Re: Method Sequence on Application Loads

2009-03-09 Thread Andreas Mayer
Am 09.03.2009 um 06:49 Uhr schrieb Kenneth Ramey: What method do I need to hook for this? You typically start processing in your application delegate's - applicationDidFinishLaunching: method. Andreas ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists

Properly symbol fonts handling in Cocoa

2009-03-09 Thread Rimas
Hello list, Last few days I was trying to understand how symbol fonts (wingdings, webdings X, etc) should be properly handled with cocoa text system. As a good example could be Adobe Photoshop and Apple Pages. Both behaves in the same way and I want to achieve the same result. For example if I cho

Re: Method Sequence on Application Loads

2009-03-09 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 9 Mar 2009, at 05:49, Kenneth Ramey wrote: I am looking for information on the sequence of method invocation as an application loads. For instance, Apple's documentation says that awakeFrom Nib is called after the user interface loads but before any events have been handled. I want to

subLayers - GPU - optimizing

2009-03-09 Thread rajesh
Hi all, sorry for bad subject line, again :) I have a layer backed view, I am trying to add subLayers roughly sized around 300 X 270 (in pixels ) to it, its that the, sublayers count may reach upto the 1000 to 2000 in number and not to mention each of sublayer is again scalable to roughly

Re: Why don't only these images don't show on the device?

2009-03-09 Thread James Cicenia
Anyone? I have cleaned build this three times but not all the images are being moved over? Thank James Cicenia On Mar 8, 2009, at 8:43 PM, James Cicenia wrote: OK - It seems as though my builds aren't bringing over all my images. How can I force the build to include all these images?

Re: Why don't only these images don't show on the device?

2009-03-09 Thread Mike Glass
Try deleting the app off the device manually (by tapping and holding so the icons go into "wiggle mode" and then tapping the x) and then doing a clean build to the device. -Mike On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:57 AM, James Cicenia wrote: Anyone? I have cleaned build this three times but not all the

Re: Why don't only these images don't show on the device?

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Sanders
> I have cleaned build this three times but not all the images are being > moved over? Try this: - right click on the errant files in XCode - select 'targets' - ensure that the checkbox is ticked No idea if this will work - I'm new to all this. Rgds - Paul. _

Re: subLayers - GPU - optimizing

2009-03-09 Thread Matt Long
A crash when trying to add your layer again after a call to removeFromSuperlayer suggests that you're not retaining the layer and it's been autoreleased. You either need to re-allocate each time or retain it yourself. How are you allocating your CALayer inside of your Layer object? -Matt

Re: subLayers - GPU - optimizing

2009-03-09 Thread rajesh
Thanks Matt , I overlooked it completely . simply changing [CALayer layer]; to [[CALayer alloc] init]; solved the problem after successfully making the changes I still see the problem exists. CALayers are removed if they are no longer needed , but after adding around 120 layers (I could see jus

How do I debug iPhone restarts?

2009-03-09 Thread James Cicenia
Hello - While testing on my phone, the iPhone just quits my app and doesn't write a crash log or such. How does one debug this? Thanks James Cicenia ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or mode

Re: How do I debug iPhone restarts?

2009-03-09 Thread Ricky Sharp
You should send such questions to the dedicated iPhone portal discussion forums. In fact, many of your questions should have gone there instead of this list as they were not general Cocoa. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:41 AM, James Cicenia wrote: Hello - While testing on my

Re: How do I debug iPhone restarts?

2009-03-09 Thread Roland King
not sure I agree totally there. This particular question perhaps might get a better answer on the iPhone portal forums but many of the iPhone questions posted here are as relevant to general Cocoa as the objective-C memory management, XCode building and other related questions which are ask

Re: How to intercept NSToolbar item selection changes

2009-03-09 Thread Stuart Malin
On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:46 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Stuart Malin wrote: I'm building a Preferences window that has a toolbar, in the style of Mail. I need to know if the user clicks on a toolbar item to change the pane. If the current pane

Re: How to intercept NSToolbar item selection changes

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Ash
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Stuart Malin wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:46 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: > >> Could you simply reset the toolbar selection to whatever it was >> before, then display your sheet and then manually set the selection to >> the new one if the user ag

Re: NSString to Integer

2009-03-09 Thread Shawn Erickson
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Jonathan Hess wrote: > When using a 64-bit architecture, Mac OS X uses 32 bit integers, but 64 bit > longs. NSInteger is defined as a long for 64, not an integer. > > When running 64-bit, you need to use %ld as the format option. ( bit width with 32b arch / bit wid

MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread Karolis Ramanauskas
Good Day, I'm in a MVC-induced contradiction here. I've read the archives and found good answers to many of my questions, however it seems one thing kind of escaped from being answered. I have Core Data Document Based app. Core Data model contains entities that describe graph objects (nodes). Of c

Re: MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread Sean McBride
On 3/9/09 12:49 PM, Karolis Ramanauskas said: >What is the best way to store the coordinates, colors, all that UI >stuff using core data? You could use the various setMetadata: methods of NSPersistentStore and NSPersistentStoreCoordinator. -- _

iPhone book recommendations

2009-03-09 Thread Donald Hall
I'm not sure if this is the most appropriate list for this question, but here goes: Can anyone recommend a good book to get started on iPhone programming? I've been using Cocoa for several years now, so I don't need a really basic starter book. I've looked at several books at amazon.com. Has

Re: MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread Benjamin Stiglitz
> While I do realize that I will have to get this data into the Managed > Context somehow in order for it to be stored automatically with the > document, I want to be able to make my model completely and utterly UI > independent. You could have a NodeViewState, joined to the Node by a relationship

Re: iPhone book recommendations

2009-03-09 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Donald Hall wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book to get started on iPhone programming? ... > I've looked at several books at amazon.com. Don't forget The Pragmatic Programmers (if you don't mind e-books): http://www.pragprog.com/titles/amiphd/iphone-sdk-de

Re: MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Karolis Ramanauskas wrote: > I have Core Data Document Based app. Core Data > model contains entities that describe graph objects (nodes). ... > Of course I should be able to > drag them around the screen all that stuff. But this is purely user > interface stuff I

Re: MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread Karolis Ramanauskas
Thanks Sean, Benjamin and I. Savant for your responses so far, >You could use the various setMetadata: methods of NSPersistentStore and NSPersistentStoreCoordinator. I thought metadata was meant to make stores searchable with spotlight? Is this the correct usage? I claim ignorance here :) >You co

Re: iPhone book recommendations

2009-03-09 Thread Isa Goksu
Try to watch screencasts in iPhone developer center, and there are some nice guys trying to create st similar (http:// iphonedevcentral.com). Go watch their screencasts as well. Other than that, I'd recommend you to use Apple's documentations. It's pretty detailed and well covered. Cheers,

Re: MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Karolis Ramanauskas wrote: > Well, perhaps I didn't explain it well enough. That's usually the case with technical posts. :-) You know your project well. Nobody else does, though. > Let's say, in the future I > want to have a different View. In that case specif

Archiving/unarchiving root objects using instance methods

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Kim
I have been using NSKeyedArchiver's +archivedDataWithRootObject: method to create archives. Now, I want to create and read the same archives but using a instances of NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver instead of the class methods (so I can do things like set a delegate, for instance). Th

Re: MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread Karolis Ramanauskas
> > STOP IT. > > That's right. Stop it. > > No no, just just stop it.* I needed that, ;) I can't come up with a better way either, I've been sitting and reading all this morning, my platonic MVC ideal a little diminished... Perhaps this could be one-to-many relationship so I could associat

Re: MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Karolis Ramanauskas wrote: >> STOP IT. >> >> That's right. Stop it. >> >> No no, just just stop it.* > > I needed that, ;) Sometimes a comically cold splash of water helps. ;-) > I can't come up with a better way either, I've been > sitting and reading al

Re: Archiving/unarchiving root objects using instance methods

2009-03-09 Thread A.M.
On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Paul Kim wrote: I have been using NSKeyedArchiver's +archivedDataWithRootObject: method to create archives. Now, I want to create and read the same archives but using a instances of NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver instead of the class methods (so I can do

Re: Archiving/unarchiving root objects using instance methods

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Kim
Thanks for the response but your code changes the archive format. I have existing files encoded already with the "root" key and decodeObject: without a key won't do it. As mentioned before, yes, I can specify the root key but it appears to not be official API. Paul Kim -

Re: How to intercept NSToolbar item selection changes

2009-03-09 Thread Stuart Malin
On Mar 9, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Michael Ash wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Stuart Malin wrote: On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:46 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: Could you simply reset the toolbar selection to whatever it was before, then display your sheet and then manually set th

persisting user credentials -- how?

2009-03-09 Thread Stefan Wolfrum
Hi, I have a little app that needs a username & password to log into some web service. These user credentials should be stored permanently so that the user doesn't have to enter them after each start of the application again. What's the most common way to do this? In a .plist file? But how

Re: persisting user credentials -- how?

2009-03-09 Thread Steven Degutis
You should look into EMKeychain made by Brian Amerige, same guy who made Flow. It's handy. - Steven Degutis www.degutis.org www.teachmecocoa.com www.thoughtfultree.com On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Stefan Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > > I have a little app that needs a username & password to log into

Re: persisting user credentials -- how?

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Stefan Wolfrum wrote: I have a little app that needs a username & password to log into some web service. These user credentials should be stored permanently so that the user doesn't have to enter them after each start of the application again. What's the most co

Re: persisting user credentials -- how?

2009-03-09 Thread John C. Randolph
On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Stefan Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I have a little app that needs a username & password to log into some web service. These user credentials should be stored permanently so that the user doesn't have to enter them after each start of the application again. What's the m

Re: persisting user credentials -- how?

2009-03-09 Thread Hal Mueller
Buzz Andersen has a nice sample that works for iPhone simulator and device without code changes: Blog post: http://log.scifihifi.com/post/55837387/simple-iphone-keychain-code Source code: http://github.com/ldandersen/scifihifi-iphone/tree/master/security Hal __

Inducing a crash?

2009-03-09 Thread Rick Mann
I want to test how well our background agent is restarted. I'd like to programmatically induce a crash. What's a good way to do so? TIA, -- Rick ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator c

[CAWUG] Reminder Meeting Tomorrow

2009-03-09 Thread Bob Frank
Yes ... sorry for the terse reminder, here's the standard info: Agenda: - Bob on optimizing your web site / web app for the iPhone & iPod Touch - adjournment to O'Toole's When: Tuesday, March 10th, 7:00 PM Where: Apple Store

Re: Inducing a crash?

2009-03-09 Thread davelist
On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Rick Mann wrote: I want to test how well our background agent is restarted. I'd like to programmatically induce a crash. What's a good way to do so? TIA, -- Rick I'm not certain if you mean crashing use a Cocoa method, but this should certainly cause a memory

Re: Inducing a crash?

2009-03-09 Thread Rick Mann
Yeah, something like that. I didn't know if there was a more preferred way. Thanks! On Mar 9, 2009, at 15:15:18, davel...@mac.com wrote: On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Rick Mann wrote: I want to test how well our background agent is restarted. I'd like to programmatically induce a crash. Wh

Re: Properly symbol fonts handling in Cocoa

2009-03-09 Thread Alan Shouls
Hi Rimas, Last few days I was trying to understand how symbol fonts (wingdings, webdings X, etc) should be properly handled with cocoa text system. As a good example could be Adobe Photoshop and Apple Pages. Both behaves in the same way and I want to achieve the same result. Probably the best

Is UITableView more memory efficient than UIScrollView?

2009-03-09 Thread James Cicenia
I am trying to get my one screen to work and I feel I am having a memory issue that just causes my application to reboot. Even though UITableView subclasses UIScrollView I was wondering if it pages memory or such and would be better for my app. Thanks James Cicenia

Re: MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread Erik Buck
Let me explain how I solved the same problem:   I have an application that stores large data files via Core Data.  Multiple users access the same data at different times, and each user has a preferred way of visualizing the data.  E.g. starting point, filter sets, color coding, etc. all differ f

Re: Inducing a crash?

2009-03-09 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Killing it from the terminal is probably preferred, as it does not require you alter the code. Le 9 mars 09 à 23:17, Rick Mann a écrit : Yeah, something like that. I didn't know if there was a more preferred way. Thanks! On Mar 9, 2009, at 15:15:18, davel...@mac.com wrote: On Mar 9, 20

Re: Properly symbol fonts handling in Cocoa

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Sanders
> Wingdings is, if I remember correctly a bit strange as it is part of the > roman character space. Yes, it's a Windows thing. So if you cut and paste Wingdings characters as plain text, and the paste target is using a standard (i.e. non-Wingdings) font, you will see ASCII characters, 'cos th

Re: CoreData and NSObjectController

2009-03-09 Thread Steve Steinitz
Hi Michael, On 9/3/09, michael.suess...@utanet.at wrote: When I execute the program and click on the add button, the controller creates a new data record and I can enter the attributes. If I press again the button, the add method is called, but no new record is created. I've had plenty o

Re: Is UITableView more memory efficient than UIScrollView?

2009-03-09 Thread Mike Abdullah
Well it rather depends what you ask UIScrollView to do for you… The most important thing is to recycle or dispose of views that are no longer visible to the user. Care to explain more what your code is actually doing? Mike. On 9 Mar 2009, at 22:27, James Cicenia wrote: I am trying to get

Re: Inducing a crash?

2009-03-09 Thread Greg Parker
On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Rick Mann wrote: On Mar 9, 2009, at 15:15:18, davel...@mac.com wrote: On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Rick Mann wrote: I want to test how well our background agent is restarted. I'd like to programmatically induce a crash. What's a good way to do so? I'm not certain

Re: Archiving/unarchiving root objects using instance methods

2009-03-09 Thread Martin Wierschin
Hi Paul, I have existing files encoded already with the "root" key and decodeObject: without a key won't do it. As mentioned before, yes, I can specify the root key but it appears to not be official API. I hit the same problem a while back and never did find an official way to solve this

Re: Properly symbol fonts handling in Cocoa

2009-03-09 Thread Martin Wierschin
Wingdings is, if I remember correctly a bit strange as it is part of the roman character space. Yes, the "ding" fonts are rather strange in their handling of characters. Wingdings will display symbol glyphs when applied to characters in either the ASCII range (0-256) or the private use are

Re: User In-Activity hook? And a request

2009-03-09 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 6 Mar 2009, at 02:24, Shawn Erickson wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:58 AM, m wrote: For the archives, the blog Torsten linked to had this bit of code: double CGSSecondsSinceLastInputEvent(long evType); double idleTime = CGSSecondsSinceLastInputEvent(-1); You should note that those are

Re: Inducing a crash?

2009-03-09 Thread Rick Mann
On Mar 9, 2009, at 16:52:09, Greg Parker wrote: On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Rick Mann wrote: On Mar 9, 2009, at 15:15:18, davel...@mac.com wrote: On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Rick Mann wrote: I want to test how well our background agent is restarted. I'd like to programmatically induce a cr

Re: persisting user credentials -- how?

2009-03-09 Thread Nathan Kinsinger
On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Stefan Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I have a little app that needs a username & password to log into some web service. These user credentials should be stored permanently so that the user doesn't have to enter them after each start of the application again. What's the mo

Re: CrashReporter alternatives for third-party apps?

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Waylonis
On Mar 4, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Rick Mann wrote: Can you guys suggest something I can use to submit crash reports to my own servers (and perhaps to suppress Apple's CrashReporter)? Hi Rick, Check out Google's open source Breakpad project: http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/ It works on M

Re: MVC, storing VIEW-specific information and core data

2009-03-09 Thread Karolis Ramanauskas
> > Most of my Core Data entities have a Data blob attribute which is actually > and archived dictionary of "extra data." Each user's per-document view > configuration is stored under keys within each blob. The Data blobs start > out nil which just defaults to something reasonable in each view.

Re: Is UITableView more memory efficient than UIScrollView?

2009-03-09 Thread James Cicenia
I have a listing of approximately 100 lines. Within each line I create a visual calendar that has up 24 images. These images are tiny. However, I have proved to myself that it is a memory issue and calling didRecieveMemory warning. This view has two tabs on top which allows you to switch betw

Re: Archiving/unarchiving root objects using instance methods

2009-03-09 Thread Graham Cox
On 10/03/2009, at 6:59 AM, Paul Kim wrote: I have to encode the object with the undocumented "root" key. And yes, for practical reasons, using the "root" key will work because of backwards compatibility but it would be nice if there were an official way to do this (or some semi-official w

Automatically select current system's timezone from popup button

2009-03-09 Thread Jushin
I have a NSPopUpButton list, which contains name of timezones. When I construct the popup button, I get the list of the timezone using [NSTimeZone knownTimeZoneNames] and then constructed another array using [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:name] So, basically, the popup button has the list of NSStrin

Re: Automatically select current system's timezone from popup button

2009-03-09 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Jushin wrote: So, basically, the popup button has the list of NSString of timezone name. However, when I launch my application, I would like to make my application automatically select current system's timezone from the list. Also, when a user select a timezone fro

[ANN] InspectorKit (framework/IB-plugin)

2009-03-09 Thread Steven Degutis
Hi all! I've just released a piece of open-source software (BSD license) as both a framework and an Interface Builder plugin, called InspectorKit. It's intended to give you the ability to create an inspector at design time, which mimics the aesthetics and functionality of many found in Leopard. Yo

Re: Automatically select current system's timezone from popup button

2009-03-09 Thread Ron Fleckner
On 10/03/2009, at 3:30 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Jushin wrote: So, basically, the popup button has the list of NSString of timezone name. However, when I launch my application, I would like to make my application automatically select current system's timezone fro

Re: Automatically select current system's timezone from popup button

2009-03-09 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Ron Fleckner wrote: > Or just get the time zone from the name of the item: In general, tying constant identifiers to UI elements like this is a very bad idea; it makes localization very hard and introduces stronger coupling between the UI and your code. In this s