Re: Cocoa Event Monitor?

On Feb 7, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Michael Ash wrote: Using one of those frameworks yourself as well incurs no penalties. I think that there are at least some interesting penalties to consider: * Having to learn additional, and often conceptually different (memory management models, design patte

Re: Read lines from very large text file

On Feb 7, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Michael Ash wrote: What's wrong is that they won't allow you to specify the text encoding to use. The same thing is true for the *deprecated* method "+stringWithCString:" by the way. That is incorrect. I don't think that what I said is incorrect, at least not

Re: subpixel rendering vs. layer backed views

There are a couple tricks you can use to retain subpixel antialiasing. If you're giving the view a layer so you can animate it occasionally, try giving it a layer just before you tell it to animate and removing the layer once the animation is complete. For quick alpha or origin changes, the

Re: One Shot Windows: WARNING

On Feb 7, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote: BAD! BAD! BAD! BAD! In my case, I have a document window with a table view in it, where data source and delegate are the window controller. If the window is oneShot NO, then the window controller is deallocated, but the views in the window are stil

Re: Cocoa Event Monitor?

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:04 AM, dave d wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm attempting to write a Cocoa app which listens for key down and key up > events from a specified process. I've checked out Apple's Event Monitor > example for Carbon: > > http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/EventMonitorTest/index.

Re: One Shot Windows: WARNING

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:32:58 -0800, Seth Willits said: >BAD! BAD! BAD! BAD! >In my case, I have a document window with a table view in it, where >data source and delegate are the window controller. If the window is >oneShot NO, then the window controller is deallocated, but the views >in the window

Re: Running out of memory when adding CGImageRef-to-NSImage frames to QTMovie in NSOperation subclass

Hi Michael, The information to diagnose your problem is not in this message. Instruments can show you backtraces of where individual objects were allocated, and where they were retained and released. Two things with this line, though. anImage = [[NSImage alloc] initWithData:[bitmapRep TIFFRepres

name == "$FETCH_SOURCE.name" -- Doesn't find dupes?

Thanks, mmalc. That little sheet looked so simple it didn't occur to me that there would be a whole chapter of documentation on it, including what I needed... "Control-click ^empty^space^ in the line of the criteria". Now that's what I call a hidden feature! I'm that if I file a bug as

Re: Cocoa Event Monitor?

I'd start off with Carbon events. The only other alternative I can think of is the Cocoa/Carbon Events DTrace scripts and possibly linking against DTrace (libdtrace.dylib), but to be honest for what your doing compared with Carbon events that's a lot more trouble than it's worth. Colin Wheeler www.

Re: Cocoa Event Monitor?

On Feb 6, 2009, at 11:04 PM, dave d wrote: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/EventMonitorTest/index.html This example has the functionality I want, but I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way to accomplish the same thing in Cocoa. Even if there's a Cocoa alternative that performs

Re: IKImageBrowserView - multiline labels

On 08/02/2009, at 11:40 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: I was wondering if anyone has used this control. I have a situation which it may be perfect for, but the three things I am not certain it is capable of is: 1. supporting in-place editing of the labels 2. supporting multi-line labels 3. using a s

Re: subpixel rendering vs. layer backed views

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:36 PM, m wrote: > Is it the case that I can have a layer backed view (and thus nice > animations), or I can have labels and checkboxes whose text is nicely > subpixel anti-aliased, but not both? This is correct. You can't do subpixel antialiasing if you're compositing t

Re: IB v7.03 appears to corrupt an xib last generated by IB v7.02

Interface Builder is currently on version 3.1.2 (build 677). I have no idea what version number you're talking about here. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to

subpixel rendering vs. layer backed views

Is it the case that I can have a layer backed view (and thus nice animations), or I can have labels and checkboxes whose text is nicely subpixel anti-aliased, but not both? I feel like I'm missing something but when I put a check box in a layer backed view, it looks terrible. It's poorly an

Re: Animated toolbar

On 08/02/2009, at 1:16 PM, Seth Willits wrote: Fair enough. I guess that brings this discussion to a close, so thanks to everyone who responded. It's been very valuable to me, even if it didn't go in the direction I was hoping. It's certainly convinced me that our toolbar needs to go, a

IB v7.03 appears to corrupt an xib last generated by IB v7.02

I'm having a problem with Interface Builder seemingly corrupting an xib file just by opening it and closing it. The project is GitX: http://github.com/pieter/gitx The project builds fine in XCode but if I open: ./English.lproj/Preferences.xib in IB and just save it (making no changes) th

Cocoa Event Monitor?

Hi all, I'm attempting to write a Cocoa app which listens for key down and key up events from a specified process. I've checked out Apple's Event Monitor example for Carbon: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/EventMonitorTest/index.html This example has the functionality I want, but I'm wo

Re: NSProgressIndicator (spinning) on a dark background?

Well that is pretty damn awesome. I will take a look at it. Thank you. On Feb 7, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Andreas Mayer wrote: Am 07.02.2009 um 14:39 Uhr schrieb Andreas Mayer: But you could modify my AMIndeterminateProgressIndicatorCell class: http://www.harmless.de/cocoa-code.php#progressindica

Re: Animated toolbar

On Feb 7, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Christian Graus wrote: Fair enough. I guess that brings this discussion to a close, so thanks to everyone who responded. It's been very valuable to me, even if it didn't go in the direction I was hoping. It's certainly convinced me that our toolbar needs to go,

Re: Read lines from very large text file

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Steve Sisak wrote: > >> Umm, unless I'm totally missing something, what's wrong with fopen() and >> fgets(), possibly followed with [NSString stringWithCString] on each line? > > > What's wrong is that they won't

Re: performSelector:withObject fails with class object

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Tron Thomas wrote: > I thought about trying NSObject after I posted the mailing list. The main > reason I went with Object originally was because I just wanted to write > something quick and simple. I did not want to worry about linking to the > entire Cocoa fram

Re: iphone and images issues

Thanks ! I ll take a look. I am more concerned with number of file in the same nodes (io-node) rather than collision name But I guess I can use the flat structure for now. Just was surprised at first and thought I was doing something wrong. Thanks Emmanuel On Feb 7, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Robert

IKImageBrowserView - multiline labels

I was wondering if anyone has used this control. I have a situation which it may be perfect for, but the three things I am not certain it is capable of is: 1. supporting in-place editing of the labels 2. supporting multi-line labels 3. using a smaller font in the labels I have tried to figur

One Shot Windows: WARNING

I spent two hours trying to figure this out! New window instances in nib files created with Xcode or IB3 have setOneShot:NO in them. The default Document Based Cocoa application project, however, sets oneShot to *YES* in the nib it includes. This means that if you create a new project, v

Re: iphone and images issues

You can create a more organized resource structure on your local filesystem for development by creating groups in Xcode and changing the path to them (seen here - http://www.quicksnapper.com/wisequark/image/untitled-0039) but when the time arrives to build the application bundle, they'll be

Re: iphone and images issues

Keep in mind that if you do this, though, Xcode's PNG optimization operations (switching RGBA -> GBRA and premultiplying the alpha) won't occur if you have any PNGs in that folder - it'll just copy the folder whole. How is having a "messy" bundle any problem? Its not like it actually effe

Re: iphone and images issues

On Feb 7, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Emmanuel Pinault wrote: So I dragged and dropped an image folder into my iphone app under the ressources. I specified to copy it. Now when I build the application, it seems that apple underlying just put all the file in a flat structure. If you don't want the fol

iphone and images issues

So I dragged and dropped an image folder into my iphone app under the ressources. I specified to copy it. Now when I build the application, it seems that apple underlying just put all the file in a flat structure. So all my files are located in the same place which is kind of messy I believe

Running out of memory when adding CGImageRef-to-NSImage frames to QTMovie in NSOperation subclass

I have an NSOperation that opens a CGImageRef from a digital camera(large file). It creates a full-size TIFFRepresentation in RAM, then scales it down to a smaller CGContextRef. I create an NSImage out of this CGContextRef. This same NSOperation then adds it to a QTMovie with the -addImage:forDurat

Re: Syntax errors, undeclared variables

Peter Duniho wrote: On Feb 6, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: [...] I'm not sure what is causing these errors. Line 11 is set up like this: -(int)switchIcon (ClientData cd, Tcl_ip *ip, int objc, Tcl_Obj *objv[]); The error is because your method prototype syntax is completely wrong.

re: name == "$FETCH_SOURCE.name" -- Doesn't find dupes?

Jerry, Does "name == $FETCH_SOURCE.name" work as the predicate format ? Because if you quoted it as "name == \"$FETCH_SOURCE.name\"" then that's a literal string, not a keypath. - Ben ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Plea

Re: Empty window appears when going fullscreen in awakeFromNib

Hey John, Does this help? I am hiding the dock elsewhere with SetSystemUIMode. // Calculate the size to make the new screen. NSRect fullScreenRect = [[[NSScreen screens] objectAtIndex:0] frame]; // Uses the menu bar screen. -mainWindow has problems. fullScreenRect.size.height -= [[NSApp mainMenu

Re: Animated toolbar

Fair enough. I guess that brings this discussion to a close, so thanks to everyone who responded. It's been very valuable to me, even if it didn't go in the direction I was hoping. It's certainly convinced me that our toolbar needs to go, although what we replace it with, I have no idea at this s

SOAP Client - OpenSource - Call for supporting developpers

Ladies & Gentlemen, SOAP Client is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X that allows you access and debug WSDL & SOAP-based Web Services from the comfort of your desktop. SOAP Client is now an opensource project http://code.google.com/p/mac-soapclient/ As some additional

Re: name == "$FETCH_SOURCE.name" -- Doesn't find dupes?

On Feb 7, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: I had been wondering if that was the problem, but I find it futile to argue with the tools. How does one set a placeholder such as $FETCH_SOURCE in Xcode's xcdatamodel editor?

Re: name == "$FETCH_SOURCE.name" -- Doesn't find dupes?

On 2009 Feb 07, at 12:57, Kyle Sluder wrote: You put the expression in quotes, thus turning it into a string literal? Not me, Kyle. The predicate-building sheet in Xcode's xcdatamodel editor did that! I had been wondering if that was the problem, but I find it futile to argue with the

Re: NSTask + incomplete stdout at end of process

Hi again, I finally solved the problem implementing a pseudo-tty. Thank you again for your information. Xesc. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the modera

Re: Mixing C++ and Objective-C

Solved, thanks to the archives. #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif extern CFunctionHere #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif Cheers, Steve On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Steve Wart wrote: > I am trying to build an application that uses some C++ classes, based on > Apple's example Cocoa OpenGL a

Re: name == "$FETCH_SOURCE.name" -- Doesn't find dupes?

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > What's wrong here ? You put the expression in quotes, thus turning it into a string literal? --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin request

Re: NSTableView Popup Column issue

Namaste! After a little more digging, I figured out that the popup in question is displaying the object, not the attribute of the object I want to show. I have my app set up similar to the Event Manager Core Data example (only the names of things are different, but the model is the same).

Mixing C++ and Objective-C

I am trying to build an application that uses some C++ classes, based on Apple's example Cocoa OpenGL application here: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/CocoaGL/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10004501 It works fine in 10.5.6 with XCode 3.1 if I change the file type of BasicOpenGLView.m to

Re: NSButton referencing outlet won't work?

On 7 Feb 2009, at 20:04, Richard Bannister wrote: On 7 Feb 2009, at 20:02, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: I'm sure this qualifies as a newbie question, but I've just spent an hour trying to figure something out and I'm stumped... And wouldn't you know, two minutes after asking th

Re: NSButton referencing outlet won't work?

On 7 Feb 2009, at 20:02, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: I'm sure this qualifies as a newbie question, but I've just spent an hour trying to figure something out and I'm stumped... And wouldn't you know, two minutes after asking the question I worked it out. awakeFromNib. Duh. S

NSButton referencing outlet won't work?

Folks, I'm sure this qualifies as a newbie question, but I've just spent an hour trying to figure something out and I'm stumped... I am building a NSDocument-based application. The main document window has a NSButton in it, with a referencing outlet connected to the following: @interfac

Re: NSTableView Popup Column issue

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:05 AM, wrote: > Actually, it isn't obvious. If it were, I'd get it. The reason "selection" > didn't work (and I should have seen that earlier) is that it is singular in > nature. If you create a "form," with "fields" on it, you'd use selection as > you are only dealing

Re: Animated toolbar

On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Christian Graus wrote: Well, our prospective Mac users are all in a niche market, they have all seen the marketing for our windows version, and most of them are actually *using* our windows version. So, they WILL be aware of our windows version, they ARE using

Re: Read lines from very large text file

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Steve Sisak wrote: > At 9:46 AM -0800 2/7/09, Joar Wingfors wrote: >> >> On Feb 7, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Steve Sisak wrote: >>> >>> Umm, unless I'm totally missing something, what's wrong with fopen() and >>> fgets(), possibly followed with [NSString stringWithCString]

Re: Read lines from very large text file

At 9:46 AM -0800 2/7/09, Joar Wingfors wrote: On Feb 7, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Steve Sisak wrote: Umm, unless I'm totally missing something, what's wrong with fopen() and fgets(), possibly followed with [NSString stringWithCString] on each line? What's wrong is that they won't allow you to specify

Re: NSTableView Popup Column issue

On Feb 6, 2009, at 10:05 PM, jmun...@his.com wrote: Yes, Core Data does allow for many-to-many relationships. However, after a solid week of fooling around with trying to get that to work (there are only so many permutations one can use), I was not able to produce a working prototype. No

-[NSTreeController moveNode:toIndexPath:] broken?

Hi, I recently began exploring NSTreeController, but I'm experiencing problems with its moveNode:toIndexPath:. It's new to Leopard, but seems to be consistently moving nodes to incorrect indexes. There's a previous list post about exactly this, but without replies. http://lists.apple.com/ar

Re: Read lines from very large text file

On Feb 7, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Steve Sisak wrote: Umm, unless I'm totally missing something, what's wrong with fopen() and fgets(), possibly followed with [NSString stringWithCString] on each line? What's wrong is that they won't allow you to specify the text encoding to use. The same thin

Re: performSelector:withObject fails with class object

Greg Parker wrote: On Feb 5, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Tron Thomas wrote: I have a couple of classes that are delcared like this: #import #import @interface SomeClass : Object { @private // Instance data members ... } + (SomeClass*)instanceFromData:(id)data; // Other methods ... @end Class Obj

name == "$FETCH_SOURCE.name" -- Doesn't find dupes?

I'm trying to use a fetched property for the first time, to find "duplicate" objects, for example, objects with the same `name` property. Documentation for Fetched Properties says that "The source [$FETCH_SOURCE] refers to the specific managed object that has this property". So, I define a

Re: Read lines from very large text file

At 1:38 PM +1100 2/3/09, Jacob Rhoden wrote: On 3/02/2009 8:41 AM, Kenneth Bruno II wrote: I am wondering what the best way to read a text file, line by line, when the file size is much larger than available memory. For very large files you probably want to use NSFileHandle. With the method re

Re: NSProgressIndicator (spinning) on a dark background?

Am 07.02.2009 um 14:39 Uhr schrieb Andreas Mayer: But you could modify my AMIndeterminateProgressIndicatorCell class: http://www.harmless.de/cocoa-code.php#progressindicator Well, this seemed to be a useful addition, so I just added a color property myself. :) Andreas __

Re: What alternatives exist for objc_setClassHandler?

On Jan 31, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Michael Ash wrote: And as always, file an enhancement request at bugreport.apple.com about this missing API. They may have removed it thinking that nobody actually uses it, and if you inform them otherwise there is a chance (however slight) that they will change th

Re: Relation between Document based apps and Array Controllers in IB

On Feb 6, 2009, at 3:40 PM, donbarvazo wrote: Cocoa Application = Does not work Did the same as above. It does not work, and I get the error : "reason: '[ valueForUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key persons" Ask yourself (and the documentation): What i

Re: NSProgressIndicator (spinning) on a dark background?

Am 06.02.2009 um 18:55 Uhr schrieb Guy Umbright: I have a black background and would like to display a spinning progress indicator but it draws with a light background. Is there a way to do this with NSProgressIndicator? I don't think there is. But you could modify my AMIndeterminateProg

Re: Read lines from very large text file

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM, René v Amerongen wrote: >> >> >> Thus the warning: if a file disappears while you have it memory >> mapped, and you try to access it, you will crash. >> > > Does this mean that we should check every time the existence of the file > before we try to read anything fro

Re: Read lines from very large text file

Thus the warning: if a file disappears while you have it memory mapped, and you try to access it, you will crash. Does this mean that we should check every time the existence of the file before we try to read anything from the memory mapped file? RvA _

Re: Read lines from very large text file

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Clark Cox wrote: > Even if you delete the file from the filesystem, you are just deleting > the mapping from that particular filename to the file's actual data. > The actual "file" still there until the last process with an open > handle closes it, so open()'ing a

Re: NSTableView Popup Column issue

On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Jon C. Munson II wrote: I'm having an issue with a popup in a tableview. The Selected Object binding is configured thus: Bind to: tblPattern_Yarn Controller Key: arrangedObjects Model Key path: relYarn Everything else is the defaults that IB provides when that bi

Re: Animated toolbar

In short, applications that are ported to the platform with the express intent of maintaining their look and feel from Windows do little more than treat OS X users as second-class citizens. No one likes paying money for that feeling so at the end of the day, I doubt the port will see even remote s

Re: Animated toolbar

On Feb 7, 2009, at 1:53 AM, Graham Cox wrote: I don't see us using a standard toolbar, our big fear will be that we don't want to lose the pizzaz we have under Windows and have a bog standard looking Mac app, it will just look like a poor cousin of our windows app then. It. Doesn't. Matt

Re: Animated toolbar

Well, our prospective Mac users are all in a niche market, they have all seen the marketing for our windows version, and most of them are actually *using* our windows version. So, they WILL be aware of our windows version, they ARE using the Windows version and waiting for the Mac version, and whe

Re: Animated toolbar

On 7 Feb 2009, at 8:46 pm, Christian Graus wrote: I don't see us using a standard toolbar, our big fear will be that we don't want to lose the pizzaz we have under Windows and have a bog standard looking Mac app, it will just look like a poor cousin of our windows app then. It. Doesn't

Re: Animated toolbar

I tend to agree with much of this. It's worth mentioning that no Windows app I know of acts this way, except ours. My boss saw the hyperbar WPF sample and decided he wanted that in our app, and it works great in windows, because we just go full screen and cover the taskbar, so only our floating,

Re: how to get iphone calendar database file

You can't. Please file a bug report requesting it. On 7 Feb 2009, at 04:17, Ankur Diyora wrote: Hello all, I want iphone calendar database file(sqlite). How can i get this file from iPhone ? Thank you.. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.ap

Re: Quicktime Movie View error

I don't merge every 5 minutes, I commit every 5 minutes. One of the advantages of extremely granular commits is that I'm also pulling in other peoples' changes practically in realtime - and more importantly, I use git's feature branching. So I only have to do a merge every, hmm, half month to a mo

Re: Quicktime Movie View error

On 7 Feb 2009, at 7:00 pm, elliott cable wrote: While the merging may be not perfect, it works 99% of the time - and that's more than enough. It works especially well if you commit as granularly as I do (one commit between every one and three minutes, no longer than 5 minutes - every single ch

Re: Animated toolbar

In short, applications that are ported to the platform with the express intent of maintaining their look and feel from Windows do little more than treat OS X users as second-class citizens. No one likes paying money for that feeling so at the end of the day, I doubt the port will see even

Re: Quicktime Movie View error

Git works fine on binary files - I just don't want to mark them as binary, because I enjoy retaining my diffs and merging, however tenuous that power may be. While the merging may be not perfect, it works 99% of the time - and that's more than enough. It works especially well if you commit as gra