Re: NSArrayController design/usage question

2009-09-08 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Sep 6, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Steven Degutis wrote: For instance, if you have 2 genuine properties on your Person entity called firstName and lastName then you can create a fullName property on your Person class, and when firstName or lastName change, call -willChangeValueForKey: and

atanch...@live.com

2009-09-08 Thread Angelica Grace Tanchico
Hello, I just want to ask, how can I access/add in my app (if possible) the Favorites list on the iPhone Phone app? I saw an application that has synchronized Favorites list with theiPhone Phone app. Is it possible to access the Favorites list and be able to modify the list? Thanks in advance!

Meta Package in 10.5 to support 10.3 problem

2009-09-08 Thread Sparta
Hello, I am building a meta package on 10.5 that supports 10.3 (Install Properties). I have two packages as: 1. Package 1: works on 10.6 onwards: (Gestalt ­ sysv = 0x01060) 2. Package 2: works on 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 (Gestalt ­ sysv 0x01060) Both the packages work fine independently. I have

NSPDFImageRep Memory Leak?

2009-09-08 Thread DairyKnight
Hi all, I'm trying to rasterize a PDF document using PDFKit, but it seems NSPDFImageRep has a terrible memory leak, which crashes my whole application. This is the simple test code I used: for (int i = 0; i [pdfDoc pageCount]; i++) { NSLog(@Processing page %d/%d, i, [pdfDoc pageCount]);

Re: Meta Package in 10.5 to support 10.3 problem

2009-09-08 Thread Rob Keniger
On 08/09/2009, at 9:17 PM, Sparta wrote: I am building a meta package on 10.5 that supports 10.3 (Install Properties). This is the wrong list. You want Installer-dev: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/installer-dev -- Rob Keniger ___

Re: atanch...@live.com

2009-09-08 Thread Luke the Hiesterman
Mind if I ask what is the app that you saw doing this? Luke On Sep 8, 2009, at 3:44 AM, Angelica Grace Tanchico wrote: Hello, I just want to ask, how can I access/add in my app (if possible) the Favorites list on the iPhone Phone app? I saw an application that has synchronized Favorites

Re: Application main menu title behavior change in 10.6

2009-09-08 Thread Jim Turner
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Peter Ammonpam...@apple.com wrote: Hi Jim, First let me thank you for checking the release notes.  However, that particular issue is unrelated, confusingly enough. Here's what's going on.  The first menu item in the main menu (or more precisely, its submenu)

Re: atanch...@live.com

2009-09-08 Thread Roland King
That's not the iTunes store app right, the pipe game called Siphone, it's something unauthorized? I don't know of an official API which lets you do what you want and a documentation search didn't throw one up. You may not be able to do that with the released APIs (if you can I'd love to

Re: KVO on Distributed Objects with exception handling.

2009-09-08 Thread Edward Chan
I've just tested it on Snow Leopard (10a380), and it works as expected. Do you happen to remember the technical reasons why KVO on DOs would fail? Ed On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Scott Anguishsc...@cocoadoc.com wrote: In spite of the fact that it might be working, it isn't supported.

[iPhone] : How to customize Phonepad ?

2009-09-08 Thread Dan Ribe
Hi All, I am looking for a way to customize the Phonepad provided by the iPhone for my application use. Here is the list I am interested in : ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments

Re: [iPhone] : How to customize Phonepad ?

2009-09-08 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
Then I would say you have very little to do ;) On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Dan Ribe dan.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am looking for a way to customize the Phonepad provided by the iPhone for my application use. Here is the list I am interested in :

Re: NSPDFImageRep Memory Leak?

2009-09-08 Thread Jens Alfke
On Sep 8, 2009, at 5:08 AM, DairyKnight wrote: In the code, pdfDoc is a preloaded PDFDocument object. As seen from above, I've released everything allocated, but in Instruments, this app keeps on consuming memory. I can't find anything wrong with your code. Have you tried checking for

RE: atanch...@live.com

2009-09-08 Thread Angelica Grace Tanchico
OK. Thanks for the response Jeff. I appreciate it :) Angie Subject: Re: atanch...@live.com From: jeff.schill...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:39:53 -0400 CC: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com To: atanch...@live.com Siphon (the SIP/VoiP app, not the game) http://code.google.com/p/ siphon/

[iPhone] : How to customize Phonepad ?

2009-09-08 Thread Dan Ribe
Sorry for my last mail ... It got sent while I was typing ! Hi All, I am looking for a way to customize the Phonepad provided by the iPhone for my application use. Here is the list I am interested in : - Want to show it at the middle of the screen. - Want to change caption of the button to Call.

Re: Crash on SL in com.apple.DesktopServices after using NSOpenPanel

2009-09-08 Thread Corbin Dunn
On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Markus Spoettl wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Thomas Clement wrote: Looks like an Apple bug. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/506/cpsid_50654.html That doesn't seem to be the problem with that user's machine as the files are local. It is more than likely that it

Re: atanch...@live.com

2009-09-08 Thread Angelica Grace Tanchico
The application is Siphon Angie Mind if I ask what is the app that you saw doing this? Luke On Sep 8, 2009, at 3:44 AM, Angelica Grace Tanchico wrote: Hello, I just want to ask, how can I access/add in my app (if possible) the Favorites list on the iPhone Phone app? I

[MEET] Chicago CocoaHeads Tuesday Sept. 8

2009-09-08 Thread Bob Frank
The Chicago CocoaHeads / Chicago Cocoa and WebObjects User Group is holding our next meeting Tuesday, September 8th, at 7:00 PM at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave. Agenda: - Book Report - What's new in Snow Leopard Under the Covers - adjournment to O'Toole's

Re: [iPhone] : How to customize Phonepad ?

2009-09-08 Thread Luke the Hiesterman
You can't customize the phone pad, which is really just an instance of a keyboard. For the stuff you want to do, you should write your own custom view that behaves as you desire. Luke On Sep 8, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Dan Ribe wrote: Sorry for my last mail ... It got sent while I was typing !

Re: Strangest UITable bug

2009-09-08 Thread Development
I should have posted the code sorry. I deleted all the code out of the app for table view delegation. I then pasted it back in one method at a time (except for the required ones) and compiled then ran the app and now it works. I have no idea why that fixed it but it did. On Sep 7, 2009,

NSTextView resizeability and scrolling

2009-09-08 Thread Stamenkovic Florijan
Hi all, I am trying to make a user interface in which there is a view that contains multiple subviews, one of which is an NSTextView. The parent view should be embedded in an NSScrollView. The idea is that when the NSTextView is typed in, and possibly resizes as a consequence, it's

Sheets positioning.

2009-09-08 Thread Brent Smith
Hello I have a new file dialog that pops up as a sheet, hwoever on the first popup of this sheet, Its not positioned below the titlebar http://i29.tinypic.com/2k287p.jpg But if I hit cancel, and then open the dialog again, Its perfect. http://i27.tinypic.com/e9uurl.jpg Any idea what Im

Re: Anti-aliasing in Snow Leopard (10.6) PDFView

2009-09-08 Thread Kyle Sluder
If you haven't gotten a response the first time, don't resend your message without checking cocoabuilder.com and lists.apple.com to make sure it went through. If you don't see it there, then fire away. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: NSImage with multiple representation sizes

2009-09-08 Thread Ken Ferry
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Benjamin Rister bdris...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ken, Thanks for your response. The size of an image is the default size of the rect in which it's drawn when the person drawing it doesn't have any more specific information. That's a concept that there can

Continuous NSTextField not updating bound value continuously?

2009-09-08 Thread Doug Knowles
Hi, I have a text field (two, actually) bound to a string value in a controller object, and I'd like to validate the value on each keystroke so that I can enable other controls appropriately depending on the content of the field. The text fields are set to continuous updating in IB, and I have

Re: NSImage with multiple representation sizes

2009-09-08 Thread Benjamin Rister
Hi Ken, Thanks for your response. The size of an image is the default size of the rect in which it's drawn when the person drawing it doesn't have any more specific information. That's a concept that there can only be one of for the entire image, so it's confusing if the -size for

Re: KVO on Distributed Objects with exception handling.

2009-09-08 Thread Scott Anguish
On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Edward Chan wrote: I've just tested it on Snow Leopard (10a380), and it works as expected. Perhaps. But as I said, unsupported, untested internally, and could break at any time. Do you happen to remember the technical reasons why KVO on DOs would fail?

Re: Sheets positioning.

2009-09-08 Thread Jason Foreman
On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Brent Smith wrote: Hello I have a new file dialog that pops up as a sheet, hwoever on the first popup of this sheet, Its not positioned below the titlebar http://i29.tinypic.com/2k287p.jpg But if I hit cancel, and then open the dialog again, Its perfect.

Re: NSPDFImageRep Memory Leak?

2009-09-08 Thread John Calhoun
On Sep 8, 2009, at 5:08 AM, DairyKnight wrote: NSPDFImageRep *pdfImgRep = [[NSPDFImageRep alloc] initWithData:[page dataRepresentation]]; Check [page dataRepresentation] above. Pre-SnowLeopard the NSData returned was not autoreleased and so needed to be released by the caller. This was not

Re: Continuous NSTextField not updating bound value continuously?

2009-09-08 Thread Jason Foreman
On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Doug Knowles wrote: Hi, I have a text field (two, actually) bound to a string value in a controller object, and I'd like to validate the value on each keystroke so that I can enable other controls appropriately depending on the content of the field. The text

Re: Anti-aliasing in Snow Leopard (10.6) PDFView

2009-09-08 Thread John Calhoun
On Sep 7, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Duncan McGregor wrote: It used to be that PDFView anti-aliased nicely. Now it doesn't, at least not for some files. Text and scans rendered in both the PDKKitViewer and PDFLinker2 samples are horrible in 10.6. Can you point to a specific PDF that shows this

Re: Sheets positioning.

2009-09-08 Thread Brent Smith
Ahh, the visible at launch was the issue. Thanks! On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Jason Foreman wrote: On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Brent Smith wrote: Hello I have a new file dialog that pops up as a sheet, hwoever on the first popup of this sheet, Its not positioned below the titlebar

Re: Continuous NSTextField not updating bound value continuously?

2009-09-08 Thread Doug Knowles
Sigh. I so should have known. That's it. Many thanks for the quick reply, and for your time. On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jason Foreman ja...@threeve.org wrote: It sounds like you've set the Continuous property of the text field. When using bindings, you need to set the Continuously

Re: NSImage with multiple representation sizes

2009-09-08 Thread Benjamin Rister
So to be clear: if I create a TIFF image, with tiffutil -cat, that has 9x...@72dpi, 16x1...@72dpi, 32x3...@72dpi: - This is an entirely supported configuration, despite what man tiffutil says and the warning it generates. No, these reps would not have the same -size. If you set the DPI

NSURLDownload delegate methods seperate thread

2009-09-08 Thread Colin Deasy
Hey, Is anyone aware of a way to receive NSURLDownload's delegate methods on a separate thread, i.e. not the main one? I am using an NSOperationQueue to manage them but at the moment I need to use the performSelectorOnMainThread method to get it too work. The problem with this is that it

Re: Anti-aliasing in Snow Leopard (10.6) PDFView

2009-09-08 Thread Kyle Sluder
Oops! Didn't realize you had not reposted, but instead posted it elsewhere! Gmail did not indicate this. Sorry. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the

Re: NSURLDownload delegate methods seperate thread

2009-09-08 Thread Randall Meadows
On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Colin Deasy wrote: Hey, Is anyone aware of a way to receive NSURLDownload's delegate methods on a separate thread, i.e. not the main one? Delegate messages will be sent on the thread which calls this method. So, start your NSURLDownload on whichever thread you

RE: NSURLDownload delegate methods seperate thread

2009-09-08 Thread Colin Deasy
Spot on, thanks man. Fixed it using:[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate distantFuture]]; while ([self isDownloading] ); So just blocks until finished the download. If I take away the while loop it doesn't run.Is there a better way? Colin CC: cocoa-...@not-pc.com;

Re: NSURLDownload delegate methods seperate thread

2009-09-08 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Colin Deasycolde...@hotmail.com wrote: So just blocks until finished the download. If I take away the while loop it doesn't run.Is there a better way? Then why are you running in a separate thread at all? Why not just run asynchronously on the main thread?

Re: NSURLDownload delegate methods seperate thread

2009-09-08 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Colin Deasy wrote: Well I did try that but there were no callbacks. That is I initiated the download in the start method of an NSOperation. You likely have no run loop running on the thread. You need that for NSURLConnection to do its work. -- Dave Carrigan

Re: [[NSHost currentHost] name] blocking on 10.6 ?

2009-09-08 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 8 sept. 2009 à 22:15, jonat...@mugginsoft.com a écrit : I am not sure if this is a problem unique to me or not but under 10.5 [[NSHost currentHost] name] or [[[NSProcessInfo] processInfo] hostname] were quick and easy ways to get an mDNS friendly hostname such as imac-2.local On 10.6

Re: NSURLDownload delegate methods seperate thread

2009-09-08 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Colin Deasy wrote: Spot on, thanks man. Fixed it using: [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate distantFuture]]; while ([self isDownloading] ); This will work, but you won't be able to know if your NSInvocationQueue wants to cancel. If that's

RE: NSURLDownload delegate methods seperate thread

2009-09-08 Thread Colin Deasy
Well I did try that but there were no callbacks. That is I initiated the download in the start method of an NSOperation. Subject: Re: NSURLDownload delegate methods seperate thread From: cocoa-...@not-pc.com Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:17:55 -0600 CC: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com To:

Re: [[NSHost currentHost] name] blocking on 10.6 ?

2009-09-08 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
On 8 Sep 2009, at 22:24, Jens Alfke wrote: On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:15 PM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: I am not sure if this is a problem unique to me or not but under 10.5 [[NSHost currentHost] name] or [[[NSProcessInfo] processInfo] hostname] were quick and easy ways to get an mDNS

Re: NSImage with multiple representation sizes

2009-09-08 Thread Ken Ferry
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Benjamin Rister bdris...@gmail.com wrote: So to be clear: if I create a TIFF image, with tiffutil -cat, that has 9x...@72dpi, 16x1...@72dpi, 32x3...@72dpi: - This is an entirely supported configuration, despite what man tiffutil says and the warning it

Re: [[NSHost currentHost] name] blocking on 10.6 ?

2009-09-08 Thread Brent Gulanowski
While I don't speak for Apple, we ran into this with Daylite Server, and found out that you shouldn't be using those calls. Basically, your computer is NOT the authority on your computer's host name. The DNS system is the authority. So these calls tend to trigger DNS lookups, at which point you're

Re: [[NSHost currentHost] name] blocking on 10.6 ?

2009-09-08 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
On 8 Sep 2009, at 22:37, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: Le 8 sept. 2009 à 22:15, jonat...@mugginsoft.com a écrit : I am not sure if this is a problem unique to me or not but under 10.5 [[NSHost currentHost] name] or [[[NSProcessInfo] processInfo] hostname] were quick and easy ways to get an

scaleUnitSquareToSize strange behavior Scaling a UI

2009-09-08 Thread Joshua Strickon
I am trying to build a ui where I have an NSView with a variety of subviews that are programatically added from nib files similar to the CocoaSlides demo. I need to be able to zoom in and out. Essentially I have little boxes of cocoa controls. I have tried all sorts of solutions with

[[NSHost currentHost] name] blocking on 10.6 ?

2009-09-08 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
I am not sure if this is a problem unique to me or not but under 10.5 [[NSHost currentHost] name] or [[[NSProcessInfo] processInfo] hostname] were quick and easy ways to get an mDNS friendly hostname such as imac-2.local On 10.6 I find that both these combinations block badly

Re: [[NSHost currentHost] name] blocking on 10.6 ?

2009-09-08 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
On 8 Sep 2009, at 22:44, Brent Gulanowski wrote: While I don't speak for Apple, we ran into this with Daylite Server, and found out that you shouldn't be using those calls. Basically, your computer is NOT the authority on your computer's host name. The DNS system is the authority. So

Re: Framework versioning and handling multiple OS SDK's?

2009-09-08 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Brent Gulanowskibgulanow...@gmail.com wrote: For classes, you can check whether NSClassFromString(@Classname) returns a class. This might return incompatible private versions of some classes. For example, NSClassFromString(@QLPreviewPanel) will return a class

Re: Framework versioning and handling multiple OS SDK's?

2009-09-08 Thread Greg Parker
On Sep 8, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Brent Gulanowski wrote: For selectors, you can check whether NSSelectorFromString(@selector) returns a selector. That won't do what you want. NSSelectorFromString() always returns a selector; it creates one itself if that name has not been used yet. (And not

Re: [[NSHost currentHost] name] blocking on 10.6 ?

2009-09-08 Thread Marc Krochmal
Hi Brent, I may have been one of those appalled Apple engineers. In general, [NSHost currentHost] is the worst API on the system and people should avoid it like the plague. Jonathan, just use SCDynamicStoreCopyLocalHostName instead. gethostname probably isn't going to do what you want.

Re: Framework versioning and handling multiple OS SDK's?

2009-09-08 Thread Brent Gulanowski
For classes, you can check whether NSClassFromString(@Classname) returns a class. For selectors, you can check whether NSSelectorFromString(@selector) returns a selector. Usually that's enough. In fact, if you pick a representative class that was introduced in the OS release of your choice, you

Re: [[NSHost currentHost] name] blocking on 10.6 ?

2009-09-08 Thread Keith Duncan
While I don't speak for Apple, we ran into this with Daylite Server, and found out that you shouldn't be using those calls. I got a similar response, I had been using NSHost previously and hadn't noticed any delay so assumed it was using a local backing store. I ran the same code on the

NSUserDefaults synchronization in Foundation tools

2009-09-08 Thread Sidney San Martín
The docs for NSUserDefaults have this to say regarding - [NSUserDefaults synchronize]: Because this method is automatically invoked at periodic intervals, use this method only if you cannot wait for the automatic synchronization (for example, if your application is about to exit)

Re: NSUserDefaults synchronization in Foundation tools

2009-09-08 Thread Greg Parker
On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Sidney San Martín wrote: Because this method is automatically invoked at periodic intervals, use this method only if you cannot wait for the automatic synchronization (for example, if your application is about to

Re: [[NSHost currentHost] name] blocking on 10.6 ?

2009-09-08 Thread Jayson Adams
On Sep 8, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Marc Krochmal wrote: Hi Brent, I may have been one of those appalled Apple engineers. In general, [NSHost currentHost] is the worst API on the system and people should avoid it like the plague. Hi Marc, Can you tell why this is so? Best, __jayson Circus

Re: NSUserDefaults synchronization in Foundation tools

2009-09-08 Thread Jens Alfke
On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Sidney San Martín wrote: Because this method is automatically invoked at periodic intervals, use this method only if you cannot wait for the automatic synchronization (for example, if your application is about to exit) To my knowledge that's always been

usb notification

2009-09-08 Thread Chris Carson
Hi all, Can't get a simple example working. AppearedNotificationHandler() should be called in the code below when a USB device (any device for now) is plugged in. I see the NSLog(@registerDeviceCallbackHandler) message appear in the console when I start the application, but never see the

Re: NSUserDefaults synchronization in Foundation tools

2009-09-08 Thread Ken Ferry
Hi Jens, On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote: On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Sidney San Martín wrote: Because this method is automatically invoked at periodic intervals, use this method only if you cannot wait for the automatic synchronization (for example, if

Core Data fetch with to-many relationship

2009-09-08 Thread Alex Reynolds
I am having trouble fetching results with a to-many relationship and would like to ask for advice. I have two NSManagedObject subclasses: Owner and Book. There is a one- to-many relationship between Owner and Book (an Owner can be associated with many Books). @interface Owner :

NSDockTilePlugIn

2009-09-08 Thread David Riggle
I've been experimenting with an NSDockTilePlugIn. The documentation is a bit sparse. It looks like the plug-in needs to be 32-bit/64-bit GC supported. The plug-in gets called successfully in the release build of my app, but it does not get called in the debug build. Instead, I get this

Re: NSImage with multiple representation sizes

2009-09-08 Thread Rob Keniger
On 09/09/2009, at 6:20 AM, Ken Ferry wrote: On 10.6 and later, yes, you can count on it choosing 16x16 pixel representation. We're not looking at resolution anymore, only number of pixels in rep vs number of pixels to be filled. I'm pretty sure it would on previous OSes too, but not 100%

Re: usb notification

2009-09-08 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Chris Carsoncucar...@yahoo.com wrote:        IOReturn                kernErr; You never seem to check for errors. Please ensure your calls are succeeding by checking the value of this variable. If they're failing, use macerror(1) to look up the error number. -

Re: NSPDFImageRep Memory Leak?

2009-09-08 Thread DairyKnight
Thanks. That's the problem. By releasing the NSData PDFPage returns, the program now consumes half the memory. But still, the memory it consumes keeps increasing and yet I cannot figure out why... On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:17 AM, John Calhoun calho...@apple.com wrote: On Sep 8, 2009, at

Re: Core Data fetch with to-many relationship

2009-09-08 Thread Melissa J. Turner
On Sep 8, 2009, at 18:03, Alex Reynolds wrote: Relationship fault for (NSRelationshipDescription: 0x3d1b2b0), name Book, isOptional 1, isTransient 0, entity Owner, renamingIdentifier Book, validation predicates ( ), warnings ( ), versionHashModifier (null), destination entity Book,

Re: Does Mac OS X support interior pointers?

2009-09-08 Thread John Engelhart
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@earthlink.netwrote: On Sep 6, 2009, at 17:36, John Engelhart wrote: So, since the Mac OS X documentation uses the term interior pointer in a totally non-standard way, and I can't find anything wrt/ to what I'm looking for, my

Core Data SQLite I/O error on 10.6

2009-09-08 Thread Seven Lakes Software
Hello! I updated my Mac from 10.5 to 10.6 yesterday. Using the app I developed under 10.5 with a Core Data SQLite store created under 10.5 I get the following error under 10.6: I/O error for database at /Users/norbert/Library/Application Support/ Grosshandel/Grosshandel.grosshandelstore.

NSTableView doesn't increase the number of elements in table?

2009-09-08 Thread Rui Pacheco
Hi all, I've an NSTableView that uses the controller object for the NIB being displayed as the data source. I implement the NSTableView informal protocol. This NSTableView gets its values from Core Data. I startup the application, load all values I have in XML and then display them. My problem

Re: [iPhone] : How to customize Phonepad ?

2009-09-08 Thread Chunk 1978
you can customize the phone pad, or any of the UIKeyboards by creating and drawing your own buttons/views over them. it's a hack, but it can work quite nicely if you're interested in some minimal customization (for example: changing the Go or Done button to display Login or Save). best results

Garbage collection and about windows

2009-09-08 Thread Ben Haller
Hi all. I'm just getting into my first garbage collected Cocoa project, and I'm a bit mystified by the behavior I'm seeing. I'm just trying to make a custom about panel. I put this method in my application delegate: - (IBAction)orderFrontAboutPanel:(id)sender { if

Re: Framework versioning and handling multiple OS SDK's?

2009-09-08 Thread Brent Gulanowski
Of course. I wasn't thinking straight. Sorry for the misinformation. On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com wrote: On Sep 8, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Brent Gulanowski wrote: For selectors, you can check whether NSSelectorFromString(@selector) returns a selector. That won't

Re: Strangest UITable bug

2009-09-08 Thread Alan Duncan
Hard to know sans code ... are you calling dequeReusableCellWithIdentifier in your cellForRowAtIndexPath: method? On Sep 7, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Development wrote: Ok I have the weirdest UITableViewBug.. I've set up the delegate, datasource, etc. My data appears correctly in the table.

KVO can be unsafe in -init?

2009-09-08 Thread John Chang
Hi all, Question: is it unsafe for some reason to be adding yourself as a KVO observer during -init? We have a singleton with an -init that looks something like this: - (id)init { if ((self = [super init])) { _foo = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init]; _bar = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

NSOutlineView with multiple Core Data entities

2009-09-08 Thread Matthew Lindfield Seager
My goal is to have an NSOutlineView (Source List style) that contains group items at it's root with each group item corresponding to a Core Data entity type (which I'll hard code, it doesn't need to automatically adapt to new entity types). I'd then like those group items to contain leaves for

Re: KVO on Distributed Objects with exception handling.

2009-09-08 Thread Graham Lee
On Sep 7, 2009, at 21:45 , Edward Chan wrote: Great... How long ago did you ask the Apple engineers? I haven't tried this piece of code with Snow Leopard actually... This was back in February, I was probably testing on Leopard. The difference between what you and I tried was that I used -

Malloc error: GC operation on unregistered thread...

2009-09-08 Thread Andrew Madsen
I'm working on an app that uses Audio Queue Services for recording audio. I have the following lines in my code: OSStatus err; UInt32 propertySize; AudioQueueRef myQueue = [self audioQueue]; err = AudioQueueGetPropertySize(myQueue, kAudioQueueProperty_MagicCookie, propertySize); I'm

Re: KVO on Distributed Objects with exception handling.

2009-09-08 Thread Graham Lee
On Sep 7, 2009, at 20:02 , Edward Chan wrote: Hello, I'm using KVO on a Distributed Object, and I am binding my UI controls based on the observer. Hi, not much of constructive help from me I'm afraid, just a warning. I also did the same thing once, and the reaction from Apple engineers

Re: Finding nearby places

2009-09-08 Thread Alan Duncan
Find a web service that reverse geocodes what you want and use their api's. If you're still unsure there are books on the market that will walk you through the concepts. Some research for you: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/resources-non-google-geocoders?pli=1 Alan K

How to remove the Special Characters... menu item?

2009-09-08 Thread H David Goering
XCode automatically adds the Special Characters... menu item to applications, but mine doesn't need it, so I'd like to leave it off. Mac OS X Developer Release Notes: Cocoa Application Framework (10.5 and Earlier) contains the following AppKit now adds Special Characters... menu item to the

Re: KVO can be unsafe in -init?

2009-09-08 Thread Roland King
John Chang wrote: Hi all, Question: is it unsafe for some reason to be adding yourself as a KVO observer during -init? We have a singleton with an -init that looks something like this: - (id)init { if ((self = [super init])) { _foo = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init]; _bar =

How to set the media box for a CGPDFPageRef?

2009-09-08 Thread DairyKnight
Hi all, I'm trying to convert my program with PDFKit to CGPDF to get better performance. I'm trying to crop a page, with PDFPage I can simply do: [PDFPage setBounds: forBox:kPDFDisplayMediaBox]; But for CGPDFPageRef, there seems to be only a CGPDFPageGetBoxRect available. I wonder if I can

Re: KVO can be unsafe in -init?

2009-09-08 Thread Stephen J. Butler
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:36 AM, John Changjohn.r.ch...@gmail.com wrote: This code is running on iPhone OS. On some devices (we haven't been to narrow this down), the last line of code is throwing an exception: Sun Sep  6 13:41:26 unknown MyApp[1609] Error: *** Terminating app due to uncaught

Re: Malloc error: GC operation on unregistered thread...

2009-09-08 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Sep 7, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Andrew Madsen wrote: My app doesn't crash, and everything seems to work OK, but I'm trying to figure out what this means. This is my first garbage collected app, so I'm guessing there's something about the intricacies of actually using garbage collection that

Re: Garbage collection and about windows

2009-09-08 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Ben Haller wrote: My idea — perhaps being too clever for my own good — was that as long as the about window was open, the window would be referenced by the window list, and so the window and its controller would stick around. Choosing the About menu item a

NSArray EXEC_BAD_ACCESS when initalized with strings

2009-09-08 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi all, I have two arrays initalized as follows, the first works fine and I can work with elements in the Array NSArray *majorScaleQuestions = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@1, @2, @b3, @3, @4, @5, @b6, @6, @7, nil]; the second throws up an EXEC_BAD_ACCESS and the application obviously stops

Re: NSTableView doesn't increase the number of elements in table?

2009-09-08 Thread Steven Degutis
Rui, Generally you don't use the data source method of filling up an NSTableView when you use Core Data. Doing so would require you to observe changes to the Managed Object Context, and reload the table manually. Instead, you would usually use an NSArrayController in your NIB instead, and use

Re: How to remove the Special Characters... menu item?

2009-09-08 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sep 7, 2009, at 6:54 PM, H David Goering h...@cox.net wrote: Incidentally, can anyone explain why this particular menu item is exalted? Because it's the only way to enter certain characters. If I want to turn on certain ligatures or drop math symbols into a text field, I have to use

Re: [iPhone] : How to customize Phonepad ?

2009-09-08 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Luke the Hiesterman luket...@apple.com wrote: That is an EXTREMELY fragile approach. Chunk mentioned the international keyboard issue, but there's also the issue of software updates. Keyboards are subject to change with new releases. You should never overlay

Re: KVO can be unsafe in -init?

2009-09-08 Thread Graham Cox
On 08/09/2009, at 12:36 AM, John Chang wrote: Hi all, Question: is it unsafe for some reason to be adding yourself as a KVO observer during -init? We have a singleton with an -init that looks something like this: - (id)init { if ((self = [super init])) { _foo = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc]

Re: Framework versioning and handling multiple OS SDK's?

2009-09-08 Thread aaron smith
Hey Brent, thanks that helps. This leads me to one more question. Let's say I build my framework with two versions, A and B - A is the base and B includes only the 10.6 features. Is there a way in xcode to specifically tell the linker that it's it's linking against A or B? The reason I ask is

Re: KVO can be unsafe in -init?

2009-09-08 Thread Ken Ferry
Hi John, Since you're passing NSKeyValueObservingOptionInitial, -observeValueForKeyPath: is going to be invoked on your object immediately, before the method even returns. Is your -observeValueForKeyPath: safe to be called with a partially set up object? Do you have any subclasses of your

Re: usb notification

2009-09-08 Thread Chris Carson
IOReturnkernErr; You never seem to check for errors. Please ensure your calls are succeeding by checking the value of this variable. If they're failing, use macerror(1) to look up the error number. IOServiceAddMatchingNotification() returns no errors (0). -

Re: NSArray EXEC_BAD_ACCESS when initalized with strings

2009-09-08 Thread Steven Degutis
For some reason, I really doubt that the creation of the NSArray is causing this exception. Have you run this through the debugger and verified this is the exact line that throws the exception? And is that the exact line of code? -- Steven Degutis http://www.thoughtfultree.com/

Re: How to remove the Special Characters... menu item?

2009-09-08 Thread Graham Cox
On 08/09/2009, at 11:54 AM, H David Goering wrote: 1. Set NSDisabledCharacterPaletteMenuItem. I do not find this setting, or anything relevant, in XCode. This means you need to add this to your application's preferences (user defaults). I just tried that and it works. --Graham

Re: Malloc error: GC operation on unregistered thread...

2009-09-08 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Sep 7, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Andrew Madsen wrote: My app doesn't crash, and everything seems to work OK, but I'm trying to figure out what this means. This is my first garbage collected app, so I'm guessing there's something about the intricacies of actually using garbage collection that

Re: usb notification

2009-09-08 Thread Dave Keck
Not really a Cocoa question, and it's answered in the docs on IOServiceAddMatchingNotification :) The notification is armed when the iterator is emptied by calls to IOIteratorNext - when no more objects are returned, the notification is armed. Note that the notification is not armed when

Re: How to remove the Special Characters... menu item?

2009-09-08 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Sep 7, 2009, at 7:54 PM, H David Goering wrote: XCode automatically adds the Special Characters... menu item to applications, but mine doesn't need it, so I'd like to leave it off. That menu item cannot be turned off. Nick Zitzmann http://www.chronosnet.com/

Re: [iPhone] : How to customize Phonepad ?

2009-09-08 Thread Luke the Hiesterman
That is an EXTREMELY fragile approach. Chunk mentioned the international keyboard issue, but there's also the issue of software updates. Keyboards are subject to change with new releases. You should never overlay views on top of the built-in keyboard. If you really want custom stuff, write

Re: How to remove the Special Characters... menu item?

2009-09-08 Thread Graham Cox
On 09/09/2009, at 2:11 PM, H David Goering wrote: I'm new with XCode. I don't find application preferences or user defaults in the XCode UI, the project, or the documentation. I don't find anything that looks relevant in the XCode preferences or in the project setting. It's got

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