Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread Daniel DeCovnick
Honestly, I don't care how the data is stored, as long as I've got some reliable place to store file-specific data such that it can be reliably tied to the file (cross-user/cross-computer concerns are primary, cross-platform concerns are secondary - I'm only writing this for OS X

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread Chris Suter
On 24/04/2008, at 4:14 PM, Daniel DeCovnick wrote: Honestly, I don't care how the data is stored, as long as I've got some reliable place to store file-specific data such that it can be reliably tied to the file (cross-user/cross-computer concerns are primary, cross-platform concerns are

Re: Saving NSTextView data to CoreData without ending editing

2008-04-24 Thread Ferhat Ayaz
Hi Mike, try to check continuously Update Value in the bind options. Ferhat On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:26 PM, Mike Manzano wrote: I have an application that periodically needs to save content contained in an NSTextView. The text view is bound to a Core Data managed object. Currently, I am

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread Daniel DeCovnick
I read that. I'm not sure I completely know what the resource map is. The resource manager keeps track of a table of resource types, and subtables of resource names or ID's as the key in a key-value pair, where the resources themselves are the values. Is that what the map is, that whole

ManagedObjectContext save issue

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Cronin
Folks; I have a CoreData model working reasonably under Tiger now moving to aggressive testing on Leopard. I'm seeing something I don't believe I've never seen on Tiger... The application has only one ManagedObjectContext. This is established during the -awakeFromNib of the NSApp

Re: Complex data for webservices

2008-04-24 Thread Niklas Saers
Hi Jeff, thanks again for answering so quickly On Apr 23, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Jeff LaMarche wrote: When I try to access your WSDL, I get: Server Error in '/DummyWS' Application. Sorry about that, should be fixed now. Seems the development box ran out of diskspace. :-/ Generally, though, I

SOLVED ?? Re: Application Launch (or doesn't Launch as such)

2008-04-24 Thread David Wilson
Well it's all working now again at least. I downloaded the new beta4 of the iPhone SDK (build 1071 of XCode). I edited my project file (after taking a copy of it) and deleted user.bpxuser and user.modexvx files And probably the key thing... rebooted hmmm... should have rebooted first.

Re: Complex data for webservices

2008-04-24 Thread Niklas Saers
Sorry for sending the previous mail immaturely. I hit option-shift-D which I expected to give me the dictionary to look up my spelling, but which of course delivered my mail. ;-) The previous mail was complete, except for one suspicion: On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Niklas Saers wrote:

Understaing NSNotificationQueue and IDLE

2008-04-24 Thread Francisco Tolmasky
It has often been asked on this mailing list how to get undo working with continuous controls, and the generally agreed upon answer seems to be to use NSNotificationQueue to coalesce notifications under NSPostWhenIdle. In fact in a previous thread it was said that this method would work

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 24.04.2008 um 09:16 schrieb Daniel DeCovnick: I read that. I'm not sure I completely know what the resource map is. The resource manager keeps track of a table of resource types, and subtables of resource names or ID's as the key in a key-value pair, where the resources themselves are

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 24.04.2008 um 06:28 schrieb Graham Cox: On 24 Apr 2008, at 12:59 pm, Chris Suter wrote: The limits for resource forks are the same as for data forks Not true - the ResourceMap contains some 24-bit pointers, or at least it used to, as well as some 16-bit length fields as well. Unless

Re: Uneditable NSTableView

2008-04-24 Thread Hamish Allan
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Ewan Delanoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason is, I know how to produce easily the double-click behaviour with Cocoa but not the (better) click behaviour It's not really single click behaviour -- it's a classic master-detail interface, i.e., the lower

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread Daniel DeCovnick
The tips are appreciated. AFAICT, the limit on total resource sizes is within a kB or 2 of 2 or 4 GB, with the limitation that the last resource must start within the first ~16 MB. Given the fact that the files I'm opening are in the 1-300k range, I suspect I have bigger problems than the

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Ash
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Chris Suter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/04/2008, at 2:28 PM, Graham Cox wrote: On 24 Apr 2008, at 12:59 pm, Chris Suter wrote: The limits for resource forks are the same as for data forks Not true - the ResourceMap contains some 24-bit

How to get quick succession mouseDown events

2008-04-24 Thread carbonat
I have implemented a NSButtonCell subclass in the usual way to catch mouse tracking. I get the startTrackingAt and stopTracking messages called correctly on the click of the mouse. However the startTrackingAt is not quickly called again if I quickly click again the mouse, such as if I did

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread glenn andreas
On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:08 AM, Daniel DeCovnick wrote: The tips are appreciated. AFAICT, the limit on total resource sizes is within a kB or 2 of 2 or 4 GB, with the limitation that the last resource must start within the first ~16 MB. Given the fact that the files I'm opening are in the

predicateWithFormat differs between Tiger and Leopard

2008-04-24 Thread Richard Salvatierra
I am attempting to search within an SQL database. (coreData) The predicate below filters the search properly in Leopard, but not in Tiger. Have I missed something? [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat: @presentation_type == 0 AND (ANY toSlides.slide_text LIKE[cd] %@), [NSString

Re: NSTextView text coloring problem

2008-04-24 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 24 Apr 2008, at 16:10, Dave Jewell wrote: On 24 Apr 2008, at 8:42 am, Graham Cox wrote: Aside: your ivars shouldn't start with an underscore - Apple reserves such names for its own classes. Interesting - I was unaware of that convention. Dietmar Planitzer provides something of an

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread Hamish Allan
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Daniel DeCovnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er... either my calculator's broken or (65535 - 30 - 8 )/12 = 5458, not 2727, where 30 and 8 are the resource map header and a single reference type. However, floor((32767 - 30 - 8) / 12) = 2727. Maybe the use of a

Re: NSTextView text coloring problem

2008-04-24 Thread John Stiles
Is the $ usage an extension? That doesn't sound like regular C to me. Alastair Houghton wrote: On 24 Apr 2008, at 16:10, Dave Jewell wrote: On 24 Apr 2008, at 8:42 am, Graham Cox wrote: Aside: your ivars shouldn't start with an underscore - Apple reserves such names for its own classes.

Interesting WebView/NSRunLoop issue

2008-04-24 Thread David Springer
Folks, I need help figuring out this problem. Basically, I want to run a WebView in a modal dialog, but WebView's don't work in NSModalPanelRunLoopMode. So, I have been trying unsuccessfully to fake a modal run loop while running it in NSDefaultRunLoopMode. This is my latest attempt: //

Re: Caching a local file using NSURLCache

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
As far as I know NSURLCache only works for HTTP/HTTPS without extending the class yourself for other protocols. I think you might do better just using a mutable dictionary and saving that to disc with your data objects. The key would be your URL. On Apr 23, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Stephan

Re: NSTextView text coloring problem

2008-04-24 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 24 Apr 2008, at 18:17, John Stiles wrote: Is the $ usage an extension? That doesn't sound like regular C to me. Well it's implementation defined, if that's what you mean, yes. I think KR allowed it, then ANSI disallowed it---I think (this is all from memory)---but C99 allows any

Re: Caching a local file using NSURLCache

2008-04-24 Thread Jens Alfke
On 23 Apr '08, at 3:14 PM, Stephan Burlot wrote: I want to cache local files (images) so I cache a NSData using [NSURLCache storeCachedResponse] If I try to fetch it, the cachedResponseForRequest:request is always nil under 10.5 This works under 10.4. NSURLCache was rewritten in 10.5;

Re: SOLVED ?? Re: Application Launch (or doesn't Launch as such)

2008-04-24 Thread Jens Alfke
On 24 Apr '08, at 1:34 AM, David Wilson wrote: Well it's all working now again at least. I downloaded the new beta4 of the iPhone SDK (build 1071 of XCode). I've been having the same problem in many of my projects ever since installing the first i* SDK, so I suspect this is/was a bug

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-24 Thread Bill Monk
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Hamish Allan wrote: Maybe the use of a signed int is the well-known bug Uli referred to. Indeed it is. Tech Note TB18 (1988) http://beta.devworld.apple.com/technotes/tb/tb_18.html ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: Failure on unarchiving a NSBezierPath

2008-04-24 Thread Jens Alfke
On 23 Apr '08, at 8:42 AM, an0 wrote: Nothing appeared when I opened a saved file, and log said: 2008-04-23 23:33:44.127 EasyDraw[631:10b] *** -[NSDocumentController localizedFailureReason]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x11b210 Something sent -localizedFailureReason: to an

NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Don Arnel
I thought I'd share this with those of you who want an alternative to NSLog(). If you want your debugging output to always go to the debugger console without all the date and time stamping info, just place this bit of code in your AppName_Prefix.pch file. Then define the __DEBUG_OUT__

Re: QTMovie grabing while playback

2008-04-24 Thread Bob Smith
On Apr 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, douglas a. welton wrote: Bob Randall, If all you want to do is slap some arbitrary text over a movie, I would suggest that you take a look at using QTMovieLayer and CATextLayer as the mechanism for doing this. I don't have any code that I can share with

Obj-C client and Java-RMI server

2008-04-24 Thread Optical Ali
Hi, I'm new to Cocoa. I would like to write a server-side using Java-RMI (or maby sockets) and client using Objective-C. Can someone point me in the right direction? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin

re: ManagedObjectContext save issue

2008-04-24 Thread Ben Trumbull
Steve, What's the error, what's in it's userInfo dictionary, and if you use: future-break +[NSError errorWithDomain:code:userInfo:] in gdb, what's the stack trace from the point that creates the error ? -- -Ben ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Mohsan Khan
Ohh this is so good, I'm happy!!! Thanks! On to 24 apr 2008, at 21.53, Don Arnel wrote: I thought I'd share this with those of you who want an alternative to NSLog(). If you want your debugging output to always go to the debugger console without all the date and time stamping info, just

Re: SOLVED ?? Re: Application Launch (or doesn't Launch as such)

2008-04-24 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 24 avr. 08 à 20:51, Jens Alfke a écrit : On 24 Apr '08, at 1:34 AM, David Wilson wrote: Well it's all working now again at least. I downloaded the new beta4 of the iPhone SDK (build 1071 of XCode). I've been having the same problem in many of my projects ever since installing the

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Mohsan Khan
Sorry, I was a little bit to quick there... I get an error 169: DBOut( @Hello World! ); /AppController.m:169: error: syntax error before ']' token Did I miss something? On to 24 apr 2008, at 23.24, Mohsan Khan wrote: Ohh this is so good, I'm happy!!! Thanks! On to 24 apr 2008, at

Re: Obj-C client and Java-RMI server

2008-04-24 Thread Tom Davies
On 25/04/2008, at 6:42 AM, Optical Ali wrote: Hi, I'm new to Cocoa. I would like to write a server-side using Java-RMI (or maby sockets) and client using Objective-C. Can someone point me in the right direction? I would suggest using XML-RPC, which is well supported on both Java and OS

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Ken Thomases
There should be two hash characters (##) before the __VA_ARGS__. That's a gcc feature such that, if the macro is used without passing arguments beyond the format string, then the comma is removed from the expansion. -Ken On Apr 24, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Mohsan Khan wrote: Sorry, I was a

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Don Arnel
If you cut and pasted the code make sure each line begins with the # character. If not then your mail reader wrapped a long line onto the next line. On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Mohsan Khan wrote: Sorry, I was a little bit to quick there... I get an error 169: DBOut( @Hello World! );

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Don Arnel
Good point! I've only used it with arguments so far. Here is a better version: #ifdef __DEBUG_OUT__ #define DBOut(fmt, ...) fprintf(stderr, %s\n, [[NSString stringWithFormat:(fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__] cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]) #define DBCOut(fmt, ...) fprintf(stderr, fmt,

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Herb Petschauer
What happens in a release build in this situation? if ( TRUE == someCondition ) DBOut( @someCondition happened ); [foo someMethod]; I'd recommend the #define DBOut(fmt, ...)\ do\ {\ fprintf(etc);\ }\ while ( false ) pattern lest you get different results in DEBUG vs non DEBUG code

Re: QTMovie grabing while playback

2008-04-24 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 24.04.2008 um 22:14 schrieb Bob Smith: In my case all I want to do is be able to add a scrolling text overlay to whatever video is being played. My app is an informational video kiosk display driver, it's meant to run mostly unattended from playlists of images and pre-recorded video,

Re: Obj-C client and Java-RMI server

2008-04-24 Thread Optical Ali
Thanks Tom.Actually, it's an iPhone client, but we cannot talk about that:( On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Tom Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/04/2008, at 6:42 AM, Optical Ali wrote: Hi, I'm new to Cocoa. I would like to write a server-side using Java-RMI (or maby sockets) and

Re: Application Launch (or doesn't Launch as such)

2008-04-24 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 24.04.2008 um 03:43 schrieb David Wilson: My application doesn't launch when I click the run button in Xcode (note it is NOT an iPhone app). It's an application to control USB devices. XCode tells me that the application has launched, yet it does not appear in the doc. HOWEVER I have

Re: QTMovie grabing while playback

2008-04-24 Thread David Duncan
On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote: 4) I think there's a sample on Apple's web site somewhere that draws pushbuttons etc. on top of a movie (or maybe it was an OpenGL scene?). Anyway, that approach might work for your movie, too. The sample that does this uses Core Animation

how to manage multiple non-document windows

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Christensen
I'm rewriting an old legacy app in Cocoa and have run into a stumbling block. The app is supposed to support having multiple windows open, but the window content is unrelated to the concept of a document - which is the normal multiple window model. Instead the windows provide a UI to

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Ken Thomases
The do-while-false pattern is only necessary if you've got multiple statements or are otherwise surrounding the statements with braces. On Apr 24, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Herb Petschauer wrote: What happens in a release build in this situation? if ( TRUE == someCondition ) DBOut(

Importing print-ready PDFs into NSViews and saving as PDF changes colors

2008-04-24 Thread Gerd Knops
Hello all, I am including a PDF document inside a document like so: NSData *pdfData=[[NSData alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:actualPath]; NSPDFImageRep *imageRep=[[NSPDFImageRep alloc]initWithData:pdfData]; [imageRep drawInRect:rect]; Works

Connecting streams together

2008-04-24 Thread vance
Hi, Is there a way to connect an NSOutputStream and NSInputStream together with in-memory buffer? So while the Input Stream is getting filled, the Output stream starts pulling the data out. The context of the problem is streaming. The generator creates the sounds samples, and puts them

Re: QTMovie grabing while playback

2008-04-24 Thread Scott Anguish
it's the example in the Core Animation Programming Guide, last chapter. Source isn't available at the moment other than in the book. It's text laid over a QCCompositionLayer that is running. On Apr 24, 2008, at 7:03 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote: 4) I think there's a sample on Apple's web site

Re: QTMovie grabing while playback

2008-04-24 Thread Bob Smith
On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote: Am 24.04.2008 um 22:14 schrieb Bob Smith: In my case all I want to do is be able to add a scrolling text overlay to whatever video is being played. My app is an informational video kiosk display driver, it's meant to run mostly unattended

Re: QTMovie grabing while playback

2008-04-24 Thread Scott Anguish
On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Bob Smith wrote: In my case all I want to do is be able to add a scrolling text overlay to whatever video is being played. My app is an informational video kiosk display driver, it's meant to run mostly unattended from playlists of images and pre-recorded

Re: Connecting streams together

2008-04-24 Thread vance
Thank you for the reply, I did a sample that sets up the stream in that fashion up to a degree. So there should be 2 instances, right? One instance for the NSInputStream and one instance for the NSOutputStream OR Should there be just ONE instance and then we cast it to NSInputStream or

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Herb Petschauer
Yes, good point. I _thought_ there was a good example of why to use the while false pattern but it's so far back in time that I can't recall it. The only thing that I can find is http://c-faq.com/cpp/multistmt.html which really doesn't apply in this example. Ah well, I know I've been burned by

Re: QTMovie grabing while playback

2008-04-24 Thread douglas a. welton
Bob, Scott took the words right out of my keyboard... ;^} Have you taken a look at the QCTV sample code? It does almost exactly what you want. regards, douglas On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:16 PM, Scott Anguish wrote: On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Bob Smith wrote: In my case all I want to do

Re: Connecting streams together

2008-04-24 Thread Ken Thomases
On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:25 PM, vance wrote: So there should be 2 instances, right? One instance for the NSInputStream and one instance for the NSOutputStream Yes, I would think so. The input stream to get data from wherever the data is coming from and the output stream for wherever you want

Uniform Type Indicators

2008-04-24 Thread Christopher Henrich
Have Uniform Type Indicators (UTIs) been defined for VRML, X3d, of POVray files? Thanks in advance, Christopher Henrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] mathinteract.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests

Core Animation Deadlock

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Cornaby
Hi, I'm currently trying to track down a deadlock. After adding a series of layers, CoreAnimation deadlocks here on the main thread: #0 0x958af4ee in semaphore_wait_signal_trap #1 0x958b6fc5 in pthread_mutex_lock #2 0x909f8d72 in CAContextCommitTransaction #3 0x909f89bd

Re: Core Animation Deadlock

2008-04-24 Thread John Stiles
You could also show any other thread stuck trying to lock a mutex? I assume there's another thread holding this lock or stuck trying to lock something else. Colin Cornaby wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to track down a deadlock. After adding a series of layers, CoreAnimation deadlocks here

Re: Core Animation Deadlock

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Cornaby
It looks like NSUIHeartBeat could be attempting to lock something. Although I could be wrong, it may not be related. Here's the full stack trace across all threads. (gdb) thread apply all bt Thread 37 (process 13823 thread 0xf11b): #0 0x958af506 in semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap () #1

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Ash
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Herb Petschauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, good point. I _thought_ there was a good example of why to use the while false pattern but it's so far back in time that I can't recall it. The only thing that I can find is http://c-faq.com/cpp/multistmt.html

Re: Authorization

2008-04-24 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote: I'm trying to build a simple app that changes the login screen background, I have everything right but I have no idea how i can authorize the NSFileManager to move a file in the CoreServices folder. I've looked online for examples

Re: Core Animation Deadlock

2008-04-24 Thread John Harper
On Apr 24, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Colin Cornaby wrote: It looks like NSUIHeartBeat could be attempting to lock something. Although I could be wrong, it may not be related. The render thread got stuck while depth sorting: Thread 11 (process 13823 thread 0x8803): #0 0x90a27d9c in

Re: Connecting streams together

2008-04-24 Thread vance
So there should be 2 instances, right? One instance for the NSInputStream and one instance for the NSOutputStream Yes, I would think so. The input stream to get data from wherever the data is coming from and the output stream for wherever you want it to go. I assumed you already had a

Re: Connecting streams together

2008-04-24 Thread Ken Thomases
On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:18 PM, vance wrote: So there should be 2 instances, right? One instance for the NSInputStream and one instance for the NSOutputStream Yes, I would think so. The input stream to get data from wherever the data is coming from and the output stream for wherever you

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Ash
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Jens Alfke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Apr '08, at 8:09 PM, Michael Ash wrote: It's only useful for multi-statement macros. And macros that use an 'if': extern BOOL gVerboseMode; #define LOG(X) if(gVerboseMode) NSLog(@value = %i,X); Isn't

Re: NSLog() replacement for debugger output

2008-04-24 Thread Herb Petschauer
On 24/04/2008, Michael Ash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah well, I know I've been burned by this but it may have just been a by product of using it for a different kind of macro under a different compiler. It's only useful for multi-statement macros. The idea is that a macro looks