image opacity?

2008-05-11 Thread Patrick J. Collins
Hi again, Does anyone happen to know how one could set the opacity of an NSImageView object? I am looking for a way to simply fade in an image on within my app's window-- but neither of the NSImageView nor IKImageView list anything about opacity... Thank you. Patrick J. Collins

Re: image opacity?

2008-05-11 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
NSView and subclasses have a setAlphaValue: that might do what you want. It requires a backing Core Animation layer (CALayer) and therefore is Leopard only. You can have IB setup the layer backing by setting the view's Wants Core Animation Layer under Effects of the Inspector window; I

Re: Sleep Display

2008-05-11 Thread Jere Gmail
Hi. I've tryed this code and it works. The problem is that with some machines it causes a kernel panic. They are PPC machines. Isn't this code compatible? On Sun, Nov 4, 2007 at 8:45 AM, Andrew James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How far back is this compatible? is it only 10.5? On 11/4/07,

Re: set space for window

2008-05-11 Thread Mike Abdullah
In which case I believe you do want to actually release the window, and store those factors somewhere in the control layer of your application. So, when you reopen the window, you can reset those factors appropriately. On 10 May 2008, at 22:55, Mitchell Livingston wrote: Hello, I have a

Problem with CIFilters

2008-05-11 Thread Julius Eckert
Hi, I am implementing something like a coverflow. So I have many visual elements in the background and one which is closer to the user and in focus. I put a transparent layer on top of the background elements, which makes them darker. This is very good to make the user focus more on the element

Re: ID3 Album Art

2008-05-11 Thread Gregory Weston
Mr. Gecko wrote: Hello I am using this ID3 Framework for cocoa http:// drewfamily.homemail.com.au/Cocoa_-_ID3Tag_framework.html and I want to add an image from the web which is an jpeg. I have already tried this. TagAPI *MP3 = [[TagAPI alloc] initWithGenreList:nil]; [MP3

Re: Problem with CIFilters

2008-05-11 Thread Jason Wiggins
Hi Julius, Not sure how much help I'll be, but I looked at the screencast and going through it frame by frame, it looks as though the weird lines are shadows (inner shadow, not a drop shadow) from the bounding rectangle of the icons. You see the same effect from the bounding area of the

Re: Core Data: How to Observe dirty State?

2008-05-11 Thread I. Savant
I would also expect that you can observe your NSManagedObjectContext's hasChanges property using KVO. No, you can not: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/CoreDataFramework/Classes/NSManagedObjectContext_Class/Reference/Reference.html#/

Re: Problem with CIFilters

2008-05-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Julius Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that some weird lines appear when other layers are drawn in my scene. It almost looks like what happens when you blur a finite, fully opaque image. The blur filter includes the background, naturally, but

Re: Core Data: How to Observe dirty State?

2008-05-11 Thread Hamish Allan
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 2:04 PM, I. Savant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not everything is observable because not everything is compliant. There are a number of reasons why it might not be feasible or why it might be woefully inefficient to use KVO. I take it, Chris, you really like the KVO

Re: Sleep Display

2008-05-11 Thread Jens Alfke
On 11 May '08, at 1:59 AM, Jere Gmail wrote: Hi. I've tryed this code and it works. The problem is that with some machines it causes a kernel panic. They are PPC machines. Isn't this code compatible? You should file a bug report with Apple (bugreport.apple.com) then — code outside the

Re: Core Data: How to Observe dirty State?

2008-05-11 Thread Keary Suska
on 5/10/08 7:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: On May 10, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Dave Fernandes wrote: You can also register for the NSManagedObjectContextObjectsDidChangeNotification to get a notification when anything in the MOC changes. Presumable you can then check [moc

Re: gathering system information

2008-05-11 Thread Torsten Curdt
On May 11, 2008, at 13:25, Finlay Dobbie wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Torsten Curdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that you don't have to make system_profiler write to a file. You can call it with NSTask, attach an NSPipe to its stdout, and read that with an NSFileHandle

Cocoa string to carbon compatible C string

2008-05-11 Thread Steve Cronin
Folks; I'm an ObjC guy who has to deal with some Carbon code that looks like this: #define kVERSION abc #define kPARTNUMBER 123 ... if ( (p_flag = initSomeSystem ( kVERSION,

Re: Cocoa string to carbon compatible C string

2008-05-11 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On May 11, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Steve Cronin wrote: Is this correct? Is there a better way? It depends. Does the code take a real C string (char array), or does it take an Str63 or Str255 or something? If the latter, then you need to use CoreFoundation to get a Pascal string from the

Re: Update slider position

2008-05-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have NSTextField which is connected to a slider in IB with its (Sent Actions = Take Double Value from). Don't do this. See below. (Apparently I can't have them both connected to each other AND still have connection to my

Re: image opacity?

2008-05-11 Thread Jim Puls
On May 11, 2008, at 1:26 AM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote: On May 11, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Patrick J. Collins wrote: Does anyone happen to know how one could set the opacity of an NSImageView object? I am looking for a way to simply fade in an image on within my app's window-- but neither of the

Custom Font Chooser

2008-05-11 Thread Francisco Tolmasky
I am wanting to implement my own custom inline font chooser in a text application I am writing, but am not sure how I should be hooking up to NSFontManager. I know that I should setSelectionFont:isMultiple: on the font manager when the text changes within my text controls, but I don't

Problems with object observing own key

2008-05-11 Thread Colin Cornaby
I have an object that observes a few of it's own keys. This works fine. The problem comes at dealloc time... I get messages logged to the console for each of the it's own keys that the object is observing like: ] An instance 0x1c247f50 of class GSLayerView is being deallocated while key

Re: Cocoa string to carbon compatible C string

2008-05-11 Thread Jens Alfke
On 11 May '08, at 10:36 AM, Steve Cronin wrote: const char * cPartNumber = [partNumber cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; That looks correct, assuming the Carbon function does take a C string in UTF-8 encoding, but you can make it a bit more compact: const char *

Re: Problems with object observing own key

2008-05-11 Thread Hamish Allan
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Colin Cornaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set a breakpoint on NSKVODeallocateBreak to stop here in the debugger. What's does the stack trace look like from this breakpoint? Hamish ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: Problems with object observing own key

2008-05-11 Thread Colin Cornaby
#0 0x94eb4993 in NSKVODeallocateBreak #1 0x94e267c4 in NSKVODeallocate #2 0x94d7d57f in NSPopAutoreleasePool #3 0x945b1e54 in -[NSApplication run] #4 0x9457f030 in NSApplicationMain #5 0x8208 in main at main.m:13 On May 11, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Hamish Allan wrote:

Re: wordRangeForRange implememtation

2008-05-11 Thread Jérome Laurens
Le 11 mai 08 à 04:42, Ali Ozer a écrit : To extract a word range from a string, it may be easier to use something like NSScanner: // Defining the words NSCharacterSet *validWordSet = [NSCharacterSet alphanumericCharacterSet]; // Or however you want to define words NSCharacterSet

Re: Problems with object observing own key

2008-05-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Colin Cornaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #0 0x94eb4993 in NSKVODeallocateBreak #1 0x94e267c4 in NSKVODeallocate #2 0x94d7d57f in NSPopAutoreleasePool #3 0x945b1e54 in -[NSApplication run] #4 0x9457f030 in NSApplicationMain #5

Re: wordRangeForRange implememtation

2008-05-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Jérome Laurens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I reimplemented my own NSScanner and it was way faster. Did you profile the application first to make sure that NSScanner was indeed the source of your slowdown? --Kyle Sluder

Re: Problems with object observing own key

2008-05-11 Thread Colin Cornaby
But see, that's the thing. My objects dealloc method fires AFTER the warning appears, so my object hasn't actually been deallocated yet. In the deallocation my object removes the observers from itself. If my object was actually deallocating first, I should be getting this message. I'll

Re: Problems with object observing own key

2008-05-11 Thread Mike Abdullah
This is a general problem with KVO when observing self. As I understand, Apple has recognised the issue though and for apps linked or run on Leopard (one of the 2) the system should be intelligent enough to not print warnings. The best alternative I can suggest is to override -release so

Re: Cocoa string to carbon compatible C string

2008-05-11 Thread Steve Cronin
Nick; Thanks for the info, the deal is I don't have access to the source for 'initSomeSystem'. So I can't answer your question, other than to point out what does work.. I do know that ' #define kVersion abc ' creates a suitable string. I'm trying to do the 'best' substitution I can with

Re: Problems with object observing own key

2008-05-11 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On May 11, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Colin Cornaby wrote: But see, that's the thing. My objects dealloc method fires AFTER the warning appears, so my object hasn't actually been deallocated yet. In the deallocation my object removes the observers from itself. If my object was actually

Re: Cocoa string to carbon compatible C string

2008-05-11 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On May 11, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Steve Cronin wrote: If that is true, then is the following the best solution? I guess it is then, unless initSomeSystem() modifies the character array, in which case you may have a problem. You could also use - UTF8String instead of -cStringUsingEncoding: if

Re: iChat theater

2008-05-11 Thread James Montgomerie
As you say, there is no way for an app to cause a transition to IMAVRequested, the user has to initiate the session from iChat. If your app is not document based, the user can request a session by selecting your app in the Share a file via iChat Theater file requester (or by dragging your

Extended Tool Tips

2008-05-11 Thread Loukas Kalenderidis
Hi Guys, I've been instructed to implement tool tips for an app such that a longer, more descriptive tool tip is displayed when the command key is held down. Allegedly there was a way to do this in Carbon that was part of the Help Manager API, but is there a Cocoa alternative? I've had a

NSForm bug?

2008-05-11 Thread Ben Einstein
I've been playing with NSForm the first time. I'm quite surprised that I can easily change the font of the cell (title or value) but I can't easily change the color as you can with plain ole' NSTextField(Cell). Anyway, no big deal right? There are the attributedStrings methods. A little

Re: Crashes with NSOpenPanel and garbage collection

2008-05-11 Thread j o a r
On May 11, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Daniel Parnell wrote: I'll just have to add code to my app to check for 10.5.2 and pop up a box telling the user to upgrade their machine. Something like 10.5.2 has a nasty bug, please upgrade, or if you don't want to, don't bug me error reports because there

Re: Extended Tool Tips

2008-05-11 Thread Kevin Grant
I don't think there is an official way to do it. From the document: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/IB_UserGuide/AdvancedTechniques/chapter_9_section_6.html It appears Cocoa supports only the basic form: For Carbon controls you can specify both a