Re: When in the launch cycle does coredata data become available.

2008-03-03 Thread Conor
Some of the setup methods are on a queue in the run loop and are done after applicationDidFinishLaunching: (in this case the content object of your array controller is not yet populated as the core data fetch hasn't been done yet). Run your method by placing it on the queue during

Re: Custom View drawn twice?

2008-03-03 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 29.02.2008 um 20:55 schrieb Ben Lachman: [self displayIfNeededIgnoringOpacity]; Is there a particular reason why you're calling this method? Won't plain old -displayIfNeeded do the job? Cheers, -- Uli Kusterer The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere... http://www.zathras.de

[ANN] UKCrashReporter 0.3

2008-03-03 Thread Uli Kusterer
Hi folks, just a short heads-up that there's a new version of UKCrashReporter out. UKCrashReporter is a class that checks for crash reports at startup and offers to send them to a CGI (PHP script or whatever) on your server. It does not patch anything, does not inject any code, it plays

Re: Returning values from objc_msgSend etc

2008-03-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On Monday, March 03, 2008, at 11:53AM, Duncan McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can simply check the calculated size after calling ffi_prep_cif(), and compare that to sizeof(void*) to see if the return value will fit in a register. Is that right? 8 byte structs are returned in EAX and

Re: Spotlight importer for records

2008-03-03 Thread Adam P Jenkins
Thank you for the information. Search Kit does allow indexing arbitrary pieces of data that don't have to correspond to actual files, and since Spotlight is built on top of Search Kit I thought there would be some way to do the same thing. Thanks, Adam On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:54 AM, Jens

displaying image and multiple rows of text in NSTableView row

2008-03-03 Thread Nick Rogers
Hi, I'm using NSTableView for displaying. Now I need to show an icon in every row and also have to display 2 rows of text in one row of tableView. Is it possible, if yes then how and can i incresse a row's width to accomodate two rows of text? OR if not possible, then can i use NSOutlineView

Create a PDFPage instance from Quartz-format image

2008-03-03 Thread Scott.D.R
Hi everyone. As the developer documents mention, we can create a PDFPage from a NSImage. After did some experiments, I found it was very handy to do some tasks. Thanks to Apple. However, I want to know whether it is possible to create the PDFPage instance directly from the CGImage,

Re: Problems with ScriptingBridge and iTunes

2008-03-03 Thread has
Jens Alfke wrote: Moreover, since Obj-C is a dynamic language, it's more important what the class of the object is at runtime, than what type the pointers are defined as at compile time. You can change the type declarations, but it won't affect what actual objects you get back at runtime.

Re: Problems with ScriptingBridge and iTunes

2008-03-03 Thread Steven Degutis
Thank you for the update on that sample code. I was hoping it would continue to be ignored because I was publicly berated in the #macdev channel for posting it, but oh well. Thanks to Wolf's post up there, I'm not going to continue to learn SB any longer, and I just hope Apple fixes it up. On

Using NSPredicate to parse strings

2008-03-03 Thread Jonathan Dann
Hi Guys, I'm trying to find a way to use NSPredicate to search an NSString for all occurrences of a string and return them to me. Ideally I need the returned strings ranges too. Is this possible? I can get is to tell me that a regex match is found using a predicate with the format @SELF

Coredata - populating initial data on app load - best practices

2008-03-03 Thread Jason Kravitz
I am writing my first coredata application and am wondering what the recommended way is to populate initial data. Most coredata examples do a good job explaining binding and getting data from the UI but fail to refer to populating the initial data set. I was looking at the background fetching

Typing attributes and the location of the insertion point

2008-03-03 Thread Todd Ransom
Hello, I have an application that auto-formats documents as the user types according to certain industry standards. For instance, it might change the indent on the text or it might apply bold or italic formatting. I was doing this using a text storage subclass that would look up the

Re: Coredata - populating initial data on app load - best practices

2008-03-03 Thread mmalc crawford
On Mar 3, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Jason Kravitz wrote: I am writing my first coredata application and am wondering what the recommended way is to populate initial data. Most coredata examples do a good job explaining binding and getting data from the UI but fail to refer to populating the initial

Re: When in the launch cycle does coredata data become available.

2008-03-03 Thread mmalc crawford
On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Conor wrote: Some of the setup methods are on a queue in the run loop and are done after applicationDidFinishLaunching: (in this case the content object of your array controller is not yet populated as the core data fetch hasn't been done yet). Run your method

Re: Relaunching an application

2008-03-03 Thread Mattias Arrelid
On 3 mar 2008, at 18.14, Nir Soffer wrote: On Mar 3, 2008, at 18:24, Mattias Arrelid wrote: I have an application that I need to restart. Why do you want to do that? A scenario could be that the entire contents of the .app bundle has been replaced with new stuff (e.g. the case with

Re: Relaunching an application

2008-03-03 Thread John Stiles
Mattias Arrelid wrote: On 3 mar 2008, at 18.14, Nir Soffer wrote: On Mar 3, 2008, at 18:24, Mattias Arrelid wrote: I have an application that I need to restart. Why do you want to do that? A scenario could be that the entire contents of the .app bundle has been replaced with new stuff

Re: Typing attributes and the location of the insertion point

2008-03-03 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Todd Ransom wrote: I do ensure that paragraph styles are consistent throughout the paragraph. New styles are applied in insertNewlineForTextView: or, if the user changes them manually, they always cover the range of the entire paragraph. What I am seeing is

Re: Using NSPredicate to parse strings

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Camp
On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Jonathan Dann wrote: On 3 Mar 2008, at 16:16, Mike Abdullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathon, you'll have much better luck with NSScanner. It's designed for exactly what you want. Mike. Thanks Mike, just tried it and it works quite well. Any way of

Re: Using NSPredicate to parse strings

2008-03-03 Thread Jonathan Dann
On 3 Mar 2008, at 16:16, Mike Abdullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathon, you'll have much better luck with NSScanner. It's designed for exactly what you want. Mike. Thanks Mike, just tried it and it works quite well. Any way of using NSScanner directly with regex? Not

Interface Builder (almost) supports NSToolbar

2008-03-03 Thread Brian Krisler
I have discovered that it is now almost possible to create toolbars from within Interface builder, with one big exception. There appears to be no way to define identifiers for the toolbar items. Is this a sign of future functionality? I can not find any documentation on NSToolbar within

Re: NSArchiver and MySQL

2008-03-03 Thread Jim Correia
On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote: Relying on -description would almost certainly be a bad idea as it might change in the future. Also, it will take up a lot of room. I'd recommend: http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/03/12/base64_cocoa/ Why convert to a string

Re: How can I fix an error in a XIB file?

2008-03-03 Thread Jonathan Hess
Hey Brian - There are two known issues with IB 3.0 and AppKit where toolbars and path cells cause this issue during ibtool compilation. If it's a path control that's giving you trouble, I suggest changing the style to something other than NSPathStylePopUp and then resetting the style

Re: Interface Builder (almost) supports NSToolbar

2008-03-03 Thread Quincey Morris
On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:53, Brian Krisler wrote: I have discovered that it is now almost possible to create toolbars from within Interface builder, with one big exception. There appears to be no way to define identifiers for the toolbar items. Is this a sign of future functionality? I

Re: Relaunching an application

2008-03-03 Thread Steven Degutis
Perhaps a small application like relaunch.app could be imbedded into your relaunchable application, where all it pretty much does is serve as a buffer by relaunching your application reliably (through Cocoa methods) after your app calls it the same way you mentioned above. [[NSWorkspace

Changing the format of NSTableColumn built using Core Data Entity ?

2008-03-03 Thread Martin Linklater
HI - I have what seems a silly question, but I can't seem to find an answer. I have a window in IB which contains a 'Core Data Entity' table view. This pre-built table has a number of columns, some contained strings and some containing integers. What I want to do is change the binding of

Re: Paste (without a bonus space) in a Cocoa NSText

2008-03-03 Thread I. Savant
I didn't see anything easy documented to override or control this behavior, although perhaps I just overlooked them. What techniques have people used to improve this behavior in cocoa based code-editors? -smartInsertDeleteEnabled: / -setSmartInsertDeleteEnabled: -- I.S.

Re: Changing the format of NSTableColumn built using Core Data Entity ?

2008-03-03 Thread Quincey Morris
On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:51, Martin Linklater wrote: HI - I have what seems a silly question, but I can't seem to find an answer. I have a window in IB which contains a 'Core Data Entity' table view. This pre-built table has a number of columns, some contained strings and some containing

Re: Changing the format of NSTableColumn built using Core Data Entity ?

2008-03-03 Thread Martin Linklater
On 3 Mar 2008, at 21:10, Quincey Morris wrote: Select the table column (which takes 3 clicks if you're starting at the top level). Click again to select the table column cell. You should see a little circle that represents the formatter. Click on the circle to select it and press Delete

Re: Problems with ScriptingBridge and iTunes

2008-03-03 Thread has
On 3 Mar 2008, at 15:27, Steven Degutis wrote: Thank you for the update on that sample code. I was hoping it would continue to be ignored because I was publicly berated in the #macdev channel for posting it, but oh well. Don't feel too bad: if you're coming from a Cocoa background,

Setting the image of an NSPopUpButton in IB?

2008-03-03 Thread Nick Zitzmann
I checked the archives and didn't see anything. How do I set the image to display in a pull-down NSPopUpButton using Interface Builder 3.0? No matter what I type in the image field, the field is always cleared out, and no image is displayed. I also tried setting the image in the first menu

Re: Spotlight importer for records

2008-03-03 Thread Jens Alfke
On 3 Mar '08, at 5:50 AM, Adam P Jenkins wrote: Thank you for the information. Search Kit does allow indexing arbitrary pieces of data that don't have to correspond to actual files, and since Spotlight is built on top of Search Kit I thought there would be some way to do the same thing.

Re: displaying image and multiple rows of text in NSTableView row

2008-03-03 Thread Jens Alfke
On 3 Mar '08, at 6:34 AM, Nick Rogers wrote: Now I need to show an icon in every row Add a new column and make its data cell an NSImageCell in IB. and also have to display 2 rows of text in one row of tableView. Is it possible, if yes then how and can i incresse a row's width to

Re: NSURLConnection SSL connection with expired cert.

2008-03-03 Thread Jens Alfke
On 3 Mar '08, at 1:08 PM, Dave Hersey wrote: Is there a way to get NSURLConnection to connect to an SSL server that has an expired certificate? I don't think so. I can't find any public API having to do with SSL or certificates. If this can't be handled by NSURLConnection, is there a

Re: Traversing windows with Cocoa

2008-03-03 Thread Jens Alfke
On 3 Mar '08, at 1:10 PM, aldo kurnia wrote: Given a window's TITLE, how do you create a reference to it, determine what kind of application the window is (the name of the application/executable)? and how do you move that window to the front? Applications run in protected memory spaces.

Re: Setting the image of an NSPopUpButton in IB?

2008-03-03 Thread Jens Alfke
On 3 Mar '08, at 1:56 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: I checked the archives and didn't see anything. How do I set the image to display in a pull-down NSPopUpButton using Interface Builder 3.0? That's funny, I was just doing this for the first time today, too! I got it to work... I also

Re: Relaunching an application

2008-03-03 Thread Michael Ash
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Steven Degutis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a small application like relaunch.app could be imbedded into your relaunchable application, where all it pretty much does is serve as a buffer by relaunching your application reliably (through Cocoa methods)

Re: Traversing windows with Cocoa

2008-03-03 Thread Eric Schlegel
On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:10 PM, aldo kurnia wrote: So, I looked at Accessiblity API and NSApplication looks somewhat promising because it can give out its NSWindow children reference and there are functions to activate them. One missing piece of the puzzle though, is that I couldn't find any

[SOLVED] Re: Setting the image of an NSPopUpButton in IB?

2008-03-03 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: Don't set the button style back to pop-up. Leave it pull-down, and set the button's Position attribute to image-only. Then select the first menu item and set its image name. Thanks. I guess it's a bug, then, that filling out the title of the

Re: Traversing windows with Cocoa

2008-03-03 Thread aldo kurnia
Hi, I'm not trying to manipulate anything in the protected memory space. All I want to do is determine the name of the application / process from the window, and then bring it to the front-most index. UI scripting is exactly what I've tried to do and failed. For example, you'd expect the

Re: NSURLConnection SSL connection with expired cert.

2008-03-03 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Dave Hersey wrote: Is there a way to get NSURLConnection to connect to an SSL server that has an expired certificate? There is, but it's private. Nick Zitzmann http://www.chronosnet.com/ ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Setting the image of an NSPopUpButton in IB?

2008-03-03 Thread Ken Ferry
Hi Nick, See the docs for -[NSPopUpButtonCell setImage:]: --- setImage: This method has no effect. - (void)setImage:(NSImage *)anImage Parameters anImage The image to display. Discussion The image displayed in a pop up button is taken from the selected menu item (in the case of a pop up menu)

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Setting the image of an NSPopUpButton in IB?

2008-03-03 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: See the docs for -[NSPopUpButtonCell setImage:]: But if setting the title in the inspector works, it follows that setting the image should also work... The fact that it doesn't is quite confusing. Nick Zitzmann http://www.chronosnet.com/

Re: Setting the image of an NSPopUpButton in IB?

2008-03-03 Thread Sean McBride
On 3/3/08 2:56 PM, Nick Zitzmann said: I checked the archives and didn't see anything. How do I set the image to display in a pull-down NSPopUpButton using Interface Builder 3.0? No matter what I type in the image field, the field is always cleared out, and no image is displayed. I filed this

Re: Relaunching an application

2008-03-03 Thread Steven Degutis
I've come up with an applucation design that works better than my previous suggestion of psuedo-polling launchedApplications. Rather, the relaunch application subscribes to NSWorkspace's notification center, and waits until it gaurantees that its owner-Application has terminated. If you want the

Re: Setting the image of an NSPopUpButton in IB?

2008-03-03 Thread Steven Degutis
For the first time a few days ago, I began to use NSPopUpButton and began to test it in IB3 to experiment around and see what it could do. Ultimately, I was planning on using -setImage: programattically, but it seemed odd that I couldn't set its image in IB. Within a few minutes, I had solved the

General MVC and ownership question

2008-03-03 Thread Graham
I have an object embodying a data model. In a document-based app, there would be one of these per doc. There can be one or more views on this data (for example a split view of it). Currently I don't have a controller between the two - the view is pretty specific so it implements the

Re: Relaunching an application

2008-03-03 Thread Joe Ranieri
Maybe I'm missing something, but Instead of NSTask, why not use LSOpenApplication passing in (kLSLaunchDefaults | kLSLaunchNewInstance | kLSLaunchDontAddToRecents) for flags? Your main program will block until the sub program has launched. Joe Ranieri Lead Magician, Alacatia Labs,

localizable strings file with macro

2008-03-03 Thread Mitchell Livingston
Hello, I have C code that I want to generate a strings file for use on Mac. I use: #if defined(SYS_DARWIN) #include CoreFoundation/CFBundle.h #define _(a) CFStringGetCStringPtr(CFCopyLocalizedStringFromTable( \ CFSTR( a ), CFSTR(LibraryLocalizable), comment ),

Re: Can CoreData return only unique results of an attribute - SOLVED

2008-03-03 Thread Adam Gerson
Yes, distinctUnionOfObjects turned out to be the answer. Thanks to everyone who replied. The final answer was simple, though I cant take credit for coming up with it: NSArray *allServers = [serverLibraryArrayController arrangedObjects]; NSLog(@%@, [allServers

Getting the iCal window style?

2008-03-03 Thread Nick Zitzmann
In Leopard, if you make a window that is textured, then the window's content is drawn with a gradient, and the bottom corners are rounded off. However, I noticed that several Apple applications (Address Book, iCal, Console, probably a few others) are using a look that is similar, except

Re: localizable strings file with macro

2008-03-03 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
genstrings doesn't appear to read stdin, but you could run the C preprocessor on your source file, send it to a temp file, and then run genstrings on that. cpp -DSYS_DARWIN mysource.c /tmp/foo.c genstrings /tmp/foo.c outputfile Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 3, 2008,

Re: Getting the iCal window style?

2008-03-03 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Nick Zitzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did they do that? More importantly, how can we do that? It's not the unified style; I already tried that I think it only does anything under Tiger. Look into -[NSWindow setContentBorderThickness:forEdge:], and read

Re: Getting the iCal window style?

2008-03-03 Thread Ken Ferry
The AppKit release notes cover this: --- The behavior of -setContentBorderThickness:forEdge:NSMinYEdge and -setAutorecalculatesContentBorderThickness:NO forEdge:NSMinYEdge for non-textured windows will do the following: The top gradient will be repeated in the bottom border, separator lines will

Re: Getting the iCal window style?

2008-03-03 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Nick Zitzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, it makes no difference. Did anyone get it to draw lighter this way, and if so, then what worked for you? You have made the window non-metal, correct? --Kyle Sluder ___

How to get an NSString from a non-terminated array of unicode chars (length is known)

2008-03-03 Thread Stuart Malin
My problem is that I receive a function call from a C library that gives me a wchar_t array and its length. The unicode array is _not_ terminated. The library defines an XML_Char type, so my code below refers to that, but XML_Char is wchar_t (which, I believe is UTF8 on a Mac). I'm very

Triggering GUI login session from daemon? And reboot.

2008-03-03 Thread Mac QA
Hi, I am writing a system daemon that runs (on a client) in the root session as invoked by launchd, and there is also a per-user user agent process in each login session. I communicate with this daemon from a remote process (on a server) via Cocoa Distributed Objects and I want to trigger certain

Re: How to get an NSString from a non-terminated array of unicode chars (length is known)

2008-03-03 Thread Stuart Malin
On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:19 PM, Karsten wrote: you can simply use: [NSString stringWithUTF8String: s]. or [NSString stringWithCharacters:s length: len]. Can't use the former because s is not terminated. The latter (with a cast): NSString *str = [NSString stringWithCharacters:(const unichar