This is just a wild guess, but in the past, when I used
to swap my projects between computers
by means of a zip drive, sometimes such weird things happened.
In my case, I was usually able to restore everything to normality
by applying one of these procedures:
1- discarding the build folder and com
I am trying to understand the interrelationship between various
method calls made once a window controller is instantiated. I am
loading a window controller from within a master controller. Data
passed from the master controller to the window controller is used to
programmatically alter the
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Conceptual/QuartzComposer/qc_intro/chapter_1_section_1.html
Sam McDonald
Trimonix
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote:
Hey, Is it possible to use the Photo Booth "green screen"/chroma
key effect
in a C
Hey, Is it possible to use the Photo Booth "green screen"/chroma key effect
in a Cocoa application? Can it be accessed from Quartz Composer? I searched
around on the internet for a while, and couldn't find anything, so a head
start would be helpful. I am a new programmer, so unless there is an
ex
I've manually set that to YES using IB3, and it did make a significant
difference in loading time, pretty close to the near-instant time of
TextEdit. However, when I try to scroll through the NSTextView using
the scroll bar, it often becomes unresponsive. I'm assuming this is
because only at th
TextEdit calls -[NSLayoutManager setAllowsNonContiguousLayout:YES];
could that be it?
Ali
On Feb 28, 2008, at 20:06 , Steven Degutis wrote:
I have a large (ascii) text file, about 65 MB, which TextEdit loads
instantaneously in about a split second. I've tried to mimic this
behavior using NST
I have a large (ascii) text file, about 65 MB, which TextEdit loads
instantaneously in about a split second. I've tried to mimic this
behavior using NSTextView to no avail. The problem isn't about
unresponsiveness, because it's completely responsive during this
loading of the large text file. The p
Hi Karl,
Have you tried the preferredFrameSize method? I have had success in
doing simple text sizing with this method ( by simple i mean that i've
done labels and such). It won't tell you the # of lines but it will
give you a frame size.
HTH,
-bd-
http://bill.dudney.net/roller/objc
On
On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Chris Schmitt wrote:
I want to add some simple bar graphs and pie charts to my project.
Is there an apple api for charting or do you need to use a 3rd party
product?
Regarding the Google Charting API that was mentioned, you can take
simpler route and avoid th
Hi guys, kind of a funky question ... not a crisis or anything, but I
was curious if anyone knows ... or if this is a bug. I am happy to
radar away if it's a bug. I actually Googled "NSXMLDocument
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation" and it comes up a bust ... zero
hits. :) So I thought I wou
On Feb 29, 2008, at 02:33, Ryan Homer wrote:
Let me clarify that it doesn't seem to be the Dictionary application
that's reading the word at the mouse pointer but rather the OS
itself or some daemon, perhaps, when Ctrl-Option-D is pressed. It
might be the process called DictionaryPanel tha
He was on a Macbook Pro and I was on a Macbook. We went to a mac lab
at my college and tried it on different computers to see what would
happen. We assumed that my computer was the weird one. We tried it
on iMacs and Power Macs and every single one had the same bug I was
experiencing.
Just a question. Were you both developing on the exact same systems?
I.E MacBooks, same clock speed etc?
I just find it odd that if you both had the same code that the error
would be on one machine not the other. Especially that it would
persist after a full restore and work on one and not
Another solution that I know works, because i've done it a few times,
is to start a new project and import all your files from your old
project into the new one. I don't know why it works but it does. I
always put it down to something I was doing wrong to be honest and
generally that is wha
I don't have specific knowledge but, yes, I would expect that the
dictionary support is a trusted part of the OS, thus can be hooked
into every application.
As far as I know, if you want to touch another application's UI, you
have to go through accessibility. From the OS's point of view you
I had this exact problem. And the crazy thing was that my partner was
running the same code and his computer wasn't affected. I re-
installed my developer tools, and it didn't fix it. I re-installed my
operating system, and still nothing was fixed.
Finally, the other developer and myself
Let me clarify that it doesn't seem to be the Dictionary application
that's reading the word at the mouse pointer but rather the OS itself
or some daemon, perhaps, when Ctrl-Option-D is pressed. It might be
the process called DictionaryPanel that seems to always be running.
Anyway, if anyo
I've read this post (http://lists.apple.com/archives/accessibility-dev/2006/Aug/msg7.html
) about using the accessibility options to read the text under the
cursor. However, this requires that the user enable access for
assistive devices in System Preferences. The application must
theref
I can't tell you why it happened but it happened to me a few weeks
ago using XC 2.4.1 on Tiger 10.4.11. I couldn't solve it so I
uninstalled the entire Developer folder & Tools then re-installed and
now it works fine.
Phil.
On 29 Feb 2008, at 00:31, Steve Cronin wrote:
Folks;
This is XC
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK. Now with connecting it in IB it stills seems to be not working. I
> have made those changes that you said and nick also stated. :) But I
> am still getting a blank NSTableView. If those changes make it so that
> my code SHO
OK. Now with connecting it in IB it stills seems to be not working. I
have made those changes that you said and nick also stated. :) But I
am still getting a blank NSTableView. If those changes make it so that
my code SHOULD work, I have no Idea why it isn't working... If you
would like a c
Hi, Jeremy,
You appear to have a few corrections that need to be made with your
code. To resolve these will help you on your way. You should make
the following changes before you try to get things working:
1. Remove the extraneous retain from your categoriesArray
instantiation -- -alloc
Thanks about the memory leaks and about the allocating memory and
stuff. And I thought that might be my problem but I am not sure how to
actually use that method. The documentation was very vague in my
opinion.
Jeremy
"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading
e
On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Jeremy wrote:
In awakeFromNib:
categoriesArray = [[[NSMutableArray alloc] init] retain];
Here you're over-retaining an NSArray. This won't do anything if
you're using GC, but if you're not, then you've created a memory leak.
NSString *string;
This is how I am attempting to do it...
In awakeFromNib:
categoriesArray = [[[NSMutableArray alloc] init] retain];
NSString *string;
string = [NSString init];
string = @"Main Category";
[categoriesArray addObject:string];
[categories selectRow:1 by
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to figure NSTableViews out. I have two table views inside
> of my window. The code I have is completely useless and not working.
> Can anyone explain how to populate an NSTableView using arrays? If you
> could th
Hello,
I am trying to figure NSTableViews out. I have two table views inside
of my window. The code I have is completely useless and not working.
Can anyone explain how to populate an NSTableView using arrays? If you
could that would be greatly appreciated.
Jeremy
"For a long time it puzz
Folks;
This is XC2.4.1 on Tiger 10.4.11. (been at this level since 10.4.11)
no recent system level changes.
I'm doing Cocoa application development and all things are proceeding
normally when suddenly I can no longer run the debugger.
I have pretty stringent build rules but I get a good cl
Thanks thats exactly what I needed to know. Thanks for your help.
Phil.
On 28 Feb 2008, at 23:39, Douglas Davidson wrote:
On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Philip Bridson wrote:
Just a short question. I'm working with localizations and I get
the whole concept of strings files etc but do I have
On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Philip Bridson wrote:
Just a short question. I'm working with localizations and I get the
whole concept of strings files etc but do I have to create a file
with english values in it?
For instance my french one is:
"Yes" = "Oui"
But do I have to create a engli
Hi there,
Just a short question. I'm working with localizations and I get the
whole concept of strings files etc but do I have to create a file
with english values in it?
For instance my french one is:
"Yes" = "Oui"
But do I have to create a english one with:
"Yes" = "Yes"
or will cocoa
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Kyle Sluder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The documentation explicitly describes -[NSObject
> performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:] as queueing and
> dequeueing selectors on the main thread. It seems reasonable to
> assume they're not outright
Hi,
On 27-Feb-08, at 11:32 AM, infinite labs wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Mark Alldritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've been trying to get a simple demo app running that uses iChat
Theatre (InstantMessage.framework) as described in this web page
without any success:
h
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Hamish Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> However, there is no equivalent promise in Apple's documentation for
> NSObject; it is conspicuous in its absence. Can anyone confirm or deny
> that it has the same behaviour as in GNUstep?
The documentation explicitly
Hi,
The GNUstep documentation for the
NSObject(NSMainThreadPerformAdditions) category states the following
for performSelectorOnMainThread: withObject: waitUntilDone: modes:
"Where this method has been called more than once before the runloop
of the main thread runs in the required mode [i.e., wi
Override:
- (NSImage *)dragImageForRowsWithIndexes:(NSIndexSet *)dragRows
tableColumns:(NSArray *)tableColumns event:(NSEvent*)dragEvent offset:
(NSPointPointer)dragImageOffset
limit the columns passed based on the column at the event's location.
The rest is up to your delegate/datasource
On 29/02/2008, at 8:31 AM, Nate Weaver wrote:
On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Hank Heijink wrote:
On Feb 28, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Nate Weaver wrote:
Interesting... I hadn't thought of that. Don't I have to add
another timer to the NSDefaultRunLoopMode though? If I have to
chose between having
Hi all,
The short question is: how do I drag'n'drop single cells in an
NSTableView (or NSOutlineView). I.e. I don't want the entire row to be
dragged, just one cell.
Is there any example code on how to do this? Or is there anyone who
might push me in the right direction? Is
tableView:sh
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Hank Heijink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's not my experience. If I just add a timer for the
> NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode, the only time that timer fires is when the
> run loop is in event tracking mode, which is what I would expect. In
> the NSDefaultRunL
On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Hank Heijink wrote:
On Feb 28, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Nate Weaver wrote:
Interesting... I hadn't thought of that. Don't I have to add
another timer to the NSDefaultRunLoopMode though? If I have to
chose between having two timers on the main thread that alternate,
On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:25, Mike Fischer wrote:
OK, nobody answered so I did a further test:
...
Then I relaunched the app, used the IBAction to remove the Auto Save
Name and quit the app again. The key was still there! So it's a bug
in AppKit/Cocoa it seems. NSWindow -removeFrameUsingName:
On Feb 28, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Nate Weaver wrote:
Interesting... I hadn't thought of that. Don't I have to add
another timer to the NSDefaultRunLoopMode though? If I have to
chose between having two timers on the main thread that alternate,
or one on a secondary thread, I think I'll go with
On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:19, Keith Blount wrote:
I have a feeling I'm approaching this all wrong, given that now I'm
trying to bind my DataList object's -backgroundColor to the view's
backgroundColor so that changes to the background colour in one view
will automatically update in the other,
Thanks Kyle,
It is RTF-editable. I created the NSTextView object manually because
of other needs in the program.
It had been working properly for sometime, but I did some extensive
improvements during the last couple of months; but this part of the
code should have been unaffected.
I did
One other library worth keeping an eye on is QWT
(http://qwt.sourceforge.net/). It's a very impressive 2D and 3D
plotting library for Trolltech's qt. There is a qt for mac, but it's
Carbon based so I don't think it's practical to use QWT with Cocoa,
but Trolltech is investigating migrating Qt-Mac t
Andrew,
There's a known issue on the current Leopard using
NSPersistentDocument with an SQLite store under Garbage Collection.
Change any one of the 3 pieces in that configuration and things will
work fine. We will be addressing the issue.
--
-Ben
___
Thanks for the reply, I eventually solved this by resorting back to
AppleScript for the artwork stuff, ugly but it works...
As for posting source to the list, thanks for the tip. Some lists
frown upon it so I have been using Pastie but I will paste small code
samples inline from now on.
Cheers
Da
OK, nobody answered so I did a further test:
I created a new Cocoa application project, modified the nib so that
the Window had an Auto Save Name "xyz" and then added an AppControler
class with a single IBAction and connected it up. The IBAction looks
like this:
- (IBAction)handleDeleteAu
Hello Cocoa people,
With traditional Cocoa text drawing, it is possible to determine the
size of a piece of text ahead of time with methods like NSString's
sizeWithAttributes: or with NSCell's cellSizeForBounds:. These
methods allow the determination of the width of some text, or the
num
Many thanks for your replies, Adam and Quincey, much appreciated. By placing
the methods in my model object rather than in my view object (I was kind of
using the view as both view and controller), I now have both tables updating
with objects getting inserted and edited. Great - thank you!
I'm
On Feb 26, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Seth Willits wrote:
On Feb 26, 2008, at 3:13 PM, John Stiles wrote:
Trying to simulate the drawing behavior of NSCell seems error-prone
to me. Since I don't have access to the original code, it would be
hard to match its behavior. I'd much rather inherit as muc
On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Hank Heijink wrote:
On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Nate Weaver wrote:
You could also use [[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] addTimer:yourTimer
forMode:NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode] and avoid another thread
altogether.
Interesting... I hadn't thought of that. Don't I have
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jacob Lukas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had this problem as well. The fix for me was to not show the window
> during awakeFromNib, but rather let the window be cascaded and shown
> automatically. It seems that if the window is already visible before
> it has
On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Nate Weaver wrote:
You could also use [[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] addTimer:yourTimer
forMode:NSEventTrackingRunLoopMode] and avoid another thread
altogether.
Interesting... I hadn't thought of that. Don't I have to add another
timer to the NSDefaultRunLoopMode
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My NSTextView has strange behavior when pasting: The rich text is
> pasted as plain text when the material has been copied from Safari.
> When the same material has been copied from another NSTextView (e.g.,
> TextEdit
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Randall Meadows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please help me extend my understanding of bindings...I grasp the
> simple stuff, but not yet to an extent to be able to apply that to
> complex situations.
>
> In my main window (which resides in it's own nib, and is
I wanted to point out that lately the vast majority of admin work has
been rejecting messages that are larger than the 25K limit. In most
cases these are either large chunks of source, entire projects
(345Mb!!), or untrimmed HTML messages.
Please keep your messages under 25k and in plain t
On Feb 28, 2008, at 14:26, Scott.D.R wrote:
However, I dragged a IKImageView into the document window, builded
the application and go. Then I clicked the menu->File->New, there
was no new window appear. Really very odd... After delete the
IKImageView on the document window, the menu->File-
the only reason I'm trying to draw on another thread
is that my drawing is timer-driven, and the timer gets suspended if
it's on the main thread and the user clicks on a menu or a scrollbar
or some such thing.
You could also use [[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] addTimer:yourTimer
forMode:NSEventTracki
On Feb 28, 2008, at 02:46, Keith Blount wrote:
Many thanks for your reply. I have a model object and a view object
- DataList and DataListView. DataList has a -content array. The
DataListView has an array controller whose contentArray is bound to
the DataList's content array. Given that it
On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:31:03, A.M. wrote:
There is no shell string interpolation with NSTask, so try
[arguments addObject: @"-o"];
[arguments addObject: @"ServerAliveInterval 180"];
Well that was easy! I thought I'd tried that before, but probably not
exactly that way, beca
Responding to my own post, for clarification...
On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Randall Meadows wrote:
In my main window (which resides in it's own nib, and is controlled
by a custom window controller), I have a combobox. I'd like to
populate the contents of that via bindings.
In my main ni
I have the source code for SSH Tunnel Manager, which we use to create
a tunnel to our home office in another state. Something has changed
recently, either with our home office's servers, my ISP, or 10.5.x is
doing something differently than 10.4.x. The result is that the first
time I do som
On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
I haven't used NSCollectionView but I have read about it. It seems to
be geared towards grids more than lists. I'm looking to have a table
with 2 resizable columns: the first a simple string, the second my
'complex view'. I'm not sure I could
I am looking for a copy of the MoreAuthSample. Yes, I know it has been
replaced with BetterAuthorizationSample. I don't want to start a flame
war on how to perform a task as root. I just want the old sample and
it looks like it's been pulled down from Apple's site.
If you have it, send it t
Please help me extend my understanding of bindings...I grasp the
simple stuff, but not yet to an extent to be able to apply that to
complex situations.
In my main window (which resides in it's own nib, and is controlled by
a custom window controller), I have a combobox. I'd like to populat
I haven't found out what I need to do to avoid drawing over the resize
corner on a secondary thread. There's something that the system does
when it calls drawRect: as a result of a call to
setNeedsDisplayInRect: that I can't reproduce. I'm pretty sure it's
not a multithreading issue, but si
Starting from Leopard, you can do -[NSCell
setTruncatesLastVisibleLine:] or pass
NSStringDrawingTruncatesLastVisibleLine to -[NSString
drawWithRect:options:attributes:].
We don't have out-of-box support for NSTextView.
If you feel there should be support in NSTextView, please file a bug.
I don't know the answer, but if you figure it out, please post a
followup on Cocoa-Dev. I could use this also :)
Mattias Arrelid wrote:
Hi there.
Occasionally I need to display some very long strings. These string
can have sentences that would span several lines depending on the
width of my
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Chris Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I suspect the problem with the resize corner is because it's drawn by
> the framework and the code that draws in the background is overwriting
> it. I'm not sure how you solve that.
Assuming you're drawing on a secondary
Hi,
My NSTextView has strange behavior when pasting: The rich text is
pasted as plain text when the material has been copied from Safari.
When the same material has been copied from another NSTextView (e.g.,
TextEdit), it pastes properly as RTF.
I checked my pasteboard type at the end of
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Chris Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I want to add some simple bar graphs and pie charts to my project.
Is
there an apple api for charting or do you need to use a 3rd party
product?
I've been using Chartdirector:
http://www.advsofteng.com/
Not C
On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Jamie Phelps wrote:
By now, most of you know I'm working through Aaron Hillegass's book.
Along the way, I'm trying to utilize Objective-C 2.0 constructs
where I am aware of differences. Hillegass is using explicitly
declared setters and getters. I am using @pro
On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Keith Blount wrote:
Many thanks for your reply. I have a model object and a view object
- DataList and DataListView. DataList has a -content array. The
DataListView has an array controller whose contentArray is bound to
the DataList's content array. Given that i
Keith Duncan wrote on Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:01 am:
> Typically you'd bind the text field to the underlying value, the
> same value the slider is bound to. Is there a reason you want to
> do it this way?
Whoops, yes you're right, I was ignoring a basic tenet of MVC. I had wired it
up that
The Value of the text field is bound to [...] "slider.floatValue"
Typically you'd bind the text field to the underlying value, the same
value the slider is bound to. Is there a reason you want to do it this
way? I think you'll find that NSProgressIndicator isn't KVO compliant
for the float
By now, most of you know I'm working through Aaron Hillegass's book.
Along the way, I'm trying to utilize Objective-C 2.0 constructs where
I am aware of differences. Hillegass is using explicitly declared
setters and getters. I am using @property and @synthesize. In his -
(void)setString: me
Hi there.
Occasionally I need to display some very long strings. These string
can have sentences that would span several lines depending on the
width of my NSTextView. Example of such texts:
"This is the first line which spans over to the second line and then
it stops.
This is another l
Hi all,
I have an NSSlider and NSTextField in a window. The Value of the text
field is bound to the instance of my controller in the nib with a key
path of "slider.floatValue". slider is an instance variable of the
controller and the outlets are set correctly (confirmed through
NSLog'ing
Hi everyone.
As the topic described, I came across this issue when using a
IKImageView in a multi-document application.
At first, I created a sample multi-document application using the
xcode starter template "cocoa multi-document application". Without
adding a line of code, build the appl
Hi all-
I have a small existing app that I've chosen to rewrite for my next
release, primarily as an exercise in adopting Leopard and ObjC 2.0
technologies. This includes the use of garbage collection.
Part of this app's design involves the use of distributed objects to
communicate betwe
I've got an app whose interface exists entirely in a single floating
window and I'm sure a few other people have noticed that Spaces has
issues with tools in that category. The most prominent failure is
that setting an app to appear in all spaces doesn't "just work" but
someone on (I think)
Many thanks for your reply. I have a model object and a view object - DataList
and DataListView. DataList has a -content array. The DataListView has an array
controller whose contentArray is bound to the DataList's content array. Given
that it is the view that observes the model, I have implemen
On 28/02/2008, at 8:15 PM, ali alavi wrote:
I am trying to change the title of a push button after each click
(eg: to swap between "Play" and "Pause")
I am using this code:
if(m_isPlaying)
{
[myButton setStringValue:@"Play"];
m_isPlaying = 0;
}
else
{
[myButton setStringValue
You can use setAlternativeTitle method
- Apparao.
On 2/28/08, ali alavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to change the title of a push button after each click (eg: to
> swap between "Play" and "Pause")
>
> I am using this code:
>
> if(m_isPlaying)
> {
>[myButton setStringValue:@"P
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Chris Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I want to add some simple bar graphs and pie charts to my project.
Is
there an apple api for charting or do you need to use a 3rd party
product?
I've been using Chartdirector:
http://www.advsofteng.com/
Not Cocoa, b
I am trying to change the title of a push button after each click (eg: to swap
between "Play" and "Pause")
I am using this code:
if(m_isPlaying)
{
[myButton setStringValue:@"Play"];
m_isPlaying = 0;
}
else
{
[myButton setStringValue:@"Pause"];
m_isPlaying = 1;
}
None of abov
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Miguel Coxo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, i have a binding setup in IB like this:
>
> http://mt15.quickshareit.com/share/picture1f06b0.png
>
> where the cellData is a function in the class CPDownload:
>
> - (id) cellData
> {
> return self;
> }
This mean
From: "Sean McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 2/26/08 12:45 AM, Quincey Morris said:
On Feb 26, 2008, at 00:16, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
I have an application (10.4.11) which creates simple text files
(utf-8 or utf-16).
When I store some document as "myNewFile" then Spotlight does know
nothin
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