[Moderator] iPhone SDK still in effect

2008-07-28 Thread CocoaDev Admins
iPhone SDK -- Until an announcement is made otherwise, developers should be aware that the iPhone SDK is still under non-disclosure (section 5.3 of the iPhone Development Agreement). It can't be discussed here, or anywhere publicly. This includes other mailing lists, forums, and

Re: draw string with ellipsis

2008-07-28 Thread Vitaly Ovchinnikov
Thanks, exactly what I need. Btw, is there any easy way to center this line vertically? Or I need to measure it's height and offset it vertically myself? On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:57 AM, chaitanya pandit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Heres what u can do, NSString *stringToDraw; // the string

Re: Need help with predicate format

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
On 28 Jul 2008, at 1:52 pm, Omar Qazi wrote: To be honest, I don't know if this will work, since I don't know if containsObject is checking if the argument is a pointer to an object in the array, or if it is equal to the object, but it's better than nothing, I guess. From the docs:

Re: NSPopupButton and bindings to NSArrayController

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
Err, how about - (BOOL)setSelectionIndex:(NSUInteger)index; I'm not familiar with bindings and haven't used NSArrayController, but this was immediately obvious in the docs. So obvious, it suggests I've missed the point... htha, Graham On 28 Jul 2008, at 1:43 pm, John Joyce wrote:

Re: NSPopupButton and bindings to NSArrayController

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
Scratch that, I read on and realised you've already found it. D'oh! G On 28 Jul 2008, at 4:37 pm, Graham Cox wrote: Err, how about - (BOOL)setSelectionIndex:(NSUInteger)index; I'm not familiar with bindings and haven't used NSArrayController, but this was immediately obvious in the docs.

Re: NSGraphicsContext restore crashes my xtension

2008-07-28 Thread Ken Ferry
Graham's suggestion is also better because -[NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:] just releases the context that was previously current, as opposed to autoreleasing it. So this has a bug: NSGraphicsContext *originalContext = [NSGraphicsContext currentContext]; [NSGraphicsContext

Setting conditional breakpoint on Cocoa method?

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
Once in a blue moon, I get a console message that a nil string was passed to [NSConcreteAttributedString initWithString:] I'd like to find out where this is coming from by setting a breakpoint there, but only for a nil string. Adding the breakpoint as a symbol to the symbolic breakpoints

Re: IB not recognizing class hierarchy

2008-07-28 Thread James Maxwell
Ah, I didn't try dragging the DKDrawingDocument.h file, just MyDocument.h. I'll give that a shot. Thanks, Graham. On 27-Jul-08, at 5:36 PM, Graham Cox wrote: Because DKDrawingDocument comes from a framework it's possible that IB can't find the definition. I'm not sure that's the problem,

Re: Folder has limited permissions.

2008-07-28 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
You have to use create and write (-c -w) authopen -c -w /etc/tolea.txt And also to write some data by creating an other pipe and binding it to the task's standard input (and then using fileHandleForWriting). Le 28 juil. 08 à 09:46, Macarov Anatoli a écrit : This is my code, I would give

Re: Need help with predicate format

2008-07-28 Thread Fabian
Thanks. Maybe I should have made myself a little more clear. I don't want to iterate over the array, but filter the array using a NSPredicate. I'm looking at the Predicate Programming Guide, which only gives basic guidance, and the docs for NSExpression. It has several class methods that sound

Re: Setting conditional breakpoint on Cocoa method?

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Heinz
There's probably a better way, but you could create an if statement containing a log message (or something) that has a breakpoint (e.g.: if (aString == nil) { NSLog(@blah) -- Breakpoint here } ) Kinda stupid solution, though. Alex On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:02 AM, Graham Cox wrote:

Re: NSGraphicsContext restore crashes my xtension

2008-07-28 Thread Ken Tozier
On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Ken Ferry wrote: Graham's suggestion is also better because -[NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:] just releases the context that was previously current, as opposed to autoreleasing it. So this has a bug: NSGraphicsContext *originalContext = [NSGraphicsContext

Re: NSGraphicsContext restore crashes my xtension

2008-07-28 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 28 juil. 08 à 10:17, Ken Tozier a écrit : On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Ken Ferry wrote: Graham's suggestion is also better because -[NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:] just releases the context that was previously current, as opposed to autoreleasing it. So this has a bug:

Re: Setting conditional breakpoint on Cocoa method?

2008-07-28 Thread Jonathan del Strother
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once in a blue moon, I get a console message that a nil string was passed to [NSConcreteAttributedString initWithString:] I'd like to find out where this is coming from by setting a breakpoint there, but only for a nil string.

Re: Need help with predicate format

2008-07-28 Thread Conrad Taylor
Hi, I would recommend taking a look at the following document. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Predicates/predicates.html Good luck, -Conrad On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Fabian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Maybe I should have made myself a little more clear.

iCal like calendar interface in my application

2008-07-28 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi all, One of our projects needs an interface to schedule appointments. We are thinking of an iCal like interface but realize that its a lot of work to come up with something like it. Are there any components we can use or are we able to incorproate iCal itself in our application? Or is the

Re: Folder has limited permissions.

2008-07-28 Thread Macarov Anatoli
   Problem solved.    Cod work:     NSPipe *writePipe = [NSPipe pipe];     NSFileHandle *writeHandle = [writePipe fileHandleForWriting];     NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init];     NSString *command = @/usr/libexec/authopen;     NSArray *args = [NSArray

Re: Need help with predicate format

2008-07-28 Thread Fabian
Thanks. As I said, I already read that but it doesn't give any examples on how to format subqueries. Anyway, I ended up adding a helper method to my subclass after all. It returns a single array of keywords, which I can examine using a predicate with format (ANY keywords contains[c] %@,

Re: NSPopupButton and bindings to NSArrayController

2008-07-28 Thread I. Savant
Well, I already checked that, it is Class, not Entity. I'm already aware that Entity is used with Core Data models. Oh, well, I'll figure something out. I always have a terrible time with NSPopupButton in any context. Sorry, it occurred to me that I'd forgotten to mention the other

How to get the cursor animation effects - Clouds of smoke when deleting something

2008-07-28 Thread Oleg Krupnov
I assume that there is a system-wide set of predefined cursor appearances and effects intended to be used by applications to mean particular standard actions. Is this correct? For example, when I drag something outside a view to get rid of it, the cursor shows a vanishing cloud of smoke and plays

Re: How to get the cursor animation effects - Clouds of smoke when deleting something

2008-07-28 Thread Antonio Nunes
On 28 Jul 2008, at 12:33, Oleg Krupnov wrote: For example, when I drag something outside a view to get rid of it, the cursor shows a vanishing cloud of smoke and plays a special sound. Have a look at NSShowAnimationEffect in the docs. António

Re: Setting conditional breakpoint on Cocoa method?

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
Ah thanks, that's very helpful. One thing that I'm a bit unsure about. If I enter a symbolic breakpoint, will it break on the first instruction of that method or further along? It matters because that doc states: If you've stopped at the first instruction of a routine, the first

Re: Setting conditional breakpoint on Cocoa method?

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
I need to break on a Cocoa method that I don't have the source to. If I had the source, I could just set a breakpoint by clicking in the margin in the usual way. Thanks anyway, Graham On 28 Jul 2008, at 6:11 pm, Alex Heinz wrote: There's probably a better way, but you could create an if

Re: NSTextView + other NSView in NSScrollView?

2008-07-28 Thread Jacob Bandes-Storch
On Jul 27, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Andy Lee wrote: On Jul 27, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch wrote: I'm trying to create a Mail-style scroll view, with a view for information (like the view for message headers) above a text view for the content. I created two NSViews in Interface

Re: NSTextView + other NSView in NSScrollView?

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
On 28 Jul 2008, at 11:59 pm, Jacob Bandes-Storch wrote: Because the Text View that IB provides is embedded in a scroll view already and I can't add another view to it. Choose Unembed Objects to get the unenclosed NSTextView after dragging the view to the window in IB. No... what I want

Re: NSTextView + other NSView in NSScrollView?

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Jacob Bandes-Storch wrote: On Jul 27, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Andy Lee wrote: If you were trying to create a Mail-like layout, I would have expected your two views to be an NSTableView and an NSTextView, both embedded in a Split View. No... what I want is like the

Authenticate Password.

2008-07-28 Thread Macarov Anatoli
HI!!! Cocoa, Obj-C. With the help of this procedure I check whether the password has been entered correctly. But the code works only for the user with admins rights. How do I check the password being a standard user? Cod: -(BOOL) authenticatePassword:(NSString *)password :(NSString *)userName

Re: NSTextView + other NSView in NSScrollView?

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 28, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Graham Cox wrote: I suspect Mail just uses a single NSTextView and just arranges the header text using custom text attributes, etc. Maybe someone at Apple reading this would know for sure. I guessed that too, but a look at the nib file in Mail.app indicates

sorting two arrays

2008-07-28 Thread Jeff LaMarche
Hey all... I've got two arrays that are related, so that object 0 in one array corresponds to object 0 in the other array. I'd like to implement a sort based on the values in one array, but to reorder both array so that the order of the two arrays stays in sync and that object x in one

Re: NSTextView + other NSView in NSScrollView?

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 27, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch wrote: I'm trying to create a Mail-style scroll view, with a view for information (like the view for message headers) above a text view for the content. I created two NSViews in Interface Builder, changed the class of the bottom one to

Re: draw string with ellipsis

2008-07-28 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 28.07.2008, at 08:23, Vitaly Ovchinnikov wrote: Thanks, exactly what I need. Btw, is there any easy way to center this line vertically? Or I need to measure it's height and offset it vertically myself? NSParagraphStyle -setAlignment: ? Cheers, -- Uli Kusterer The Witnesses of TeachText

Re: NSTextView + other NSView in NSScrollView?

2008-07-28 Thread Jacob Bandes-Storch
On Jul 28, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Andy Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 27, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch wrote: I'm trying to create a Mail-style scroll view, with a view for information (like the view for message headers) above a text view for the content. I created two NSViews in

Re: draw string with ellipsis

2008-07-28 Thread Vitaly Ovchinnikov
This one aligns string horizontally, I need vertical alignment. Well, OK, will measure it's height and center it myself. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Uli Kusterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28.07.2008, at 08:23, Vitaly Ovchinnikov wrote: Thanks, exactly what I need. Btw, is there any

Re: Folder sharing attributes

2008-07-28 Thread Peter Alshuth
Thanks for the info. I tried this code section but it doesn't work. The result of sharingFlags is always 0. Is there another way with DirServices to request the sharing attribute about a folder if this in not working under Leopard? Peter FSRef fileRef; NSString *filePath =

[Newbie] Communication between two Views?

2008-07-28 Thread Thomas Wickl
Hello, I have a question regarding to communication between two Views. My tableview creates a view in which the user can enter a text. How do I get the text from the View to my tableview? The View is created in the following was in my tableview: - (IBAction)addAction:(id)sender{ if

Text Editor

2008-07-28 Thread mahaboob pa
Hi, I'm new to cocoa. I'm developing an application that converts the text into HTML and vice versa. I can convert text into HTML format but, I didn't get the code to convert an HTML contents into text format. How can I do this ? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing

Re: memory management

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Ribe
Follow convention. No matter how well-documented it is, your successor will be much happier if it it's consistent with all other classes Also, a year from now, you will presumably be *much* more accustomed to the conventions, to the point that they're reflexive. You don't want old classes

Re: NSTextView + other NSView in NSScrollView?

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Lee
I don't know offhand. A quick search on CocoaBuilder for NSTextView flipped turns up this suggestion to flip the superview: http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2004/6/20/110164 But I haven't read it closely. --Andy On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Jacob Bandes-Storch wrote: On

Access to events in tight loop?

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Squires
If I handle a mouse event and am processing it in a time consuming method which includes display, what's the cleanest way to peek at events during this time (to get updated mouse info,etc ) or to allow the run loop to continue enough to make another pass? Is there a clean way to allow the

Re: [Newbie] Communication between two Views?

2008-07-28 Thread I. Savant
I have a question regarding to communication between two Views. My tableview creates a view in which the user can enter a text. How do I get the text from the View to my tableview? The View is created in the following was in my tableview: Search the documentation for the Model View

Inconsistent Socket Communications

2008-07-28 Thread Justin Giboney
I am trying to set up a client-server chat application for practice. I am getting inconsistent communications. Meaning that it works some of time and doesn't work some of the time during the same application run. Any help will be greatly appreciated Here are the projects:

Re: Text Editor

2008-07-28 Thread Mike Abdullah
3 options: * NSAttributedString * Create a parser using NSScanner that strips out all non-text. * WebKit, in particular the DOM API. On 28 Jul 2008, at 12:10, mahaboob pa wrote: Hi, I'm new to cocoa. I'm developing an application that converts the text into HTML and vice versa. I can

Re: Access to events in tight loop?

2008-07-28 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Squires wrote: If I handle a mouse event and am processing it in a time consuming method which includes display, what's the cleanest way to peek at events during this time (to get updated mouse info,etc ) or to allow the run loop to

Re: Access to events in tight loop?

2008-07-28 Thread chaitanya pandit
What you can do is use the NSWindow's nextEventMatchingMask: method to determine the next event, here you can check for events that should discontinue your current processing. So, say if u want to do some processing only while mouse down, and stop if there is a mouse up while you are doing

Re: NSTableview Datasource and NSPopupbuttonCell

2008-07-28 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:50:31 +1000, Steven Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Folks, I have a NSTableview with a datasource consisting of an NSArray of dictionaries. One column in my table has an NSPopupbuttonCell. The content and contentValues are bound to a Core Data Account object. I use a

Re: Creating a styles menu like the one in the ruler accessory view of NSLayoutManager...

2008-07-28 Thread Keith Blount
Hmm, Looking into this some more, it seems that the user's favourite styles can be accessed like this: NSDictionary *favStyles = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@NSFavoriteStyles]; Presumably this is what is used to generate the pop-up menu in NSLayoutManager's ruler

Re: [Newbie] Communication between two Views?

2008-07-28 Thread Wickl thomas
Hi, and thank you for your answer. Yes, the understanding of the MVC- Problem seems to be my problem. I know how MVC works with one Model, one View and one Controller but I really don´t understnd how the controllers of different Views communicate with each other. And I really don´t find

Re: Getting process table info from within a Cocoa app

2008-07-28 Thread Sumner Trammell
Thanks guys. I thought I'd post my solution. The difference between my solution and the examples on the net that I was able to find is that I already know the pid -- I just want to see if that pid is still running, if it's running as root, and if it has a certain name. Although the Cocoa content

Re: NSTimer and a problem with document-based apps

2008-07-28 Thread Sumner Trammell
Thanks guys. Using class methods was a brilliant idea. Solidified my understanding of when I might want to use them, and when I might want to use @synchronized as well. -s On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Todd Heberlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - (id)init { ... timer = [NSTimer

How would you tell WebKit to keep all JavaScript popup windows on top/in front?

2008-07-28 Thread Sumner Trammell
Hi, I've used WebKit to write a small Single-Site Browser that takes you straight to a special section of the company intranet. It works great, but there is one particular link on the page that creates a popup window using JavaScript. I want this popup to always stay on top. In other words, I

Re: DO Chat Example

2008-07-28 Thread Lukhnos D. Liu
On Jul 26, 2008, at 3:38 AM, Justin Giboney wrote: It works so far... well mostly. It isn't very consistent. I don't have a lot of experience with ports, and I was hoping that someone could look at it and see if they can find out why some messages go through while others don't. Here are

Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Carter R. Harrison
Hey Everybody, If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? Right now I'm doing this: int i; for (i = 0 ; i 10 ; i++) { NSObject *myObject = [[NSObject alloc] init]; [dictionary setValue:myObject

Re: [Newbie] Communication between two Views?

2008-07-28 Thread I. Savant
and thank you for your answer. Yes, the understanding of the MVC-Problem seems to be my problem. I know how MVC works with one Model, one View and one Controller but I really don´t understnd how the controllers of different Views communicate with each other. And I really don´t find an Example

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? I'm racking my brains trying to think of a good reason to do this and am drawing a blank. I can,

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread I. Savant
If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? I'm racking my brains trying to think of a good reason to do this and am drawing a blank. I can, however, think of myriad bad reasons. Agreed - I can't help but

Re: DO Chat Example

2008-07-28 Thread Justin Giboney
My original intention was to make the client serve a DO also. The problem I was having, was how to have the server know who is out there. Now that I think about it, I could have the Server keep a list of the registered names of the clients. Would that be a better option? As far as the

Re: [Newbie] Communication between two Views?

2008-07-28 Thread I. Savant
I know how MVC works with one Model, one View and one Controller but I really don´t understnd how the controllers of different Views communicate with each other. Through the model. The controllers of different views do not generally communicate directly. That's a pretty general blanket

Re: Converting Windows RC to NIBs (was Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch)

2008-07-28 Thread Jonathan Hess
On Jul 16, 2008, at 3:38 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote: On 14.07.2008, at 14:53, Bill Royds wrote: Are there any good tools for porting Application menus and forms from other windowing systems (such as MS Windows or X or even Carbon) to Cocoa nibs? I have a number of applications that I would

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread David Wilson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Carter R. Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Everybody, If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? Right now I'm doing this: int i; for (i = 0 ; i 10 ; i++) {

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:13, Carter R. Harrison wrote: If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? The usual way would be to use the result of +[NSValue valueWithNonretainedObject:] as a dictionary key.

Re: Event-Driven XML Parsing and Entity References

2008-07-28 Thread Carter R. Harrison
On Jul 27, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Nathan Kinsinger wrote: On Jul 27, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: There's been some discussion on this topic previously, but I haven't been able to find the solution that I'm looking for. I'm using the event-driven XML parser (CFXMLParser).

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Jonathan Hess
On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:44 AM, I. Savant wrote: If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? I'm racking my brains trying to think of a good reason to do this and am drawing a blank. I can, however, think

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Carter R. Harrison
On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:24 PM, David Wilson wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Carter R. Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Everybody, If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? Right now I'm doing

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Dave Carrigan wrote: On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? I'm racking my brains trying to think of a good reason

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Charles Srstka
On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Jonathan Hess wrote: A good reason would be that you care about identity equality and not value equality. You care that the key is the exact same instance, not that it is an equivalent instance. (== vs isEqual:) Another reason would be that the keys might not

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Jonathan Hess wrote: On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:44 AM, I. Savant wrote: If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? I'm racking my brains trying to think of a good reason to do

Shameless Ottawa (Canada) Cocoaheads plug

2008-07-28 Thread Greg Robertson
This is a shameless plug for a new Ottawa (Canada) Cocoa Heads group Now that Canada finally has the iPhone, if there are any Ottawa (Canada) area iPhone Developers who might want to get together to talk about iPhone, Touch or Cocoa there is a new Google group. Philippe Guitard who some of you

Re: Access to events in tight loop?

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Anguish
do you have to use the tight loop approach? The view documentation discusses the pros and cons of this approach and other options. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaViewsGuide/SubclassingNSView/chapter_6_section_4.html#/ /apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002978-CH7-SW27

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:34, Andy Lee wrote: On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Dave Carrigan wrote: On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? I'm racking

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread David Duncan
On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote: The issue was with the format string.. Instead of a %x, I needed a %qx. The %qx displays a 64 bit address whereas the %x displays a 32 bit address. When you give %x, only the least significant 32 bits are printed and those happen to

NSTableView dragging to the finder - NSDragOperation

2008-07-28 Thread Don Messerli
I have a subclass of NSTableView in which I'm implementing drag and drop to the finder. Everything is basically working. However, when my class gets the call draggedImage:endedAt:operation:, operation is NSDragOperationGeneric (for a copy or move) or NSDragOperationDelete (for a delete). I'm

How to specify a relative path to a (pdf)-document in a (pdf)-document

2008-07-28 Thread Dirk Hollstein
Dear list members, I am writing to you to ask for some help on specifying a path to a document, which I could not find by searching the web and the list. What I want to achieve is this: - Having a couple of hyperlinks in a

Drawing Graphs in Cocoa

2008-07-28 Thread Taylor Barstow
Hi, I'm working on an application where I need to draw graphs in Cocoa. I'm not talking about data plotting, I'm talking about creating visualizations for directed, acyclic graphs in the computer science / discrete math sense (where a graph is a collection of nodes and edges). Does

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Jonathan Hess wrote: A good reason would be that you care about identity equality and not value equality. You care that the key is the exact same instance, not that it is an equivalent instance. (== vs isEqual:)

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:34, Andy Lee wrote: Count me as another mystified person -- can you say what you're trying to do? I'm thinking maybe some kind of serialization or maybe object caching, but nothing makes sense. It sounds like what

Re: draw string with ellipsis

2008-07-28 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 28.07.2008, at 17:22, Vitaly Ovchinnikov wrote: This one aligns string horizontally, I need vertical alignment. Well, OK, will measure it's height and center it myself. Oh, sorry. Wasn't quite awake when I wrote that, apparently. Yeah, I think vertical is up to you. Cheers, -- Uli

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Carter R. Harrison
On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:24 PM, David Wilson wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Carter R. Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Everybody, If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? Right now I'm doing

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Michael Ash
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Jonathan Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:44 AM, I. Savant wrote: If I wanted to store an object in a dictionary and set its key as the object's memory address - how would I go about doing this? I'm racking my brains trying to think of a

Re: Predicate Binding Format/case sensitive question ...

2008-07-28 Thread Fabian
Easy. entry contains[c] $value, or [cd] for case- and diacritic-insensitive. F. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:32 PM, vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I've added a search field to my database using bindings. Works fine. How do I alter the following Predicate Format binding syntax ...

Bizarre Xcode Behaviour

2008-07-28 Thread Patrick Walker
I've been working on an item and it worked all fine and dandy. Knowing things would soon go awry, I took a snapshot. I did a build after making an addition of another NSTextField label. Suddenly, each time the program was built or launched, I would get this: 2008-07-28 18:15:31.039

Re: Authenticate Password.

2008-07-28 Thread Shawn Erickson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Macarov Anatoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the help of this procedure I check whether the password has been entered correctly. But the code works only for the user with admins rights. How do I check the password being a standard user? You should never ask

Re: Bizarre Xcode Behaviour

2008-07-28 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Patrick Walker wrote: 2008-07-28 18:15:31.062 Server[6718:10b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** - [NSApplication isDescendantOf:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x112580' That doesn't look like

Re: Storing values in dictionary with their address as the key

2008-07-28 Thread Charles Steinman
--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Carter R. Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually now that I'm looking at this more closely, NSDictionary is expecting an NSString for the key when inserting a value. Your example uses an NSValue for the key - the compiler is throwing a warning for this one..

Re: [Newbie] Communication between two Views?

2008-07-28 Thread Hamish Allan
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:12 PM, I. Savant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Hamish Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Wickl thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know how MVC works with one Model, one View and one Controller but I really

Re: Distributed Objects connection went invalid while waiting for a reply

2008-07-28 Thread Hamish Allan
For anyone searching the archives for connection went invalid while waiting for a reply: I never found out why this message was appearing, but I found a workaround. Instead of calling [client callbackWithArgument:arg], call [client performSelector:@selector(callbackWithArgument:) withObject:arg

Re: Repositioning a content view w/in a window

2008-07-28 Thread R.L. Grigg
On Jul 26, 2008, at 3:15 AM, Michael Ash wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Henry McGilton (Starbase) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Michael Ash wrote: In fact I would go so far as to say that if you ever use -setContentView:, you are very probably doing it

NSTreeController rearrangeObjects doesn't always trigger sorting

2008-07-28 Thread Jonathan Fewtrell
I know that similar issues have been raised in the past, but I haven't been able to find a clear solution. I have a Core Data app with an NSOutlineView controlled by an entity- mode NSTreeController bound to the managed object context. The NSTreeController has sort descriptors based on

Re: Repositioning a content view w/in a window

2008-07-28 Thread Erik Buck
Is something like this a decent Cocoa approach: // create the window myWindow = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect: ... ]; // insert the existing matrix as it's content view [myWindow setContentView:myMatrix]; // alter the position of the matrix NSPoint newPoint = ...

Re: [Newbie] Communication between two Views?

2008-07-28 Thread I. Savant
On Jul 28, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Hamish Allan wrote: I agree, so I'm not sure why you're using this as a counter-example to what I said! I'm confused. The OP said, ... I really don´t understnd how the controllers of different Views communicate with each other. To which you replied,

Re: Repositioning a content view w/in a window

2008-07-28 Thread R.L. Grigg
On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Erik Buck wrote: Is something like this a decent Cocoa approach: // create the window myWindow = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect: ... ]; // insert the existing matrix as it's content view [myWindow setContentView:myMatrix]; // alter the

Re: Setting conditional breakpoint on Cocoa method?

2008-07-28 Thread Ken Thomases
On Jul 28, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Graham Cox wrote: One thing that I'm a bit unsure about. If I enter a symbolic breakpoint, will it break on the first instruction of that method or further along? The breakpoint is after the local frame has been set up: $ gdb

Re: Efficient Updating of Thousands of NSManagedObject Relationships

2008-07-28 Thread Kenny Carruthers
Even building up an array of managedobjects and then passing that to the set returned from mutableSetValueForKey results in extremely long updates. For example, I just tried moving 1300 songs to a playlist and while it took almost no time to fetch each song from the managed context and

Re: sorting two arrays

2008-07-28 Thread William Squires
The most logical is to make a class that has - as properties - the two pieces of data being sorted, then put these in an NSArray (or NSMutableArray as appropriate to your situation), and then sort that instead. Not only will it sort both pieces of data together, but it's a lot easier to

Re: [OT] How do you pronounce .xib?

2008-07-28 Thread William Squires
Can we kill this silly thread before I send a 'kill -9' to your ecks- eye-bee :) On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Andreas Wittenstein wrote: Eleven B - Andreas ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list

Re: Setting conditional breakpoint on Cocoa method? [SOLVED]

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
Thanks Ken and Jonathan - with your help I got the debugger to reveal the source of the bug and fixed it. (And learned a useful new weapon in the process). cheers, Graham On 29 Jul 2008, at 9:38 am, Ken Thomases wrote: On Jul 28, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Graham Cox wrote: One thing that I'm a

Re: sorting two arrays

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
Jeff, This has a bit of a whiff about it. Two arrays of the same objects is not unusual, but forcing them always into the same order is - surely that's just a data duplication? If the arrays are meant to be identical, why not just use one array? What is different? If array B contains

Re: sorting two arrays

2008-07-28 Thread Randall Meadows
On Jul 28, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Graham Cox wrote: This has a bit of a whiff about it. Two arrays of the same objects is not unusual, but forcing them always into the same order is - surely that's just a data duplication? If the arrays are meant to be identical, why not just use one array?

Re: sorting two arrays

2008-07-28 Thread Graham Cox
Ah, OK, didn't quite grok that. If they are related, could object A have a reference to object B? If so, just sorting one array then gives you the other objects sorted in the same order without having to sort array B (or even have one). Graham On 29 Jul 2008, at 11:08 am, Randall Meadows

Re: sorting two arrays

2008-07-28 Thread Michael Ash
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, OK, didn't quite grok that. If they are related, could object A have a reference to object B? If so, just sorting one array then gives you the other objects sorted in the same order without having to sort array B (or even

Re: What is the maximum NSURL length?

2008-07-28 Thread Gregory Weston
Philip Dow wrote: Hello, quick question. What is the maximum length of an utf-8 string that NSURL can handle when using +[NSURL urlWithString:]. I understand that Safari can deal with tens of thousands of characters in the url field. Would somebody be able to offer a more specific number?

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