Re: Core Data or not

Little different perspective, Core Data tends to work drop dead easy for simple stuff. Small data set with simple functionality should work straight out of the box easy. And there is nothing wrong with creating a manual array of managed objects from a Core Data result set. I personally wouldn't

iOS Status Bar and Modal Presentation

I am "presenting" a view controller (*modaly*) on an iPhone and I'd like to hide the status bar while the *modal* view controller is visible. I've implemented prefersStatusBarHidden on the presented view controller and indeed, the status bar is hidden when the modal view controller is presented -

Re: Supreme aggravation with UITextField controls and the #@Q% return button

I think you're using the wrong method ... textFieldDoneEditing fires when a control loses focus, not when the "return" key gets tapped. Try implementing optional func textFieldShouldReturn(_ *textField*: UITextField

Re: iOS Hardware Keyboard Detection

the only way to detect if a hardware keyboard is > present is through private APIs (and those only if a text view on text > field is currently the first responder). > > If anyone has a good solution, I’d be happy to hear it. > > Best, > Igor > > > > Am 06.04.2016 um 16:0

Re: iOS Hardware Keyboard Detection

with a built-in hardware keyboard. I'd be curious if the HIG speaks to this. Maybe it's just a 9.3 bug in the keyboard notifications On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 8:04 PM Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm building an app for the iPad 2 and iPad Pro and need to present a > modal

iOS Hardware Keyboard Detection

I'm building an app for the iPad 2 and iPad Pro and need to present a modal differently, depending on whether or not there is a hardware keyboard attached. The keyboard notifications keep giving me the rect for the screen keyboard, whether or not it appears. Thanks, Luther

Re: Smoother becomeFirstResponder animation

> Cheers. > Alex Zavatone > > On Apr 3, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > More information > > > > As an experiment, if I tie the DISMISS button solely to resigning first > > responder ... and wait some amount of time

Re: Smoother becomeFirstResponder animation

I am having better luck with viewWillAppear and viewWillDisappear on the device proper as opposed to the simulator. It seems to work reasonably well for what I want. On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote: > More information > > As an exper

Re: Smoother becomeFirstResponder animation

becomeFirstResponder from the presented view controller directly to the textfield. -Luther On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am presenting a newly instantiated modal view controller (iOS, shows up > from the bottom) and I'd like to have one

Smoother becomeFirstResponder animation

I am presenting a newly instantiated modal view controller (iOS, shows up from the bottom) and I'd like to have one of the text fields immediately becomeFirstResponder. *Approach #1:* If I invoke this directly in the presented view controller's viewWillAppear, I see some presentation animation

Re: #selector noob question

Thanks for posting this extended answer! On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:34 PM Quincey Morris < quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > On Mar 21, 2016, at 20:27 , Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > > > > Quick question. If I use #selector(funcName) - does it always send an > >

Re: UIDocument with NSFileWrapper

Thanks for posting this. Exploring UIDocument and caching/parsing JSON instead of CoreData for a service based mobile app that must support offline mode ... and looking forward to considering where you landed. On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:11 PM wrote: > > > On Mar 21, 2016, at

Re: UICollectionView Moving

ke > > On Mar 9, 2016, at 5:58 AM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok - I think this is the final question. > > I've created a layout that is essentially a bunch of ragged bottom columns > - like a Trello or Kanban board. The items in the collection vie

Re: UICollectionView Moving

least one, invisible item in the column (section) to keep it available as a drag target? Hope that makes sense - I tend to be wordy. Thanks, -Luther On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now we're cooking with GAS!!! > &g

Re: UICollectionView Moving

le.com> wrote: > By teaching a cell to respond to an attribute I merely meant that it > should override setLayoutAttributes: and do something in there with the > relevant property. Hope that helps. > > Luke > > On Mar 7, 2016, at 9:39 PM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.c

Re: UICollectionView Moving

You can create your own subclass of UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes and > add something like an “isMoving” property to that. Then teach your cell > classes to respond to that property by changing the background color. > > Luke > > On Mar 7, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@g

Re: UICollectionView Moving

> I’d check your return value for this method in your layout: > > - (UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes > *)layoutAttributesForInteractivelyMovingItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath > *)indexPath withTargetPosition:(CGPoint)position NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(9_0); > > Luke > > On Mar

UICollectionView Moving

I followed the directions here, http://nshint.io/blog/2015/07/16/uicollectionviews-now-have-easy-reordering/ - to add iOS9 style dragging to my UICollectionView - and it sort of works. As described in the article, I added a long press gesture recognizer and wired it in to make calls on the

Re: Starting out with storyboards (on Mac)

Thanks for posting those great references Bill! Luther On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:04 PM Bill Cheeseman wrote: > > > On Mar 5, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Gary L. Wade > wrote: > > > > On Mar 2, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Bill Cheeseman

Re: Starting out with storyboards (on Mac)

> But where does the default one come from? Here are some steps for an iOS project - maybe it will be in the same area. Select and open the storyboard in the IDE. Find the View Controller scene you think is showing up by default. Open the scene (click the arrow) and select the actual view

Re: iOS: Using AppDelegate as an app-wide singleton

The conversation here is pretty loose ... and so everyone might be right in what they are intending to convey... ;-) but I thought I'd just put in a vote to stop using the term "Singleton" for this access pattern. It isn't a Singleton (unless there is historical signficance that grandfathers this

Re: Auto Layout Problems

I may not be following the entire thread very well - but as you likely know, with autolayout, the scrollview's content size is literally determined by its contents. It is generally simple to bind the scrollview edges to the parent you mention but I think your next step is to properly size the

Re: Collection Views Breaking

...@lists.apple.com wrote: -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 23:46:28 -0500 From: Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com To: Cocoa Developers Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Collection Views Breaking Message-ID

Re: Collection Views Breaking

unwired here. Have you set an exception breakpoint to tell you exactly what is breaking? On May 20, 2015, at 12:46 AM, Luther Baker wrote: I've got a simple iOS project consisting of 2 collection view controllers and a navigation controller. Tapping any item in the first collection view

Collection Views Breaking

I've got a simple iOS project consisting of 2 collection view controllers and a navigation controller. Tapping any item in the first collection view simply pushes the second collection view on the stack. Problem is, when I tap Back and then manually scroll up ... the app crashes with a

Re: Help: NSScrollView is resizing its documentView down to (0, 0)

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote: On May 6, 2015, at 8:36 AM, Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net wrote: So you're not setting a constraint on the *document* view? How do you expect it to know how to constrain that view otherwise? The size of

Re: Help: NSScrollView is resizing its documentView down to (0, 0)

Not exactly the same but I found this doc helpful. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/technotes/tn2154/_index.html Luther On May 5, 2015, at 7:58 PM, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: If you have AutoLayout on in a window it's actually on for all views. NSScrollView and its

Re: how to slim down view controllers?

What's odd to me is that Apple preaches MVC, but then when we have the view controller class, all to often the delegate is lumped into the same class, Whoa, you're blaming Apple for this? How is MVC, MVP or Apple forcing you to do this? fostering code bloat and sorta going against

Scrolling while resizing a UITableView with UITextFields

Hi, I have a question about parallel scrolling (I think) in iOS. Let's say I've got a UITableView with 20 or so rows where each cell's contentView essentially contains a simple UITextField. Assume I am not using a UITableViewController for the time being (I've actually got 5 of these tableviews

Re: NSSplitView parallel motion

FWIW ... achieved most of this by nesting split views and leveraging autolayout constraints and priorities, almost no delegate code. I'm still not sure how Mail pulls off the disappearing Source animation though :-) Thanks, -Luther On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Luther Baker lutherba

NSSplitView divider position

Is there a direct way to determine the positions of the dividers in NSSplitView. I'm implementing splitView:additionalEffectiveRectOfDividerAtIndex: and would like to create a rect relative to the current position of the divider. If not, are most people calculating this by adding the widths

Re: NSSplitView divider position

Thanks Ken. On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On Nov 8, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a direct way to determine the positions of the dividers in NSSplitView. No. If not, are most people calculating

NSSplitView parallel motion

Is there a conventional way to implement parallel divider bar motion in an NSSplitView? While resizing a window, I get the general behavior I want by setting the holding properties of 3 view split view to 200, 250, 100 respectfully. While randomly resizing the view, the 3rd view collapses first,

Re: Editing NSOutlineView Group Item

http://openradar.appspot.com/18906942 On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks and thanks. I'll follow up on both your suggestions. Again, many thanks for your time Quincey! Luther On Nov 5, 2014, at 2:03 AM, Quincey Morris quinceymor

Re: Editing NSOutlineView Group Item

Thanks and thanks. I'll follow up on both your suggestions. Again, many thanks for your time Quincey! Luther On Nov 5, 2014, at 2:03 AM, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Nov 4, 2014, at 14:39 , Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I've created

Re: Editing NSOutlineView Group Item

, 2014, at 04:12 , Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: Or perhaps you are mis-tracking the selected item. I've double checked what I thought I knew -- but as you imply, who knows at this point. You are mis-tracking the selected item, I think. The delegate method

Re: Editing NSOutlineView Group Item

and then stopped. /// outlineView:isItemExpandable: - item=selected item - returns YES /// Thanks, -Luther On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping these changes would do it ... but unfortunately, I'm still getting nothing You'll

Re: Editing NSOutlineView Group Item

I've created a project on github that essentially duplicates the problem I'm having. $ git clone https://github.com/EffectiveProgramming/LBOutlineViewDemo.git If you have time, please feel free to check it out and let me know if you can see what I'm doing wrong. Thanks, -Luther On Tue,

nested split views

One more question about split views. My app's outer shell is a top level, 3 tiered split view with the idea that the middle view could have ANYTHING in it. A diagram, a browser, a tree. In fact, the middle view could contain yet another split view if I come up with a visualization that requires

Re: Editing NSOutlineView Group Item

Indeed ... I was incorrectly using reloadDataForRowIndexes:columnIndexes: ... and not reloadItem:reloadChildren. Thank you, -Luther On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: On 3 Nov 2014, at 9:18 am, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: This is not

Tracking Focus Between NSOutlineViews

I have multiple NSOutlineView objects on the screen at one time. As you select items in secondary outline views, the existing selections in the other outline views stay selected, and generally turn from a selected BLUE to an alternate selected GRAY. That is fine and expected. Now, off to the

Re: Tracking Focus Between NSOutlineViews

always an editor of whatever is currently in focus.. Would appreciate any alternatives or validation either way. Thanks as always for lending your skills to this discussion! Thanks, Luther On Nov 2, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: On 3 Nov 2014, at 9:50 am, Luther

Re: Tracking Focus Between NSOutlineViews

a potentially fine way to build user facing software? Thanks, Luther On Nov 2, 2014, at 5:42 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: On 3 Nov 2014, at 9:50 am, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I have multiple NSOutlineView objects on the screen at one time. As you select items

Re: Tracking Focus Between NSOutlineViews

Again - thanks for the extended notes here. I really appreciate the extra context I get form this group. Thanks, -Luther On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: On 3 Nov 2014, at 11:13 am, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: You start the app

Re: Editing NSOutlineView Group Item

to see if I simply need to load the parent or if I need to reload the entire table Thanks, -Luther On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed ... I was incorrectly using reloadDataForRowIndexes:columnIndexes: ... and not reloadItem:reloadChildren

Editing NSOutlineView Group Item

I've got an NSOutlineView backed by a manually mapped core data based document model of which I can save edits to the persistence store just fine. I have created a detail view which can update the text of the selected item - and for the most part, telling the outline view to reload data for the

Re: NSComboBox in the tab ring

Yep - I ended up going with a Pop Up Button for the reason's you've both mentioned. Thanks for replying with a bit of explanation and suggestions! -Luther On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: On 19 Oct 2014, at 3:14 pm, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com

Re: Extended Save Dialog Crashing

k...@ksluder.com wrote: Sent from my iPad On Oct 27, 2014, at 8:33 PM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing my first Document based app for OSX and have reached a spot where I'd like to actually save and open a file. It is a Core Data backed Document within which I

Editing an NSOutlineView item

I've successfully built an NSOutlineView and configured the items for editing. Got that working. Now, in my delegate/datasource, I am implementing - (BOOL)outlineView:(NSOutlineView *)outlineView shouldEditTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)tableColumn item:(id)item { NSLog(@hi); }

Re: Editing an NSOutlineView item

Thanks Ken. Just what I needed. -Luther On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On Oct 27, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I've successfully built an NSOutlineView and configured the items for editing. Got that working

Extended Save Dialog Crashing

I'm writing my first Document based app for OSX and have reached a spot where I'd like to actually save and open a file. It is a Core Data backed Document within which I create some arbitrary data and display it via two NSOutlineViews. I also have the ability to edit the data inline and save it

Custom NSTableRowView Question

I've created and I'm displaying a custom NSTableRowView but I'm having trouble settings its background color. I tried setting it in the init'r but it is getting overwritten. I can intercept the calls to [NSTableRowView setBackgroundColor:] and override the color but before doing that, I'd like to

Wiring up MainMenu.xib

I created a Document based app and Xcode created two XIB - MainMenu.xib and Document.xib. Per the online docs for subclassing NSWindowController, I created my own NSWindowController subclass and set that as the File's Owner for the Document.xib and so far, everything has worked fine. Now, I added

Re: Wiring up MainMenu.xib

to wire that up in IB. You just need to implement the action in your window controller. On Oct 19, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I created a Document based app and Xcode created two XIB - MainMenu.xib and Document.xib. Per the online docs for subclassing

Re: Wiring up MainMenu.xib

On Oct 19, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: ... Maybe you're joking, but, well, that's not a trick. It's a key part of Cocoa design. Good catch. I called it a trick as it surprised me that it worked as such. Indeed, I did not really understand why it worked nor

Document style programming

Hi, I am creating a Desktop issue tracking app using core data and the NSDocument framework - so yes, the Xcode wizard extended NSPersistentDocument which provides me with an NSManagedObjectContext. My question is - if I start working in the app, creating issues for instance ... when I go to

Saving a Document style app

I'd like to save my Document based app in the bundle style format. IE: I'd like to save things in a directory - like apps like OmniOutliner do. Out of the box, I get the option to save as sqlite, binary or XML. What I'd like is to save a 'bundle' with my own extension and nest things like the the

Re: Document style programming

into the Document's datastore? Thanks, -Luther On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: When using NSPersistentDocument it takes over responsibility for saving the context. You should not save the context yourself. On 18 Oct 2014, at 17:00, Luther Baker

One more Document app style question

Coming from an iOS background, I'm used to seeing (and encapsulating) the creation of key Core Data components (persistent store, location, contexts). Everything is pretty explicit and consequently easy to follow. When I use Xcode to generate a desktop Document based app for me, that

Re: Saving a Document style app

Awesome! Thanks Mike. By the way, I'm a happy Hit List user! -Luther On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 18 Oct 2014, at 17:06, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to save my Document based app in the bundle style format

Re: Document style programming

nothing that I explicitly saved anywhere. Sort of trippy unless you expect or understand why. At any rate, thanks for the clarifications! -Luther On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 18 Oct 2014, at 17:09, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote

NSComboBox in the tab ring

Is it possible to keep an NSComboBox in the tabbing ring if I set its Behavior to Selectable. Tabbing reaches the control if the textfield is editable but I don't want to allow the user to type randomly into the text field ... but unfortunately, once I remove its editability, the tabbing cycle

Bottom - Source/Accessory ToolBar question

A few years back, many Mac apps had a similar looking bottom bar on the left hand side of the app. Specifically, apps that had a Source style outline view on the left hand side had this silverish gradient styled bottom bar that often consisted of plus and minus buttons on the left and a gripper

Re: Bottom - Source/Accessory ToolBar question

Thanks both of you! -Luther On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On Oct 13, 2014, at 6:54 PM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: A few years back, many Mac apps had a similar looking bottom bar on the left hand side of the app. Specifically

Displaying Sheets

I'd like to display a sheet but when I do, it isn't sliding down from the top of my window. It is just showing up. I am building a default Document based application and assigning the Document.xib window to an IBOutlet I've created - invoking beginSheet on that mainWindow with another temporary

Re: Displaying Sheets

That was it! Thanks, -Luther On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 7 Oct 2014, at 13:29, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to display a sheet but when I do, it isn't sliding down from the top of my window. It is just showing up

Document Based app with SQLite backing store

Hi, I'm learning a bit about Cocoa Desktop development and I'd like to create a Document based app with a SQLite backing store. First of all, the wizard/template does this just fine for me --- but the resulting class, XIB and sqlite store are all called Document. I'd like to change that name

kanban board, story map

Hi, I'm an iOS developer exploring/fairly new to desktop development - and I'd like to implement something like a kanban board as a desktop application. A kanban board is essentially a set of columns and swimlanes - and at a minimum, requires the ability to add cards to columns as well as the

Nested NSSplitViews and AutoLayout

I'm an iOS developer dabbling in some desktop development ... I'm creating a simple hierarchical notebook that essentially consists of 4 columns: an outline view, a table view, a table view and then a simple text view (the widths of each should be adjustable). To make this happen, I thought I'd

Re: Nested NSSplitViews and AutoLayout

No! I did not know that. That is working much better for me. Thank you. -Luther On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On Sep 27, 2014, at 2:46 AM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I'm creating a simple hierarchical notebook that essentially

Re: iOS database within sandbox

I'm not sure how helpful this is but rechnically, Core Data is an ORM - an object to relational mapping framework. Also realize that Core Data is most often configured to use SQLite as its backing store. In addition the, Xcode ships with a nice CoreData/ORM editor which often makes Core Data

AutoLayout textfield against accessory view

I'd like to place a UITextField in the center of a UITableViewCell such that initially, the textfield extends to all four sides. But ... I'd also like to make it AccessoryView friendly. Namely, when the accessory appears (or is always appearing) I want the aforementioned textField to shrink and

Re: UIScrollView question

simplify the layout sizing logic and get me closer to the behavior I want. In the end, I'm just looking for the simplest way to implement the resulting effect. Many thank! On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Jul 26, 2014, at 22:19 , Luther

Retina and VFL vs Programmatic Layout

In the following example, I'm displaying a child view in a container view attached to a view controller's view property ... on a Retina iPhone simulator. EXPECTED: The VFL constraints cause the child to fill the screen whereas UNEXPECTED: the programmatic constraints cause the child to fill

Re: Retina and VFL vs Programmatic Layout

Ah, I forgot to add constraints to establish the origin. Got it. Thanks, -Luther On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: In the following example, I'm displaying a child view in a container view attached to a view controller's view property

UIScrollView question

I have a pretty good frames based background but I'd like to consider an iPhone screen done with AutoLayout on a UIScrollView such that the bottom UITextView grows vertically to fill the vertical space remaining from the text view to the bottom of the device. UIScrollView parent

Re: UIScrollView question

Yep - I'm good with the keyboard part (ie: I can tell how much of the screen will disappear) ... won’t a “bottom space to superview” Are you hoping that when the keyboard comes up -- it shortens the parent view you are referring to? To date, that has not been my experience. The keyboard just

Re: UIScrollView contentSize question

Yaay! On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Jun 21, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I want a 2-page horizontally scrolling UIScrollView on a simple UIViewController. Very similar to what Twitter does to swipe between Home

Re: UIScrollView contentSize question

-to-add-objects-to-a-uiscrollview-that-extend-beyond-uiview-from-storyboard/ and then watched a bit of his video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgeNPRBrB18feature=youtu.be ) On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: Yaay! On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:10 AM

UIScrollView contentSize question

I want a 2-page horizontally scrolling UIScrollView on a simple UIViewController. Very similar to what Twitter does to swipe between Home, Discover and Activity views. Using storyboards, dropping a UIScrollView on a UIViewController is a piece of cake. Pinning the UIScrollView to the top and

mavericks style tabs

Trying my hand at some Cocoa development ... is there an SDK around the tabs used in Finder or Safari? If not, is there a popular library that folks are using ( https://github.com/rsms/chromium-tabs ?) or is this something folks are generally building from ground up? Thanks, -Luther

Re: mavericks style tabs

But you should tell us more so that we can get some additional information and give better advice. Sure. I'm writing a diagramming tool and I'd like multiple diagrams open simultaneously. Using the NSTabView and custom drawing as described seems like a viable option to me.

Re: Good idea/bad idea?

Not native and I've no idea when or if this is a good idea ... nor am I sure how much typing you want to do ... but you _could_ create a class convenience method for this x = [Thing defaultIfNil:x]; With shorter or longer names as you see fit ... down to possibly: x = [Thing :x] I've

Navigation Design question

Hello all, I've run into an issue a few times and I'd like to see if someone has a good design suggestion to address my problem. Consider an iPad or iPhone application based on a UINavigationController - that displays a 'menu' button in the UINavigationBar. The navbar renders UIBarButtonItems

Re: What do you guys use to convert an XSD to objective C data classes/structures?

We have a lot of legacy systems at my latest gig that all use and output XML data. I remember building a few data-driven webpages completely in XML and XSLT --- and I clearly remember thinking it was the _future_! :-) I must admit up front that I'm not sure which general approach would be best

Re: VC# vs. ObjC and partial abstract classes

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Sixten Otto hims...@sfko.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: A _better_ analogy to an Objective-C @protocol would be a formal Java interface. Sure. And the same in C# (which the OP was asking about

Re: VC# vs. ObjC and partial abstract classes

And more to the point, I think the original poster already knows what you are saying. I think he is asking for thoughts regarding his approach to simulating a notional Abstract Class via mix of @protocols and @classes in Objective-C. He clearly knows he can't do it with @protocols alone. and

Re: VC# vs. ObjC and partial abstract classes

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014, at 05:30 PM, William Squires wrote: Hi all! Obviously (IIRC) a pure abstract class would map to a formal protocol in ObjC (or a class interface in languages such as REALbasic/Xojo, or VB 6).

Re: disk operations - mounting images I've created manually via Disk Utility

sure Disk Utility mounts the image, not another tool the user did associate with .dmgs or .sparsebundle On 16 Mar 2014, at 05:35, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed! That works perfectly ... as also does its antithesis NSWorkspace unmountAndEjectDeviceAtPath You

disk operations - mounting images I've created manually via Disk Utility

I'm an iOS developer talking a walk on the OSX side and have a question about programmatically mounting sparse bundles ... or really just any dmg. My experimental project is to write a little statusbar application to mount and unmount disk images. I've created a few of these images in my own

secure uitextfield is not secure

I'm generally a big fan of Cocoa Touch - but why does the secure option on a UITextField still display the character you are typing? And, is there any way I can turn this off? Its generally hard to get non-employee AD credentials created or to stand up DEV Active Directory services ... so

Re: secure uitextfield is not secure

:) Wanted to see if anyone had an elegant solution or if I'd missed something in the API. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Fritz Anderson fri...@manoverboard.orgwrote: On 5 Mar 2014, at 1:17 PM, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: I'm generally a big fan of Cocoa Touch - but why does

Re: secure uitextfield is not secure

Hey -- this is all good stuff! I'm definitely a bit less cynical about this topic now. Thanks for the virtual turn-around! On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2014, at 02:57 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: I agree with the earlier post which said

Re: Validation of fields in a navigation stack

Create your own UIBarButtonItem button ... set it on the navigation item's leftBarButton property. Do what you want when they tap it with your own handler. The left bar button will cover the back button. On Jan 9, 2014, at 6:22 PM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: What's the right way

Re: iPad keyboards

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: That's good to know; I thought they were requiring iOS 7. https://developer.apple.com/news/index.php?id=12172013a#top Even so, does an iOS 6 SDK-based app not get all iOS 7 styling? I'd try the experiment myself, but

Re: iPad keyboards

On Dec 12, 2013, at 3:38 AM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: I thought you had to use Xcode 5 to submit now, Xcode 5 can build with the 6 SDK. and I thought it had to be linked against iOS 7. Dunno I'm pretty sure Apple rejected one of my binaries because of that. Might try to

Autolayout Freespace

Is there a way autolayout can be told to proportionally divide available free space amongst a set of views? For example (please ignore the actual 'VFL' and consider the following horizontal layout string as pseudo code): H:|-[FirstName]-[LastName]-[SocialSecurity]-[Birthday]-[Age]-| Assume

Re: Autolayout Freespace

? Can these act as weights at all ... or does the highest priority just win? Thanks. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:28 PM, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.comwrote: Sent from my iPhone On 2013/12/12, at 13:50, Luther Baker lutherba...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way autolayout can be told

Re: iPad keyboards

Technically, an iPad running iOS7 can run apps in iOS6 compatibility mode. The keyboard is a dead giveaway. It is similar to an original OSX upgrade from OS9, where some OS9 apps could run within OSX under an OS9 compatibility mode. Or think of it like running a windows app in Parallels on a

Autolayout Greedy Fill question

Given the following controls: lastName = text field gender = segmented control picture = image view and given the following layout string: @V:|-[lastName]-[gender]-[picture]-|; I'd like to make sure that the lastName and gender controls are sized tightly and allows the picture

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