Re: Trouble with NSColor

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Furrer
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > Did you read the docs for 'redComponent'? > > "This method works only with objects representing colors in the > NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace or NSDeviceRGBColorSpace color space" > > Use colorUsingColorSpaceName:NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace to conve

Re: Trouble with NSColor

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Furrer
> Which system color? Many system colors are patterns and thus do not have > real RGB values. > In this case I tried it with [NSColor controlColor]. It appears to be a regular color in the color panel. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.c

Re: Trouble with NSColor

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Furrer
> Is "foo" itself nil? > No, foo is fine! =) ___ 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

Re: Trouble with NSColor

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Furrer
> When/where are you trying to do this? I tried running this in main.m, > before calling NSApplicationMain(), and got nil returned from +controlColor. > > I moved it into an -awakeFromNib call, and +controlColor returned a valid > object. That leads me to believe that some connection needs to be

Trouble with NSColor

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Furrer
I'm trying to get the RGB components of a system color. Here's what I've been trying: NSColor* foo = [[NSColor controlColor] colorUsingColorSpaceName: @"NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace"]; NSLog(@"%f, %f, %f", [foo redComponent], [foo blueComponent], [foo greenComponent]); but all I ever get is

Non-blocking custom event loop?

2009-08-03 Thread Daniel Furrer
I have my own event-loop where I call nextEventMatchingMask: repeatedly. Many examples I found just pass a untilDate of [NSDate distantPast] to get this behaviour as stated in the documentation but this doesn't seem to work for me - even in a very simple setting. Can anyone see what's wrong? int m

Re: Announcement + NSSegmentedCell drawing question

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Furrer
Forwarding because I just noticed we're not on the list anymore. You sent your reply to me directly. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Daniel Furrer wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > > So I'm drawing in an image but I just tried to draw on a view (I put the > same calls i

Announcement + NSSegmentedCell drawing question

2009-07-08 Thread Daniel Furrer
Hi all, --- intro --- I've been working on bringing the Eiffel programming language [1] to Mac OS X and especially porting the main GUI framework EiffelVision [2] for the last four months. (If you never heard about the language I encourage you to have a look yourself, some of the main features inc