I have an app in development that is currently implemented as a
document-based app, but I'm starting to think it makes little sense
for it to be so.
What I would like is for the app to have a central document
management window, from which you could create/delete documents.
Although these
--Kyle Sluder
On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:10 PM, Rob Keniger r...@menumachine.com wrote:
What I would like is for the app to have a central document
management window, from which you could create/delete documents.
Although these are logically documents, I don't want the user to be
able to be
I am implemented Hyperlink text filed, and It's doing its all functionality.
But Under NSBox, It is giving me overlap text when User click on it.
Here I have attached snapshot for same.
If I am not using it within box, then it text does not overlap, but it is
narrowed with some pixels.
So, am
On 04/09/2009, at 4:42 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
Sounds like a job for a custom NSDocumentController subclass.
Of course, thanks for the pointer.
The user should not be able to do a Save As. I also don't really
want the Command-Clickable title in the document window as the
location on disk
On Sep 3, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
Looking inside zip/tar/tar.gz files (something OpenUp never did)
would best be accomplished by writing a QuickLook plug-in (which
probably exists.
I don’t know about any Quick Look plug-ins, but the ZipBrowser example
code both provides a
On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:14 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
Looking inside zip/tar/tar.gz files (something OpenUp never did)
would best be accomplished by writing a QuickLook plug-in (which
probably exists.
Hopefully this isn't considered too much of a shameless plug, but the
latest release of
hello,
i use this method at various places in my project as an easy/safe way to do
some background processing. i realize with every call it will initiate the
selector on a new background thread. but i have noticed by observing activity
monitor that it takes quite some time for these threads
Hello,
while there are many aspects regarding thread-safety in KVO, I'm
particularly interested in this question:
Using automatic KVO, is it safe to send removeObserver:forKeyPath:
from within a thread while there is another thread which may change
the property that is being observed?
Thanks Bill,
Yes this was the problem.
Peter
On 04/09/2009, at 8:43 AM, William Stewart wrote:
Peter
That's the V1 versus V2 issue I was alluding too below. Up to Snow
Leopard, 'aunt' type audio units (V1) worked. With SL we removed
these (so it would fail). The V2 audio units
Thanks Jens,
Wouldn't that also get called continuously?
I think I have it working by getting the
NSSplitViewDidResizeSubviewsNotification and just checking further to
see if the subview has collapsed.
Peter
On 04/09/2009, at 1:11 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:27
On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:41 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
the latest release of Pacifist includes a QuickLook plug-in that can
view many of the formats that Pacifist can read, which include zip,
tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and others
I just tried installing Charles's Pacifist.qlgenerator alongside
Rick,
My Mac has a single enter/return key (both words appear on the key, I hate
not having a separate enter key). What would you do in that case?
On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote:
I would like to use the delegate, but it sends me insertNewLine: for
both
Am 03.09.2009 um 07:29 schrieb fawad shafi:
I want to convert grayscale or RGB image to Binary Image.
Please provide sample code.
You've misunderstood something: *you* provide sample code, tell us
where it fails and what you've tried to find out why it fails, and we
help you by correcting
Le 4 sept. 2009 à 13:20, Bill Cheeseman a écrit :
On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:41 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
the latest release of Pacifist includes a QuickLook plug-in that
can view many of the formats that Pacifist can read, which include
zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and others
I just tried
Here is the code in MyDocument:
-(IBAction)calculateStat:(id)sender{
fetchedObjects = nil;
context = [self managedObjectContext];
fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@Measurement
inManagedObjectContext:context];
On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Clayton Leitch wrote:
Here is the code in MyDocument:
-(IBAction)calculateStat:(id)sender{
fetchedObjects = nil;
context = [self managedObjectContext];
fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
entity = [NSEntityDescription
Are any objects along the way nil?
--Andy
On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Clayton Leitch wrote:
Here is the code in MyDocument:
-(IBAction)calculateStat:(id)sender{
fetchedObjects = nil;
context = [self managedObjectContext];
fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
Taking this back on-list where it belongs.
On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Clayton Leitch wrote:
Yes, there is a Measurement instance in the the data model.
Debugger shows that everything is set properly until the array gets
no objects in answer to the query.
Are you sure? How have
Yes, I saved it as XML and opened the file. Below is what I found:
?xml version=1.0?
!DOCTYPE database SYSTEM file:///System/Library/DTDs/CoreData.dtd
database
databaseInfo
version134481920/version
UUIDE968A00D-5333-4E12-909D-8709A682BBB7/UUID
On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Clayton Leitch wrote:
Yes, I saved it as XML and opened the file. Below is what I found:
Okay, so since there're definitely some instances in the store, and
nothing is nil in the debugger, the only thing remaining is your
message delivery.
... have you
On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Clayton Leitch wrote:
fetchedObjects = nil;
...
fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
...
fetchedObjects = [context executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest
error:error];
...
[fetchRequest release];
One other thing
Hi all,
I'm fairly comfortable with setting up bindings for table columns to
an NSArrayController. Now I'd like to use bindings where the columns
change at runtime. Is this possible? I am avoiding using CoreData
(so I can run on Mac OS X 10.3 ish and upwards).
Picking up on my own post:
The debugger shows 0 objects in the array. Interestingly, this same
code works perfectly in a non-NSDocument version of this application.
On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:29 AM, I. Savant wrote:
On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Clayton Leitch wrote:
Yes, I saved it as XML and opened the file. Below is
On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Clayton Leitch wrote:
The debugger shows 0 objects in the array. Interestingly, this same
code works perfectly in a non-NSDocument version of this application.
Wait, when you say it works in a non-NSDocument-based version, it
makes me wonder: did you copy
On 04/09/09 10:38 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann gerr...@mdenkmann.de wrote:
But it fails to mention, what I should use instead.
Any ideas?
Take a look at serviceConnectionWIthName:rootObject:, new in 10.5.
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On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann
gerr...@mdenkmann.de wrote:
But it fails to mention, what I should use instead.
The release notes say, but I don't have them in front of me andjim
hesitant to go by memory for fear of miquoting.
--Kyle Sluder
I re-typed everything in a freshly produced document based
application. Below is the top of the MyDocument.h file.
//
// MyDocument.h
// Blood Pressure Record
//
// Created by Clayton Leitch on 9/3/09.
// Copyright __MyCompanyName__ 2009 . All rights reserved.
//
#import Cocoa/Cocoa.h
Snow Leopard tells me about defaultConnection (NSConnection):
Returns the default NSConnection object for the current thread.
(Deprecated in Mac OS X v10.6.)
But it fails to mention, what I should use instead.
Any ideas?
Kind regards,
Gerriet.
On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Clayton Leitch wrote:
I re-typed everything in a freshly produced document based
application.
So you created a new Core Data Document based application and put
your code and data model into it, and it's still not working
correctly? I'm utterly mystified.
I wouldn't do anything at all. I'd still treat return and enter
differently.
As a separate matter, I hate not having a separate enter key. I wrote
a program that re-maps the right-hand option key to behave like an
enter key.
On Sep 4, 2009, at 05:31:15, Michael Domino wrote:
Rick,
My
Le 4 sept. 2009 à 17:18, Kyle Sluder a écrit :
On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann gerr...@mdenkmann.de
wrote:
But it fails to mention, what I should use instead.
The release notes say, but I don't have them in front of me andjim
hesitant to go by memory for fear of
Hi all,
I have been putting together a Core Data application that has three
windows. I wanted to control the appearance and disappearance of these
windows during the course of the application, so added menu items and
buttons with the action makeKeyAndOrderFront. However, I found that
the
In my experience this can happen for at least 3 reasons.
1. Over-releasing an object, as you state.
2. Sending a message to an object that has already been released (i.e.
deallocated).
3. Attempting to access or return a local variable that has not been
initialized (although you may get a
Hi all,
I am having trouble with NSComboBoxCell's setButtonBordered: setting,
having just updated to the latest XCode+IB versions in Snow Leopard.
It appears that my choices are now between a bordered button with one
arrow (setButtonBordered:YES) or a bordered button with two arrows
On Sep 4, 2009, at 09:35, Ian Piper wrote:
I have been putting together a Core Data application that has three
windows. I wanted to control the appearance and disappearance of
these windows during the course of the application, so added menu
items and buttons with the action
Hi Graham, hi Kyle!
Another thing to be aware of is that if you do it right, the ruler
views managed by the scrollview also just work and allow for the
view's zoom. I don't think you should be doing what you're doing to
the NSClipView.
I don't know what crossed my mind, but I used
On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:55 AM, Rick C. wrote:
i use this method at various places in my project as an easy/safe
way to do some background processing. i realize with every call it
will initiate the selector on a new background thread. but i have
noticed by observing activity monitor that it
I'd like to clarify what I said before.
What you want to do is not what input managers were intended for. In
fact, what you want to do would go beyond the efforts of most input
manager haxies, because it would involve replacing window server or
Dock functionality. There are a lot of very
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Ian Piperianpi...@mac.com wrote:
I suppose that when I close the window it is released, so when I try to open
it again there is nothing to open.
Yep. Common pitfall.
1. Why does a window default to having this option checked? It seems odd,
since the
I am attempting to capture part of the user screen, for instance a
window. I'm using the OpenGL screen capture example code to build on
so the following is my capture code. When I attempt to capture I get a
garbled screen so I know I'm not passing the right value somewhere but
I don't know
On 9/4/09 9:41 AM, BareFeet said:
I'm fairly comfortable with setting up bindings for table columns to
an NSArrayController. Now I'd like to use bindings where the columns
change at runtime. Is this possible? I am avoiding using CoreData (so
I can run on Mac OS X 10.3 ish and upwards).
One way
Graham, I followed your advice. However, there just one minor hitch.
I neglected to emphasize that I want the main window to be invisible
until the startup processing finished. At that time I would remove
the startup window and display the main window. To this end, I
unchecked the
On Sep 4, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Michael A. Crawford wrote:
-[[NSApplication sharedApplication] mainWindow] returns nil!
-mainWindow returns the frontmost visible document window. It will
never return a hidden window.
So, when I call -[window makeKeyAndOrderFront] I'm doing so with a
nil
Hi all,
I have an application (QuicKeys) that allows the user to define menu
selection as an action. In our latest version and under Leopard, we
present UI that replaces the main menu bar of our app with the menu
bar of the target app (via setMainMenu:) so that we can correctly
retrieve which
Eric Hermanson wrote:
3. Attempting to access or return a local variable that has not been
initialized (although you may get a segmentation fault instead of a
BAD_ACCESS, I can't remember). For example,
- (BOOL)someMethod
{
BOOL returnValue;
// code in the method that never sets
Quincey, thank you. With your suggestion, and a private email, and
lots of reading :-), I have made some progress.
On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
On Sep 3, 2009, at 20:37, Michael de Haan wrote:
Now the part that does not work.
changeViewDelta as follows:
-(IBAction)
On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:23, Michael de Haan wrote:
(For simplicity, I implement an int state ivar to which drawRect
refers)
In init, this:
- (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frame {
self =
[self setCurrentColor:[NSColor yellowColor]];
[self setState: 1];
On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
1) Even though, as Quincey alluded to, I would have expected the
outlet view and self to be equivalent, they are not. It seems as
if self to changeViewDelta is a different entity from the outlet
view.
Ah, that's a different kettle of
I have the following method, which digests a string with the SHA-1
algorithm:
- (NSString *) HMACSHA1DigestWithSecretKey:(NSString *)secretKey {
unsigned char digest[CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH];
char *keyCharPtr = strdup([secretKey UTF8String]);
char *dataCharPtr = strdup([self UTF8String]);
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Alex Reynoldsalexpreyno...@gmail.com wrote:
Why would the call to -initWithData:encoding (the encryptedString
variable) fail?
Question: What are the chances of SHA1 output being a valid UTF-8 string?
Answer: Very close to 0.
You can't take pseudorandom data
On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Alex Reynolds wrote:
NSString *encryptedString =
[[[NSString alloc] initWithData:encryptedStringData
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] autorelease];
You can't interpret arbitrary binary data as a UTF-8 string. The UTF-8
encoding has certain rules — it's a
The solution is (using the original OpenGLScreenCapture project code)
to modify this statement in FrameReader.m:
glCopyTexSubImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, mWidth, mHeight);
to
glCopyTexSubImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, 0, 0, 0, 100, 50,
mWidth+100, mHeight+50);
where
I want to develop a CocoaTouch app that talks to a web server without
doing 'web pages'. I.e. the app does http gets and posts driving php
(or other) scripts on the server to access some sql database.
Reason for this approach - to use coca table view to display data,
generally speaking to
On Sep 4, 2009, at 6:16 PM, David Blanton wrote:
I want to develop a CocoaTouch app that talks to a web server
without doing 'web pages'. I.e. the app does http gets and posts
driving php (or other) scripts on the server to access some sql
database.
...
Make sense or shoveling against
This is a common concept. In fact, it's exactly how nearly all twitter apps
on the iPhone work.
Usually it can be done manually with NSURLConnection and the like, though
you may consider using a third-party framework like ASI-HTTP-Request or
CocoaREST.
--
Steven Degutis
Generally the idea of a splash screen (as this is called) in Mac apps is
frowned upon, by developers and users alike (though users seem to mind
slightly less than developers, from my experience).
What you should instead do, from my advise, is to asynchronously load your
data on a background
If you're specifically trying to mimic the screenshot-capabilties in Mac OS
X itself, you can use the `screencapture` command line utility, coupled with
an NSTask object in Cocoa. This is what I use in one of my apps, and what
Papaya does.
--
Steven Degutis
http://www.thoughtfultree.com/
thanks jens i'll look further into it,
rick
From: Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com
To: Rick C. jo_p...@yahoo.com
Cc: cocoa dev cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2009 1:29:05 AM
Subject: Re: performSelectorInBackground:anObject:
On Sep 4,
If that's indeed the case, then you're out of luck short of using a private
API in AppKit (which can be class-dump'd, by the way), which I would not
recommend. However, if you wanted, the way I would try it is by changing the
name of the application respective of the main menu, or at least look to
I've got a window that is not opaque ( [self setOpaque: NO] ).
It contains basically just one view.
I fill the view with a semi-transparent gray, like this:
semiTransparentGray_ = [NSColor colorWithDeviceRed:0.1 green:0.1 blue:
0.1 alpha: 0.05];
[semiTransparentGray_ set];
NSRectFill( [self
If you are interested in mouse events in your entire window area, then
you can use
[NSWindow setIgnoresMouseEvents:NO] and not have to worry about faint
paint issues.
Jesper Storm Bache
Core Technologies
Adobe Systems Inc
On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
I've got a
On 05/09/2009, at 3:16 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
On 9/4/09 9:41 AM, BareFeet said:
I'm fairly comfortable with setting up bindings for table columns to
an NSArrayController. Now I'd like to use bindings where the columns
change at runtime. Is this possible? I am avoiding using CoreData (so
I
I have a CATextLayer that I want to be able to vertically align within
my view. I can set a constraint to align it to the top of the view, to
the middle, or to the bottom; but I want to be able to allow the user
to change this on the fly. When I set up my CATextLayer, I use this
constraint
URL is correct and entity is not nil.
On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Brent Gulanowski wrote:
So, all the other objects leading to the fetch execute look OK? Your
context isn't nil? Does your context actually have the right store
coordinator with the right store URL? Does NSEntityDescription
Not sure what I did but now the Fix Continue option is disabled in
the Run menu. Using the standard debug configuration for a standard
application project, LLVM GCC 4.2, Build active architecture
only. Of course, Fix and Continue is turned on for the Debug
configuration, both at the
Thank you I.S. and Steven ... I am off to the races!
On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Steven Degutis wrote:
This is a common concept. In fact, it's exactly how nearly all
twitter apps on the iPhone work.
Usually it can be done manually with NSURLConnection and the like,
though you may consider
I think I found it, if anybody is interested. Fix Continue doesn't
seem to work with the architecture set to Standard (32/64-bit
Universal even if I have Build Active Architecture Only. Reverting
to 32-bit Universal allows me to fix and continue. Not sure where
the problem is. The
I am have a custom window look that I accomplish by having a
borderless window with a view that paints its contents. This works
fine, however, for some reason the shadow on this window is less
pronounced than on normal aqua windows. I've included images below:
Normal window:
inline:
Francisco,
Generally this less pronounced shadow is produced by giving an NSPanel the
Utility style in IB. As I've never had to do it programmatically, I don't
know what the relevant method would be to set this style, but I'm sure it's
a style on the NSWindow class, not NSPanel.
--
Steven
Interestingly, after searching the NSWindow (and NSPanel) docs and google
for like 5 minutes, I still can't figure out how to set this small shadow
programmatically. Now I'm all curious! Anyone know?
--
Steven Degutis
http://www.thoughtfultree.com/
http://www.degutis.org/
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at
I seem to recall that the opacity of the window affects the intensity
of its shadow. Is your borderless window partially transparent?
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So, I found this on cocoabuilder: http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2008/2/13/198777
, which suggests using this private API:
[window setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:10] forKey:@shadowStyle];
However, at least in my attempts, this did not seem to change my
shadow,
On Sep 4, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Jim Turner wrote:
Hi all,
I have an application (QuicKeys) that allows the user to define menu
selection as an action. In our latest version and under Leopard, we
present UI that replaces the main menu bar of our app with the menu
bar of the target app (via
OK, mea culpa, this is not strictly about Cocoa, but I'm a member of
this list and can see an obvious other list to join to post this
(though perhaps someone will enlighten me).
I'm making a 'plain' foundation tool for the first time, though using
things like Core Data within.
I need to
On 5 Sep 2009, at 00:24, Tim Murison tim.muri...@radialpoint.com
wrote:
On 04/09/09 10:38 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann gerr...@mdenkmann.de
wrote:
But it fails to mention, what I should use instead.
Any ideas?
Take a look at serviceConnectionWIthName:rootObject:, new in 10.5.
Thank you!
Hello everyone.
I have a DVR (digital video recorder) program I wrote in Windows that I
want to re-write on the Mac. And I wanted to get some ideas about how
best to use Cocoa objects to make this program work as I'm still
relatively new to Cocoa programming.
The application has 2 modes,
Luke Evans wrote:
I need to know when the app/tool is going to terminate (for
whatever reason), primarily in order to do a final Core Data save
if there are changes to persist, though there may be other things
to do.
man 3 atexit
However, at least in my attempts, this did not seem to change my shadow,
regardless the value I passed in.
It only appears to affect borderless windows; I just tested with a
normal, titled window and it didn't change at all.
But with borderless windows, it seems to toggle between two shadow
On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Marek Kozubal wrote:
Another question related to this is what API set provides the
fastest disk IO under Mac OS X? On the windows side I used
FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING and FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH flags with the
ReadFile/WriteFile API.
The fastest will be the
On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
man 3 atexit
This is really difficult to use for anything serious since it's called
asynchronously, so you have no idea what state the main thread might
be in at the time. It's like running on a separate thread, only worse
because you
What I've done in the past is install a signal handler which tells the OS to
ignore the signal, but also schedules a future callback on the main thread
(via the runloop) that will then cleanly shut down the process. You probably
want to catch the signals generated by Ctrl-C or a 'kill'
I'm using opengl to do screen captures because that seems to be the
fastest way. The problem is that I need the cursor to be visible but
it is not. Is there a flag I can set with opengl to make the cursor
visible? Or am I going to have to attach an image to it during capture?
I have an app which provides info about files, folders, symlinks, etc.
In Leopard the Services Menu of e.g. Finder did show my Get
Information regardless whether a file or a folder was selected.
In Snow Leopard the Services Menu of Finder is empty whenever a folder
is selected (files and
On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann
gerr...@mdenkmann.de wrote:
But, as I said, it IS working for files - only folders don't work.
You need to declare that your service is valid in a UTI context that
covers all your needs. Perhaps public.item?
--Kyle Sluder
On 04/09/2009, at 12:43 PM, Rob Keniger wrote:
I'm interested to know if anyone else has been bitten by what seems
to be a fairly serious performance regression bug in 10.6 with
NSArrayController/NSTreeController.
Basically, if you have an NSArrayController with more than a few
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