Core Data design patterns

2009-07-17 Thread Squ Aire
Let's say I have the usual Employee and Department entities. Throughout my application I have to do fetching. I have simplified my code by making a helper class called CoreDataHelper, which has all kinds different helper methods, such as +(NSArray *)employeesInDepartment:(NSManagedObject*)dep

Re: hide main menu, not appear in dock, "run in background".

2009-07-17 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
Dear Kiel and Kyle, thanx for answers and sorry for repeating the question. It was my first objc code. yours, pg ___ 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: [IB] - how to delete action or outlet?

2009-07-17 Thread Alexander Bokovikov
On 18.07.2009, at 11:51, Chase Meadors wrote: IB should sync with it's relative Xcode project if they are both open. Are you actually saving changes to the AppController source files after you edit them? As I wrote, when I opened IB for the first time, "Actions" panel already had "AppC

Re: Finder Kind Entry

2009-07-17 Thread Ken Thomases
On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:13 PM, David Blanton wrote: I have searched the list archives and Google to no avail in trying to determine how the Kind value shown in the Finder is set. My initial thought was that the UTTypeDescription entry under UTExportedTypesDeclarations in the info.plist for a

[IB] - how to delete action or outlet?

2009-07-17 Thread Alexander Bokovikov
Hi, All, I have no idea of how to remove an action or an outlet from AppController object, once added. For example, I've created appropriate modules AppController.h and .m, then wrote necessary code lines to declare an action stub and/or outlet. Then I open IB and drag necessary objects,

Re: missing vertical scroll bar

2009-07-17 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 17 Jul 2009, at 13:36, Joel Norvell wrote: I believe the recipe you want involves shoe-horning the scrollViewRect into its containing window. Also, I might just be missing something, but isn't there usually a NSClipView in the hierarchy somewhere?

Re: Public API for AirTunes?

2009-07-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
Unfortunately it remains a private API. You can always file a Radar, but such efforts have been futile in the past. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the l

Public API for AirTunes?

2009-07-17 Thread Brad Gibbs
Hi, I've been looking for a public API for AirTunes without success. Maybe I have the wrong name? Is it available under another name? There are a number of apps out now that use AirTunes (VLC, Rogue Amoeba's AirFoil, FireFly and others). Are they all hacking the daap? Daap is pretty

Re: NSTextView without NSScrollView

2009-07-17 Thread James Walker
Kyle Sluder wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:00 PM, James Walker wrote: I don't understand the question. It's static text, when is it going to autosize? When the user resizes the window. OK, fair enough. The case I was looking at was not a resizable window. -- James W. Walker, Innoventi

Re: NSTextView without NSScrollView

2009-07-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:00 PM, James Walker wrote: > I don't understand the question.  It's static text, when is it going to > autosize? When the user resizes the window. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do

Re: Finding an available port for chat

2009-07-17 Thread glenn andreas
On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Development wrote: I'm not trying to skirt around rules. Yahoo chat works on my machine, So did msn years back when I had it and so does teamspeak and ventrilo so I know there are ports out there that are free to be used I'm just not sure how to go about choosi

Re: Finding an available port for chat

2009-07-17 Thread Development
I'm not trying to skirt around rules. Yahoo chat works on my machine, So did msn years back when I had it and so does teamspeak and ventrilo so I know there are ports out there that are free to be used I'm just not sure how to go about choosing one or if I should just hard code it. It's not

Re: NSTextView without NSScrollView

2009-07-17 Thread James Walker
Kyle Sluder wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:19 PM, James Walker wrote: Is there a way to have an NSTextView that is not enclosed in an NSScrollView? IB doesn't seem to want to let me. It would be for displaying static rich text (certain things are harder, or maybe even impossible, to do with

Re: [Job] Cocoa developer at Skype (Mac/iPhone)

2009-07-17 Thread Scott Andrew
And works very well. I use it when traveling oversees.. Great for making calls from the hotel and attending meetings. Scott On Jul 17, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Alex Kac wrote: Only via the cell network. Skype exists now on the iPhone platform on the App store. Via Wifi. -- CEO WebIS Sent from my

Re: NSTextView without NSScrollView

2009-07-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:19 PM, James Walker wrote: > Is there a way to have an NSTextView that is not enclosed in an > NSScrollView?  IB doesn't seem to want to let me.  It would be for > displaying static rich text (certain things are harder, or maybe even > impossible, to do with NSTextField).

Re: [iPhone] Custom -sizeWithFont: and CGContextRef question

2009-07-17 Thread Alex Kac
Custom fonts. It's the only way to do it. UIFont does not support custom fonts. -- CEO WebIS Sent from my phone On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Scott Thompson wrote: On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Michael Hoy wrote: Hello all, For various reasons I'd like to implement a method similar in f

Re: [Job] Cocoa developer at Skype (Mac/iPhone)

2009-07-17 Thread Alex Kac
Only via the cell network. Skype exists now on the iPhone platform on the App store. Via Wifi. -- CEO WebIS Sent from my phone On Jul 17, 2009, at 7:18 PM, William Squires wrote: Not sure this'll get anywhere. IIRC, Apple expressly forbids VOIP apps on the iPhone platform... On Jul 8,

NSTextView without NSScrollView

2009-07-17 Thread James Walker
Is there a way to have an NSTextView that is not enclosed in an NSScrollView? IB doesn't seem to want to let me. It would be for displaying static rich text (certain things are harder, or maybe even impossible, to do with NSTextField). I know I can turn off drawing of the NSScrollView border

Re: [Job] Cocoa developer at Skype (Mac/iPhone)

2009-07-17 Thread William Squires
Not sure this'll get anywhere. IIRC, Apple expressly forbids VOIP apps on the iPhone platform... On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Janno Teelem wrote: Hello, Looking for an experienced Cocoa developer to join our Mac and iPhone development team. You will be working on the Mac and/or iPhone versio

Re: Finding an available port for chat

2009-07-17 Thread Todd Heberlein
but there will be persons like myself with draconian isp who block gobs of ports and make it hard to for chat apps to work. There are a lot of very good reasons for a Draconian policy like that. :) how can I, in a reasonably economic way, find an open port to talk on? Are you trying to s

Finding an available port for chat

2009-07-17 Thread Development
I'm working on a little chat app. It's going to function very similar to a peer to peer app but across the internet. I have found the information i need on creating a stream once I know the address. but there will be persons like myself with draconian isp who block gobs of ports and make i

Re: iTunes COM interface for Windows; need the equivalent for

2009-07-17 Thread Erik Buck
I doubt Apple is going to port Cocoa/CoreData to Windows just for iTunes database� Not that I disagree, but what makes you think Cocoa doesn't already work on Windows? Openstep worked on Windows before it worked on Mac OS X. Cocoa is derived from Openstep. Project Builder (the predecess

Re: iTunes COM interface for Windows; need the equivalent for

2009-07-17 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 17 juil. 09 à 22:39, Brad Gibbs a écrit : Thanks for sharing your code, George. Is there any way to access AirTunes with Objective-C / Cocoa or AppleScript? I've seen some information on daap that allows the use of AirTunes, but it's a private API, so I'm hesitant to use it, even for

Re: NSPanel and mouse input / activation

2009-07-17 Thread Wesley Smith
thanks! that did the trick. best, wes On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:31 PM, I. Savant wrote: > On Jul 17, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Wesley Smith wrote: > >> Currently, if I click on the panel, it gets activated and >> then I can drag the mouse around.  How does one skip the activation >> event and get straight

Re: movieFileTypes, imageFileTypes and Info.plist's

2009-07-17 Thread Andrew Salamon
Thanks! I think using public.image and public.movie are going to work just fine. I can now drop images and movies onto my app's Finder icon, although not the Dock icon, yet. Andrew On Jul 16, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote: Pretty certain you do need to this manually. One option could

Re: iTunes COM interface for Windows; need the equivalent for

2009-07-17 Thread Brad Gibbs
Thanks for sharing your code, George. Is there any way to access AirTunes with Objective-C / Cocoa or AppleScript? I've seen some information on daap that allows the use of AirTunes, but it's a private API, so I'm hesitant to use it, even for my own personal projects. Although, given the

RE: missing vertical scroll bar

2009-07-17 Thread Joel Norvell
Dale, I believe the recipe you want involves shoe-horning the scrollViewRect into its containing window. For an example, look at the DocumentWindowController's resizeWindowForViewSize method in TextEdit (shown below). HTH, Joel - (void)resizeWindowForViewSize:(NSSize)size { NSWindow *wi

Re: NSPanel and mouse input / activation

2009-07-17 Thread I. Savant
On Jul 17, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Wesley Smith wrote: Currently, if I click on the panel, it gets activated and then I can drag the mouse around. How does one skip the activation event and get straight to receiving mouse down/drag/up events? See -[NSView setAcceptsFirstMouse:] ... -- I.S. _

NSPanel and mouse input / activation

2009-07-17 Thread Wesley Smith
Hi, I have an NSPanel window in my app that I'm putting an OpenGL context in. I want the panel to receive mouse drag events without having to first click on the panel to activate it. I've not been able to find any info on how to do this in the docs or through many google searches. Currently, if

Re: Iphone Grouped Table View for Settings

2009-07-17 Thread Trygve Inda
> > On Jul 17, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: > >> Can I just drag a connection from the UIViewController in one nib >> to the >> view object in another nib > > No. You cannot make connection between nibs. I recommend reading up on > using Interface Builder and nibs to get a better u

NSCollection view item not receiving mouse events after redisplay

2009-07-17 Thread Matteo Manferdini
Hi everyone, I already tried to look for this one on Google, but had no luck. I have in my app a NSCollectionView that displays a sort of calendar of events, represented by custom views. In these views I make the delete X button appear on mouseEntered: and mouseMoved: events. Everything works fine

Re: missing vertical scroll bar

2009-07-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
Why are you doing this in code? You should be using IB to lay out your UI. --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 moderators at cocoa-dev-

Re: iTunes COM interface for Windows; need the equivalent for

2009-07-17 Thread Mr. George Warner
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:52:03 -0400, Daniel Dickison > wrote: > It's been a while since I dealt with this, but if I recall correctly, > AppleScript gets you almost everything you can with the COM interface > on Windows. The only exception was that you can't register to listen > for player updates,

Re: EventRef to NSEvent

2009-07-17 Thread Eric Schlegel
On Jul 17, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Andy Bell wrote: Hi All, How can I convert EventRef to NSEvent on 10.4? I am only interested in getting the equivalent value for [NSEvent characters] from the EventRef. If you have a kEventTextInputUnicodeForKeyEvent event, then the Unicode character data

missing vertical scroll bar

2009-07-17 Thread Dale Miller
When I execute the application using the code excerpts shown below, the vertical scroll bar never appears, whether I add enough text to overflow the clip view, or resize the scroll view by resizing the window so that the existing text no longer fits within the clip view. All of the scroll v

Re: Iphone Grouped Table View for Settings

2009-07-17 Thread Luke the Hiesterman
On Jul 17, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: Can I just drag a connection from the UIViewController in one nib to the view object in another nib No. You cannot make connection between nibs. I recommend reading up on using Interface Builder and nibs to get a better understanding o

Re: Iphone Grouped Table View for Settings

2009-07-17 Thread Trygve Inda
> > On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: > >>> Look at the table view programming guide for how to build custom >>> table >>> cells. Just think of each cell as a custom view. They can even be >>> built in IB easily enough. Drag UITableViewCell objects into your nib >>> and lay them out

Re: Iphone Grouped Table View for Settings

2009-07-17 Thread Luke Hiesterman
Create a view based xib. In the generic view provided add all your custom views including a UITableView. Don't drag a UITableViewController - just the UITableView itself. Then be sure to set the table views data source and delegate outlets to one or two of your objects that will handle thos

Re: Iphone Grouped Table View for Settings

2009-07-17 Thread Brian Slick
On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: Look at the table view programming guide for how to build custom table cells. Just think of each cell as a custom view. They can even be built in IB easily enough. Drag UITableViewCell objects into your nib and lay them out however you like. Lu

Re: Iphone Grouped Table View for Settings

2009-07-17 Thread Trygve Inda
> Look at the table view programming guide for how to build custom table > cells. Just think of each cell as a custom view. They can even be > built in IB easily enough. Drag UITableViewCell objects into your nib > and lay them out however you like. > > Luke > > Sent from my iPhone. So I want a

EventRef to NSEvent

2009-07-17 Thread Andy Bell
Hi All, How can I convert EventRef to NSEvent on 10.4? I am only interested in getting the equivalent value for [NSEvent characters] from the EventRef. Thanks in advance -- Andy ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not p

Re: Codesign from Buid Server

2009-07-17 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 14 Jul 2009, at 21:12, Richard Holliday wrote: We have a TeamCity build server setup to produce automatic builds for our cocoa application. We also code sign our apps but this part has to be done on a dev box as the build agent (OS X 10.5) doesn’t recognize the certificate in the system k

Re: Cells selection in NSTableView

2009-07-17 Thread Dado Colussi
> > I need following functionality to be implemented in NSTableView. >"Selecting Multiple cells of single column in > NSTableView". > >I subclassed NSTableView and created class TestTableView. > >I have done following 3 things. > > ... > 3) I created