Re: Locks

2011-12-07 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 7 déc. 2011 à 06:10, Ken Thomases a écrit : On Dec 6, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: Contrary to Ken Thomases' assertion, there are all kinds of reasons to use atomic operations as locking primitives. One is that they cannot result in process context switches; if

Printing patterns

2011-12-07 Thread Janusz Bossy
Hi guys, this is my first email to the list. Currently I'm working on an app that has to do with printing and I haven't really had any experience with this. I get the basic concept that print and drawing to screen are the same thing and all was working fine until I wanted to have a striped

Re: Exceptions and autorelease pools

2011-12-07 Thread Greg Parker
On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Steve Sisak wrote: I realize that this is moot in the case of @autorelease, but in the context of best practices for code that can't depend on ARC @autoreleasepool does not require ARC. -- Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com Runtime Wrangler

Re: launchctl agents unload clean up

2011-12-07 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 7 Dec 2011, at 12:45 AM, Rajendran P wrote: My problem is that applicationWillTerminate is not being invoked when my launch agent is manually unloaded . My application is uielement with out dock entry . I am able to do a signal handling , low level unix signal handling like sigkill

How to initiate dragdrop for a filename outside of NSView mouseDown

2011-12-07 Thread Vojtěch Meluzín
Hi, I need to initiate a simple drag drop operation for a single filename, but it will not be called within NSView mouseDown, but shortly afterwards (internal reasons). The mouse button will still be pressed, but the mouseDown even will already be finished. How to do this? Regards Vojtech

ARC and dealloc

2011-12-07 Thread Mikkel Islay
Dear list, A question regarding the proper use of dealloc in ARC-environments (under iOS): I have a need to unregister NSNotification observers during exchange of UiViewControllers. Is implementing - (void)dealloc considered a proper use for this purpose? Is it safe to make assumptions

iOS: How to hide blue personal hotspot status bar?

2011-12-07 Thread Eagle Offshore
Angry Birds does it so it must be possible. So how can I do this as well? I need my app to truly take over the entire iPhone screen with no distractions and no dangerous hit area that can take the user out of my app by accident. Thanks ___

Re: ARC and dealloc

2011-12-07 Thread Jonny Yu
My understanding is, due to auto release semantics, your object might be auto released again during current pool draining. So it will be put into outer Autorelease Pool, that's to say the dealloc are not guaranteed to be executed at specific timing. ARC still relies on

Re: bindings duplicates object returned

2011-12-07 Thread Quincey Morris
On Dec 7, 2011, at 20:05 , Eric Slosser wrote: I have an NSTreeController whose 'content array' is bound to another object's 'content' key. It appears that the binding mechanism duplicates the array that was returned by [foo content]. This is bad, because changes that 'foo' makes