On Jul 27, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Andrew Farmer wrote:
Check out PSMTabBar. Turns a standard NSTabView into a "Safari-
style" tab view, with tabs on any side you want - including all the
tricky functionality like draggable tabs.
Wow, that's great.
In reference to what to say to the Windows prog
On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:44 PM, David Blanton
wrote:
I dragged a Scroll View from the LIbrary Objects Tab to the Window
defined in MyDocument.xib.
All of my content to be displayed here will be bit maps.
Well that's a bit of a tautology considering it's all going to be
rendered into the
On Jul 27, 2009, at 2:22 AM, Andy Lee wrote:
I guess I'd ask the question we often ask about coding questions:
What are you really trying to do? It sounds like the problem is
that Windows users accustomed to MDI get visually confused by
multiple windows from different apps overlapping each
On Jul 27, 2009, at 12:50 AM, David Blanton wrote:
I think I'll use:
The Mac frameworks just don't support that approach. Sorry. I could
re-implement MDI on the Mac, but it would be about a man-year's
work. Do you want me to do that?"
Personally, I wouldn't tempt fate. What if they say
Hi Graham and Others,
I am sorry for my doing. I am a new learning for cocoa. And the time using
the Cocoa-dev
mailist for short time. So I am not familiar with the rules of the mailist very
much.
At the same time, English is not my mother language. So sometimes I do not
know how to
express
On 27/07/2009, at 3:44 PM, David Blanton wrote:
So .. do I
1. make a view, store in this nib.
2. Render my bit map to this view.
3. Set the document view of the scroll view to this view.
Yes, that should work.
But there is an easier way. If you drag in a "custom view", set its
class t
On 26 Jul 2009, at 22:57, Jeff Biggus wrote:
If you want it to look like Safari tabs across the top you'll just
have to do a little work to make that top "bar" view behave how you
want. Side tabs are much easier to get up and running, and are often
a better solution GUI-wise, depending on yo
On Jul 26, 2009, at 11:46 PM, David Blanton wrote:
I am the only Mac programmer where I work; the rest being windows.
I am constantly challenged to make Mac programs look like windows to
some extent.
I guess I'd ask the question we often ask about coding questions: What
are you really tr
> On Mon, 2009/07/27, Graham Cox wrote:
> From: Graham Cox
> Subject: Re: Document-Based Application
> To: "David Blanton"
> Cc: "cocoa-dev"
> Date: Monday, 2009 July 27, 00:10
>> On 2009/07/27, at 2:09 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
>>> On 2009 Jul 26, at 20:39, David Blanton wrote:
>>> I have 22
On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:46 PM, David Blanton wrote:
I am the only Mac programmer where I work; the rest being windows.
I am constantly challenged to make Mac programs look like windows to
some extent.
Windows has an architecture called Multiple Document Interface.
Each doc opened is dis
CDBA - Cocoa Document-Based Application.
I dragged a Scroll View from the LIbrary Objects Tab to the Window
defined in MyDocument.xib.
All of my content to be displayed here will be bit maps.
So .. do I
1. make a view, store in this nib.
2. Render my bit map to this view.
3. Set the docu
On 25/07/2009, at 11:56 PM, Bright wrote:
Hi all,
In my application, I want to drag the file into the table view.
At the same time, display the basic information in the columns of
the table view.
Now, I got the basic information of the file and saved it in a
NSDictionary object.
>Hi
> In the "- (BOOL)tableView: acceptDrop: row: dropOperation:" method, I tried
> to insert the information Dictionary into the Array use the code
> "[tableRecordsArray insertObject:infoDictionary atIndex:row+i];".
>But when I drop the file into the table view, the app exited immediately
>> But when I drop the file into the table view, the app exited immediately.
>
>Find the crash report and look at it; if you don't figure it out from that,
>send another message here with the crash report.
Hi
Sorry, I can not figure out the crash report. Could you tell me how to
find the
On 27/07/2009, at 1:46 PM, David Blanton wrote:
I am the only Mac programmer where I work; the rest being windows.
I am constantly challenged to make Mac programs look like windows to
some extent.
Windows has an architecture called Multiple Document Interface.
Each doc opened is displ
On 27/07/2009, at 2:09 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
On Jul 26, 2009, at 20:39, David Blanton wrote:
I have 22 file types, each with its own C++ methods for extracting
its data.
Now, I could use just one subclass of NSDocument and in the
- (BOOL)readFromData:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString *)
On Jul 26, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet > wrote:
Am I missing something or is it really that complex to change an
NSTextField's caret color?
Read this:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TextEditing/Tasks/FieldEditor.html
--Kyle Sluder
On Jul 26, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:
I'm working on an NSTextField subclass and I'm trying to find out
when an
NSTextField's editor (i.e. its "currentEditor") is created so I can
set its
caret color using the following:[[self currentEditor]
setInsertionPointColor:];
Pr
I think I'll use:
The Mac frameworks just don't support that approach. Sorry. I could re-
implement MDI on the Mac, but it would be about a man-year's work. Do
you want me to do that?"
Thanks for a few chuckles as well!
On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
On Jul 26, 2009,
Yes, as long as you object graphic consistency for you. You should
look at the Core Data Programming Guide, which this excerpt is from:
"Since Core Data takes care of the object graph consistency
maintenance for you, you only need to change one end of a relationship
and all other aspects ar
I agree that for house keeping not having 22 subclasses would be easy.
There is something about OOP and case statements to decide how to deal
with data ... it just seems more OOPish if the 'system' (in this case
Cocoa Document-Based App (can I say cdba)) picks for me based on a
simple entry
I'm having a similar problem with my NSCollectionView and I was
wondering what you did with copyWithZone to fix your problem.
I'm trying to allow the user to option-click and have my sub-classed
view in my NSCollectionView item show an NSTextView and then when they
finish editing, hide the
I'm working on an NSTextField subclass and I'm trying to find out when an
NSTextField's editor (i.e. its "currentEditor") is created so I can set its
caret color using the following:[[self currentEditor]
setInsertionPointColor:];
Problem is, each notification/event I try to override is either too
I may have bitten off more than I can chew, but I'm trying to use
NSRuleEditor as a component to define and edit a Foundation data
structure (general purpose tree of NSArray, NSDictionary, NSNumber
etc.). This might be re-purposing the class a little and it certainly
has little to do with p
First of all, I am clear about the rationale behind apple not
providing ordered arrays for core data objects. However, there *are*
situations when you need one. The common solution (adding a order-by
attribute to the objects you intend to store) was too intrusive for my
case. After long hours of go
I'm using a many-to-many relationship with CoreData and I was wondering if I
have to set or unset the relationshop both ways?
For example, let's say I have a many-to-many relationship between an
Employee entity and a Manager entity...if I do the following:
[anEmployee addManagersObject:aManager];
On Jul 26, 2009, at 20:46, David Blanton wrote:
I am the only Mac programmer where I work; the rest being windows.
I am constantly challenged to make Mac programs look like windows to
some extent.
Windows has an architecture called Multiple Document Interface.
Each doc opened is displa
On Jul 26, 2009, at 20:39, David Blanton wrote:
I have 22 file types, each with its own C++ methods for extracting
its data.
Now, I could use just one subclass of NSDocument and in the
- (BOOL)readFromData:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString *)typeName
error:(NSError **)outError
method do a
I am the only Mac programmer where I work; the rest being windows. I
am constantly challenged to make Mac programs look like windows to
some extent.
Windows has an architecture called Multiple Document Interface. Each
doc opened is displayed in the same window 'frame' with a row of tab
I am seeing that now with a sample app I am working with.
I have 22 file types, each with its own C++ methods for extracting its
data.
Now, I could use just one subclass of NSDocument and in the
- (BOOL)readFromData:(NSData *)data ofType:(NSString *)typeName error:
(NSError **)outError
me
On 26-Jul-09, at 10:50 PM, David Blanton wrote:
Should Document-Based Applications only be used for apps whose main
data type is text?
If an apps main data type comes from a number of different file
formats and is represented as a bitmap would a Document-Based
Application be a choice?
On 27/07/2009, at 12:23 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
On Jul 26, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
Chase Meadors wrote:
If the length of this mystery string is 1 and it's not a space,
what is it???
Use -characterAtIndex:0 and print the returned unichar using the
"%x" format.
Another
Should Document-Based Applications only be used for apps whose main
data type is text?
If an apps main data type comes from a number of different file
formats and is represented as a bitmap would a Document-Based
Application be a choice?
Just askin'.
db
_
On Jul 26, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
Chase Meadors wrote:
If the length of this mystery string is 1 and it's not a space,
what is it???
Use -characterAtIndex:0 and print the returned unichar using the
"%x" format.
Another sometimes-handy trick is to create a mutable copy and
Chase Meadors wrote:
If the length of this mystery string is 1 and it's not a space,
what is it???
Use -characterAtIndex:0 and print the returned unichar using the "%x"
format.
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Say I have a string that looks like this
Hello. How are you?
This is the second line.
Fourth line.
I'm trying to get each line of the reciever by calling
[string componentsSeparatedByString:@"\n"];
This works fine, but assuming the string is actually laid out like this:
Hello. How
Meik Schuetz wrote:
I am just starting to test my little application for leaks using
Instruments. I have got a NSOperation which is doing some JSON
communication stuff with my server. The NSOperation is sending an
NSDictionary object back to the main thread (using a delegate and
performSe
On Jul 25, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Benjámin Salánki wrote:
hm, a quick answer to my own question:
inserting
[self performSelector:@selector(updateTrackingAreas) withObject:nil
afterDelay:0.01];
into scrollWheel: seems to fix my problem.
I missed the rest of the thread, so may be out of school
On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:50 PM, slasktrattena...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Aaron
Burghardt wrote:
Interesting and not surprising. What I was suggesting, though, is
that the
amount of time needed to read the data is probably small compared
to the
time spent parsing the
Well, with great thanks to everybody, I think I now have a relatively
clean implementation that does what I want. There was enough interest
that I think I will present what I have done, but in order not to
waste bandwidth here I have put on my website both the interface and
implementation
On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:00 AM, Agha Khan wrote:
HI:
I have an image which works fine.
UIImage *img = [UIImage imageNamed:@"background.png"];
[img drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(0,0)];
[img release];
Now suppose I want to rotate that image at 90 degree. Is there an
easy way to accomplish this task?
On Jul 26, 2009, at 5:38 PM, I. Savant wrote:
On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
Not necessarily. If the keys are NSStrings, then they are copied
when added to the dictionary, but a copy of an immutable string is
optimized to just retain it, so the data isn't duplicated (
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Aaron
Burghardt wrote:
> Interesting and not surprising. What I was suggesting, though, is that the
> amount of time needed to read the data is probably small compared to the
> time spent parsing the data into a plist.
Good point. So I ran a second test. Turns out
On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:52 PM, "Adam R. Maxwell"
wrote:
"CFString objects perform other “tricks” to conserve memory, such
as incrementing the reference count when a CFString is copied."
Not every NSString is necessarily a CFString. They're t
On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
Can you go into a bit more detail with regard to the setting up the
bindings? do I bind the tableView column to an arrayController
which handles the rows? what model key path?
Personally, I recommend that you avoid bindings like the plague
On Jul 26, 2009, at 5:53 PM, gumbo...@mac.com wrote:
Thanks People, This is excellent advice and very helpful.
The main purpose of the app was to load the CSV (exported from
Numbers) and turn the data into an HTML table with some hard coded
CSS hooks. This works well now, but the format re
On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
Good point. 8--10 displayed in the table (typically), but each item
has an arbitrary number of values (typically < 20, though). Users
can also display an arbitrary number of columns, so there are lots
of fun performance problems to find
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:53 PM, gumbo...@mac.com wrote:
Can you go into a bit more detail with regard to the setting up the
bindings? do I bind the tableView column to an arrayController which
handles the rows? what model key path?
Personally, I recommend that you avoid bindings like the plagu
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:58 PM, I. Savant wrote:
We have an application that keeps an array of bibliographic
references, where each is an NSMutableDictionary with other
properties. The largest file I recall throwing at it is ~20K
items, and the main problem at that point was a beachball when
On 2009-07-26, at 2:45 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:41 PM, I. Savant wrote:
Hamish Allan wrote:
> First, I partition my hard drive into three partitions:
Come on, guys, this is obviously off-topic for COCOA-DEV.
Not really. Being able to install multiple versions or
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:52 PM, "Adam R. Maxwell" wrote:
"CFString objects perform other “tricks” to conserve memory, such
as incrementing the reference count when a CFString is copied."
Not every NSString is necessarily a CFString. They're toll-free
bridged, but that just means the CF implem
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
Development wrote:
I send the data with UTF8 encoding and this is what it sends:
Êó•Êú¨ which makes no sense. this comes from NSLog(@"%s",
[[location objectForKey:@"Country]UTF8String]);
It does make sense if %s is ignorant of character encod
On Jul 26, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
"CFString objects perform other “tricks” to conserve memory, such as
incrementing the reference count when a CFString is copied."
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFStrings/Articles/StringStorage.html#//appl
Thanks People, This is excellent advice and very helpful.
The main purpose of the app was to load the CSV (exported from
Numbers) and turn the data into an HTML table with some hard coded CSS
hooks. This works well now, but the format required from the CSV is
not very flexible. So I thought
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:38 PM, I. Savant wrote:
On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
Not necessarily. If the keys are NSStrings, then they are copied
when added to the dictionary, but a copy of an immutable string is
optimized to just retain it, so the data isn't duplicated (
I. Savant wrote:
Hamish Allan wrote:
> First, I partition my hard drive into three partitions:
Come on, guys, this is obviously off-topic for COCOA-DEV.
It was my mistake, not Hamish Allan's. I sent my reply to the wrong
list. It should have gone to xcode-users. I was reluctant to
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:41 PM, I. Savant wrote:
Hamish Allan wrote:
> First, I partition my hard drive into three partitions:
Come on, guys, this is obviously off-topic for COCOA-DEV.
Not really. Being able to install multiple versions or
configurations of the OS is rather important for
Development wrote:
I send the data with UTF8 encoding and this is what it sends:
Êó•Êú¨ which makes no sense. this comes from NSLog(@"%s",
[[location objectForKey:@"Country]UTF8String]);
It does make sense if %s is ignorant of character encodings, and
NSLog isn't decoding it as utf8. For e
Hamish Allan wrote:
> First, I partition my hard drive into three partitions:
Come on, guys, this is obviously off-topic for COCOA-DEV.
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On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
Not necessarily. If the keys are NSStrings, then they are copied
when added to the dictionary, but a copy of an immutable string is
optimized to just retain it, so the data isn't duplicated (assuming
all rows have the same columns in the
On Sunday, July 26, 2009, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
> Not necessarily. If the keys are NSStrings, then they are copied when added
> to the dictionary, but a copy of an immutable string is optimized to just
> retain it, so the data isn't duplicated (assuming all rows have the same
> columns in th
Ok. I've googled it and it would seem that 日本 is how you represent
japan in japanese. The app I need requires this data. I have to send
it to a server and store it and am doing so in UTF8
I send the data with UTF8 encoding and this is what it sends:
Êó•Êú¨ which makes no sense. this comes fro
Hamish Allan wrote:
> First, I partition my hard drive into three partitions:
> Beta
> Production
> Data
I'm just about to proceed with a multi-partition installation like
this, but I'm wondering about how it will interact with Time Machine.
Can I use the same TM volume for both Beta and Produc
On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:53 AM, I. Savant wrote:
On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:32 AM, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
Neither, you want an array of dictionaries where each row of CSV is
a dictionary in which the values keyed to column names and each row
of CSV is one dictionary object in the array.
This i
Thanks Dave, it works great now.
On 7/26/09 9:34 AM, "Dave Keck" wrote:
>> seems to come down. Is there some way to stop this from happening, in other
>> words, is there a way to "nail" an element in place.
>
> As Kyle suggested:
> http://devworld.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Coco
> seems to come down. Is there some way to stop this from happening, in other
> words, is there a way to "nail" an element in place.
As Kyle suggested:
http://devworld.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaViewsGuide/WorkingWithAViewHierarchy/WorkingWithAViewHierarchy.html
"Repositioning
> If you can't answer this question, you need to cover some basic
> fundamentals. "Did you override -drawRect:" is a very simple question
> that you can answer by simply looking at what code you've written.
I kind of figured that I didn't do it, as I didn't write any code that would
have caused t
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
> Why use Core Foundation? How about (written in Mail):
Thanks for your reply. I ran a test, and it seems CF is slightly faster:
2009-07-26 18:11:52.545 tst[31180:813] CF: Read 4611 tracks in 0.505728 seconds
2009-07-26 18:11:53.585 tst[311
Thanks everybody I think I have it all figured out now.
Rick
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Scott Andrew
wrote:
> Hit send too soon . For the mac there are ways to get integer values out of
> the NSElement. I believe TouchXML has the same mechanism, it is a wrapper
> around libXML2 that mimics
Thanks so much for your help! I got this to work beautifully, the
only problem is that I can't now get the scrollview (or its enclosing
view, etc.) to shrink back when the text/rows get shorter, since the
frame of the documentView does not seem to get smaller as the text
recedes (I haven't
On Jul 26, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Scott Andrew wrote:
If x number of objects in your CSV file represent an object, then
parse it by hand and put the data into an object that it represents.
This assumes your CSV will always represent a certain data type.
That's a pretty big assumption for a da
If x number of objects in your CSV file represent an object, then
parse it by hand and put the data into an object that it represents.
For example:
Scott Andrew, 40, Computer Programmer
These might get parsed into a contact class that has properties name,
age, profession. Then the binding
Hit send too soon . For the mac there are ways to get integer values
out of the NSElement. I believe TouchXML has the same mechanism, it is
a wrapper around libXML2 that mimics NSXML classes on the Mac. If
using NSXMLParser you'll need to keep track of where you are at in the
file and conve
If this is on a Mac read the documentation for NSXMLDocument. If this
is the iPhone check out TouchXML (http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/wiki/TouchXML
). Both have a low level XML parser as well.
Scott
On Jul 25, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Rick Schmidt wrote:
Hi I am trying to extract the value in
On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:32 AM, Aaron Burghardt wrote:
Neither, you want an array of dictionaries where each row of CSV is
a dictionary in which the values keyed to column names and each row
of CSV is one dictionary object in the array.
This is a bit more complicated than that, actually.
To everyone this time
Are you defining this method in your views or your UIViewControllers?
That method is defined in UIViewController and will only work with its
subclasses.
Luke
On Jul 26, 2009, at 5:30 AM, Agha Khan wrote:
HI
My app controller knows it orientation view but sub-vie
HI
My app controller knows it orientation view but sub-views don't and
even in sub-views I will not hit the code at
- (void)willAnimateSecondHalfOfRotationFromInterfaceOrientation:
(UIInterfaceOrientation)fromInterfaceOrientation duration:
(NSTimeInterval)duration
But how I know about orie
On 2009 Jul 26, at 01:00, Agha Khan wrote:
Now suppose I want to rotate that image at 90 degree. Is there an
easy way to accomplish this task?
Easy, yes. (Just copy Steve Christensen's code ... it works)
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2009/3/1/231362
Here's the header
On 26.07.2009, at 16:31, Brandon Walkin wrote:
There's a typo in your image names. Use NSGoLeftTemplate and
NSGoRightTemplate ("Go" instead of "Co").
I'm so sorry! I was just blind and used Cmd+C too often... sorry.
Thanks.
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Dear all,
I am just starting to test my little application for leaks using
Instruments. I have got a NSOperation which is doing some JSON
communication stuff with my server. The NSOperation is sending an
NSDictionary object back to the main thread (using a delegate and
performSelectorOnM
On Jul 24, 2009, at 8:11 PM, gumbo...@mac.com wrote:
I need some direction please.
I would like to load a csv file and display the contents in an
NSTableView. What is the best way to achieve this with bindings?
Should the model store the data in an array of arrays (rows and
columns) or a
There's a typo in your image names. Use NSGoLeftTemplate and
NSGoRightTemplate ("Go" instead of "Co").
On 2009-07-26, at 6:08 AM, Alexander Bokovikov wrote:
Hi, All,
I'm trying to create a simple switch button, showing something like
"Show blablabla >" / "< Hide blablabla" depending on the
Hi, All,
I'm trying to create a simple switch button, showing something like
"Show blablabla >" / "< Hide blablabla" depending on the state of
"blablabla". I've found that it would be most suitable to use rounded
textrured button and change its title, image and image position in the
onCli
Hi WT,
have you tried - to avoid everything discussed in thread - to use
implementation like below one? For what you want it could be more
proper avoiding discussed issues and at the same time it hides
everything into your subclass (wrapped delegate class details are
hidden into module):
#import
On Jul 25, 2009, at 23:05, Rick Schmidt wrote:
Hi I am trying to extract the value in an XML node/element as an
int. Here
is a snip of what the xml looks like.
1
1
gi|229264291|gb|CP001598.1|
Bacillus anthracis str. A0248, complete genomeHit_
HI:
I have an image which works fine.
UIImage *img = [UIImage imageNamed:@"background.png"];
[img drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(0,0)];
[img release];
Now suppose I want to rotate that image at 90 degree. Is there an easy
way to accomplish this task?
Best regards
Agha
__
-(NSInteger)integerValue
is a method of NSString
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Rick Schmidt wrote:
Hi I am trying to extract the value in an XML node/element as an
int. Here
is a snip of what the xml looks like.
1
1
gi|229264291|gb|CP001598
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