NSTableColumn unbindable when NSSegmentedCell is used?

2008-10-28 Thread Mike Laurence
Hello, I'm migrating a non-binding version of an NSTableView over to a binded version. In the non-binding version (using a data source), one of my table columns used a subclass of NSSegmentedCell, and I merely overrode setObjectValue in order to capture the data and set the number of segments, the

Re: inter-object communication

2008-10-28 Thread Charles Steinman
- Original Message > From: Albert Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What is the recommended way for Object B to inform Object A that it is > done processing a request for the following scenario? > > Object A has a list of phone numbers to send SMS messages > Object B implements sending a

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Coco
On Oct 29, 2008, at 00:29 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Jason Coco wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 16:53 , Sean McBride wrote: On 10/28/08 4:03 PM, Jason Coco said: Also, you should not be using non-ascii characters in string literals :) hopefully you're just doing th

Re: Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

2008-10-28 Thread Rob Keniger
On 29/10/2008, at 2:43 PM, Joel Norvell wrote: I have a file with some metadata prepended to a pdf. I want to strip the metadata off and display the pdf. I was trying to do this: - (void) loadFromPath: (NSString *) path { NSData *myData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:path]; NSString *myS

Re: Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

2008-10-28 Thread Aki Inoue
Joel, The PDF is a binary data format. So, trying to decode with an ASCII encoding vonverter would result in data loss. I recommend processing it as mere bytes without mapping to a string. Aki from iPhone On 2008/10/28, at 21:43, Joel Norvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Cocoa-dev Peop

Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

2008-10-28 Thread Joel Norvell
Dear Cocoa-dev People, I have a file with some metadata prepended to a pdf. I want to strip the metadata off and display the pdf. I was trying to do this: - (void) loadFromPath: (NSString *) path { NSData *myData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:path]; NSString *myStr = [[NSString alloc] i

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

2008-10-28 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Jason Coco wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 16:53 , Sean McBride wrote: On 10/28/08 4:03 PM, Jason Coco said: Also, you should not be using non-ascii characters in string literals :) hopefully you're just doing this to demonstrate the issue. You should be doing so

Re: inter-object communication

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Coco
On Oct 29, 2008, at 00:15 , Albert Jordan wrote: What is the recommended way for Object B to inform Object A that it is done processing a request for the following scenario? Object A has a list of phone numbers to send SMS messages Object B implements sending an SMS message to a given phon

inter-object communication

2008-10-28 Thread Albert Jordan
What is the recommended way for Object B to inform Object A that it is done processing a request for the following scenario? Object A has a list of phone numbers to send SMS messages Object B implements sending an SMS message to a given phone number Albert ___

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Coco
On Oct 28, 2008, at 16:53 , Sean McBride wrote: On 10/28/08 4:03 PM, Jason Coco said: Also, you should not be using non-ascii characters in string literals :) hopefully you're just doing this to demonstrate the issue. You should be doing something like this: char *hiragana_a = { 0xE3, 0x8

Re: Controller and NIB

2008-10-28 Thread John Joyce
Make sure you're spelling the method signature 100% correctly. I myself have made a minor typo in a method (many times, who hasn't?) and then spent the next 20 minutes or longer bashing my head looking for my mistake. Spelling counts 100% Capitalization ( my mistake has often been NIB instead

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Jerry Krinock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roughly, the lesson is: Don't use message forwarding for "actual work". I > was just wondering if anyone had ever found otherwise. I have to say that this is greatly overstating things. I've used forwarding for all sorts

Re: Open Window from Input Manager

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a project for inserting special characters in text > fields in all Cocoa apps by means of an Input Manager. > > After a given trigger/shortcut I have the need to open a window/panel, > but I don't get it. >

Re: Sage advice (NSView vs. CALayer)

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Anguish
On 28-Oct-08, at 10:05 PM, Alex Kac wrote: That's a great one. So in a way if I'm creating a user inter-actable view, I could do my drawing in the layer, but handle all my user interaction in the view. Does that sounds about right? Again I haven't gotten that deep yet, but am working on a

Re: Sage advice

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Anguish
The Animation Overview book has a chapter that contrasts the differences in the two approaches. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Conceptual/Animation_Overview/ChooseAnimTech/chapter_5_section_1.html#/ /apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004952-CH5-SW1 On 28-Oct-08, at 5:43 PM, Al

Re: Sage advice (NSView vs. CALayer)

2008-10-28 Thread Alex Kac
That's a great one. So in a way if I'm creating a user inter-actable view, I could do my drawing in the layer, but handle all my user interaction in the view. Does that sounds about right? Again I haven't gotten that deep yet, but am working on a few things that I will be... On Oct 28, 2008

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Graham Cox
On 29 Oct 2008, at 9:16 am, Jerry Krinock wrote: Roughly, the lesson is: Don't use message forwarding for "actual work". Depending on your definition of "actual work" of course ;-) I use message forwarding to route target/action from UI such as menus down through a hierarchy of objects w

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry Krinock
Well, I couldn't resist. I added a third test to my little test project, using the new forwardingTargetForSelector: which Michael and Peter had ferreted out of the Leopard Release Notes. It is about 40x faster than the old NSInvocation-based message forwarding. On the Early 2006 Core 2 Du

Re: CALayer properties

2008-10-28 Thread DKJ
It just clicked... no need for replies! On 28 Oct, 2008, at 16:44, DKJ wrote: When I did this: myLayer.frame.size.width = rootLayer.frame.size.width; I got an "illegal lvalue" error. But when I do this: CGRect r = help.frame; r.size.width = rootLayer.frame.size.width

Re: CALayer properties

2008-10-28 Thread Dimitri Bouniol
Properties allow you to "drill down" and set values to the sub-properties that are objects (id or NSObject subclasses) of its own properties. However, the property called "frame" is a CGRect, a struct. Structs have the same syntax as properties, however it is wrong to assume they are the same th

Re: CALayer properties

2008-10-28 Thread Charles Steinman
- Original Message > From: DKJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > When I did this: > > myLayer.frame.size.width = rootLayer.frame.size.width; > > I got an "illegal lvalue" error. But when I do this: > > CGRect r = help.frame; > r.size.width = rootLayer.frame.size.width; > > the compi

Re: Getting localized NSPredicateEditor

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Spoettl
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Peter Ammon wrote: Here's something that may help - there's a method on NSRuleEditor: - (NSData *)_generateFormattingDictionaryStringsFile. It gives you a strings file (as UTF16 data) appropriate for that control - write the data to a .strings file and then you c

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2008 Oct, 28, at 16:10, Peter Ammon wrote: If you don't want to store or pick apart the message, but only route it immediately to another object, you should use the forwardingTargetForSelector: method, which will be faster than forwardInvocation:. forwardingTargetForSelector: is new to

Re: Sage advice (NSView vs. CALayer)

2008-10-28 Thread John Pannell
Hi Alex- One difference comes to mind, and is of substance for app design: - NSView is a subclass of NSResponder, CALayer is not. So views are happy to field click and keyboard events for you, participate in the responder chain, handle mouse drag/enter/exit, etc. I believe a common design

CALayer properties

2008-10-28 Thread DKJ
When I did this: myLayer.frame.size.width = rootLayer.frame.size.width; I got an "illegal lvalue" error. But when I do this: CGRect r = help.frame; r.size.width = rootLayer.frame.size.width; the compiler says nothing. Why can I use layer.frame.size on the right of =,

Re: KVO and array item observation

2008-10-28 Thread Ashley Clark
I've made a test project that exhibits this behavior if anyone cares to look and filed a bug rdar://6327051 http://idisk.mac.com/aclark78-Public/KVONotificationBug.zip Ashley On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Ashley Clark wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:13 AM, Ashley Clark wrote: I have a bid re

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Charles Steinman
- Original Message > From: Jerry Krinock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Roughly, the lesson is: Don't use message forwarding for "actual > work". I was just wondering if anyone had ever found otherwise. I don't think that's really fair. The lesson is not to use NSInvocation in extremely tight

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Ammon
On Oct 28, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: Although the documentation on message forwarding [1] explains that alot of stuff needs to happen, it does not say "Warning: Don't do this in performance-critical applications". So I made a test tool which forwarded a simple message with on

Re: Controller and NIB

2008-10-28 Thread Shawn Erickson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:09 PM, J. Todd Slack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is a full proof way to have code executed when a NIB is loaded? By loading it yourself, by implementing the supported delegate method if NSApplication is the one loading it, by implementing windowDidLoad in a subclas

Re: Getting localized NSPredicateEditor

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Ammon
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Markus Spoettl wrote: Hi Peter, Let me know if you have any questions, I do! I tried to localize the All/Any/None sentence for the German localization. When I do this I get an exception and the following console log: 10/28/08 3:20:54 PM myApp[43721] Error

Re: Getting localized NSPredicateEditor

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Spoettl
Hi Peter, On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Markus Spoettl wrote: 10/28/08 3:20:54 PM myApp[43721] Error parsing localization! Key: %d %@ Value: %1$d %2$@ Error is: The maximum given order was 2, but nothing has order 1. The localization part looks like this: Never mind the previou

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: On 2008 Oct, 28, at 9:09, Bill Bumgarner wrote: That would not surprise me. An absolute microseconds overhead isn't a terribly useful measure without knowing the total # of microseconds. In general, measuring as a factor of speed -- 1.2x

Re: Getting localized NSPredicateEditor

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Spoettl
Hi Peter, On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Peter Ammon wrote: Apple does not provide any translations of the operator names or criteria. This is because NSPredicateEditor is designed to be localized with sentence granularity, not word by word. Translating each word independently and piecing t

Re: NSPredicateEditor error

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Idou
Yes, I thought I had an NSButton, but it turned out I'd wrongly put in a NSPopupButton. --- On Tue, 10/28/08, Peter Ammon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Peter Ammon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: NSPredicateEditor error > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com > Date: Tu

Re: Controller and NIB

2008-10-28 Thread Graham Cox
On 29 Oct 2008, at 9:09 am, J. Todd Slack wrote: What is a full proof way to have code executed when a NIB is loaded? When my MainMenu.nib displays its Window, I want to execute some code. If you have an object in the nib, its -awakeFromNib method will be called. The object can be an inst

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2008 Oct, 28, at 9:09, Bill Bumgarner wrote: That would not surprise me. An absolute microseconds overhead isn't a terribly useful measure without knowing the total # of microseconds. In general, measuring as a factor of speed -- 1.2x 20x 200x is more widely applicable (tends to be m

Re: Controller and NIB

2008-10-28 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:09 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote: What is a full proof way to have code executed when a NIB is loaded? There aren't any notifications for loading nibs other than - awakeFromNib. When my MainMenu.nib displays its Window, I want to execute some code. You could do a one-ti

Re: Controller and NIB

2008-10-28 Thread J. Todd Slack
Hi Nick, On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:09 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote: I have a controller.m and it has an awakeFromNib method. I have a NIB that is loaded on startup (specified in info.plist) I have code that is not getting called in awakeFromNib when the Nib is loaded. What am I forgetting to setu

Re: Getting available free disk space on disk image

2008-10-28 Thread Paul Archibald
Oooops. It looks like I lied. Actually, I am using [[[myFileManager fileSystemAttributesAtPath:[mountedDiskImagePath stringByDeletingLastPathComponent] ...] I think it was because sometimes the path included a filename. I am going to change it to use the full path. I never

Re: performSelectorOnMainThread and exceptions

2008-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 6:51 PM -0500 10/27/08, Ken Thomases wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i call -[anObject performSelectorOnMainThread:aSelector withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO] and then later throw an exception (of my own), which i catch, the deferred execution of aSelector ne

Re: Controller and NIB

2008-10-28 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:09 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote: I have a controller.m and it has an awakeFromNib method. I have a NIB that is loaded on startup (specified in info.plist) I have code that is not getting called in awakeFromNib when the Nib is loaded. What am I forgetting to setup? -awa

Re: Sage advice

2008-10-28 Thread Alex Kac
One question I have that maybe this list can help me understand. If you have views that are layer backed - why would one use any of the view methods instead of the layer methods? I have to admit in some ways I am somewhat perplexed why a CALayer doesn't replace the view itself completely. T

Sage advice

2008-10-28 Thread DKJ
When I was but a newbie, I heard a wise man say, "When using CALayers, Put NSViews away." Yet I set a CALayer, Then added NSView; Now many hours later, I wail, "T'is true, t'is true!" ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do no

Re: KVO and array item observation

2008-10-28 Thread Ashley Clark
On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:13 AM, Ashley Clark wrote: I have a bid revision object that holds a to-many NSSet reference to a group of items that constitute a tree. Some of those items are roots and have a nil parent. In my bid revision object I've set up a rootItems method that uses a predicate

Re: Getting a file's icon

2008-10-28 Thread Dave DeLong
NSWorkspace has: - (NSImage *)iconForFile:(NSString *)fullPath HTH, Dave On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote: I was wondering how I can get an "NSImage" from a file's icon (assuming I have that file's path)... ___ Cocoa-dev m

Getting a file's icon

2008-10-28 Thread Jean-Nicolas Jolivet
I was wondering how I can get an "NSImage" from a file's icon (assuming I have that file's path)... I've read about FileWrapper's icon method ([fileWrapper icon]) which returns exactly what I need, but I'm not really familiar with file wrappers and from what I understand from the Class documen

Re: Getting available free disk space on disk image

2008-10-28 Thread Clark Cox
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Paul Archibald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is pretty obscure, I think. > > My app makes files which can be quite large. It also allows the user to > distribute copies of those files to various locations. So, to test this I > have tried creating and mounting a

Getting available free disk space on disk image

2008-10-28 Thread Paul Archibald
This is pretty obscure, I think. My app makes files which can be quite large. It also allows the user to distribute copies of those files to various locations. So, to test this I have tried creating and mounting a disk image which I tried making a copy to. The problem is that it seems I c

Re: Getting localized NSPredicateEditor

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Ammon
On Oct 28, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Markus Spoettl wrote: Hello List, is there a way to make NSPredicateEditor play nice with localized versions of an application, meaning that it's rule operators and criteria are translated to the language the rest of the application is using? Right now it

Controller and NIB

2008-10-28 Thread J. Todd Slack
Hi All, I have a controller.m and it has an awakeFromNib method. I have a NIB that is loaded on startup (specified in info.plist) I have code that is not getting called in awakeFromNib when the Nib is loaded. What am I forgetting to setup? I need to run some code after the nib has loaded.

Open Window from Input Manager

2008-10-28 Thread Daniel
Hi, I'm working on a project for inserting special characters in text fields in all Cocoa apps by means of an Input Manager. After a given trigger/shortcut I have the need to open a window/panel, but I don't get it. I've tried to load a NIB file, but the Console reported -[NSWindowController lo

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

2008-10-28 Thread Sean McBride
On 10/28/08 4:03 PM, Jason Coco said: >Also, you should not be using non-ascii characters in string >literals :) hopefully you're just doing this to demonstrate the issue. >You should >be doing something like this: > >char *hiragana_a = { 0xE3, 0x81, 0x82, 0x00 }; >NSLog(@"%@", [NSString stringWit

Re: NSTableView right clicked row

2008-10-28 Thread Corbin Dunn
Note that the documentation is slightly wrong, as it is also valid when the menu pops up. Please see the "DragNDropOutlineView" demo app which shows how to properly create a dynamic contextual menu. ..corbin On Oct 28, 2008, at 1:34 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote: Thanks Randall, funny that

Re: NSTableView right clicked row

2008-10-28 Thread chaitanya pandit
Thanks Randall, funny that my subject says "...clicked row" and i missed clickedRow :-) On 29-Oct-08, at 1:51 AM, Randall Meadows wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:11 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote: Hi list, I have a NSTableView, and i display a menu when the user right clicks a row, this menu all

Re: NSTableView right clicked row

2008-10-28 Thread Randall Meadows
On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:11 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote: Hi list, I have a NSTableView, and i display a menu when the user right clicks a row, this menu allows the user to delete that item. My problem is, how do i get the row which was right clicked? Consider this: currently the row#1 is selecte

Re: Binding question

2008-10-28 Thread Quincey Morris
On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:58, Quincey Morris wrote: return [NSSet set withObject: @"filePath"]; Er, I meant: return [NSSet setWithObject: @"filePath"]; Also, I think it's worth adding that it's also not bad practice to have properties that are not KVO-complia

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

2008-10-28 Thread Karl Moskowski
On 28-Oct-08, at 4:03 PM, Jason Coco wrote: This is a known issue... you can see where the mangling happens in the source code online when writing to stderr... the characters are properly encoded when sent to syslog and will show up correctly in asl queries and the console application, as

Re: Binding question

2008-10-28 Thread Jean-Nicolas Jolivet
Well, I think that pretty much answers all my questions! Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! I understand the KVC/KVO principle much better now! :) Jean-Nicolas Jolivet Quincey Morris wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:30, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote: One more thing, you mentioned the term

Getting localized NSPredicateEditor

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Spoettl
Hello List, is there a way to make NSPredicateEditor play nice with localized versions of an application, meaning that it's rule operators and criteria are translated to the language the rest of the application is using? Right now it appears that NSPredicateEditor uses English operator

NSTableView right clicked row

2008-10-28 Thread chaitanya pandit
Hi list, I have a NSTableView, and i display a menu when the user right clicks a row, this menu allows the user to delete that item. My problem is, how do i get the row which was right clicked? Consider this: currently the row#1 is selected and the user right clicks row#3 the row#3's cell wi

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Coco
On Oct 28, 2008, at 14:01 , Karl Moskowski wrote: I've been experimenting with replacing my app's logging with Apple System Logger. When it comes to multi-byte characters, every thing looks OK in Console.app. However, Xcode's console shows things incorrectly. It probably won't come up ofte

Re: Binding question

2008-10-28 Thread Quincey Morris
On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:30, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote: One more thing, you mentioned the term "KVO Compliance"... I understand that this means to send the proper notifications when a change to my property has been made... But: would it be considered bad practice if my file class does have

Re: Code signing validation

2008-10-28 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
You may fill a feature request to ask Apple to publish this API that is part of the Security Framework: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.5/libsecurity_codesigning-33803/lib/SecStaticCode.h Le 28 oct. 08 à 10:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello list Having implemented co

Re: Binding question

2008-10-28 Thread Jean-Nicolas Jolivet
Mmmm seems like value transformer would be another way to do it! I will definitely look into both methods! Since my property is in fact only used for display purposes, I guess it would make sense to use a transformer to display it... Jean-Nicolas Jolivet David Duncan wrote: On Oct 28, 2008,

Re: Binding question

2008-10-28 Thread Jean-Nicolas Jolivet
Thanks a lot, this was extremely helpful! One more thing, you mentioned the term "KVO Compliance"... I understand that this means to send the proper notifications when a change to my property has been made... But: would it be considered bad practice if my file class does have a property that

Re: NSPredicateEditor error

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Ammon
On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Chris Idou wrote: I'm getting the following error: In , different number of items (3) than predicate template views (4) for template 0x12487e0: [move:] [] NSStringAttributeType> From experimenting, the only difference between the NSPredicateEditorRowTemplat

Re: Binding question

2008-10-28 Thread Quincey Morris
On Oct 28, 2008, at 00:19, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote: Is it ok to bind my column to a property that is, in fact, not a property but just a method that returns a string... or should I create an actual instance variable "NSString *fileName" with a regular getter and setter? A property

Re: Binding question

2008-10-28 Thread David Duncan
On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote: Now, assuming I want to bind an array of those File objects to a Table View, however, what I would like to display in the table's column is not the complete path of the file, but just the file name (that I get with [filePath lastPath

Binding question

2008-10-28 Thread Jean-Nicolas Jolivet
I'm reading about binding and KVC/KVO... and I have a question for which I can't seem to find an answer... I'll use a simple example, it'll be easier to explain that way... Let's say I have a simple class called "File"... my File class has a property called filePath which is an NSString repres

Re: Why "self"? (Was: Newbie: Referencing Objects)

2008-10-28 Thread Siavash
Coming from a Flex/Flash background I will have to say that there is BIG differences between ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0. AS 3.0 is a powerful OOP language and AS 2.0 is not. That being said, the same object oriented principles do apply in ActionScript 3.0 the same as Obj-C and the Cocoa Frame

[moderator] Re: Can we ask iPhone questions yet? - YES

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Anguish
Please, take this discussion off-list. Either to cocoa-dev-admins, or to private email. Discussing this here isn't going to solve the problem, and it isn't helping with the signal to noise ratio. I'll post new guidelines for the list just as soon as I have them. scott [moderator] On 28-O

ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

2008-10-28 Thread Karl Moskowski
I've been experimenting with replacing my app's logging with Apple System Logger. When it comes to multi-byte characters, every thing looks OK in Console.app. However, Xcode's console shows things incorrectly. It probably won't come up often, but I'm wondering if it's fixable. For example

Re: Can we ask iPhone questions yet?

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Anguish
I've asked for clarification. In the meantime, this type of feedback should be sent to cocoa-dev- admins rather than to the list at large On 28-Oct-08, at 10:42 AM, Nicko van Someren wrote: On 28 Oct 2008, at 10:51, Colin Barrett wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Torsten Curdt <[EMAI

Re: Code signing validation

2008-10-28 Thread Conor
> even a removed localisation would then be fatal Just a clarification: removing a localization does not affect the signature (http://atomic-bird.com/blog/2007/11/leopard-code-signing-questions-and-answers ). Regards, Conor ___ Cocoa-dev mailing l

Re: Can we ask iPhone questions yet? - YES

2008-10-28 Thread dreamcat7
Hello! I posted a number questions to this discussion list. They were all questions about programming in the Cocoa environment. Sometimes my questions have been ignored / not replied to, however this is mostly because of my own poor writing skills rather than anything most siniister. Ther

Re: Turning off Auto Complete feature for NSTextField

2008-10-28 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Adil Saleem wrote: Thank you, implementing the delegate method and returning nothing from it worked. By the way, this is pretty basic stuff. I think there should have been a line or two about it in the NSTextField documentation. Feel free to file a bug again

Re: Turning off Auto Complete feature for NSTextField

2008-10-28 Thread Adil Saleem
Thank you, implementing the delegate method and returning nothing from it worked. By the way, this is pretty basic stuff. I think there should have been a line or two about it in the NSTextField documentation. Thank you. --- On Tue, 10/28/08, John Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: John

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Jerry Krinock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although the documentation on message forwarding [1] explains that alot of > stuff needs to happen, it does not say "Warning: Don't do this in > performance-critical applications". Such a warning would be foolish, since t

. Re: Code signing validation

2008-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am aware of the -o kill flag but I am not sure that killing my code stone dead is what I require in this case. Any resource change, even a removed localisation would then be fatal. For me a string representation of the code signing is more of a sanity check. I just pass the "-o kill" flags

Re: Finding files before app loads

2008-10-28 Thread I. Savant
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Glover,David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am now using [NSFileManager defaultManager], and all is working well > (noob!) :o) There are a lot of objects like this that follow the singleton design pattern. Always consult the documentation when using an unfamili

Re: filtering a tableView from a pulldown

2008-10-28 Thread I. Savant
> The pulldown is bound as follows: > content: arrangedObjects[PurchaseOrder Array Controller(NSArray Controller)] > content values: Purchase ORder Array Controller > arrangedObjects.orderReference These bindings seem fine. How about selection? One of the popup's selection bindings should be bou

Re: Subview display problem

2008-10-28 Thread DKJ
On 28 Oct, 2008, at 08:55, DKJ wrote: Maybe I should just make my help info into a PDF file, and display that on a CATextLayer. Oops, it's the contents property of a CALayer I was thinking of here. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Oct 28, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: Although the documentation on message forwarding [1] explains that alot of stuff needs to happen, it does not say "Warning: Don't do this in performance-critical applications". So I made a test tool which forwarded a simple message with one

RE: Finding files before app loads

2008-10-28 Thread Glover,David
I am now using [NSFileManager defaultManager], and all is working well (noob!) :o) -Original Message- From: I. Savant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 October 2008 15:49 To: Glover,David Cc: Cocoa Development Subject: Re: Finding files before app loads On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM,

Re: Documentation of NSArchiver streamtyped format

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Ash
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gregor Jasny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for documentation of the binary format that is written by > NSArchiver. The file utility tells me that it's called > "NeXT/Apple typedstream data, little endian, version 4, system 1000". I'm not aware th

Re: Security - Write to protected directory

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Ash
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Michael Nickerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Michael Ash wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Michael Nickerson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> You can always set things up to ignore child processes: >>> signal( SIGCH

Re: filtering a tableView from a pulldown

2008-10-28 Thread Amy Heavey
I can't work out what the controllers and key paths should be. The pulldown is bound as follows: content: arrangedObjects[PurchaseOrder Array Controller(NSArray Controller)] content values: Purchase ORder Array Controller arrangedObjects.orderReference The Table view has 6 columns, one of

Re: Turning off Auto Complete feature for NSTextField

2008-10-28 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Adil Saleem wrote: I am encountering a small problem. I am using a simple NSTextField in my application. This textfield is editable. When user starts entering some text, the auto complete is by default ON, so on pressing escape key a list of suggestions is disp

Re: Subview display problem

2008-10-28 Thread DKJ
On 28 Oct, 2008, at 08:31, I. Savant wrote: I'd turn off all layers and make sure it's working normally without them. Alas, after having the Help button method hide theView's CALayer, there's still no sign of my NSTextView subclass. Maybe I should just make my help info into a PDF file, a

Re: Finding files before app loads

2008-10-28 Thread I. Savant
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Glover,David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I've found a problem creating an NSFileManager instance, but this > is resolved and the file checks are now working :o) Just as an aside, are you using +[NSFileManager defaultManager]? You shouldn't have to create

Re: Can we ask iPhone questions yet?

2008-10-28 Thread I. Savant
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Nicko van Someren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... I still think it would be useful to have a clear indication from our > shadowy overlords. Agreed, though keep in mind that *our* shadowy overlords have their *own*, even *more* shadowy overlords called "Apple

RE: Finding files before app loads

2008-10-28 Thread Glover,David
Sorry, I've found a problem creating an NSFileManager instance, but this is resolved and the file checks are now working :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] om] On Behalf Of Glover,David Sent: 28 October 2008 15:34 To: Cocoa Development Subject: Finding

Finding files before app loads

2008-10-28 Thread Glover,David
Hi there, I need to locate certain files and set the state of some objects in my nib accordingly before the app is visible to the user. I'm using fileExistsAtPath to look for the files when the awakeFromNib method is invoked. The files are definitely present, but fileExistsAtPath always re

Re: Code signing validation

2008-10-28 Thread David Riggle
I just pass the "-o kill" flags to codesign. That way if the app has been tampered with it won't launch. Make sure you are using Xcode 3.1 or later so the codesigning is done after the stripping. Dave ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.app

Re: Subview display problem

2008-10-28 Thread I. Savant
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:27 AM, DKJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should have made clear in my first post that the animation layers of > theView are CALayer objects. Maybe I'll try hiding those. Yes, that changes things a bit. :-) I'm not convinced, though, that you have the view geometry &

Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry Krinock
Although the documentation on message forwarding [1] explains that alot of stuff needs to happen, it does not say "Warning: Don't do this in performance-critical applications". So I made a test tool which forwarded a simple message with one integer argument to a class which would add it to

Re: Can we ask iPhone questions yet?

2008-10-28 Thread Nicko van Someren
On 28 Oct 2008, at 15:18, I. Savant wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Nicko van Someren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I saw Scott's message about taking complaints to dev relations, and his comment about things being 'off topic' but my reading of those messages (linked below) is that

Re: Subview display problem

2008-10-28 Thread DKJ
On 28 Oct, 2008, at 08:14, I. Savant wrote: Do away with the animation logic for now. See if it behaves as expected by setting the frames directly (without calls to the view's -animator). The subview appears for an instant, with its origin is in the centre of the superview, filling the upper-

NSTableView context dependent row colors

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Mullen
I am working on an application that uses NSTableViews for data display. The individual rows need to have context dependent coloring. I have this working reasonably well by using NSTableView:tableView:willDisplayCell:forTableColumn:row: to inspect the cells I need and then set the background

Re: Subview display problem

2008-10-28 Thread Patrick Mau
Hi DKJ, On 28.10.2008, at 14:23, DKJ wrote: I'm having no luck getting a subview to display. In the awakeFromNib of the controller I have this: helpView = [[MyView alloc] init]; [helpView setFrameOrigin:RectCentre( [theView frame] )]; [helpView setFrameSize:NSZeroSize

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