iPhone text on UIImage not getting displayed on device.

2009-05-18 Thread Shraddha Karwan
I used the following function to add text on UIImage. I can display the text on iPhone Simulator but its not getting displayed on the actual device. What can be the cause? CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(); CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, w, h, 8, 4 *

re: Programatically set file URL of Core Data Document?

2009-05-18 Thread Ben Trumbull
I'm trying to programatically set the initial file url (path, filename) of an Core Data NSPersistentDocument, or if that is not possible, at least populate the Save panel with an initial filename. This is more an NSDocument / UI problem. Pushing this down into the model layer will make Core D

Re: Capturing key events in a menu

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Warski
Hello, ...but I first need to ask the standard question: waht are you trying to achieve? Adding: mention the scope too - do you want to do this for your app or all apps and maybe even the Apple menu too? What about context menus? NSPopUpButton menus and the like? I want to do this for one m

Re: Capturing key events in a menu

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Warski
Hello, When a menu is open the Menu Manager in HIToolbox handles incoming events on its own. You be able to capture the events with an embedded NSView, but I first need to ask the standard question: waht are you trying to achieve? Well, I want to know what the user typed when a menu is open, s

Re: iPhone Generating and displaying images using Bitmap

2009-05-18 Thread Shraddha Karwan
Hi, I get the following errors while displaying the JPEG buffered image. : Corrupt JPEG data: 584 extraneous bytes before marker 0xc0 : Quantization table 0x00 was not defined : Corrupt JPEG data: 446 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb : Bogus marker length : CGImageCreate: invalid image size:

Re: Databases on Cocoa (was Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa)

2009-05-18 Thread Bill Bumgarner
(trying to keep this on-topic...) On May 18, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Steve Steinitz wrote: On 18/5/09, Bill Bumgarner wrote: sticking a SQLite database on a network filesystem and trying to go multi-user is... just don't do it. Oops, too late for me. Its been in production at a busy retail shop

Re: How to specify the file type to Audio file when dragging...?

2009-05-18 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On May 18, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Bright wrote: Hi ,this is my code,but the code can not limit the file to Audio file : - (NSDragOperation)tableView:(NSTableView*)tv validateDrop:(id )info proposedRow:(int)row proposedDropOperation: (NSTableViewDropOperation)op { ? ? [tv setDropRow:[tv num

Re: Databases on Cocoa (was Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa)

2009-05-18 Thread Steve Steinitz
Hi Bill, Thanks for your high-level assessment. I've long admired your technical skills and writing, so it is with much respect that I offer some counterpoint. I'm compelled because I have a vested interest and I love Core Data. On 18/5/09, Bill Bumgarner wrote: sticking a SQLite datab

Re: NSEvent virtual keycodes

2009-05-18 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Christopher Hansen wrote: > Lol!  In the process of moving from Carbon to Cocoa, I ripped out the > Carbon.framework.  I just thought there might be a better place to include > them from. You don't need to link against Carbon to include the header files. --Kyl

Re:Re: How to specify the file type to Audio file when dragging...?

2009-05-18 Thread Bright
>On May 18, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Bright wrote: > >> I am a novice of Cocoa. So can you tell me detailed about the >> specify the file type to Audio File >> when dragging a file to tableview? >>I tried the "validateDrop method" and NSworkspace, but failed. > > >That depends. Can you please

Re: NSEvent virtual keycodes

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Hansen
Lol! In the process of moving from Carbon to Cocoa, I ripped out the Carbon.framework. I just thought there might be a better place to include them from. Thanks, Jim. Christopher From: Jim Correia To: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:

Re: How to specify the file type to Audio file when dragging...?

2009-05-18 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On May 18, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Bright wrote: I am a novice of Cocoa. So can you tell me detailed about the specify the file type to Audio File when dragging a file to tableview? I tried the "validateDrop method" and NSworkspace, but failed. That depends. Can you please post your code

Re: How to specify the file type to Audio file when dragging...?

2009-05-18 Thread Bright
>On 5/13/09 9:58 AM, Nick Zitzmann said: > >>> But how limit the file type to sound file only available when drag >>> and drop files into tableview? >> >>You need to check for that in your validateDrop method, and return YES >>if the desired file type is detected and NO otherwise. > >And you can

Re: NSEvent virtual keycodes

2009-05-18 Thread Jim Correia
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Christopher Hansen wrote: > The NSEvent Reference documentation for the keyCode method states that "the > value returned is the same value returned in the kEventParamKeyCode when using > Carbon Events." > > Are the virtual key codes available in a Cocoa-based hea

NSEvent virtual keycodes

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Hansen
Hello, The NSEvent Reference documentation for the keyCode method states that "the value returned is the same value returned in the kEventParamKeyCode when using Carbon Events." Are the virtual key codes available in a Cocoa-based header? The only virtual keycode definitions I've been able to

Re: How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread Scott Anguish
On 18-May-09, at 5:02 PM, I. Savant wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Rick Mann wrote: Thank you for some reply. If I could tell that my message had appeared on the list, I wouldn't have re-posted. My list settings are set to send me copies of my own posts, and I also searched the

Re: How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread Scott Anguish
You should consider trying cocoabuilder.com. That list archive/search functionality is great. On 18-May-09, at 5:39 PM, Greg Guerin wrote: Rick Mann wrote: If I could tell that my message had appeared on the list, ... List archives, most recent first: http://lists.apple.com/archives/co

Re: Databases on Cocoa (was Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa)

2009-05-18 Thread Robert Martin
If you're trying to say what you think CoreData 'should' be - then take it up with Apple. (which is not this list, by the way) This whole thread is depressing. Is anyone out there who is trying to say that CoreData should be an object database capable of reading the docs? If so, what part o

Re: NSPopupButton with blurry image

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Ammon
Hi Gideon, It sounds like the PDF image is being rasterized at the point you sent it on the menu item, and being cached into a NSCachedImageRep; for the subsequent menu items the cache is used. If you can arrange for the image to be rasterized before the being set on the menu item, it wou

Re: Databases on Cocoa (was Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa)

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Idou
>Core Data solves that through the use of a SQLite backing store. SQL based >data storage is the standard means of achieving incremental retrieval >and storage of data in our industry. If Core Data talked to standard databases like Oracle etc, then I can see that as a selling point. But sinc

Re: Field Editor Changes Text Height [solved]

2009-05-18 Thread K. Darcy Otto
A possible solution is to insert the following line between [fieldEd setString ... and [fieldEd setSelected ... (the two lines at the end of the code): [fieldEd setFont:[NSFont fontWithDescriptor:[[fieldEd font] fontDescriptor] size:[[fieldEd font] pointSize]]]; This will set the font for

Cancelling an animation in a UITableViewCell was Re: UITableViewCell instances

2009-05-18 Thread Mike Manzano
First, let me say thanks for your reply. I think I was able to implement a similar algorithm for detecting when a cell has gone off- screen by overriding the table view's -willRemoveSubview:. What I'm doing is starting an animation by adding it to the cell's layer, and in response to the cel

Re: How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Greg Guerin wrote: > Conclusion: Apple's Archive Search is fubar. More to the point: Apple's list serve in general is fubar. -- I.S. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin r

Re: Take over function keys

2009-05-18 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > Is that going to take care of global hotkeys, like in System > Preferences or Spotlight? You have a point, and looking at the original post again, I see that this appears to be what the OP is after. Sorry for the noise. -- I.S.

Field Editor Changes Text Height

2009-05-18 Thread K. Darcy Otto
I need to trap-and-replace various keypresses in the field editor. I do this with -controlTextDidChange: in my delegate. So, when the user presses ">", I replace it with a "superset of" (⊃) character (in case this does not come out on the list, I'm going to represent the "superset of" cha

Re: How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread Greg Guerin
Rick Mann wrote: If I could tell that my message had appeared on the list, ... List archives, most recent first: http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2009/May/ It may take 15-20 minutes for the archives to update with recent posts, or even longer. ... and I also searched the arc

Re: Take over function keys

2009-05-18 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM, I. Savant wrote: >  Nah ... if he only wants to listen for the function keys when the > app is active, creating an NSApplication subclass and overriding > -sendEvent: is sufficient. If the key code / flags is what you want, > dispatch the message however you wish,

Re: manually flush NSHTTPCookieStorage in Leopard

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2009 May 17, at 17:38, Russell Gray wrote: is this possible, I have a cookie manager app (Safari Cookies), and ive only just noticed a bug, where if you delete some cookies, and then visit a secure site, all the previously deleted cookies will re- appear? I know it was possible to flus

Getting results from Spotlight Saved Searches

2009-05-18 Thread Mark Allan
Hello all, I'm implementing something which requires me to perform various tasks on a collection of files supplied by the user. I'd like to be able to offer my users the ability to select a ".savedSearch" file and perform those tasks on the files which result from that search. What I'm d

Re: Take over function keys

2009-05-18 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Kevin Gessner wrote: > Look into creating a CGEventTap - > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/QuartzEventServicesRef/Reference/reference.html. > You'll want your callback to look for F-key events, and return NULL to "eat" > the event. Nah

Re: Capturing key events in a menu

2009-05-18 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Benjamin Stiglitz wrote: > ...but I first need to ask the standard question: waht are you > trying to achieve? Adding: mention the scope too - do you want to do this for your app or all apps and maybe even the Apple menu too? What about context menus? NSPopUpBu

Re: How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > Thank you for some reply. If I could tell that my message had appeared on > the list, I wouldn't have re-posted. My list settings are set to send me > copies of my own posts, and I also searched the archives. My post doesn't > show up, and I nev

Re: How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread Rick Mann
On May 18, 2009, at 13:47:31, I. Savant wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Rick Mann wrote: Hi. I've got a popup button with a bunch of GMT offsets configured in IB, ... Don't re-post. If someone has an answer, they'll answer. It's only been 13 hours. Thank you for some reply. If

Re: How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread Kyle Sluder
Please don't repost the same message with no added content. If anyone wants to help you, they will. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the m

Re: How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread I. Savant
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > Hi. I've got a popup button with a bunch of GMT offsets configured in IB, ... Don't re-post. If someone has an answer, they'll answer. It's only been 13 hours. -- I.S. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (C

Re: Take over function keys

2009-05-18 Thread Kevin Gessner
On May 17, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Brad Shappell wrote: Hi, I have an basic Cocoa app in which I'd like to take over the function keys (F1-F12) whenever when my app is active. For example, if my app is active when F1 is pressed I'd like to detect, then "eat" that event so that it is not proces

Programatically set file URL of Core Data Document?

2009-05-18 Thread Jerry Krinock
I'm trying to programatically set the initial file url (path, filename) of an Core Data NSPersistentDocument, or if that is not possible, at least populate the Save panel with an initial filename. At first, I was using -[NSDocument saveToURL:ofType:forSaveOperation:error:]. That worked fin

Re: Capturing key events in a menu

2009-05-18 Thread Benjamin Stiglitz
> Basically, I want to do quite a simple thing: capture a "keyDown" event > when a menu is opened. So the user opens a menu, presses a key and I want > to know what key it was. > Unfortunately NSMenu isn't an NSResponder, so I can't capture it there. > Also, the event isn't passed down to NSApp

How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread Rick Mann
Hi. I've got a popup button with a bunch of GMT offsets configured in IB, and bound via selectedTag to an NSArrayController's selection's gmtOffset property. Each item in the menu has a tag value set. The binding is properly setting the values of the selection, even if multiply selected, an

Capturing key events in a menu

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Warski
Hello, I'm quite new to Cocoa programming, and I've spent already some time looking for a solution - maybe somebody here will be able to help. Basically, I want to do quite a simple thing: capture a "keyDown" event when a menu is opened. So the user opens a menu, presses a key and I want

manually flush NSHTTPCookieStorage in Leopard

2009-05-18 Thread Russell Gray
is this possible, I have a cookie manager app (Safari Cookies), and ive only just noticed a bug, where if you delete some cookies, and then visit a secure site, all the previously deleted cookies will re- appear? I know it was possible to flush the cookie cache under Tiger, but can it be d

Take over function keys

2009-05-18 Thread Brad Shappell
Hi, I have an basic Cocoa app in which I'd like to take over the function keys (F1-F12) whenever when my app is active. For example, if my app is active when F1 is pressed I'd like to detect, then "eat" that event so that it is not processed by the system. Any pointers would be much appreciated,

NSPopupButton with blurry image

2009-05-18 Thread Gideon King
Hi, I have an NSPopupButton which I am populating programmatically. The button class is set to square because I need it to be bigger than the standard popup button. I am setting an image on each menu item (the images are produced as PDF images). All the images appear correctly, but when I p

Re: Databases on Cocoa (was Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa)

2009-05-18 Thread Jeffrey Oleander
Yah, it's getting there. It's just not there yet. The data modeling still isn't quite up to ORM standards we had nearly 30 years ago. When we dink with PHP and Python which have handy APIs, it can get to be frustrating. Just provide input via the bugreporter and comments to the docs, and st

Re: LMSetKey[Rep]Thresh

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Hansen
Thanks, Chris. I had actually started to wonder about that myself, and I think this is the right solution. I haven't had to do event handling before (graphics are my norm), but I was given the task of replacing the portions of our Mac OS X code that are not supported for 64-bit since I'm the o

Re: NSURLConnection set to cache

2009-05-18 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
Thanks - that's good information. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Keary Suska wrote: > On May 17, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > > I just want to be sure of something - if I set the images to cache, when I >> load the same url again, the image is coming from memory - because I put

Re: Databases on Cocoa (was Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa)

2009-05-18 Thread Bill Bumgarner
I'm going to can the excerpts from other posts for a moment and bring this back around to helping to solve Cocoa development problems. Though you might have to scroll down a bit to get there... :) There are actually four different specific technical issues that have been discussed concrete

Re: Databases on Cocoa (was Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa)

2009-05-18 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 18 May 2009, at 14:04, Chris Idou wrote: The database situation on Cocoa is not great. Apple should spend some of that cash hoard building or buying an object database. If anyone wants an interesting project, the db4o object database which is written in Java and GPLed comes with a pr

Re: iPhone Generating and displaying images using Bitmap

2009-05-18 Thread Gwynne Raskind
On May 18, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Shraddha Karwan wrote: I have a buffer containing JPEG image data. I need to display this buffer in form of images. I copied this buffer to a file and then used the following: CGDataProviderRef ref = CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename([appFile UTF8String]); CGImage

Re: Debugging Information

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Williams
Perhaps this is a tad simplistic, but have you searched your code for NSKeyedUnarchiver? Can't be too many instances of that... > From: ALEXander > Subject: Debugging Information > > Hello, > > when the objective C runtime engine throws an exception during > runtime, I get messages like > > 2

Re: Debugging Information

2009-05-18 Thread Joar Wingfors
On 18 maj 2009, at 07.48, ALEXander wrote: when the objective C runtime engine throws an exception during runtime, I get messages like 2009-05-18 16:31:58.370 Control[27911:813] *** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: data is NULL in the console of Xcode. How do I find out where in

Debugging Information

2009-05-18 Thread ALEXander
Hello, when the objective C runtime engine throws an exception during runtime, I get messages like 2009-05-18 16:31:58.370 Control[27911:813] *** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: data is NULL in the console of Xcode. How do I find out where in my code this problem occured?

Re: Positioning of autocomplete popups

2009-05-18 Thread Ross Carter
On May 18, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Dave Robertson wrote: Is there a way to control the position or appearance of an autocomplete popup? I've noticed that autocompletion in Xcode does the right thing - is anyone able to suggest how this could be achieved? IMHO, the default text completion list

Re: NSURLConnection set to cache

2009-05-18 Thread Keary Suska
On May 17, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: I just want to be sure of something - if I set the images to cache, when I load the same url again, the image is coming from memory - because I put in a progress bar and the images loaded already I thought would have an instantly populated

Databases on Cocoa (was Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa)

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Idou
The database situation on Cocoa is not great. Apple should spend some of that cash hoard building or buying an object database. If anyone wants an interesting project, the db4o object database which is written in Java and GPLed comes with a program called Sharpen which translates Java into C#

Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa

2009-05-18 Thread Andreas Grosam
On May 18, 2009, at 4:01 AM, Michael Ash wrote: Perhaps you should have taken more than a first glance. For example, here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/Articles/cdBasics.html#/ /apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001650 "Core Data is not a relational database or a

Re: microsoft file formats in cocoa

2009-05-18 Thread Kirk Kerekes
-- And it is easy to wrap in a Cocoa wrapper -- I've done so. The interface is appended to this email. The libxls open source project on sourceforge.net allows you to read and parse .xls files. This library works under OSX - I know, I'm one of the developers :-) // // XLSWorkbook.h // PE

Drag and drop query

2009-05-18 Thread Srinivasa Prabhu
Hi all, I am trying to drag image files from my application to other applications like Mail,iPhoto,TextEdit etc. I am using NSFilesPromisePboardType to do this. This is the code snippet: [inPasteboard declareTypes : [NSArray arrayWithObjects:NSFilesPromisePboardType, nil] owner:self]

Positioning of autocomplete popups

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Robertson
Hi, I've just implemented an NSSearchField control with autocomplete using the delegate method control:textView:completions:forPartialWordRange:indexOfSelectedItem: It appears that the popup list of autocomplete candidate strings always pops up below the NSSearchField, even if the search

RE: How to implement to create a new directory in a specified path and....?

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Gardner
NSString * cPathName;// cPathName is your specified path NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; [fm createDirectoryAtPath:cPathName withIntermediateDirectories:TRUE attributes:nil error:nil]; with which you can create any folder. > Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:34:24

How to implement to create a new directory in a specified path and....?

2009-05-18 Thread Bright
Hi ,all I completed an application about tableview and audio files. Allow you to drag audio files into the tableview . It will play the audio file if you double click the tableview's cell. Now, I want to implement this result. When I drag and drop a sound file into the tableview, I want

Re: LMSetKey[Rep]Thresh

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Hanson
On May 14, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Christopher Hansen wrote: I'm writing a game and I need to set the key and key repeat thresholds in my Cocoa application. The functions needed to do to this under Carbon (Events.h) are: LMGetKeyThresh LMSetKeyThresh LMGetKeyRepThresh LMSetKeyRepThresh I'm loo

iPhone Generating and displaying images using Bitmap

2009-05-18 Thread Shraddha Karwan
Hi, I have a buffer containing JPEG image data. I need to display this buffer in form of images. I copied this buffer to a file and then used the following: CGDataProviderRef ref = CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename([appFile UTF8String]); CGImageRef imgRef = CGImageCreateWithJPEGDataProvider(ref,NU

Re: LMSetKey[Rep]Thresh

2009-05-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 18 mai 09 à 08:27, Eric Schlegel a écrit : On May 17, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Christopher Hansen wrote: First of all, I want to be able to set them, so I primarily need the setters, but I also want the getters because I want to be able to restore the previous values when my app exits or is s

How to set multiple values placeholder for NSPopupButton selectedTag binding?

2009-05-18 Thread Rick Mann
Hi. I've got a popup button with a bunch of GMT offsets configured in IB, and bound via selectedTag to an NSArrayController's selection's gmtOffset property. Each item in the menu has a tag value set. The binding is properly setting the values of the selection, even if multiply selected, an