or any other 64 bit OSX API. Cocoa doesn’t claim to do everything. There are a lot of tasks that should be done using lower level APIs. *1) I can't hide a file, or test if a file is hidden* I had to resort to FSGetCatalogInfo I’m pretty sure FSGetCatalogInfo is available in 64-bit. It’s not deprecated and it’s not part of the High-Level Toolbox. *2)** **I **can't **get the current caret blink rate in milliseconds* I used to call GetCaretTime, but now I just use 500 milliseconds. Eeek! OS X hasn’t ever had a UI to change the caret blink time, so I think you can safely hardcode it. (Although I can’t think of why you’d need this unless you’re implementing your own text editing system from scratch, which is a pretty scary thought. If you’re doing that, there are a zillion other expected text behaviors you’ll need to get right, that are a lot more important than the blink rate.) —Jens___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
hi all, i fixed the movie poster problem as well thanks for all the help, this is a great forum have a nice weekend! best, bill On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Robert Martin robmar...@frontiernet.netwrote: Try using the QTMovie method frameImageAtTime: withAttributes: error: You can specify the image size you want returned in the attributes dictionary (along with the image format). On May 28, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Bill Appleton wrote: the remaining problem is that the movie posetr returns a size of 100 x 100 so when i capture the poster it is really pixelated i've tried everything -- how do other people get movie posters and/or grab movie frames? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: isKindofClass with NSData and NSKeyUnarchiver
Hi, Wait, are you archiving and unarchiving data over a network? That’s a bad idea unless you’re extremely careful. The problem is that a malicious peer can send you an archive that expands into any codable object, not just the types you were expecting; this can be exploited to do Bad Things in your process, like crashing and possibly worse. How is it possible using GKSession to be introduced to a malicious peer.? I am creating a GKSession object and connecting via GKPeerPickerController. A hand shack is made between the the two peers. Once both peers accept the connection, the session is stored along with the peer id. This information can be checked before any information is received. Isn't this secure enough? Thanks, Phil On May 28, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On May 28, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Philip Vallone wrote: This is a relative question, which depends on how the data is coming and going. My question comes from the following situation. Suppose I have a GKSession that is passing information via Bluetooth. The sender can send any type of information (NSString, UIImage etc...). The receiver needs to know how to handle this data. If there is a better way... Then how? Wait, are you archiving and unarchiving data over a network? That’s a bad idea unless you’re extremely careful. The problem is that a malicious peer can send you an archive that expands into any codable object, not just the types you were expecting; this can be exploited to do Bad Things in your process, like crashing and possibly worse. It would be safer and easier to send property lists instead. The property list decoder is safe in that it will only ever output a known set of classes. You just have to watch out that your code never takes type types of incoming data for granted, otherwise it can throw assertion failures if it gets the wrong data. So instead of NSString *cmd = [message objectForKey: @“command”]; you have to do something like id cmd = [message objectForKey: @“command”]; if (![cmd isKindOfClass: [NSString class]]) return NO; // reject the message as invalid My MYUtilities library has a macro called $castIf that makes this really easy: NSString *cmd = $castIf(NSString, [message objectForKey: @“command”]); It returns nil if the object isn’t of the required class. Yes, checking classes at runtime is often a bad-code smell. But it’s not avoidable when working with untrusted data and untyped data structures like plists. You have to code defensively on the assumption that any message you receive might be corrupt or malicious. —Jens ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: isKindofClass with NSData and NSKeyUnarchiver
On May 28, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Philip Vallone philip.vall...@verizon.net wrote: How is it possible using GKSession to be introduced to a malicious peer.? I am creating a GKSession object and connecting via GKPeerPickerController. A hand shack is made between the the two peers. Once both peers accept the connection, the session is stored along with the peer id. This information can be checked before any information is received. Isn't this secure enough? Always assume your peer is malicious. Malicious behavior is a subset of possible errant behaviors. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: isKindofClass with NSData and NSKeyUnarchiver
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Philip Vallone philip.vall...@verizon.net wrote: Hi, Wait, are you archiving and unarchiving data over a network? That’s a bad idea unless you’re extremely careful. The problem is that a malicious peer can send you an archive that expands into any codable object, not just the types you were expecting; this can be exploited to do Bad Things in your process, like crashing and possibly worse. How is it possible using GKSession to be introduced to a malicious peer.? I am creating a GKSession object and connecting via GKPeerPickerController. A hand shack is made between the the two peers. Once both peers accept the connection, the session is stored along with the peer id. This information can be checked before any information is received. Isn't this secure enough? An attacker can execute a man-in-the-middle attack, wherein he talks to two copies of your app and passes data between them, such that they think they're talking directly to each other, but then modifies data maliciously. An attacker can simply impersonate your app, responding like a real client, but sending malicious data when desired. Neither of these can be defended against, even theoretically, when communicating peer-to-peer. (It is possible to defend against them when communicating with a server by using digital signature technology, but this doesn't work when the attacker has direct access to the program he wants to impersonate.) In short, you should treat any data coming from the network as potentially evil, always. Mike ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: NSURLConnection weirdiness
On 2010 May 28, at 02:58, Nava Carmon wrote: When I enter same link in Safari it takes a second to bring data. I understand that you're saying it works OK at the same time from the same IP address from Safari, meaning that you have ruled out being throttled by this certain server, or your ISP. OK, because these would be the first two suspects on my list. And after another trial I can access the link. I'm assuming you mean exactly the same URL. Some servers give better service to web browsers than to apps requesting via their API. What might be the reason for such a weird behavior? How can I improve it? You're going to have to discover a pattern. For another data point with these types of problems, you'll usually want to open a Terminal window and send your request using the unix command curl(1). What is the role of cache policy with NSURLConnection? Long answer: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/URLLoadingSystem/Concepts/CachePolicies.html For consistency in testing, you'll probably want to use NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData. Let us know if you find anything interesting. Actually, a better list for this question would be macnetworkp...@lists.apple.com. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: authenticating peers
On May 28, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Michael Ash wrote: An attacker can execute a man-in-the-middle attack... An attacker can simply impersonate your app... Neither of these can be defended against, even theoretically, when communicating peer-to-peer. Not true; if you use SSL or some equivalent, both peers can use certificates to identify themselves. This works if either (a) the certs are signed by a reputable authority (as in the traditional use of SSL by web servers), or if (b) each peer has previously verified the other’s identity and remembered the cert (as is done by SSH.) GameKit doesn’t do anything like this, though, although I can’t say for sure because Apple’s never published any information about the protocol used (to my knowledge). —Jens___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Help w/ first step of creating Help Book for app
I'm trying to create a help book for my app using the Apple Help Programming Guide, which is not easy for me to follow. I'm at the section Creating a Basic Help Book, trying to get the structure right where the HTML files are to go. It says I should have a dir structure like: SurfWriter.app/ (I'm guessing this is the top level folder under Groups Files of my XCode view). Contents/ Resources/ SurfWriter.help/ Contents/ Info.plist Resources/ shrd/ English.lproj/ pgs/ gfx/ sty/ scrpt/ Should I just add in the Groups Files view of XCode a group, or do I actually create directories with these names? I don't even have a 'Contents' directory in the top level of my XCode project so I'm guessing I have to create every one of these which I don't have in my current project. Under Groups Files of my XCode project, I have for the most part, the following: MyApp Source Controllers Delegates Models Servers Views Includes Resources Frameworks Products Targets Executables Find Results Bookmarks SCM Project Symbols Implementation Files Interface Builder Files ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: drawing border of NSPopUpButtonCell drawInteriorWithFrame:inView:
[path moveToPoint:NSMakePoint(cellFrame.origin.x, cellFrame.size.height)];
[path lineToPoint:NSMakePoint(cellFrame.size.width, cellFrame.size.height)];
If cellFrame = {500, 300, 120, 20}
You're drawing from {500, 20} to {120, 20}
I have four NSView cell's (so I have four data table header cells,
i.e. 4 columns), and here's the cellFrame values as output by the
NSLog statement above.
x:249 y:0 width:367 height:17
x:146 y:0 width:103 height:17
x:43 y:0 width:103 height:17
x:0 y:0 width:43 height:17
This seems correct. My first cell is trying to draw from x=0 with a width of 43.
My second cell is trying to draw from x=43 with a width of 103.
Third cell is drawing from x=146 with width of 103.
And fourth cell is drawing from x=249 with width of 367.
Yet, it's like each border is overwriting itself starting from 0 (the
leftmost cell).
- (void) drawInteriorWithFrame:(NSRect) cellFrame inView:(NSView *) controlView
{
NSLog(@x:%g y:%g width:%g height:%g, cellFrame.origin.x,
cellFrame.origin.y, cellFrame.size.width,
cellFrame.size.height);
[[NSColor whiteColor] set];
[[NSBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:cellFrame] fill];
NSBezierPath *path = [NSBezierPath bezierPath];
[path moveToPoint:NSMakePoint(cellFrame.origin.x,
cellFrame.size.height)];
[path lineToPoint:NSMakePoint(cellFrame.size.width,
cellFrame.size.height)];
[[NSColor darkGrayColor] setStroke];
[path stroke];
[super drawInteriorWithFrame:cellFrame inView:controlView];
return;
}
The image attachment on the previous email shows that the line from
the first cell is actually length 103 and it should only be length 43
to cover just that first cell, so I believe somehow it is overwriting
and starting from 0, though the x origin shows otherwise.
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Re: Help w/ first step of creating Help Book for app
On 29/05/2010, at 2:29 PM, Shane wrote: I'm trying to create a help book for my app using the Apple Help Programming Guide, which is not easy for me to follow... Stop right there! Fortunately, Matt Neuburg has created a very helpful short movie showing exactly how to do this. As Matt says at the bottom of this page:http://groups.jonzu.com/z_apple_possible-reasons-why-no-help-is-available.html , This problem is nearly always caused by DNFD (Did Not Follow Directions). Apple has provided the directions. Follow them! Follow them very, very exactly. I’ve made a tutorial movie laying stress on the key points: http://www.apeth.com/writersua/implementAppleHelp.mov; I strongly urge you to have a look. Ron ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
