Re: Message from view to viewController

2009-05-31 Thread Pierre Berloquin
I get warning UIViewController may not respond to '-vagTouchesBegan:' (Messages without a matching method signature will be assumed to return 'id' and accept '...' as arguments) when I call the view controller from the sub view - (void) touchesBegan: (NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

Re: How to draw background image in my app window

2009-05-31 Thread M Pulis
No, the conclusion is : That _is_ the easy and straight way to do it. Subclassing is your power and friend, my friend. Once you understand what those lines actually do, you should have a different point-of-view. Embrace the subclass, for they know what they are doing. :-) gary On May 30,

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Ammar Ibrahim
But my app is a normal Cocoa App, it's not a daemon or an agent. On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Chris Hanson c...@me.com wrote: The best way to ensure your daemon or agent is always running is to have it run via launchd. Start by reading the launchd man page and the Daemons and Agents tech

Subject: [ NSSplitview ] -setAutosaveName

2009-05-31 Thread Caleb Strockbine
On May 31, 2009, at 12:10 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: What does setAutosaveName actually do? I assume it saves the position of the splitview to user defaults? Did you read the fine manual? It's fairly plain: Sets the name under which receiver’s divider position is

Re: Subject: [ NSSplitview ] -setAutosaveName

2009-05-31 Thread Erg Consultant
Ok so more specifically I should have asked: How do I get the NSSplitView to restore the divider position when my app relaunches the next time? I set the autosave name but when I drag the splitter, then quit and relaunch, it's still in the default position, not the position it was in when I

NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSourceList interferes with custom NSBrowserCell drawing

2009-05-31 Thread Erg Consultant
I have a custom icon in a .tiff that I draw next to my cells in an NSOutlineView table. Everything works fine until I turn on NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSourceList: [ registryOutlineView setSelectionHighlightStyle:NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSourceList ]; When I do that the

Re: NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSourceList interferes with custom NSBrowserCell drawing

2009-05-31 Thread Kyle Sluder
I guess my first question is, why are you using an NSBrowserCell for this? NSBrowserCell probably knows nothing about table view highlighting styles, because its intended use is inside an NSMatrix within an NSBrowser. An image-and-text cell is not hard to create. It can delegate its drawing to

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Alexander Spohr
Could you split your app in two? One would be a daemon that runs all times, the second a gui-frontend for the deamon. The problem seems to be that no one here can think of an app that has a gui that no one ever looks at. Why a gui at all if no one looks at it anyway? atze Am

Re: Message from view to viewController

2009-05-31 Thread Pierre Berloquin
I think I solved the warning problem. I suspected my folder logic was wrong so I cleaned it up, taking all class files from the project and adding them back one by one. And it works fine, no warning anywhere !I had a duplicate controller I had created by mistake and I thought I had gotten rid of.

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Jelle De Laender
Can you give us so more details? For example: What will the app do? Your description is very strange, lol. But indeed, you should create a normal cocoa app that do the stuff you want to do (UI + the real stuff), and a little daemon that checks every X minutes if the other app is running:

Re: Message from view to viewController

2009-05-31 Thread WT
On May 31, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Pierre Berloquin wrote: Also I follow your advice about retaining loopholes and use -(void)setViewController:(UIViewController *) vc{ theViewController = vc; } So the warning remains puzzling. Note that it's displayed on the sub view .m page only, after the

Re: NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest: crashes since, upgrading to 10.5.7

2009-05-31 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 27 May 2009, at 18:20, Dennis Hartigan-O'Connor wrote: I have a very similar problem: my simple program that downloads stock prices has been working fine but intermittently crashes on 10.5.7, whether I use sendSynchronousRequest or stringWithContentsOfURL. For me, too, everything is

Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 6, Issue 811

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Swan
Strange, this originally was a link A Core Data Tutorial Part 2: Polishing the Basics Guess it got stripped, here is the real link. http://themikeswan.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/a-core-data-tutorial-part-2-polishing-the-basics/ Mike Swan ETCP Certified Entertainment Electrician

Re: How to draw background image in my app window

2009-05-31 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 30.05.2009 um 19:45 schrieb cocoa learner: Yah Andy and Michael you all were right. But still I have some problem.1. While resizing the window Image is not getting resized. You could probably fix that using setImageScaling: on the image view. 2. My controls (NSButton and NSTextField)

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 31.05.2009 um 12:12 schrieb Jelle De Laender: Can you give us so more details? For example: What will the app do? Your description is very strange, lol. But indeed, you should create a normal cocoa app that do the stuff you want to do (UI + the real stuff), and a little daemon that checks

Re: [ NSSplitview ] -setAutosaveName

2009-05-31 Thread Jim Correia
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Erg Consultant erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote: What does setAutosaveName actually do? I assume it saves the position of the splitview to user defaults? The behavior is documented, succinctly, here:

Re: Showing more warnings possible in Xcode?

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Ash
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Eric Hermanson zmons...@mac.com wrote: Yes Mike, you ask a very pertinent question. First I'm looking for a source-time (not compile-time) monitor that would alert me to potential code problems as I type. Seems like this would have to be *extremely*

Re: Cocoa Bindings and Dependent Keys question

2009-05-31 Thread Keary Suska
On May 30, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Kelvin Chung wrote: I seem to have a very simple question, but the answer is eluding me for some odd reason, but here goes: Suppose I have two NSArrayControllers, ac1 and ac2. Suppose now that I have a third controller ac3, whose content array is dependent

Label randomly cut off in NSOutlineView column

2009-05-31 Thread David
I have an outline view where the first column are file names. There is absolutely no processing of the name going on in my code. Everything has been working fine for a long time. Suddenly I discover a filename that causes the value displayed to be truncated. I've played with it. There are no

NSTableView setting row heights

2009-05-31 Thread Peter Hudson
I have a table view with 3 columns. I have implemented the delegate method -tableView:heightForRow: in order to set row height. The height is set correctly, my NSMutableString s are rendered correctly. I can't however select rows in the table view. Any suggestions. Peter

Re: How to draw background image in my app window

2009-05-31 Thread Andy Lee
On May 31, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote: Another approach would be to try changing the class of your content view in Interface builder. Simply click the background of the window, that should show the content view in the inspector. Go to the Identity tab and change the class to

Re: [Announce] A Core Data Tutorial Part 2: Polishing the Basics

2009-05-31 Thread Mic Pringle
Michael, Do you have a link for the article ? There wasn't one in your announcement ? Thanks -Mic 2009/5/31 Michael Swan michaels...@mac.com: Part 2 of my tutorial is up for anyone that is interested. A Core Data Tutorial Part 2: Polishing the Basics Mike Swan ETCP Certified

Re: [Announce] A Core Data Tutorial Part 2: Polishing the Basics

2009-05-31 Thread Dave DeLong
http://themikeswan.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/a-core-data-tutorial-part-2-polishing-the-basics/ On May 31, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Mic Pringle wrote: Michael, Do you have a link for the article ? There wasn't one in your announcement ? Thanks -Mic ___

Re: NSFormatter Question

2009-05-31 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Sun, 24 May 2009 13:30:30 -0500, Dietmar Kuttelwascher dik...@mac.com said: This is a newbie question, my apologies if it has been discussed in the past. I haven't been programming on a Mac since the System 7 days and trying to catch up with OS X and Cocoa... I have text field bound to an

Nike+iPod Settings Undocumented?

2009-05-31 Thread Chunk 1978
i can't seem to find documentation on how to disable preference specifiers based on PSToggleSwitchSpecifier current setting. an example is the Nike+iPod's settings. activating the app will enable the remaining settings to be configured, while they are grayed out/disabled if the app is not

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Ammar Ibrahim
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.netwrote: Am 31.05.2009 um 12:12 schrieb Jelle De Laender: Can you give us so more details? For example: What will the app do? Your description is very strange, lol. But indeed, you should create a normal cocoa app that

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ammar Ibrahim ammar.ibra...@gmail.com wrote: This seems like a very doable approach. Anyhow, the daemon itself might crash, so I would go for a cron job that runs say every 5 mins, We have launchd which already relaunches tasks that die. --Kyle Sluder

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Gwynne Raskind
On May 31, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Ammar Ibrahim wrote: Can you give us so more details? For example: What will the app do? Your description is very strange, lol. But indeed, you should create a normal cocoa app that do the stuff you want to do (UI + the real stuff), and a little daemon that

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 31.05.2009 um 20:27 schrieb Gwynne Raskind: The Cocoa variant of the distributed notification is NSDistributedNotificationCenter :). I thought so, but it wasn't in NSNotification.h when I looked there, and there was no NSDistributedNotification.h. Figures that

Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 6, Issue 811

2009-05-31 Thread Caleb Strockbine
On May 31, 2009, at 6:15 AM, erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote: Ok so more specifically I should have asked: How do I get the NSSplitView to restore the divider position when my app relaunches the next time? I set the autosave name but when I drag the splitter, then quit and relaunch, it's

Hidden API?

2009-05-31 Thread Pierce Freeman
Hi Everyone: I am wondering if the method that the iWork apps use to add themselves to the dock (after install, they add themselves to the dock) requires a private API. I am looking into a way to use this method not to add icons but to do some quick preference switching of the dock without

[Moderator] Re: Hidden API?

2009-05-31 Thread Scott Anguish
On 2009-05-31, at 12:58 PM, Pierce Freeman wrote: Hi Everyone: I am wondering if the method that the iWork apps use to add themselves to the dock (after install, they add themselves to the dock) requires a private API. I am looking into a way to use this method not to add icons but to

[Moderator] Re: Nike+iPod Settings Undocumented?

2009-05-31 Thread Scott Anguish
On 2009-05-31, at 10:03 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote: i can't seem to find documentation on how to disable preference specifiers based on PSToggleSwitchSpecifier current setting. an example is the Nike+iPod's settings. activating the app will enable the remaining settings to be configured, while

NSAttributedString -size Crash

2009-05-31 Thread Seth Willits
For some reason that I have yet to discover, calling - [NSAttributedString size] is causing a crash. It's rare, but it's happening. I can't yet repeat it on my system. Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0010 Thread 0

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Greg Guerin
Gwynne Raskind wrote: Note that OS X's Force Quit command doesn't send SIGKILL immediately; I believe it sends SIGINT and SIGQUIT before resorting to SIGKILL, ... On 10.4 and 10.5, it sends SIGTERM before resorting to SIGKILL. In some earlier OS version, SIGINT may have been used instead

Re: NSAttributedString -size Crash

2009-05-31 Thread Joar Wingfors
On 31 maj 2009, at 15.36, Seth Willits wrote: For some reason that I have yet to discover, calling - [NSAttributedString size] is causing a crash. It's rare, but it's happening. I can't yet repeat it on my system. snip If [self title] were nil, I'd get an exception when creating the

Re: [ NSSplitview ] -setAutosaveName

2009-05-31 Thread Erg Consultant
Where is it documented? Other than the scant listings for setAutosaveName: and autosaveName: I see no discussion as to what they actually do or how to use them. From: Jim Correia jim.corr...@pobox.com To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009

Re: NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSourceList interferes with custom NSBrowserCell drawing

2009-05-31 Thread Erg Consultant
Because that is how code posted in the archives says to do it. If I use NSImageCell or NSTextFieldCell (which I've tried), the icons never show up. Those work for NSTableView icons but not NSOutlineView icons. From: Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com To: Erg

Problems choosing an encoding for Word generated html

2009-05-31 Thread Ken Tozier
Hi I wrote an app that converts Word files into a simpler format by first converting from .doc to html using scripting and Word's Save as Web page command followed by using NSXMLDocument to extract the parts I need. I'm finding that there are no good options when it comes to choosing a

Re: NSAttributedString -size Crash

2009-05-31 Thread Seth Willits
On May 31, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Seth Willits sli...@araelium.com wrote: If [self title] were nil, I'd get an exception when creating the attributed string, not a crash when calling -size. There's nothing fancy going on with Not on Leopard

Re: NSAttributedString -size Crash

2009-05-31 Thread Joar Wingfors
On 31 maj 2009, at 16.08, Seth Willits wrote: On May 31, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote: If [self title] were nil, I'd get an exception when creating the attributed string, not a crash when calling -size. There's nothing fancy going on with the string. The only thing I can think of

Re: NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSourceList interferes with custom NSBrowserCell drawing

2009-05-31 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Erg Consultant erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote: Because that is how code posted in the archives says to do it. Where is this code? In any event, it's wrong. It's a convenient shortcut if NSBrowserCell draws the way you want it to, but obviously it doesn't. If

Re: NSAttributedString -size Crash

2009-05-31 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Seth Willits sli...@araelium.com wrote: Alright, well, either way I know it's not happening because it's not in the console log. You don't know it's not nil unless you check yourself. Set a conditional breakpoint; it's the only real way to reason about your

Re: [ NSSplitview ] -setAutosaveName

2009-05-31 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Erg Consultant erg_consult...@yahoo.com wrote: Where is it documented? Other than the scant listings for Why are you setting the split view's autosave name in code? 99.(completely arbitrary number of 9's)% of the time you set it once in IB. That way it has the

Discovering the default font names and sizes on the iPhone

2009-05-31 Thread Sam Krishna
Hi All, I'm cross-posting this to both the Xcode and cocoa-dev mailing lists, since I am stumped and I suspect one of you have answered this question before: I want to discover the default font used for UITableView's section header view when you set the style to UITableViewStyleGrouped.

Re: Nike+iPod Settings Undocumented?

2009-05-31 Thread Clark Cox
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Chunk 1978 chunk1...@gmail.com wrote: i can't seem to find documentation on how to disable preference specifiers based on PSToggleSwitchSpecifier current setting You will be much more likely to get much better answers if you take this to the appropriate venue:

Re: Discovering the default font names and sizes on the iPhone

2009-05-31 Thread Sam Krishna
Hi All, Never mind - I forgot to set the UILabel's font before setting the text value. DOH! Thanks for listening. Live Playfully, Sam - If he listens in faith, finding no fault, a man is free and will attain the cherished words of those who act in virtue. On May 31, 2009, at 7:46 PM,

Re: Showing more warnings possible in Xcode?

2009-05-31 Thread Graham Cox
On 31/05/2009, at 11:38 AM, Gwynne Raskind wrote: Not to mention I haven't yet figured out a way to apply __attribute__((unused)) to an ObjC method parameter. I just get a pile of syntax errors, or it gets applied to the function instead of the parameters. Just use #pragma

Re: NSTableView setting row heights

2009-05-31 Thread Graham Cox
On 01/06/2009, at 1:33 AM, Peter Hudson wrote: Any suggestions. Post your code? --Graham ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at

Re: [ NSSplitview ] -setAutosaveName

2009-05-31 Thread Greg Guerin
Erg Consultant wrote: I see no discussion as to what they actually do or how to use them. The docs are concise to the point of opacity. You'd have to infer the workings of NSSplitView from the way other views do auto-saving, e.g. NSTableView's setAutosaveName: .

Re: NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSourceList interferes with custom NSBrowserCell drawing

2009-05-31 Thread Nathan Kinsinger
On May 31, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Erg Consultant wrote: Because that is how code posted in the archives says to do it. If I use NSImageCell or NSTextFieldCell (which I've tried), the icons never show up. Those work for NSTableView icons but not NSOutlineView icons. Have a look at the

[MEET] June CocoaHeads Mac Developer Meetings

2009-05-31 Thread Stephen Zyszkiewicz
Greetings, CocoaHeads is an international Mac programmer's group. Meetings are free and open to the public. We specialize in Cocoa, but everything Mac programming related is welcome. Upcoming meetings: Australia Melbourne- Thursday, June 11, 2009 18:00. Germany Aachen- Thursday, June 18,

MSN preference

2009-05-31 Thread Joseph Yu
Hi How to use Toolbar to create UI like Mac MSN preference? Push the button,window changes. Is there any sample code? BR *** The opinions and views expressed in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Qisda

NSXMLParser - howto resolve entities defined in DTD

2009-05-31 Thread Dominik Pich
Hi, I use NSXMLParser to parse large XML files-- going good BUT :) I cant get the parser to resolve the external entities from the DTD. I googled and read documentation and older mails... and I did set parser.shouldResolveExternalEntities = YES I do get: - (NSData *)parser:(AQXMLParser

NSTextFieldCell Subclass Not Showing Text

2009-05-31 Thread Colin Chivers
I'm subclassing NSTextFieldCell to display an icon (a favicon of a webpage, to be specific) in the left end of the text field. The text field's cell is set to my subclass in Interface Builder. When I start my application, the icon is displayed, but the text that should be in the text field is not.

Re: MSN preference

2009-05-31 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Joseph Yu joseph...@qisda.com wrote: How to use Toolbar to create UI like Mac MSN preference? Brandon Walkin's BWToolkit has some classes that are designed just for this task, because there is no built-in functionality. http://brandonwalkin.com/bwtoolkit/ --Kyle

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Hanson
On May 30, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Ammar Ibrahim wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Chris Hanson c...@me.com wrote: The best way to ensure your daemon or agent is always running is to have it run via launchd. Start by reading the launchd man page and the Daemons and Agents tech note;

Re: Several Questions

2009-05-31 Thread Todd Heberlein
You can use launchd to keep your app alive. That way you, don't have to worry about adding code to your application to do it, you just have to ensure the launchd property list is in the right place. So if in your launchd module you have the key-value pair: keyKeepAlive/key

Detecting a modal session.

2009-05-31 Thread Vijay Malhan
Is there any way to detect if an application is in modal session? I am trying to fix (work around) a problem in Cocoa + Carbon application, where Cocoa UI thread is not blocked(for some Cocoa views) when a modal dialog is invoked from Carbon app. Thanks, Vijay