Animated Split View

2011-06-01 Thread Antonio Nunes
Hi, I want a generic animated split view. So I had a rummage online, and couldn't find anyone who had prepared the wheel for me. Consequently I set out to create my own. I soon found that overriding setPosition:ofDividerAtIndex: and make it work correctly for split views with more than two

KVO in Frameworks/Plugins

2011-06-01 Thread Appa Rao Mulpuri
Hi, I am planning to use the NSUserDefaultsController and KVO in Application preferences implementation as a separate framework. Question is: My application has many frameworks and Plugins and has to observe the Preferences values change ( NSUserDefaultsController will have Key-Value pairs).

Re: Application Design

2011-06-01 Thread Dan Hopwood
Thanks Steve. For completeness - what's the proper way to perform the cleanup? Should another static method be created that releases the singleton instance when the app is closed? i.e. + (void)releaseSharedInterface { [sharedInstance release]; sharedInsance = nil; } D On 1 June

Re: NSOpenPanel not honoring some settings

2011-06-01 Thread Sean McBride
On Tue, 31 May 2011 21:50:17 -0700, Tito Ciuro said: I wish Xcode 4 had warned me that 'be ginSheetForDirectory:file:types:modal ForWindow:modalDelegate:didEndSelector:contextInfo:' has been deprecated in 10.6. That would have saved some trouble! It's not exactly deprecated. In the .h it says:

Re: Application Design

2011-06-01 Thread Steve Christensen
Why do you need to do any explicit cleanup on app termination? App memory disappears (poof!) so it's not like you're leaking anything. Is your class holding onto some state that must be written out to disk, for example? On Jun 1, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Dan Hopwood wrote: Thanks Steve. For

touches outside a view's bounds

2011-06-01 Thread Roland King
I've been taking advantage of the fact that UIView's don't clip to their bounds by making my superview of size CGSizeZero and adding content to it. This means I can position the whole view hierarchy using its center, which is always at (0,0). This is very useful as my view has subviews which

Declaring and initialization of C array.

2011-06-01 Thread JAMES ROGERS
KR says to declare and initialize an array in C: int myArray[2] = {1,2}; If the above is entered into the .h file of a cocoa project, the compile will fail with the following: /Users/jimrogers_w4atk/Development/workspace/ArrayTest/ArrayTestAppDelegate.h:14:0

Re: Declaring and initialization of C array.

2011-06-01 Thread Graham Cox
On 02/06/2011, at 1:12 AM, JAMES ROGERS wrote: KR says to declare and initialize an array in C: int myArray[2] = {1,2}; If the above is entered into the .h file That's because a .h file is the HEADER. You need to put this in the BODY, which is the .c (pure C) or .m (Obj-C) file.

Re: Declaring and initialization of C array.

2011-06-01 Thread John Joyce
KR says to declare and initialize an array in C: int myArray[2] = {1,2}; If the above is entered into the .h file That's because a .h file is the HEADER. You need to put this in the BODY, which is the .c (pure C) or .m (Obj-C) file. The reason is that the = {1,2} part is

Re: How to intercepting click on send in Mail.app

2011-06-01 Thread Jens Alfke
On May 30, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Nava Carmon wrote: Actually the client is supposed to get a text from the mail message when the user clicks send. This client is not a mail client and not is supposed to send mail. Is there some programmatic solution? Mail doesn’t inform other applications

Re: Problem using data in a distributed object

2011-06-01 Thread Jens Alfke
On May 30, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: I'm guessing that whatever method vended the string didn't do so with the bycopy qualifier. Therefore, you have a proxy of the string object and any messages you send it require communication with the server. It definitely sounds like a

Setting text field as first responder in an NSView

2011-06-01 Thread Eric Williams
Probably fundamental but I haven't got my head straight on this. Xcode 4.0.2 OS X 10.6.7 I have an app that is a single window that I load NSView elements over the course of the life of the app. I want to set the first responder for the window to be a text field in the NSView after the view

Re: How to intercepting click on send in Mail.app

2011-06-01 Thread Jeff Kelley
Are you just trying to prevent the user from sending mail? There are much better alternatives, up to and including removing Mail.app from the /Applications folder. Jeff Kelley On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Nava Carmon ncar...@mac.com wrote: Actually the client is supposed to get a text

Re: Declaring and initialization of C array.

2011-06-01 Thread Wim Lewis
On 1 Jun 2011, at 8:17 AM, Graham Cox wrote: On 02/06/2011, at 1:12 AM, JAMES ROGERS wrote: KR says to declare and initialize an array in C: int myArray[2] = {1,2}; ArrayTestAppDelegate.h:14: error: expected ':', ',', ';', '}' or '__attribute__' before '=' token If I copy and paste

Re: Setting text field as first responder in an NSView

2011-06-01 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Eric Williams wrote: I want to set the first responder for the window to be a text field in the NSView after the view is loaded, so that a user can immediately start typing into the field. After the view is loaded into the window, call [window

Re: Setting text field as first responder in an NSView

2011-06-01 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Eric Williams wile...@gmail.com wrote: Probably fundamental but I haven't got my head straight on this. Xcode 4.0.2 OS X 10.6.7 I have an app that is a single window that I load NSView elements over the course of the life of the app. I want to set the

Re: Setting text field as first responder in an NSView

2011-06-01 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: You actually want to use initialFirstResponder here. You can wire up the window's initialFirstResponder outlet in IB to your text field, and it will do the right thing. But the OP said he’s loading views into the window dynamically after it’s

Re: Setting text field as first responder in an NSView

2011-06-01 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote: On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: You actually want to use initialFirstResponder here. You can wire up the window's initialFirstResponder outlet in IB to your text field, and it will do the right thing. But

Re: Application Design

2011-06-01 Thread Andrew Thompson
I'll caution you as written that singleton is not be thread safe. Often you don't care, because you only have one thread or because creating 2 webservice clients may not be a problem for you. On Jun 1, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Dan Hopwood d...@biasdevelopment.com wrote: Thanks Steve. For

What is the point of a host-reachability test that doesn't test the reachability of the host?

2011-06-01 Thread G S
Hi all. I'm trying to implement some robust network-failure handling in my iPhone app. The test of whether my host is reachable returns YES even when connected to a router that has no Internet connection. Apple's docs say, A remote host is considered reachable when a data packet, sent by an

Re: What is the point of a host-reachability test that doesn't test the reachability of the host?

2011-06-01 Thread G S
Thanks for the response, Greg. There are circumstances where a subset of the Internet's hosts may be reachable. For example, you may be able to reach link-local names without a broader Internet connection. Or you may be able to reach a host behind a VPN only when the VPN is active. (I

Re: What is the point of a host-reachability test that doesn't test the reachability of the host?

2011-06-01 Thread John Joyce
Thanks for the response, Greg. There are circumstances where a subset of the Internet's hosts may be reachable. For example, you may be able to reach link-local names without a broader Internet connection. Or you may be able to reach a host behind a VPN only when the VPN is active. (I

Re: What is the point of a host-reachability test that doesn't test the reachability of the host?

2011-06-01 Thread Conrad Shultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/1/11 5:34 PM, G S wrote: But since this test doesn't actually check the routes to these hosts, how would it be able to provide meaningful results even in these cases? Note: I am _not_ an SCNetworkReachability guru, so take this all with a

Re: What is the point of a host-reachability test that doesn't test the reachability of the host?

2011-06-01 Thread John Joyce
On Jun 1, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Conrad Shultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/1/11 5:34 PM, G S wrote: But since this test doesn't actually check the routes to these hosts, how would it be able to provide meaningful results even in these cases? Note: I am _not_

Re: What is the point of a host-reachability test that doesn't test the reachability of the host?

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Parker
On Jun 1, 2011, at 5:34 PM, G S wrote: Thanks for the response, Greg. There are circumstances where a subset of the Internet's hosts may be reachable. For example, you may be able to reach link-local names without a broader Internet connection. Or you may be able to reach a host behind a

Archiving / Unarchiving Question

2011-06-01 Thread Tony S. Wu
Hi, I've been beating my head against the monitor for the past 2 hours trying to figure this out. I would really appreciate it if someone can give me some guidelines. I have a server - client application, and I need to archive an object so that I can send the data back and forth between the

Re: Archiving / Unarchiving Question

2011-06-01 Thread Roland King
On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:23, Tony S. Wu tonyswu.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: can archive and unarchive this object just fine on the client, but once I send the data over the network to the server, attempting to unarchive the object then results in an exception being thrown. What's the

Re: Archiving / Unarchiving Question

2011-06-01 Thread Tony S. Wu
Hi, It's NSInvalidUnarchiveOperationException, reason is *** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver decodeObjectForKey:]: cannot decode object of class (DataObject) Tony S. Wu tonyswu@gmail.com On Jun 1, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Roland King wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:23, Tony S. Wu

Re: Archiving / Unarchiving Question

2011-06-01 Thread Dave DeLong
Your archive includes an instance of DataObject, but the process doing the unarchiving does not have that class definition. Dave On Jun 1, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Tony S. Wu wrote: NSInvalidUnarchiveOperationException, reason is *** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver decodeObjectForKey:]: cannot decode object

Scaling a NSImage not working

2011-06-01 Thread Development
I'm trying to capture video. In the capture the user can select a specific area to capture out of the full field of the video. That much functions the problem is that although the image I get has the correct size I cannot figure out how to get that source image to draw in to an NSImage

Core Animation: performing a two-step animation

2011-06-01 Thread Graham Cox
I'm new to Core Animation, so forgive me if I've missed something really obvious. I want to perform a 2-step animation of a layer's -transform, so it appears to expand then shrink back to end up slightly larger than it started out. I can easily do a 1-step animation by using a scaling

Re: What is the point of a host-reachability test that doesn't test the reachability of the host?

2011-06-01 Thread Steve Mykytyn
Just to add another two cents on the unreliability of pings for determining reachability, if you are using the wi-fi service in certain airports, cafes, etc. some wi-fi providers will respond to a ping of anything, so it will appear you can reach any host, when in fact you can't reach anything

Re: Core Animation: performing a two-step animation

2011-06-01 Thread Heath Borders
Perform the second transform after the first animation completes in a separate animation block. You can start the second animation block from the first animation block's completion block. -Heath Borders heath.bord...@gmail.com Twitter: heathborders http://heath-tech.blogspot.com On Wed, Jun

Issue with NSRunLoop

2011-06-01 Thread Sasikumar JP
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Re: Declaring and initialization of C array.

2011-06-01 Thread Ron Hunsinger
On Jun 1, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Graham Cox wrote: On 02/06/2011, at 1:12 AM, JAMES ROGERS wrote: KR says to declare and initialize an array in C: int myArray[2] = {1,2}; If the above is entered into the .h file That's because a .h file is the HEADER. You need to put this in

How to create outlets in a cocoa category

2011-06-01 Thread Sandeep
Hi All, I have created a category class for one of the classes present in the appkit-framework. Can some one please let me know if it is possible to have IBOutlets defined in such categories as there in no interface declaration present while defining a category i.e. we do not put @interface

CoreData problem - AttributeDescription seems invalid --- Where am I wrong?

2011-06-01 Thread Motti Shneor
Hello everyone. We work with a CoreData model that is memory-based. However, at times I would want to (partially) save an entity to the UserDefaults, as a dictionary. For that, I wrote a little NSManagedObject extension (Category) with the following method: @interface NSManagedObject

Issue with NSRunLoop

2011-06-01 Thread Sasikumar JP
Hi, I am working on an audio streaming iPhone application. When user taps the play button, i starts the internal thread to receive the stream audio and i have scheduled the stream source with NSRunLoop like below [_stream scheduleInRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop]

Re: CoreData problem - AttributeDescription seems invalid --- Where am I wrong?

2011-06-01 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jun 1, 2011, at 13:26, Motti Shneor wrote: - (NSMutableDictionary *)attributesAsDictionary { NSMutableDictionary *attributesDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:[self.entity.attributesByName count]]; for (NSAttributeDescription* attribute in

Re: How to create outlets in a cocoa category

2011-06-01 Thread Graham Cox
On 02/06/2011, at 5:32 AM, Sandeep wrote: I have created a category class for one of the classes present in the appkit-framework. Can some one please let me know if it is possible to have IBOutlets defined in such categories as there in no interface declaration present while defining a

Re: Application Design

2011-06-01 Thread Steve Christensen
Yep, that's true. I was going for the simple case since, unless you specifically plan to reference the singleton from multiple threads, you don't need to do anything more fancy. On Jun 1, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote: I'll caution you as written that singleton is not be thread

Re: Scaling a NSImage not working

2011-06-01 Thread Development
Ok am I barking up the wrong tree here? I know there has to be a way of taking an image of size say 128X128 and drawing it in to a rectangle of say size 256X512 without loosing the aspect ratio of the original image. However The following code DOES NOT DO THIS NSImage * screenImage = [[NSImage

Re: Scaling a NSImage not working

2011-06-01 Thread Steve Christensen
-drawInRect draws the image into the destination rectangle, stretching or shrinking as necessary to get it to fit. If you want to preserve the aspect ratio, you'll have to generate a scaled rectangle with the image's aspect ratio. That's just simple math. On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:29 PM,

Re: Scaling a NSImage not working

2011-06-01 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jun 1, 2011, at 21:29, Development wrote: Was I completely mistaken in thinking that the way I'm doing this was suppose to preserve the aspect ratio? Yes, completely mistaken. It may help to think of the source and destination rectangle as an origin and a size separately. The source