do you handle
performKeyEquivalent:
un your view?
thx
Bill
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Uli Kusterer
witness.of.teacht...@gmx.netwrote:
On 05.08.2011, at 08:49, Jens Alfke wrote:
Photoshop has always used letter keys as commands to select tools, and
most other image editors on Mac
On 2011/07/29, at 7:31, Bill Appleton wrote:
Hi all,
I have seen this issue come up a lot, but there isn't much information on
how to receive unicode input in a NSView.
(I know we are supposed to just type in a NSTextField but that is
impossible
in our situation where the app must run
Sadly, Cocoa and many of the frameworks on which it is based really do
depend on the main thread and its run loop. Events have to be received
there and its run loop has to be serviced (run) on a regular basis.
this situation is basically the same on other platforms. the events come in
on some
Hi all,
I have seen this issue come up a lot, but there isn't much information on
how to receive unicode input in a NSView.
(I know we are supposed to just type in a NSTextField but that is impossible
in our situation where the app must run stand-alone and as a browser
plugin).
we used to call
You might try NPAPI, it is designed to let you draw on a surface and get
events
Your plugin runs in a separate process, and is scriptable by javascript
best
bill
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Guido Sales Calvano guidocalv...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Dear community,
I'm building a project
' section in this document
https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI:CocoaEventModel.
Aki
On 2011/07/23, at 8:59, Bill Appleton wrote:
Hi All,
For an NPAPI plugin we need to receive Unicode keyboard input. We are
calling interpretKeyEvents and receiving the insertText message, but if I
type option
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Bill Appleton
billapple...@dreamfactory.com wrote:
hi all
i set the target and the action on my menu items -- this is so that i can
get my handler called when someone selects a menu
, at 11:26 AM, Bill Appleton wrote:
hi all,
oh man i hate to belabor this issue but i have studied every suggestion
and
the docs and i cannot figure this out
the problem is that i cannot get command keys to work on dialog text,
even
dialogs run and managed by cocoa
as suggested i set
hi kyle i agree. we are in transition that direction, its great to see the
mac growing in popularity it provides justification for the effort.
best bill
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Bill Appleton
billapple
in a dialog.
Best
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Bill Appleton
billapple...@dreamfactory.com wrote:
Hi all,
Based on my app, the dialog boxes have to be created dynamically, so i
can't
use Interface Builder, so
, but they DONT have any
command key bindings, maybe that is the problem? i didn't create this menu
in the first place
thx
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Bill Appleton billapple...@dreamfactory.com
wrote:
BUT my
The main edit menu items are disabled when the dialog(s) come up.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Bill Appleton billapple...@dreamfactory.com
wrote:
And when i right-click in them i get a clever menu with search
that the main app menus need to
be enabled when the dialogs are up? the dialogs are not using the main app
menu system at that time...
thanks in advance
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Joar Wingfors j...@joar.com wrote:
On 26 jul 2011, at 08:09, Bill Appleton wrote:
There ARE cut, copy
have a text field up on a dialog with
focus it just responds to control-x and cuts the text. It doesn't matter
what is happening in the application menus.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Joar Wingfors j...@joar.com wrote:
On 26 jul 2011, at 09:03, Bill Appleton wrote:
The items
(cocoa
is running) also has this problem.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote:
On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
The items in the main menu DO have the standard key bindings, they are
disabled when the modal dialogs come up
That is odd. My question
hi all
i set the target and the action on my menu items -- this is so that i can
get my handler called when someone selects a menu item
i will re-read the event handler docs with regard to menu items (no keyboard
issues) and see if that helps
thx
bill
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Joar
is with all dialogs, even cocoa get file and
put file dialogs that are not dynamically built
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Gregory Weston gwes...@mac.com wrote:
Bill Appleton wrote:
Based on my app, the dialog boxes have to be created dynamically, so i
can't
use Interface Builder
?
Unfortunately we cannot use all the core Text stuff because (as mentioned)
this is an NPAPI plugin and we don't even have access to the output view or
window.
Best,
Bill Appleton
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Hi All,
For an NPAPI plugin we need to receive Unicode keyboard input. We are
calling interpretKeyEvents and receiving the insertText message, but if I
type option-e (for example) we are not getting the accented-e character.
Can anyone shed some light on the right way to get unicode characters?
Hi all,
Based on my app, the dialog boxes have to be created dynamically, so i can't
use Interface Builder, so they are assembled out of cocoa controls as
needed.
My dialogs beep when i control-x to cut some selected text
What is the simple way for my dialog window to pass these command keys
even know. its all software.
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
i am pointing out that there is a giant, giant, giant difference between
plugins that impose themselves on the user and those
i type lots of stuff all the way out
its easier to debug
and the compilers are very good at optimizing that sort of thing
there is a big balance between efficiency, size, speed, clarity, etc
its usually clarity that is in short supply
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Scott Anguish
intercept a
class message in general. Is that possible?
thanks in advance,
bill appleton
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Charles Srstka cocoa...@charlessoft.comwrote:
On Jun 21, 2010, at 7:33 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
In general, if you have some kind of background activity that needs to
call
, at 1:54 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for the tips.
i have verified that this code actually IS running on the main thread, i
was wrong about that in my original message. Here is the situation. WebKit
launches WebKitPluginHost.app and that is the process that runs my NPAPI
plugin
Hi All,
Not sure I understand all the issues but this should be good news for Cocoa
lovers:
1) When Safari runs as 64 bit it loads and runs a 32 bit or 64 bit Cocoa
NPAPI plugin just fine. The 32 bit version of Safari will only run 32 bit
NPAPI plugins.
2) The exact same 32 bit plugin for
, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
Not sure I understand all the issues but this should be good news for
Cocoa lovers:
1) When Safari runs as 64 bit it loads and runs a 32 bit or 64 bit Cocoa
NPAPI plugin just fine. The 32 bit version of Safari will only run 32 bit
NPAPI plugins.
2
then what will you be able to do? nothing? compare what is possible on
windows and mac, they can't get too far out of line. this IS sandboxed ---
its in a separate process
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Jun 22, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:
. like the dancing mortgage guy on cnn.
did you want to see him?
best,
bill
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Jun 22, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
this IS sandboxed --- its in a separate process
That’s not what “sandboxed” means. It refers
...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Jun 22, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
so different vendors whip out security for different reasons. on mac,
it is to prevent browser crashes, thus the separate process. on windows, it
is all about preventing system corruption, thus protected mode
This isn’t
Hi All,
In 64 bit Safari our NPAPI plugin needs to use a few system dialogs for
opening files, printing, etc.
These system dialogs call stopModalWithCode to deliver the result of the
dialog interaction back to the runModalForWindow function
But the stopModalWithCode function does not work on
way?
*6)** **I **can't get the height of some wrapped text*
I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this to
work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how
tall the text field is.
Thanks!
Bill Appleton
-- but basically anyone trying to port a
large code base with printing is going to run right into this issue
unless i'm missing something
best,
bill
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Kevin Wojniak kain...@kainjow.com wrote:
On May 27, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
*4
the height of some wrapped text*
I had to use the layout manager and some major rocket science to get this
to
work right. I'm not saying Text Edit was great, but at least it knows how
tall the text field is.
Thanks!
Bill Appleton
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On May 28, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Bill Appleton wrote:
Hi Chaitanya,
that code always returns a size of 100, 100 for every movie I try.
really.
and then the poster or frame is really pixelated because it is coming
from
such a small source.
i am surely missing something here
can specify the image size you want returned in the attributes
dictionary (along with the image format).
On May 28, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
the remaining problem is that the movie posetr returns a size of 100 x
100
so when i capture the poster it is really pixelated
and calling the
resize routine right after that.
that is why one of the bars was hidden -- it was a horizontal bar in a
vertical slot, or vice verse.
best,
bill appleton
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Bill Appleton
billapple...@dreamfactory.com wrote:
hi anyone out there,
i am having
on cocoa to determin raw key (physical key) input?
thanks,
bill appleton
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Douglas Davidson ddavi...@apple.comwrote:
On Apr 29, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:
On Apr 29, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
event.isARepeat;
}
I
@bigpond.com wrote:
On 01/05/2010, at 12:12 AM, Bill Appleton wrote:
what is the best way on cocoa to determin raw key (physical key) input?
I don't know, but I wonder if this is the right question. If you look at
the methods of NSResponder, you'll see that most functional keys
equivalent now that is also getting typed
does anyone know how to filter between characters that should be typed
other stuff?
thanks,
bill
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Shawn Erickson shaw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Bill Appleton
billapple...@dreamfactory.com
hi all,
don't i need to use interpretKeyEvents to gather the key events until
insertText is called?
wow there is very little information on that
thx
bill
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Shawn Erickson shaw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Bill Appleton
billapple
to
interpretkeyevents forgetting it
thanks,
bill
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Charles Srstka cocoa...@charlessoft.comwrote:
On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Bill Appleton wrote:
don't i need to use interpretKeyEvents to gather the key events until
insertText is called?
Yep, just do something
wow thanks everyone so much
this is working great!
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Douglas Davidson ddavi...@apple.comwrote:
On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Douglas Davidson wrote:
Here is the normal sequence when a text-handling
mine too :)
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Charles Srstka
cocoa...@charlessoft.comwrote:
On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
wow thanks everyone so much
this is working great!
No problem. World Builder was one of my favorite things of my childhood.
:-)
Charles
, and a vertical bar stuck in the horizontal slot
the slots are correct in size, but the bar hasn't re-jiggered to fit the
slot
does anyone know what is going on?
thanks,
bill
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Bill Appleton
billapple...@dreamfactory.com wrote:
hi Jo,
i am also working
of the vertical
slot, and a vertical bar stuck in the horizontal slot
the slots are correct in size, but maybe the bar hasn't re-jiggered to fit
the slot
does anyone know what is going on?
thanks,
bill appleton
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calcSize and sizeToFit?
thx
bill appleton
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Jo Meder jome...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
Hi,
I'm using NSScrollers directly, e.g. not in an NSScrollView. Using 10.6.3
(haven't checked anything else mind you) I'm seeing some strange behaviour
when I try and resize
:
kEventRawKeyRepeat:
-- this let me get changes in modifier keys, and the key repeat message
i have been looking in NSResponder and see some of this, but how do i get
the higher level messages like the unicode string and key repeats ?
thanks,
bill appleton
hi all,
i have been working on this a lot have some new information
previously i was using carbon and core graphics
when i draw to the screen, sometimes it is in the update event but sometimes
it was in response to a mouse click, or some other event
this always worked:
*
on non-drawRect graphics
so i think if i remember when this is called from the drawRect loop versus
other times and add this code it will (kinda) work.
is there somebody out there that knows what is really going on?
thx
bill
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Bill Appleton
billapple
you are right, that will work, thanks!
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Paul Sanders p.sand...@alpinesoft.co.ukwrote:
are you saying there is a way to set the min, max and value on
an
nsscroller? sorry, not clear on that
Why do you need min and max anyway? The current position is
wrong?
thanks
bill appleton
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On 27/04/2010, at 11:46 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
hi all,
i like to create some menus, set them as the main menu bar, then maybe
delete them, and create some more menus, use them, etc
altogether --
can't resize it, etc.
thanks,
bill
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:31 AM, vincent habchi vi...@macports.org wrote:
Le 26 avr. 2010 à 23:35, Bill Appleton a écrit :
hi all,
when my windows are first shown there is no drawing inside, they are
white
but when i slowly move
:
On 27.04.2010, at 00:10, Bill Appleton wrote:
i added flush window to the drawRect method -- no help
it IS calling draw rect right before the window is shown then you see
it
--- all white
Are you using multiple threads? I got effects like that when I was
screwing up AppKit state by messing
Over the years, I think that looking at the retain count is the #1 cause
of hairpulling on this list.
it's too bad this is unreliable
an object should be able to return this info
and it isn't simple, it gets convoluted in process
if i add a submenu to an item then it is retained by the menu
but for some reason i am using core
graphics wrong or didn't set it up right to be used
does this make sense to anybody?
thanks,
bill
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Uli Kusterer
witness.of.teacht...@gmx.netwrote:
On 27.04.2010, at 00:10, Bill Appleton wrote:
i added flush window
out by looking at the window server
log in the console.
Jesper
On Apr 27, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
i have tried that way
*CGContextRef context = [[NSGraphicsContext currentContext] graphicsPort];
*
and this way
*
NSWindow *mywindow;
CGContextRef context = [[mywindow
is common, i
need a scroll bar that behaves like a puppet DOES nothing
thanks again,
bill appleton
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Charles Srstka cocoa...@charlessoft.comwrote:
On Apr 25, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Klaus Backert wrote:
On 25 Apr 2010, at 22:28, Charles Srstka wrote:
The best
it needs to look like a scroll bar... is that possible?
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Jack Nutting jnutt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Bill Appleton
billapple...@dreamfactory.com wrote:
did anyone have some more color on question (2) the need to create a raw
hi all,
so in the NSScroler docs there is no way to set the min, max, and value --
that is the problem
there is a way to set the proportion of the page...
or am i missing something?
thx
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Paul Sanders p.sand...@alpinesoft.co.ukwrote:
did anyone have some
, and
then setting the CG font and size, etc. like before
but it is as if I need to also set the NSFont or something like that
other graphics (lines, bitmaps, etc.) are drawing correctly
can someone shed some light on this and/or point me to some documentation?
thanks,
bill appleton
,
How are you rendering the text ?
We recommend sticking to Cocoa text rendering API in order to support
proper Unicode rendering.
Thanks,
Aki
On Apr 26, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
hi all
i converted a bunch of quickdraw code to core graphics successfully -- it
worked
(CGContextSetTextPosition).
You need to reset the text matrix before calling CGContextSetTextPosition,
or you could just update the text position using CGContextSetTextMatrix.
Aki
On Apr 26, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
hi Aki,
i am using CGContextShowGlyphsWithAdvances
i have a very large
:
On Apr 26, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
when my windows are first shown there is no drawing inside, they are
white
but when i slowly move the mouse over to the close box and the close box
responds to the mouse hover suddenly they draw their content properly
does this ring any
performance and, depending on exactly
what is being drawn when, can cause 'screen flash'.
Paul Sanders.
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Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:35 PM
Subject: white screen windows
cocoa...@mikeabdullah.netwrote:
On 26 Apr 2010, at 20:24, Bill Appleton wrote:
hi all
i converted a bunch of quickdraw code to core graphics successfully -- it
worked
now i am converting a bunch of carbon UI code to cocoa
but when I draw text, my fonts are wrong and my font sizes
are you saying there is a way to set the min, max and value on an
nsscroller? sorry, not clear on that
thx
bill
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Charles Srstka cocoa...@charlessoft.comwrote:
On Apr 26, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Paul Sanders wrote:
If you want to support Tiger, you will have to
hi all,
i wanted to do a reality check on some of my code ask some specific
questions.
1) how do i get that nifty application/preferences/services menu? i create
my menus dynamically (not nibs)
2) i need to create a raw NSScroller and control it like a NSSlider (min,
max, value, proportion)
by this interface which runs under WebKit /
Safari / Firefox.
so its a real world scenario instead off the best of all possible worlds
but its great to meet so many knowledgeable people, i'll have some more
tangible questions as this progresses
thanks,
bill appleton
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:39 PM
, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Apr 23, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Bill Appleton wrote:
so i have made a lot of efforts to learn cocoa, but our product is an
NPAPI browser plugin
Whoa, hold on, stop the music —
That changes things. You’re not writing an app, then. So you
hi all,
i am converting from carbon to cocoa
with NSApplicationMain i need to know how to call some startup code before
receiving events and upon quit i need to call some shutdown code
are there some docs on this issue? examples? advice?
thanks,
bill appleton
Kartik Reddyreddy
karthikredd...@gmail.com wrote:
Try the NSApplicationDelegate .
On Apr 21, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
hi all,
i am converting from carbon to cocoa
with NSApplicationMain i need to know how to call some startup code
before
receiving events
use
...?? or
soem specific events??
you get key and mouse events inside NSView. If you are looking to capture
events at NSWindow or NSApp level override sendevent method
- (void) sendEvent:(NSEvent *)cocoaEvent
On Apr 22, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
hi all,
thanks
with NSWindow and watch the carnage
ensue
thx,
bill
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Shawn Erickson shaw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Bill Appleton
billapple...@dreamfactory.com wrote:
hi all,
thanks for the feedback
i wrote a subclass for NSWindow
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