Re: Examples or Documentation for Non-document-based Multi-window App

On 3/10/09 11:44 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > On 11/03/2009, at 9:09 AM, Grant Erickson wrote: >> Suppose I were writing an application, perhaps similar to the >> example at >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming_Mac_OS_X_with_Cocoa_for_beginners/B >> uilding_a_GUI (or many of the examples in /Deve

Re: Examples or Documentation for Non-document-based Multi-window App

On 11/03/2009, at 9:09 AM, Grant Erickson wrote: Suppose I were writing an application, perhaps similar to the example at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming_Mac_OS_X_with_Cocoa_for_beginners/B uilding_a_GUI (or many of the examples in /Developer/Examples/...) that had no file-based in

Re: Background Process?

On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Chris Suter wrote: Obviously, the run loop has to run, but you don't need events to be received or processed for the timer to fire. You need at least one event source, possibly a dummy one, but it doesn't have to

Re: Background Process?

Kyle Sluder wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Chris Suter wrote: Obviously, the run loop has to run, but you don't need events to be received or processed for the timer to fire. You need at least one event source, possibly a dummy one, but it doesn't have to do anything and so the CPU

Re: Examples or Documentation for Non-document-based Multi-window App

On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Grant Erickson wrote: Does anyone have any recommendation for examples, URLs or books that might discuss and illustrate such an application or the rough framework thereto? I don't have a good resource to point you to, but here's the rough framework you were lo

Re: Background Process?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Chris Suter wrote: > Obviously, the run loop has to run, but you don't need events to be > received or processed for the timer to fire. You need at least one > event source, possibly a dummy one, but it doesn't have to do anything > and so the CPU usage whilst wait

Re: Background Process?

Chris Suter wrote: Hi Kyle, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: Well, there is a sentence directly below that list that says the following: "Because timers and other periodic events are delivered when you run the run loop, circumventing that loop disrupts the delivery of

Re: Background Process?

Hi Kyle, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > Well, there is a sentence directly below that list that says the following: > > "Because timers and other periodic events are delivered when you run > the run loop, circumventing that loop disrupts the delivery of those > events." >

Re: Background Process?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Roland King wrote: > So you just add the timer to the runloop, run it, it sleeps until the timer > fires, does its thing and then goes back to sleep again. What am I missing? Well, there is a sentence directly below that list that says the following: "Because tim

Re: Remote Invocation

On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:13 AM, rajesh swarnkar wrote: I have two application in cocoa . My aim is to communicate with a protocol between both the application using IPC mechanism (through NSConnection) but I am unable to achieve my goal. I want to use id < MyProtocol > protocol as inout paramete

Re: Background Process?

Kyle Sluder wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Michael Ash wrote: The notion that adding a timer to a runloop would somehow cause that runloop to suck up CPU time when the runloop is idle is nonsensical. The whole point of the runloop is that it sleeps the process until some activity

Re: KVO & Bindings: Proxy object & change notifications

On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:14 AM, Dave Keck wrote: I have a preferences controller object (let's call it PrefCtrl) that's modeled after NSUserDefaultsController (for various reasons, though, it's a custom implementation.) As does NSUDC, it has a 'values' property, which mediates access to the prefere

Re: Background Process?

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Michael Ash wrote: > The notion that adding a timer to a runloop would somehow cause that > runloop to suck up CPU time when the runloop is idle is nonsensical. > The whole point of the runloop is that it sleeps the process until > some activity is required. A bac

Re: Cant figure out images

On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Etienne Gignac Bouchard wrote: testUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"/Users/Etienne/Desktop/logo.gif"]; That's not a URL; that's a POSIX path. If you want a file URL, then use +fileURLWithPath: instead. Nick Zitzmann

EXC_BAD_ACCESS on NSImageView::setImage

I have a window that contains a NSImageView that displays pictures. here is the code : =CODE= NSBitmapImageRep *rawPic = [[[NSBitmapImageRep alloc] initWithBitmapDataPlanes:NULL pixelsWide:thisFrame.width pixelsHigh:thisFrame.height bitsP

Cant figure out images

Hi guys. So I tried NSImage without much success and now I¹m trying CIImage. I have the following code: NSURL *testUrl; testUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"/Users/Etienne/Desktop/logo.gif"]; CIImage *imageTest; if(testUrl == nil) NSLog(@"TEST NIL !"); else

Examples or Documentation for Non-document-based Multi-window App

Suppose I were writing an application, perhaps similar to the example at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming_Mac_OS_X_with_Cocoa_for_beginners/B uilding_a_GUI (or many of the examples in /Developer/Examples/...) that had no file-based interaction whatsoever but for which I wanted to allow the

Fwd: Problem in save and open on Core Data Document Based application

-- Forwarded message -- From: haresh vavdiya Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:50 PM Subject: Re: Problem in save and open on Core Data Document Based application To: Volker in Lists Hi Volker, Thanks Volker, Ya u r right, i opened from File -> Open and it works,,

Re: Odd interaction of NSTrackingArea behaviour with drag and drop

For the curious, the test app is available at: http://idisk.mac.com/luke_e-Public/TrackingTesterDragDrop.zip (61.2 KB) On 10-Mar-09, at 7:41 PM, Luke Evans wrote: I have a test app that recreates the problem in what I consider a reasonably sterile environment.. ___

Re: Background Process?

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Darren Minifie wrote: > Can't somebody write a small app and and profile it to get a conclusive > answer?  I'd do it but I'm lazy.  I am interested in the outcome though. Just run Activity Monitor and look at one of the numerous idling GUI apps. Notice how it use

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Robert Mullen wrote: > Too little resource, too little experience, too little return. The first two > are because this is a skunk works type corporate project that basically has > myself (an ex-.NET and general Windows coder) as it's resource so is > constrained by

Re: Background Process?

Hi Darren, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Darren Minifie wrote: > Can't somebody write a small app and and profile it to get a conclusive > answer?  I'd do it but I'm lazy.  I am interested in the outcome though. Well, I did do that and ran it under Shark: zero CPU usage. I also ran another te

Re: Background Process?

Can't somebody write a small app and and profile it to get a conclusive answer? I'd do it but I'm lazy. I am interested in the outcome though. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Chris Suter wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Kyle Sluder > wrote: > > > While NSTimers are not

Re: Background Process?

Hi Kyle, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > While NSTimers are not normal input sources, the frameworks are free > to add any input source to the runloop that they wish.  And in order > for your timer to fire, you need to keep the runloop awake, using at > least a dummy input

Odd interaction of NSTrackingArea behaviour with drag and drop

I have tracking areas set up in an NSTableView,similar to the Cocoa PhotoSearch sample app, and these have the NSTrackingEnabledDuringMouseDrag option set. There may be various definitions of what "mouse drag" actually means, but the docs just indicate that this option should produce track

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

On Mar 10, 2009, at 8:13 PM, James Cicenia wrote: Yes, I realized I would need a different approach. I got too used to web gif/png and just doing overlays. I have already told my designer to give me just bounded states with a spreadsheet of what he chopped off from the top and left. This wil

Re: Background Process?

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Roland King wrote: > Could you expand on that a bit please? My mental picture of the runloop has > always been more like a select() which does nothing unless there is > something to do. Not that I ever quite sorted out in my own mind how an > NSTimer fits is someth

Fwd: Background Process?

Hi Kyle, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > It will put unnecessary burden on the processor, > and therefore reduce battery life on mobile machines, by doing nothing > in the runloop until the timer fires. Whilst it probably is a bad idea to use an NSTimer to solve the probl

Re: Background Process?

This is a bad idea. It will put unnecessary burden on the processor, and therefore reduce battery life on mobile machines, by doing nothing in the runloop until the timer fires. It's just not an appropriate use of the NSTimer functionality. launchd already has the capability of launching task

Re: Background Process?

Thanks for correcting me. I have a lot to learn about this. Kyle Sluder wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Daniel Richman wrote: Set your program as a User Agent with launchd on install (i.e., a login item). launchd will make sure your program is running when the user logs in.

Re: Background Process?

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Daniel Richman wrote: > Set your program as a User Agent with launchd on install (i.e., a login > item). launchd will make sure your program is running when the user logs in. launchd doesn't launch Login Items. It does, however, launch per-user agents, but these

Re: setFrame: not working in custom event loop

Thanks, I will try that tomorrow. The code isn't mine, I'm just trying to use it with minimal change. If this doesn't fix it, I probably will just rewrite it to use the separate events. Mike On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Jesper Storm Bache wrote: When you modify a window it registers itself

Re: Background Process?

Set your program as a User Agent with launchd on install (i.e., a login item). launchd will make sure your program is running when the user logs in. Then, take a look at the NSTimer docs to implement the every-so-often part of it. --Daniel Richman Pierce Freeman wrote: Hi everyone: I am

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

Yes, I realized I would need a different approach. I got too used to web gif/png and just doing overlays. I have already told my designer to give me just bounded states with a spreadsheet of what he chopped off from the top and left. This will then be inputted into the spreadsheet then into s

Re: setFrame: not working in custom event loop

When you modify a window it registers itself as needing redrawing in the current run loop. If you are performing active tracking, you may have to do so yourself. Try calling [window flushWindowIfNeeded] on your window at the end of your loop (inside the loop). What is the reason for your exp

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

On 11/03/2009, at 11:00 AM, James Cicenia wrote: Well... easier said then done. How would one place irregular shapes of the state over the map itself? Any combination of states with a color needs to appear. Since you are in a much-more memory-constrained environment, you need to get smar

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

Ok - I figured out what I can do. I can make a database of the x/y coordinates after chopping down each state and then read the database info to place the states. Thanks for your hints and time. James On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Dave Camp wrote: Well, since you obviously can't have all

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:50 PM, James Cicenia wrote: I am just overlaying colored state images over a map of the US. I don't need performance here, just memory efficiency. I will try imageWithContetsOfFile. And just to be clear, imageWithContentsOfFile: vs imageNamed: won't save you any mem

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

Well... easier said then done. How would one place irregular shapes of the state over the map itself? Any combination of states with a color needs to appear. I was just overlaying the same square with just one state in the square all lined up. James On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Dave Camp

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

Well, since you obviously can't have all of those images on screen at the same time at full size, you should either just load what you need or resize them to a more appropriate size. Dave On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:41 PM, James Cicenia wrote: Interesting... I didn't know that, but then it begs t

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

I am just overlaying colored state images over a map of the US. I don't need performance here, just memory efficiency. I will try imageWithContetsOfFile. Thanks James On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:45 PM, David Duncan wrote: On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:41 PM, James Cicenia wrote: Interesting... I didn't

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:41 PM, James Cicenia wrote: Interesting... I didn't know that, but then it begs the question what do the cool kids do? Should I be taking a different approach here? If so, any pointers or doc chapter would be great. All depends on what you are trying to accomplis

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

Interesting... I didn't know that, but then it begs the question what do the cool kids do? Should I be taking a different approach here? If so, any pointers or doc chapter would be great. Thank you James Cicenia On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:33 PM, David Duncan wrote: On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:2

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:26 PM, James Cicenia wrote: Here is the offending code that sucks up about 2MB: NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; while(thisState = [statesEnum nextObject]){ UIImageView *singleStateView = [[[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(2,0, 29

Re: What is using up so much memory here?

On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:26 PM, James Cicenia wrote: Ok - Here is the offending code that sucks up about 2MB: NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; while(thisState = [statesEnum nextObject]){ UIImageView *singleStateView = [[[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(2,

What is using up so much memory here?

Ok - Here is the offending code that sucks up about 2MB: NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; while(thisState = [statesEnum nextObject]){ UIImageView *singleStateView = [[[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(2,0, 293, 184)]autorelease]; [singleStateView setIma

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On 3/10/09 3:46 PM, Bill Bumgarner said: >Also -- look through the -dealloc methods in the framework. You'll >want to create a -finalize for any that do anything beyond -release of >objects/[super dealloc] (Though you don't need to unregister >notification observers). > >- free()s & CFRelease()s

Re: Why does releasing this array cause a crash?

Ah... Thank you. I understand now. James On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Randall Meadows wrote: On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:35 PM, James Cicenia wrote: NSMutableArray *arraySubType = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init]; OK, this array, you *should* release, yes. Then in a loop from the database I have:

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Robert Mullen wrote: The framework is open source. It is the SM2DGraphView Framework. I have posted on the Snowmint forum but not getting anything. I think that is understandable as the original author built this for his own purpose and released it to the world o

Re: Why does releasing this array cause a crash?

On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:35 PM, James Cicenia wrote: NSMutableArray *arraySubType = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init]; OK, this array, you *should* release, yes. Then in a loop from the database I have: while (sqlite3_step(statement) == SQLITE_ROW) { if(![aDict objectForKey: [NSString stringWithUT

Why does releasing this array cause a crash?

Hello I am confused on this one: In my method I have a local array: NSMutableArray *arraySubType = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init]; Then in a loop from the database I have: while (sqlite3_step(statement) == SQLITE_ROW) { if(![aDict objectForKey: [NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char *)sqlite3

Re: Background Process?

On 10 Mar 2009, at 23:11:03, Pierce Freeman wrote: Hi everyone: I am wondering how to create a background process that will only run when the user is logged in and will run every certain minutes (a bit like Time Machine). I am also not sure in which way the action in the background proc

Background Process?

Hi everyone: I am wondering how to create a background process that will only run when the user is logged in and will run every certain minutes (a bit like Time Machine). I am also not sure in which way the action in the background process would be programmed, so any information regarding this wo

setFrame: not working in custom event loop

Hi, I am tracking the mouse pointer to dynamically resize a splitter as a separate drag handle is dragged. This is done in mouseDown: of the drag handle with a custom event loop. The loop looks like this: while (keepOn) { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool all

Re: [SOLVED] Re: NSArrayController -- will change selection?

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Stuart Malin wrote: > Re: remove:  Why ask for a decision about pending changes if the selected > item is about to be removed? Instead, I display a remove confirmation sheet. > The user can cancel that, and the pending changes remain pending. Fair enough. I just

Re: [SOLVED] Re: NSArrayController -- will change selection?

On Mar 7, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Stuart Malin wrote: Those are the only three means I am aware of (selection, window close, view change) that can potentially lead to loss of user data. Any others? Add and remove. You'd probably want to handl

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

The framework is open source. It is the SM2DGraphView Framework. I have posted on the Snowmint forum but not getting anything. I think that is understandable as the original author built this for his own purpose and released it to the world out of generosity. I have made some minor mods to

Re: Intercepting events from a control

Ah, you're right. It is on the iPhone (from what I tell; my attempts to subclass it never worked), and I was assuming the Mac side was the same. Anyway ending thread hijack. =) Dave On Mar 10, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Paul Sanders wrote: NSButton is a class cluster Are you sure about tha

Re: Intercepting events from a control

> NSButton is a class cluster Are you sure about that? I don't see it anywhere in the docs. Perhaps its an iPhone thing. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Co

[MEET] BYU CocoaHeads 12 Mar 2009

Hey everyone, The BYU CocoaHeads will be having their monthly meeting this Thursday from 7 to 9 pm in W310 TNRB on BYU campus in Provo, UT. Dan Reese from Mozy (http://www.mozy.com) will be coming to talk about Cocoa at Mozy, and we'll also be having a presentation on simple Bonjour netw

Re: Intercepting events from a control

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:43 PM, David Alter wrote: > I need to know about events destine for a specific control. Is there a way > to receive these events with out subclassing the control. All I have is a > reference to the control. I need events like MouseDown, MouseUp. It would > also be very he

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On Mar 10, 2009, at 12:21 PM, I. Savant wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Robert Mullen wrote: I also have the option of abandoning the framework and functionality although that is not an appealing option. I am enjoying the process of determining the course to rectify GC in this framew

[MEET] LA CocoaHeads 3/12/09 at 7:30pm

Greetings LA CocoaHeads. This Thursday we have a special guest speaker, Paul Agron, coming up all the way from San Diego to give us a presentation on a logging framework he's developed. Check out his blog here: http://www.fibrethread.com/blog/ Since he's coming from San Diego, I hope we c

Re: Intercepting events from a control

Subclassing isn't always an option (For example, NSButton is a class cluster). I've done something like this for iPhone, where I've embedded the control in a UIView, then set userInteractionEnabled to NO on the control, so that the tap events would fall through to the UIView underneath.

Re: Intercepting events from a control

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:43 PM, David Alter wrote: > Is there a way to do this? Subclass the control and override -mouseDown:, -mouseUp:, -becomeFirstResponder, and -resignFirstResponder? Seems straightforward to me. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mail

Intercepting events from a control

I need to know about events destine for a specific control. Is there a way to receive these events with out subclassing the control. All I have is a reference to the control. I need events like MouseDown, MouseUp. It would also be very helpful if I knew when the control became the first responder a

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Robert Mullen wrote: > I also have the option of abandoning the framework and functionality > although that is not an appealing option. I am enjoying the process of > determining the course to rectify GC in this framework (in a perverse sort > of way) but I am not

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

I also have the option of abandoning the framework and functionality although that is not an appealing option. I am enjoying the process of determining the course to rectify GC in this framework (in a perverse sort of way) but I am not sure how long that will last. Every time I run into a p

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Robert Mullen wrote: > GC systems have become efficient enough in our modern world that I think > manual memory management > has become pretty specialized and out of place in > 80% of desktop applications. I won't disagree there. > Anybody want to argue the

Re: NSMutableDictionary drives me mad.

On Mar 10, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Тимофей Даньшин wrote: I am writing a method for searching for the longest common substring. The idea is to store the pieces of that LCS in an NSMutableDictionary with TMIntWrappers as keys and NSMutableStrings as values. Now, TMIntWrapper is the class i created

Re: NSMutableDictionary drives me mad.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Тимофей Даньшин wrote: > Hello. > I am writing a method for searching for the longest common substring. The > idea is to store the pieces of that LCS in an NSMutableDictionary with > TMIntWrappers as keys and NSMutableStrings as values. > Now, TMIntWrapper is the

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

Too little resource, too little experience, too little return. The first two are because this is a skunk works type corporate project that basically has myself (an ex-.NET and general Windows coder) as it's resource so is constrained by me. The third is because I don't see sufficient gain t

Re: NSMutableDictionary drives me mad.

I'm not sure what your problem is, but I wanted to point out that it appears you could use NSNumber instead of TMIntWrappers to wrap an int value inside of an NSObject which can be used as a key. Perhaps there is a bug in TMIntWrappers that is preventing it from being used as a key... Is

Re: NSMutableDictionary drives me mad.

Have you tried using NSNumber instead of your custom integer wrapper? I doubt this is the problem, but see what happens if you do. HTH, Alex On Mar 10, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Тимофей Даньшин wrote: Hello. I am writing a method for searching for the longest common substring. The idea is to store

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Robert Mullen wrote: > Going non-GC is not an option for our main project If you don't mind my asking ... why? Too much work invested? -- I.S. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not po

NSMutableDictionary drives me mad.

Hello. I am writing a method for searching for the longest common substring. The idea is to store the pieces of that LCS in an NSMutableDictionary with TMIntWrappers as keys and NSMutableStrings as values. Now, TMIntWrapper is the class i created for wrapping ints into objects. It stores an

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

Going non-GC is not an option for our main project so my only hope with said framework is to correct it myself. I have been able to do a little debugging but I dead end with a BAD_ACCESS which I guess is to be expected with this sort of thing. I will have to see if I can narrow the problem

Re: NSSlider changed notification

On Mar 10, 2009, at 12:03 PM, David Alter wrote: Hi All, I'm sure this is something basic that I'm just missing. For some reason I can not find how to get a notification when my slider changes value. I want to be able to subscribe to receive a notification if the slider value changes. Is th

Re: NSSlider changed notification

NSSlider fires its action when the value changes. If its continuous property is YES, this happens while the user drags the widget. Otherwise it only sends its action when the mouse is released. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:46 AM, I. Savant wrote: Unfortunately this is true. Not just for frameworks, but any plug-ins those frameworks might load. A new, small internal project started awhile back seemed like the perfect opportunity to try out GC in a production app. This app used QTKit, but us

NSSlider changed notification

Hi All, I'm sure this is something basic that I'm just missing. For some reason I can not find how to get a notification when my slider changes value. I want to be able to subscribe to receive a notification if the slider value changes. Is there a delegate method for this? What is the best way to g

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > You'll have to do a code review and testing of the framework's code to > make sure it supports both GC and RR. Unfortunately this is true. Not just for frameworks, but any plug-ins those frameworks might load. A new, small internal proj

Re: Getting Distant Object In C++

On 10 Mar 09, at 04:44, rajesh swarnkar wrote: I have two application in which I want to implement IPC using cocoa distributed object . Then I have established NSConnection between two process and I am able to get proxy for the object in the remote process in the client application . Usi

Re: State of performing tasks with elevated privileges

On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Sidney San Martín wrote: I can make a helper tool that I call with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges. I already have this working, but it's vulnerable to attack (if the helper binary is replaced) Yes, but the chances of that happening are very, very low unless t

Re: Control in NSWindow top-right

Use -[NSWindow standardWindowButton:] to get a pointer to one of the buttons in the titlebar; doesn't matter which one, but you may want to use NSWindowToolbarButton if you're putting it in the upper-right. Then use -[NSView superview] to get at the view that encloses the titlebar, and add your vie

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Robert Mullen wrote: > I have an app built using garbage collection. I am begin asked to introduce > a framework that is non garbage collected but the compiler will not allow > this. I have set GC supported on the framework and recompiled which works > but the fram

Re: Getting Distant Object In C++

A word of advice when posting code like this: use pastebin. http://pastebin.com It makes the code a lot easier to read. As it stands, your .cpp file is weird... it should be .mm to invoke the Objective-C++ compiler, and @implementing isn't an ObjC keyword. --Kyle Sluder _

Re: Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

On 3/10/09 10:23 AM, Robert Mullen said: >I have an app built using garbage collection. I am begin asked to >introduce a framework that is non garbage collected but the compiler >will not allow this. I have set GC supported on the framework and >recompiled which works but the framework causes cryp

Re: Getting Distant Object In C++

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:44 AM, rajesh swarnkar wrote: >      While the objective C version works peerfectly , the c++ version does > not. > > Can you please guide me to a possible way by which I get the c++ > implementation working . Please see my code below. No, we really can't guide you. "Doe

Garbage collected and non-garbage collected

I have an app built using garbage collection. I am begin asked to introduce a framework that is non garbage collected but the compiler will not allow this. I have set GC supported on the framework and recompiled which works but the framework causes cryptic errors once compiled in this manne

Re: Design question: View with hell lot of drawing

On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:39 AM, rajesh wrote: I need to display huge number of "elements" in NSView (1000-2000). These elements are generally made of high resolution image files with some fancy drawing around them. These elements may vary from size 300 X 270 to 4280 X 3500. First I made use

State of performing tasks with elevated privileges

I'm fairly new to Cocoa (new to real desktop programing in general, to be honest) and am building an app that's going to want occasional system-level privileges (10.4+). Actually, here's what it needs: 1. To be able to set its preferences system-wide 2. To add itself as a login item for all users

Remote Invocation

Hi All, I have two application in cocoa . My aim is to communicate with a protocol between both the application using IPC mechanism (through NSConnection) but I am unable to achieve my goal. I want to use id < MyProtocol > protocol as inout parameter for two way communication. Please see my

Getting Distant Object In C++

Hi All, I have two application in which I want to implement IPC using cocoa distributed object . Then I have established NSConnection between two process and I am able to get proxy for the object in the remote process in the client application . Using this proxy I want to get access to vario

Control in NSWindow top-right

Hi All, Could anyone point me towards documentation/blog on how to add a control to the top-right of a Window, or tell me if it's even possible? I'd like to add an NSButton up there, perhaps a "Register now" button for example. To further clarify what I'm talking about here a link http:/

KVO & Bindings: Proxy object & change notifications

Hey list, I'm having some issues with KVO and updating UI elements via bindings; I'd greatly appreciate some clarification on the KVO-compliant way to do what I'm attempting: I have a preferences controller object (let's call it PrefCtrl) that's modeled after NSUserDefaultsController (for various

Re: User In-Activity hook? And a request

For anybody who cares, the following predates CGSecondsSinceLastInputEvent, and uses only public APIs. It's probably just personal preference as to which is less vile ;-) - (float) getSystemIdleSeconds { static mach_port_t masterPort = 0; static io_iterator_t iter; static io_registry_e

launching IPhone App Via terminal in IPhone Simulator

Hi, I was writing an automation tool from which i need to build and launch IPhone App.I am able to build it. but when i try to launch the application it crashes. Can any body help me. Regards, Anshul jain ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: [ANN] InspectorKit (framework/IB-plugin)

Sure. Basically, InspectorKit is designed to be a little more simple in usage and aesthetics. For example, it does not provide a specialized titlebar, and every pane is collapsible. It also uses Core Animation to animate its panels, and is thus only Leopard+ compatible. And as you mentioned, this f

Understanding how to display a context menu

Hey guys, I'm trying to understand the Apple docs for adding a context menu to an NSOutlineView: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MenuList/Articles/DisplayContextMenu.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004968 I am a bit stuck at how do you make it truly context sensitive, ie

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