Re: Getting time zone abbreviations

2010-06-18 Thread Rick Mann
On Jun 18, 2010, at 21:34:30, David Rowland wrote: > On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Rick Mann wrote: >> Is there any way to get short abbreviations for a TimeZone? I need it >> short due to limited space. I need a common abbreviation due to users >> not knowing POSIX timezone name

Re: Getting time zone abbreviations

2010-06-18 Thread David Rowland
On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > Is there any way to get short abbreviations for a TimeZone? I need it > short due to limited space. I need a common abbreviation due to users not > knowing POSIX timezone names. this works for me: NSTimeZone* t

Re: Getting time zone abbreviations

2010-06-18 Thread Stephen J. Butler
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > NSTimeZone* tz = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName: @"UTC"]; > NSString* abv = tz.abbreviation; > > returns "GMT+00:00". Not very nice. I was trying your example (Asia/Oral) on 10.6.4 but couldn't get the response you want. Just GMT+05:00. I thought

Re: Getting time zone abbreviations

2010-06-18 Thread Rick Mann
On Jun 18, 2010, at 21:21:32, David Rowland wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > >> On Jun 18, 2010, at 21:15:58, David Rowland wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Rick Mann wrote: Is there any way to get short abbreviations for a TimeZone? I need it >>>

Re: Getting time zone abbreviations

2010-06-18 Thread David Rowland
On Jun 18, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > On Jun 18, 2010, at 21:15:58, David Rowland wrote: > >> >> On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Rick Mann wrote: >> >>> iPhone >>> >>> Hi. I need to display the time zone in which a particular time is >>> displayed. The time zone is created from its fu

Re: Getting time zone abbreviations

2010-06-18 Thread Rick Mann
On Jun 18, 2010, at 21:15:58, David Rowland wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > >> iPhone >> >> Hi. I need to display the time zone in which a particular time is displayed. >> The time zone is created from its full POSIX name (i.e. "Asia/Oral"), but >> when I ask the NS

Re: Getting time zone abbreviations

2010-06-18 Thread David Rowland
On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > iPhone > > Hi. I need to display the time zone in which a particular time is displayed. > The time zone is created from its full POSIX name (i.e. "Asia/Oral"), but > when I ask the NSTimeZone for its abbreviation, I often get abbreviations in >

Re: iPhone Dev Center down?

2010-06-18 Thread Scott Anguish
Guys, Not appropriate for this list. Technical discussions only please. If the devforums are up, use those. Otherwise assume that it’s being actively corrected. Scott Moderator On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Ryan C. Payne wrote: > Brad, > > I am experiencing the same thing you are reporti

Re: iPhone Dev Center down?

2010-06-18 Thread Ryan C. Payne
Brad, I am experiencing the same thing you are reporting with iTunes Connect... Ryan On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Brad Garton wrote: > Is there something weird going on? My problem is with "iTunes Connect" -- I > sign in and get to the main page, but whenever I click on anything like > "Man

Re: iPhone Dev Center down?

2010-06-18 Thread Brad Garton
Is there something weird going on? My problem is with "iTunes Connect" -- I sign in and get to the main page, but whenever I click on anything like "Manage Your Applications" or "Contracts Tax and Banking Information" (or even "Contact Us"!), it takes me to a page where I dutifully re-enter my

Re: iPhone Dev Center down?

2010-06-18 Thread Rick Mann
Thanks. As soon as I click the "Log In" button on the iPhone Dev Center home page, I get "An Internal Server Error Has Occurred" on an otherwise blank page. Mac OS Dev Center shows me as logged in. -- Rick On Jun 18, 2010, at 19:13:15, Ryan C. Payne wrote: > I'm able to get logged in. > > Rya

Re: iPhone Dev Center down?

2010-06-18 Thread Ryan C. Payne
I'm able to get logged in. Ryan On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > I'm unable to log in. Anyone else? > > -- > Rick > > ___ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator com

iPhone Dev Center down?

2010-06-18 Thread Rick Mann
I'm unable to log in. Anyone else? -- Rick ___ 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-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Upd

autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Julien Jalon
Suspicious because it clearly does not follow ObjC coding style for memory management. If you have to call release here, it's likely because GetNSImage is incorrect by returning an object that needs to be released. If your code happens not to use C++ (or in very localized places), you should run

Getting time zone abbreviations

2010-06-18 Thread Rick Mann
iPhone Hi. I need to display the time zone in which a particular time is displayed. The time zone is created from its full POSIX name (i.e. "Asia/Oral"), but when I ask the NSTimeZone for its abbreviation, I often get abbreviations in the form of "GMT+05:00" instead of "RST" (or whatever is app

Re: NSTreeController and insertObject:atArrangedObjectIndexPath:

2010-06-18 Thread Tony Romano
I solved this my not adding the file to the store until after the insert is completed in the controller. The side effect is if the file system operation fails, I have to back out the node inserted into the tree which seems counterintuitive(i.e. I should only add the node if the model successful

What's wrong with this approach ?

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-François Brouillet
Hi. I pulled my hair way too long for this issue and finally decided to solve the problem of the UINavigationBar's topItem's titleView *not* being centred when either of the other two sides had an UIBarButtonItem by ... subclassing UINavigationBar! All my attempts at manipulating the titleView's

NSTreeController and insertObject:atArrangedObjectIndexPath:

2010-06-18 Thread Tony Romano
Scenario: Adding a new node to a NSOutlineView backed by a NSTreeController. 1. Create a new internal object add add it to the data store(file system). This will be my representedObject in the treecontroller 2. Compute the path and call insertObject:atArrangedObjectIndexPath: the treecontrolle

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Clark S. Cox III
That depends on how you define "subsystem". I see nothing wrong with the way the op is structuring this (i.e. doing the transformation on one serial queue, and doing the writing on another queue. This allows many if the transformations to complete without ever waiting on the disk, yet still seri

Re: Odd Behaviour with CALayer

2010-06-18 Thread Ajay Sabhaney
Well, the problem seems to have been fixed. I tried replacing every instance of MRWorkspaceItemLayer with a regular CALayer instance, and it seemed to work fine, meaning my problem was actually in the MRWorkspaceItemLayer subclass. Seemed everytime I would unselect then select an item, the MRW

Re: Way to select a file in NSOpenPanel

2010-06-18 Thread Corbin Dunn
There is no API to do this, sorry. Please log feature requests asking to do it. corbin On Jun 17, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Sanyam Jain wrote: > Hi, > > > > I need a way to select a file programmatically in browser list of > NSOpenPanel based on some user action, while the panel is running. > > Sim

Re: Problem running CocoaDVDPlayer sample

2010-06-18 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > Does anyone know if it would be remotely possible to capture the video stream > sent to the window to stream it somewhere else? No; this would be near the top of the list of things the MPAA really does not want people to be able to do with

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Greg Guerin
Jens Alfke wrote: I only saw one error: the method name “GetNSImage” should probably be “image” (method names should be lowercase unless they begin with a common acronym like “URL” or “TIFF”, and the prefix “get” is not used.) Also See These Methods Three: [[frame Camera] ExportFil

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Tony Romano
Because you make 2 queues, doesn't mean internally they will operate on separate cores/threads. GCD may coalesce these based on system resources. I agree with the best practice you outlined; however, the example in this email thread has 2 queues within the same subsystem. So there must be som

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Tony Romano
I did notice the inner block was running on a second q, that's what my comment is about. I guess the first block what's really in questioned, how big is the images?? If it will block, then put it in the same block as the write. I'm assuming you want he image transformed prior to the write. -

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On Jun 18, 2010, at 15:15, Jonny Taylor wrote: >> [theImage release] is really suspicious. > Suspicious in what way? Are you saying I am using the wrong sort of > implementation for my [frame GetNSImage], and I shouldn't be returning > something that requires an explicit release? Because I can c

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Jun 18, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Tony Romano wrote: > First, the objects are retained by dispatch_async as others have mentioned. > Second, I'm not sure why you used 2 queues for the tasks in your code, seems > overly complex. Async queues are serialized, which means that you can > continue to

Way to select a file in NSOpenPanel

2010-06-18 Thread Sanyam Jain
Hi, I need a way to select a file programmatically in browser list of NSOpenPanel based on some user action, while the panel is running. Similar to Navigation services NavCustomControl() with NavCustomControlMessage:kNavCtlSetSelection. - Sanyam __

Re: Problem running CocoaDVDPlayer sample

2010-06-18 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On Jun 17, 2010, at 19:17, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > >> I'm just starting to explore DVD playback and downloaded the >> "CocoaDVDPlayer" sample. Did a build and started it in the debugger. As soon >> as it calls "DVDInitialize()", the appli

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Scott Anguish
On Jun 18, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: >> and the memory management guide covers all the details of -autorelease. > > Has it been extended to discuss objects referenced inside blocks? That’s a > pretty tricky detail. The current version of that document doesn’t appear to have been. Th

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Jonny Taylor
> First, the objects are retained by dispatch_async as others have mentioned. > Second, I'm not sure why you used 2 queues for the tasks in your code, seems > overly complex. Async queues are serialized, which means that you can > continue to add to the queue and the jobs will be done in order

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Jonny Taylor
> [theImage release] is really suspicious. Suspicious in what way? Are you saying I am using the wrong sort of implementation for my [frame GetNSImage], and I shouldn't be returning something that requires an explicit release? Because I can certainly confirm that in its current state it leaks me

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Tony Romano
First, the objects are retained by dispatch_async as others have mentioned. Second, I'm not sure why you used 2 queues for the tasks in your code, seems overly complex. Async queues are serialized, which means that you can continue to add to the queue and the jobs will be done in order which t

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2010-06-18 Thread Rick Langschultz
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Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Julien Jalon
[theImage release] is really suspicious. On Friday, June 18, 2010, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Mike Abdullah wrote: > >> Aside from your actual question, I urge you to go back and read the Cocoa >> fundamentals. Your method names are totally wrong, > > I only saw one error

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2010-06-18 Thread Brad Peterson
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Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jun 18, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Mike Abdullah wrote: > Aside from your actual question, I urge you to go back and read the Cocoa > fundamentals. Your method names are totally wrong, I only saw one error: the method name “GetNSImage” should probably be “image” (method names should be lowercase unl

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 18 Jun 2010, at 16:00, Jonny Taylor wrote: > I've just been looking back at some code that has been working fine for me > for a while, and as far as I can see it shouldn't actually work! I'd be > interested for peoples' comments. The code is as follows: > > dispatch_async(queue1, > ^{ >

Re: Base class/subclass model in objective c

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 18 juin 2010 à 17:05, Jonny Taylor a écrit : > Thanks for your reply Jean-Daniel. > >>> I can see two ways of working around this - either implement placeholder >>> methods in the base class (that raise an exception or something) in order >>> to make the base class conform to the protocol (

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Julien Jalon
"Is the compiler/runtime being clever enough to retain it because it is going to be needed in the inner block (if so: very clever!)?" Yes, it is very clever. When creating the block, the ObjC compiler also specifies the Object stored into the block metadata. When the block is copied (which is don

Re: autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Jeff Kelley
Blocks do retain objects that are passed in, so that's probably what's happening. Also, keep in mind that autoreleased objects aren't freed immediately; it happens when the run loop completes. You should always act as if it does happen immediately, but it isn't always true. Jeff Kelley On Jun

Re: Base class/subclass model in objective c

2010-06-18 Thread Jonny Taylor
Thanks for your reply Jean-Daniel. >> I can see two ways of working around this - either implement placeholder >> methods in the base class (that raise an exception or something) in order to >> make the base class conform to the protocol (knowing that in practice they >> should always be overri

autorelease: how does this work!? (if at all)

2010-06-18 Thread Jonny Taylor
I've just been looking back at some code that has been working fine for me for a while, and as far as I can see it shouldn't actually work! I'd be interested for peoples' comments. The code is as follows: dispatch_async(queue1, ^{ NSImage *theImage = [frame GetNSImage]; NSData *t

Re: terminates app when main window closes

2010-06-18 Thread Angelo Chen
Thanks, applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClosed works. Now I'd like to prompt user if he really wants to quit, if not, return NO, that seems working as well. --- 2010年6月18日 星期五,Kyle Sluder 寫道﹕ 寄件人: Kyle Sluder 主題: Re: terminates app when main window closes 收件人: "Angelo Chen" 副本(CC): c

Re: terminates app when main window closes

2010-06-18 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Jun 18, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Angelo Chen >> wrote: >>> I have a non document based application, I quit the app by sending >>> terminate to NSApplication(file owner). if I close

Re: Base class/subclass model in objective c

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 18 juin 2010 à 12:44, Jonny Taylor a écrit : > I am still getting to grips with objective C, coming from a C++ background, > and I'm stuck on a particular aspect of the base class/subclass model that I > hope somebody can help me with. > > I need an object representing a video camera plugge

Re: terminates app when main window closes

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Angelo Chen > wrote: >> I have a non document based application, I quit the app by sending terminate >> to NSApplication(file owner). if I close the main window, application will >> not be closed, what I'd like

Base class/subclass model in objective c

2010-06-18 Thread Jonny Taylor
I am still getting to grips with objective C, coming from a C++ background, and I'm stuck on a particular aspect of the base class/subclass model that I hope somebody can help me with. I need an object representing a video camera plugged into the mac, a camera which may be one of several models

Re: terminates app when main window closes

2010-06-18 Thread John Joyce
On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Angelo Chen > wrote: >> I have a non document based application, I quit the app by sending terminate >> to NSApplication(file owner). if I close the main window, application will >> not be closed, what I'd like

Re: terminates app when main window closes

2010-06-18 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Angelo Chen wrote: > I have a non document based application, I quit the app by sending terminate > to NSApplication(file owner). if I close the main window, application will > not be closed, what I'd like is, when user close the main window, application > also