view problems

2014-12-20 Thread H Miersch
hi. i have a window with a custom view in it. I add another view in code and then i add a couple of constraints to centre the new view in its superview. so far so good. if i DON'T call [self setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO]; on my subview, it appears, but the superview (and wit

Re: view problems

2014-12-20 Thread H Miersch
On 20. Dec 2014, at 20:39, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Dec 20, 2014, at 12:08 , H Miersch hmier...@me.com wrote: if I DO call [self setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO]; on the subview, the window and its view behave normally, but the subview

Re: view problems

2014-12-20 Thread H Miersch
On 20. Dec 2014, at 20:39, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Dec 20, 2014, at 12:08 , H Miersch hmier...@me.com wrote: if I DO call [self setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO]; on the subview, the window and its view behave normally, but the subview

Re: view problems

2014-12-20 Thread H Miersch
On 20. Dec 2014, at 22:33, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Dec 20, 2014, at 13:50 , H Miersch hmier...@me.com wrote: not sure when layout occurs, but as i say below, that method is called from drawrect From -[NSView drawRect:]?? You most definitely should

Re: Objective-C Question

2013-03-11 Thread H Miersch
On 11. Mar 2013, at 20:21, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: try myDict = [super newDict]; ___ 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

Re: variable problem is driving me nuts

2012-10-28 Thread H Miersch
ok, it looks like i've sorted the original problem. but here's the next one: i have this line: for (i = 0; i++; i count) {…} in the app delegate. Xcode keeps giving me this warning: expression result unused. WTF? that is correct syntax for a for loop, isn't it? so then why do i keep getting

Re: variable problem is driving me nuts

2012-10-28 Thread H Miersch
then why does Xcode complain about an unused result? this is just another example of a TOTALLY USELESS error message. anyway, i fixed it, and now it works. thanks. On 28. Oct 2012, at 11:56, Roland King r...@rols.org wrote: On 28 Oct, 2012, at 7:50 PM, H Miersch hmier...@me.com wrote

variable problem is driving me nuts

2012-10-27 Thread H Miersch
hi. in my current project i have this line in the header for the app delegate: NSMutableArray *clients; in the app delegate itself, there's this line, in applicationDidFinishLaunching: clients = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; that works as expected. so far so good. but later, in another

saving images

2012-07-21 Thread H. Miersch
hi. i just started a new ios project where i want to download images using NSimage's initwithcontentsofURL: method. now i also want to write those images to permanent storage, but how do i do that? as far as i can tell, NSImage has no method for writing images to disk. is there something i

Re: saving images

2012-07-21 Thread H. Miersch
On 21. Jul 2012, at 17:37, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Jul 21, 2012, at 10:03 AM, H. Miersch wrote: i just started a new ios project where i want to download images using NSimage's initwithcontentsofURL: method. now i also want to write those images to permanent storage, but how do i do

Re: A color well in a table view?

2012-06-11 Thread H Miersch
: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:53:49 +0100, H. Miersch said: In my Mac app I have a table view which so far only displays text and numbers. Now I'd like to put color wells in one column (to supply colors for the lines in the diagram) and checkboxes in another (to decide whether each line should

A color well in a table view?

2012-06-07 Thread H. Miersch
In my Mac app I have a table view which so far only displays text and numbers. Now I'd like to put color wells in one column (to supply colors for the lines in the diagram) and checkboxes in another (to decide whether each line should be drawn or not). Can I do that? If so, what's the best way

Re: Basic Question

2012-05-09 Thread H. Miersch
On 9. May 2012, at 17:58, koko wrote: On May 9, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: or otherwise in the responder chain I grok that ... thanks. what does grok mean? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not

@-directives

2012-03-08 Thread H. Miersch
hi. is there a list of @-directives (like @class, @property and @synthesize) somewhere out there? ___ 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

Re: textfield problem

2012-03-04 Thread H. Miersch
On 3. Mar 2012, at 10:49, Ken Thomases wrote: If the window doesn't have a resize box or title bar -- that is, you're using NSBorderlessWindowMask -- then the NSWindow implementation of -canBecomeKeyWindow returns NO. i gave the window a title bar (which doesn't appear when used as a

Re: textfield problem

2012-03-03 Thread H. Miersch
Do you have a value binding for the field? no, i don't really know how to use bindings. If so, is Conditionally sets editable checked? i went in there and Conditionally sets editable was checked but greyed out. so i turned on the value binding and unchecked Conditionally sets editable, and

Re: textfield problem

2012-03-03 Thread H. Miersch
Did you use a NSPanel for the sheet? Use a NSWindow instead, since NSPanels can have special first-responder behavior. yes, i did. and today i deleted the panel and recreated it with a window instead of a panel. unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem :-(

Re: textfield problem

2012-03-03 Thread H. Miersch
Is the text field configured with Refuses First Responder? no. Does the panel have a title bar or resize indicator -- not when it's running as a sheet, but in its style mask? See the documentation for -[NSWindow canBecomeKeyWindow]. as i said in my previous email, i re-did it using a

Re: textfield problem

2012-03-03 Thread H. Miersch
Is anything written to console when the panel is loaded or when you attempt to start editing in the text field? no console output. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to

textfield problem

2012-03-02 Thread H. Miersch
hello. i have a problem with a text field that won't accept any input. the textfield is one of three on a panel that appears only when the input is needed. I activate the panel with this line:[app beginSheet:Sheet modalForWindow:mainWindow modalDelegate:self didEndSelector:NULL

Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment

2012-03-01 Thread H. Miersch
Xcode is used exhaustively within Apple, makes you think that they have an incentive to get it right, right? so what's the problem? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the

Re: sudden errors

2012-02-28 Thread H. Miersch
On 28. Feb 2012, at 0:54, Keary Suska wrote: Are you saying that you have not made any changes whatsoever to the project in any way, nor did you change the version of Xcode you were using, but you get a slew of errors when you clean/compile? i was editing Viewmanager.m, and .h, but i

Re: sudden errors

2012-02-28 Thread H. Miersch
i just ran a little test: i went into my appcontroller.h and turned the #import ViewManager.h line into a comment, then tried to build. result: EXACTLY the same errors. it's like that line isn't even there. WTF? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: sudden errors - fixed

2012-02-28 Thread H. Miersch
On 28. Feb 2012, at 10:01, Roland King wrote: Move the ViewController import into the AppController.m file and put @class ViewController; instead. that fixed the appcontroller, thanks. looks like i have a lot to learn... ___ Cocoa-dev

sudden errors

2012-02-27 Thread H. Miersch
hi. my project used to build OK, until today. now xcode keeps throwing errors like this at me: Unknown type name 'ViewManager' yes, i import ViewManager.h, and no, i didn't change any declarations. is this a bug in Xcode? like i said, until sometime today this used to build ok. what

Re: sudden errors

2012-02-27 Thread H. Miersch
On 27. Feb 2012, at 23:01, H. Miersch wrote: hi. my project used to build OK, until today. now xcode keeps throwing errors like this at me: Unknown type name 'ViewManager' yes, i import ViewManager.h, and no, i didn't change any declarations. is this a bug in Xcode? like i

Re: allow users to opt-out of iCloud

2012-02-23 Thread H. Miersch
On 21. Feb 2012, at 8:13, Martin Hewitson wrote: Dear list, If an app uses iCloud to sync data between machines, should we provide the user a check-box to opt-out of iCloud syncing? Is there are recommended best practice here? What are others doing? from a user's point of view, i'd say

splitviews and subviews

2012-02-18 Thread H. Miersch
hi. in my project i have a splitview that can contain one or more custom views where i do my drawing. what happens when i send a setNeedsDisplay: message to the splitview? will it send the message on to its subviews or do i have to handle that myself?

Re: Custom UIView drawing but can't figure out when/where it's loading

2012-02-15 Thread H. Miersch
Or is my installation of Xcode screwed up? Probably not. Why would you think that. It's not as unlikely as it sounds. i had an issue where xcode would crash so often it became impossible to get anything done. even loading a workspace would be enough to make it crash. reinstalling xcode

NSComboBox problem in 10.6.2

2010-03-19 Thread H. Miersch
hi. I have a window with 3 comboboxes. one of them uses a data source. the problem is that it keeps throwing an exception, and i can't find out why. I've put the following methods in my appcontroller: -(NSInteger)numberOfItemsInComboBox:(NSComboBox *)aComboBox { return

Re: NSComboBox problem in 10.6.2

2010-03-19 Thread H. Miersch
It appears you are sending -selectItemAtIndex: to the combo box, Correct. I tell it to select the first item (index 0). And when I put the list if items in the nib file (no data source) it works. But this morning I quickly inserted an nslog to find out how big the symbols array is, and

Re: NSComboBox problem in 10.6.2

2010-03-19 Thread H. Miersch
Did you try sending -reloadData to the combo box after setting up the data source and before trying to access items in the combo box? No, because I set up the data source in IB. My theory is that there's something wrong with the array. Either it isn't initialized properly or the methods

Re: NSComboBox problem in 10.6.2

2010-03-19 Thread H. Miersch
just had another surprise: i inserted NSLogs into the method that initializes the array and into -numberOfItemsInComboBox, trying to see the contents of my array and find out why -numberOfItemsInComboBox returns zero. the surprise was that -numberOfItemsInComboBox is called BEFORE the method