View Hierarchies for apps like Quartz Composer

2009-10-07 Thread Darren Minifie
to a design pattern). Thanks a lot. -- Darren Minifie Computer Science Masters Candidate University of Victoria, BC. Canada My Rants: www.noisyair.com My Band: www.ohsnapmusic.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do

Re: View Hierarchies for apps like Quartz Composer

2009-10-08 Thread Darren Minifie
ution seemed, to me, to have far to many layers > and > > weak references. > > > > There are many applications like this: OmniGraffle, Keynote (to some > > extent), OpenOffice, Reason, etc. Is this type of interface so common > that > > there are known "tric

Locally Saving Data Acquired by my Cocoa App?

2009-03-02 Thread Darren Minifie
pplication would be most helpful. Thank you. PS: I'm aware of the album art folder in the iTunes directory, but I will require something a bit different for my purpose. -- Darren Minifie Graduate Studies: Computer Science www.myavalon.ca www.

Re: Background Process?

2009-03-10 Thread Darren Minifie
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most suitable framework for network app communication?

2009-03-11 Thread Darren Minifie
was hoping there would be an easier way. Being new to the Cocoa frameworks I was hoping somebody could point me at a framework that could help with this communication? Would Bonjour be an option for this? Thank you for your suggestions. -- Darren Minifie Graduate Studies: Computer Science www.m

kvc/kvo for arrays defeated me.

2009-03-13 Thread Darren Minifie
s is not key value coding-compliant for the key . Thank you for any ideas you may have, and curing me of my ignorance. -- Darren Minifie Graduate Studies: Computer Science www.myavalon.ca www.ohsnapmusic.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev

Re: kvc/kvo for arrays defeated me.

2009-03-13 Thread Darren Minifie
te your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/minofifa%40gmail.com > > This email sent to minof...@gmail.com > -- Darren Minifie Graduate Studies: Computer Science www.myavalon.ca www.ohsnapmusic.com ___ Cocoa

definitive guide for model implementation, top level connections?

2009-03-15 Thread Darren Minifie
a singleton class that is shared everywhere in the app. Is this appropriate? This is pretty much the root of my problems/questions. How to best share the model's data with the various controllers. Thank you all for your help and 2 cents on this. -- Darren Minifie Graduate Studies: Co

q's regarding appropriate use of core data?

2009-03-20 Thread Darren Minifie
The tutorials on the iphone core data are significantly different than for the mac, especially since bindings are still not around. Thank you for your advice. -- Darren Minifie Graduate Studies: Computer Science www.myavalon.ca www.ohsnapmusic.com ___ Co

Re: q's regarding appropriate use of core data?

2009-03-20 Thread Darren Minifie
sdk >> iphone 3.0 is off limits, so i will skirt around that. >> > > Questions pertaining to any pre-release or NDA material should be addressed > on the Apple Developer Forums intended for that express purpose. > > - Ben > > -- Darren Minifie G

How does a new app learn about its menu?

2009-04-17 Thread Darren Minifie
ly add new menu entries based on what plugins are loaded at runtime. thank you for your help. -- Darren Minifie Graduate Studies: Computer Science www.myavalon.ca www.ohsnapmusic.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post ad

create object from class name held in String?

2009-04-30 Thread Darren Minifie
tring* someClass = @"Dog"; Animal* anAnimal = [[someClass alloc] init]; I know this isn't right, but I'm trying to use the value held in someClass as the name of the class I want to instantiate. thanks for the help. -- Darren Minifie Graduate Studies: Computer Science www.myaval

Re: create object from class name held in String?

2009-04-30 Thread Darren Minifie
s > > > On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Darren Minifie wrote: > > Hi everyone. >> >> I have the situation where I need to dynamically create an object based on >> the value held in a string at runtime. I'm pretty sure the dynamic nature >> of objective-c would al

Multithreaded debugging help (audio recording eg).

2009-05-22 Thread Darren Minifie
n breakpoints in the callback? thanks a lot for your help. -- Darren Minifie Computer Science Master's Candidate My Rants: www.noisyair.com My Band: www.ohsnapmusic.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admi

dragging to move objects around?

2009-07-22 Thread Darren Minifie
27;ll drag the subview straight down ( no change in x) but the subview will be moved somehwere far to the left or right. -- Darren Minifie Computer Science Masters Candidate University of Victoria, BC. Canada My Rants: www.noisyair.com My Band: www.ohsna