On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:08 , Clark Smith Cox III clark@apple.com wrote:
I didn't say take them out. I said why do they need to return an
autoreleased object.
Because they always have, and their semantics cannot be changed without
breaking decades worth of non-ARC code.
Sort of like
On Dec 1, 2013, at 15:36 , Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:
Scanning my entire hard drive (excluding hidden files), which took several
hours, sure I had plenty of collisions - but absolutely no false ones - they
all turned out to be genuine duplicates of existing files. This is
On Dec 2, 2013, at 15:16 , Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com wrote:
On Dec 2, 2013, at 7:57 AM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
Then you can twiddle the hash to get you a good compromise of speed vs.
collisions.
You want to optimize the hash further? Only hash
Hmm…I’ve had cases where the preferences were corrupted (presumably by Apple, I
was only using the APIs) and prevented the app from launching.
In terms of overall problems I think this was second to “I lost my license, can
you help me”.
Marcel
On Nov 27, 2013, at 19:38 , Alex Kac
On Oct 4, 2013, at 20:30 , Tom Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote:
Right, really the confusion stems from the fact that objective-c has a
strange behaviour when dealing with the type “id”.
Actually, “id” is not “strange” at all. It just uses the very simple Smalltalk
semantics: an object
On Oct 2, 2013, at 19:44 , Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote:
On 1 Oct 2013, at 18:26, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
http://m.gunwharf-quays.com/whats-on/policing-through-ages
As far as I can tell, that link delivers an ics file, “event.ics”, which is
then opened
On Oct 1, 2013, at 13:02 , Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote:
http://m.gunwharf-quays.com/whats-on/policing-through-ages
If you open the above link on an iPhone and then click the Add to Calendar
button, you will that it appears to add an event to the calendar WITHOUT
asking the user
On Sep 21, 2013, at 22:38 , Markus Spoettl ms_li...@shiftoption.com wrote:
I have a UIView on iOS that shares (a lot of) code with an NSView I have on
OSX. That code relies on a LLO (lower left origin) coordinate system and it's
not an option to change that.
What’s the code? Mostly
On Sep 17, 2013, at 17:35 , Fritz Anderson fri...@manoverboard.org wrote:
On Sep 16, 2013, at 18:51 , Jeffrey Oleander jgo...@yahoo.com wrote:
If you want to know the total number of objects to be archived, then you
need to count them, at some time or another. To count them, you need to
On Sep 16, 2013, at 18:51 , Jeffrey Oleander jgo...@yahoo.com wrote:
If you want to know the total number of objects to be archived, then you
need to count them, at some time or another. To count them, you need to walk
the object tree before you start actually archiving... which may
Hi Graham!
On Sep 16, 2013, at 20:26 , Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:
Documents get saved in the background, so in some ways it doesn't matter how
long they take, but when waiting for a very big file to open, there can be a
noticeable delay (maybe 10-15 seconds) between the Open
On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:03 , Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:
This is very much a worst-case. The file contains a 400MB embedded TIFF
image, which is the bottleneck. The archive probably only has a thousand
objects in it.
Ahh, so the ‘other' case: rather than large numbers of
:
On Sep 15, 2013, at 16:30 , Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
Do all the cleanup you want to do and then exit(0) ?
But yeah, NSApplicationMain doesn’t return, and that silly autorelease pool
most people put in main() these days never gets released, just accumulating
any
On Sep 15, 2013, at 10:32 , Gerriet M. Denkmann gerr...@mdenkmann.de wrote:
I have a Helper Tool, running as root, started via SMJobBless and
communicating vie Xpc.
Works fine, but:
1. it cannot stop (CFRunLoopStop),
Do all the cleanup you want to do and then exit(0) ?
Marcel
On Sep 15, 2013, at 17:04 , Kevin Meaney k...@yvs.eu.com wrote:
On 15 Sep 2013, at 15:30, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
Do all the cleanup you want to do and then exit(0) ?
I was doing exit(0) but after reading this discussion I thought it would be
cleaner to do
On Sep 14, 2013, at 16:58 , David Duncan david.dun...@apple.com wrote:
On Sep 14, 2013, at 7:37 AM, vipgs99 vipg...@gmail.com wrote:
So do I need replace all int to NSInteger?
Technically no, but generally you do need to evaluate every usage of data
types of a specific width and ensure
On Sep 10, 2013, at 23:47 , Tom Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote:
Note, this was actually more significant on x86, where most of the mess
caused by CISC (like having bugger all registers) got sorted out.
? VAX had 16, M68K had 16, hmm, NS32032 only had 8. I’d say this was a an
Intel ’86
On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:38 , John McCall rjmcc...@apple.com wrote:
[reduced need for Café Macs dinner tickets]
Fortunately. :)
But you do know where to get them anyway…? ;-)
[inline reference counts]
Right. ARC doesn’t replace the benefit of having an inline reference count.
I
Hi Bill,
On Sep 12, 2013, at 18:57 , Bill Cheeseman wjcheese...@gmail.com wrote:
As I recall, [Ali’s technote] stated that the return [[x retain]
autorelease] pattern is preferred for getters and gave many reasons for
preferring it. I understand that @synchronize generates getters that
Hi John!
On Sep 10, 2013, at 19:26 , John McCall rjmcc...@apple.com wrote:
On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:15 AM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
[Optimizations in ARC are there to mitigate pessimizations]
For what it’s worth, the autorelease optimization was planned; the
performance
On Sep 10, 2013, at 21:52 , Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote:
On Sep 9, 2013, at 3:49 AM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
The pattern I adopted long ago to avoid that sort of situation is to have an
instance variable for my temps, in which case the code becomes:
[self setTemp:newObject
On Sep 9, 2013, at 9:44 , Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
Thirded.
Countered. :-)
I thought I wouldn't like it.
I thought I would LOVE it, and when I actually used it was “meh”. Not just the
additional rules/complexity when dealing with the C side of things (which I do
quite a bit),
On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:33 , Tom Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 Sep 2013, at 10:18, Jean-Daniel Dupas devli...@shadowlab.org wrote:
And does the profiler explicitly shows that ARC runtime code is the culprit
?
Yes, it does.
Isn’t it strange how when someone says “oh, and ARC is
On Sep 3, 2013, at 16:54 , Fritz Anderson anderson.fr...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 Sep 2013, at 12:47 AM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
This gets (mis-)quoted out of context way too much (my emphasis):
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time
Hi Jens,
Premature optimization is the root of all evil!
Er, I misspelled: “very cool, nice job!”
On Sep 9, 2013, at 18:11 , Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
[..]
[fg160,160,160;16:34:40.488| [fg0,128,0;[;NSDateFormatter took 26.97 µsec
[fg160,160,160;16:34:48.649|
On Sep 9, 2013, at 19:05 , Jean-Daniel Dupas devli...@shadowlab.org wrote:
Le 9 sept. 2013 à 18:11, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com a écrit :
[fg160,160,160;16:34:40.488| [fg0,128,0;[;NSDateFormatter took 26.97
µsec
[fg160,160,160;16:34:48.649| [fg0,128,0;[;CBLParseDatetook
On Sep 9, 2013, at 19:20 , Tito Ciuro tci...@mac.com wrote:
On Sep 9, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
Premature optimization is the root of all evil!
What's premature about it?
Nothing:
Er, I misspelled: “very cool, nice job!”
:-)
Marcel
On Sep 9, 2013, at 19:35 , Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Sep 9, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
Premature optimization is the root of all evil!
I’m not sure if you meant that ironically, but it’s absolutely not premature.
Absolutely! On both
Just to add a tiny wrinkle:
On Sep 9, 2013, at 20:27 , Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Sep 9, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Jeffrey Oleander jgo...@yahoo.com wrote:
[..] Some do, but the dread of customer rebellion is strong, and they want
to enter them in the slap-dash, hurried, harried ways
On Sep 3, 2013, at 12:52 , Jonathan Taylor jonathan.tay...@glasgow.ac.uk
wrote:
I have an objective c object which contains a number of properties that serve
as parameters for an algorithm. They are bound to UI elements. I would like
to take a snapshot copy of the object that will be used
[this seems to have bounced earlier]
Hi Kyle, Izak,
On Aug 16, 2013, at 19:18 , Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
As Ken Ferry described in his Auto Layout session at WWDC 2011, the specific
solver used by Apple is based on the Cassowary constraint engine.
Yes, the algorithm involved is a
On Sep 4, 2013, at 10:56 , Jonathan Taylor jonathan.tay...@glasgow.ac.uk
wrote:
On 3 Sep 2013, at 19:49, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless there is some dire reason not to do this, I would make a copy on the
main thread every time the UI changes, and stash that copy
Hi Graham,
thanks for sharing your experience, that’s really helpful!
On Sep 1, 2013, at 11:54 , Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:
On 31/08/2013, at 6:48 PM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
So you’ve had good practical experience with forward/backward compatible
designs
On Sep 1, 2013, at 18:26 , Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net wrote:
Honestly, I wouldn’t use non-keyed archiving anymore these days. Either you
need performance so badly that you create your own file format (or use
something specialized for a particular need, like sqlite), or you
Hi Uli,
thanks for your in-depth response!
On Aug 28, 2013, at 20:38 , Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net wrote:
On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
does anyone have practical experience with the forward/backward
compatibility aspect of keyed
On Aug 28, 2013, at 16:02 , Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:
It seems overall that I was right in that once you can get to a stream (font
file) or a name, you're home and dry.
Home and dry might be overstating things a bit :-) You’re at the starting
line.
On Aug 27, 2013, at 14:46 , Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:
Parsing a PDF, I need to handle the Tf (set font) operator. The font
situation in PDF files is inordinately complicated, and reading the spec
alone is not really leading to the light-bulb moment.
Yes, there are many dark
Hi folks,
does anyone have practical experience with the forward/backward compatibility
aspect of keyed archiving? That is define a file format using keyed archiving
where backward and forward compatibility was both desirable and achieved?
Thanks!
Marcel
On Aug 21, 2013, at 18:18 , Erwin Namal erwin.na...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
My app's menu extra icon should reflect meaningful information to the user.
However, there are too many cases to draw icons beforehand. It would be
easier to programatically prepare the icon on the fly.
What would
On Aug 24, 2013, at 22:09 , Andreas Grosam agro...@onlinehome.de wrote:
What's the purpose of NSValue's class method
+ (NSValue *)valueWithBytes:(const void *)value objCType:(const char *)type; ?
It seems, NSValue will simply memcpy the content of value, and somehow
determine the size
Hi Diederik,
On Aug 22, 2013, at 1:44 , Diederik Meijer | Ten Horses
diede...@tenhorses.com wrote:
The content is quite large, about 1MB, it is the full text of a law.
Hmm…that isn’t really that large, we have GHz computing buzz-saws!
The web service returns the list lightning fast, but in
On Aug 22, 2013, at 19:43 , Steve Mills smi...@makemusic.com wrote:
On Aug 22, 2013, at 12:31:55, Thomas Wetmore t...@verizon.net
wrote:
Pre-allocation doesn't really matter as long as the re-allocations, whenever
they occur, respect the capacity argument.
Sure they do. If you don't
On Aug 20, 2013, at 18:02 , Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net wrote:
On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann gerr...@mdenkmann.de
wrote:
Well that much I know. And I also know that many NS/UI-things (which use
Objective-C) often have a CF-counterpart, which uses plain C
On Aug 21, 2013, at 17:24 , Jeff Kelley slauncha...@gmail.com wrote:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException',
reason: '+[NSMethodSignature signatureWithObjCTypes:]: unsupported type
encoding spec '(' in '(_GLKMatrix4={?=}[16f])8@12''
On Aug 17, 2013, at 19:01 , Jean-Daniel Dupas devli...@shadowlab.org wrote:
Le 17 août 2013 à 17:55, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com a écrit :
However…if you care as much about dependency management as I do (and chances
are you don’t), and don’t have a direct dependency on CoreGraphics
On Aug 18, 2013, at 15:06 , Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
On Aug 18, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 17, 2013, at 19:01 , Jean-Daniel Dupas devli...@shadowlab.org wrote:
You don't have to add explicit dependency to anything as NSGeometry.h
Hi Gerriet,
On Aug 18, 2013, at 17:16 , Gerriet M. Denkmann gerr...@mdenkmann.de wrote:
[Tom Davie]
Uhh sorry, my bad, I meant CG*Bitmap*ContextCreate…
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/graphicsimaging/Reference/CGBitmapContext/Reference/reference.html
Ah, now I found
On Aug 16, 2013, at 19:04 , Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
On Aug 16, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann gerr...@mdenkmann.de
wrote:
On 16 Aug 2013, at 22:59, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
Xcode does know this. But if you're building for 32-bit OS X, it will
correctly
On Aug 16, 2013, at 19:04 , Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
On Aug 16, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann gerr...@mdenkmann.de
wrote:
On 16 Aug 2013, at 22:59, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
Xcode does know this. But if you're building for 32-bit OS X, it will
correctly
On Aug 17, 2013, at 18:03 , Maxthon Chan xcvi...@me.com wrote:
On Aug 17, 2013, at 23:52, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 16, 2013, at 19:04 , Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
Stop using NSRect in your method prototypes and just use CGRect.
This is certainly
On Jul 8, 2013, at 18:04 , Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Jul 7, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Frederick Bartram bartr...@acm.org wrote:
Have you tried using NSData to store C-arrays?
Or alternatively use NSPointerValue to wrap a pointer to a malloc’ed C array
as an object.
It seems to
So I was looking for a graphics library in the Developer Docs that serves
both Mac-Apps and iOS-Apps.
I found references to polylines in a MapKit.
There is of course Quartz2D and OpenGL.
So which of these libraries or perhaps there is another I have not heard of
yet is best at
Hi Jens,
On Apr 25, 2013, at 18:10 , Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Apr 25, 2013, at 1:20 AM, Oleg Krupnov oleg.krup...@gmail.com wrote:
This breaks encapsulation of objects with block properties (e.g.
MyAnimation.completionBlock)
I understand the problem you're describing (and
On Mar 22, 2013, at 23:27 , Quincey Morris
quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote:
The reason for this is not much about performance. ('atomic' is slower, but
not by much.)
On my machine, the difference is around 4x for the read accessor, 3 ns
nonatomic vs. 13ns atomic.
Cheers,
On Mar 19, 2013, at 1:19 , Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Mar 18, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote:
NSArchiver calls look like -setValue:forKey:, so it seems reasonable that
the protocol could be usurped to write out fairly clean user defaults plists.
Hope this is useful.
Marcel
On Jun 16, 2012, at 21:37 , Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
MPWDrawingContext is a light-weight Objective-C wrapper around CoreGraphics
CGContextRef and corresponding functions.
Code is on Github:https://github.com/mpw/MPWDrawingContext
More specifically, CGContextBeginTransparencyLayer() and
CGContextEndTransparencyLayer() will do what you need, in case you can't use a
single bezier path.
You set the global alpha to the transparency you want, start the transparency
layer, draw *without the alpha*, end the transparency layer.
On Sep 11, 2012, at 4:28 , Charles Srstka cocoa...@charlessoft.com wrote:
On Sep 10, 2012, at 9:23 PM, Quincey Morris
quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote:
It doesn't need all the extra scaffolding. KVC will peer quite happily
into your instance variables by default. What you
MPWDrawingContext is a light-weight Objective-C wrapper around CoreGraphics
CGContextRef and corresponding functions.
Code is on Github:https://github.com/mpw/MPWDrawingContext
Infrequently Asked Questions:
Why would anyone need an Objective-C drawing context?
In short, while CoreGraphics
On Jan 19, 2012, at 1:33 , Ken Thomases wrote:
On Jan 18, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
On Jan 14, 2012, at 18:37 , Kyle Sluder wrote:
Breaking this pattern should be a conscious decision.
I'd say that the opposite is true: in general you should avoid specific
model - view
Hi Kyle,
On Jan 14, 2012, at 18:37 , Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Jan 14, 2012, at 2:53 AM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote:
You shouldn't push updates to the UI, the UI should query the model, and it
should do it at human speed, not at whatever speed the machine can manage
to change
Hi Andrew,
On Jan 13, 2012, at 6:57 , Andrew wrote:
The result of this is that the UI updates really frequently and the
estimated time to complete and the download rate jump around a lot. I
would love it if I could tell cocoa to only update the UI once per
second instead of immediately when
On Jan 13, 2012, at 15:23 , Eric E. Dolecki wrote:
I have XML like this:
xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
users
user name=Eric Dolecki
playlist name=Iron Maiden source=Spotify/
playlist name=Kate Bush source=Pandora/
/user
/users
Don't know much about TBXML, but
On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:35 , McLaughlin, Michael P. wrote:
My main thread has an NSArray of Subtasks and sends data to each via
Npending = numProcessors;
for (k = 0;k numProcessors;k++) {
Subtask *aTask = [myTask objectAtIndex:k];
[aTask sendData:theData numBytes:sz
On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
My question is, how do I use NSXMLDocument safely on a non-main thread? I
need to do this for performance reasons, otherwise my app can pinwheel during
XML parsing.
Maybe you need faster XML parsing?
Marcel
Hi Ian,
well, in a sense the lack of examples *is* illustrating the best practices
concerning setup wizards :-)
Cheers,
Marcel
On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:54 , Ian Piper wrote:
For one of my applications I want to do a check at startup to see whether a
profile and password has been set for the
Hi Chris,
Let me start with what I'm trying to accomplish. I have an app that
is constantly running an animation, which's attributes are
determined after downloading and parsing some XML.
How large are the XML files? Does each contain multiple animation
steps or just one?
The XML
On Jun 24, 2009, at 22:49 , Greg Titus wrote:
...whereas this part talks specifically about the collector. Is
there a downside in SnowLeopard to CFRetain/CFRelease when not
using the collector?
There's no _new_ downside to CFRetain/CFRelease. It's just the
existing downside
On Jun 25, 2009, at 0:54 , Peter Duniho wrote:
Furthermore, it is more typical that there _is_ space already
available on the heap to satisfy an allocation request, and in a
typical GC system allocations are much faster than for the alloc/
free paradigm. I admit, I don't know the
On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:00 , Bill Bumgarner wrote:
On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
In a nutshell, for folks like me who regularly use CFCreate …
CFRelease in loops, what are the benefits of GC?
If CFCreate/CFRelease is precisely what you want to do, there are
no
On May 13, 2009, at 8:30 , Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
I have an object that I've turned into a singleton via the
techniques described at:
http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CocoaObjects/CocoaObjects.html#/
On May 13, 2009, at 11:27 , Mike Mangino wrote:
I'm noticing something related that is causing my problems. I have
mocking working for custom types. When I try to change the class of
a string, however, I get a crash.
-(void) testImplementationOnString {
NSString *s = [NSString
On May 9, 2009, at 20:15 , Chris Hanson wrote:
On May 9, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Bright wrote:
when I open a Apple's samplecode of cocoa and run it, the
mistake of “command developer usr bin gcc-4.0 failed with exit
code 1 is occur.
How to solve it?
Are you just double-clicking the
Hi Jeffrey,
I have a multithreaded application with several NSOperationQueues
and it appears as if under heavy load conditions I'm overwhelming
the garbage collector so-to-speak.
From what you describe, it looks like your analysis is spot on.
I essentially have three queues which can be
On May 8, 2009, at 6:50 , Michael Ash wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com
Date: May 7, 2009 10:05:29 PDT
And yes, the code that I use explicitly runs the runloop, and it
is the
code that runs the runloop that both allocates the
NSURLConnection
On May 6, 2009, at 23:56 , Jeff Johnson wrote:
On May 7, 2009, at 12:27 AM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
OK, quiz time: the reason for NSMutableString to relinquish
ownership is to (a) release the object (b) allow someone else to
take ownership?
Answer: always (a), sometimes (b), and sometimes
On May 7, 2009, at 8:37 , Jeff Johnson wrote:
On May 7, 2009, at 2:38 AM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
EXACTLY. Autorelease allows ownership transfer from called
methods to occur without thrusting ownership on those that don't
want it.
That's one use, anyway.
No. That is what you need
[catching up with my cocoa-dev backlog]
On Mar 10, 2009, at 20:36 , Michael Ash wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Robert Mullen robe...@autowc.com
wrote:
Too little resource, too little experience, too little return. The
first two
are because this is a skunk works type corporate
On May 7, 2009, at 9:43 , Jeff Johnson wrote:
You misunderstand my argument. I'm not claiming that autorelease
provides some magical guarantee.
Actually, you were initially claiming that there was such a guarantee,
and misquoting the docs to 'prove' your point.
I'm claiming that you
On May 7, 2009, at 10:39 , Jeff Johnson wrote:
Actually, you were initially claiming that there was such a
guarantee, and misquoting the docs to 'prove' your point.
The memory management docs tell you what you should do, but nothing
in Objective-C or Cocoa requires you to follow them.
On May 7, 2009, at 17:29 , Jeff Johnson wrote:
On May 7, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about the
possibility that the 'owned' caller manually runs the run loop
right after it calls the delegate callback, so any
performSelector
On May 7, 2009, at 21:12 , Michael Ash wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com
wrote:
On May 7, 2009, at 17:29 , Jeff Johnson wrote:
On May 7, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about
On May 6, 2009, at 15:49 , Jeff Johnson wrote:
I still maintain that it's never safe to release/autorelease an
object
from inside one of it's delegate calls. If it works at all, you're
implicitly relying on an implementation detail that's subject to
change.
I find this idea somewhat
Hi Greg,
hope the runtime is being docile. :-)
On May 4, 2009, at 23:24 , Greg Parker wrote:
That's right. In some discussions of object-oriented programming, a
distinction is made between value objects and reference objects.
Two value objects can be equal if they share the same value,
On May 6, 2009, at 18:31 , George King wrote:
Nick, thanks for the tip, you set me on the right track. Here is my
new understanding of the problem. In my framework target settings,
the Dynamic Library Install Name is set to:
$(DYLIB_INSTALL_NAME_BASE:standardizepath)/$(EXECUTABLE_PATH)
On May 6, 2009, at 18:45 , Jeff Johnson wrote:
I think you misunderstand the problem that autorelease is trying to
solve, which is to allow ownership transfer from a callee back to
its caller, not to just simply delay a release until later.
Ownership 'transfer' is rare. If you call
On May 6, 2009, at 21:34 , Jeff Johnson wrote:
Ownership 'transfer' is rare. If you call +alloc or -copy, for
example, ownership is transferred to the caller. Otherwise,
there's no such thing.
The fact that you think this is a testament to how well -
autorelease works :-)
How about
On May 1, 2009, at 3:20 , DairyKnight wrote:
I'm trying to build a simple scribble program with Cocoa, and got
some
questions I couldn't solve. Hope someone here could help.
1. How can I perform a proper drawing in somewhere else rather than
drawRect: ? Like the Win32 GetDC(HWND) and
On May 4, 2009, at 13:37 , Michael Ash wrote:
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Erg Consultant erg_consult...@yahoo.com
wrote:
That's a pretty lame approach considering that Apple hides theirs.
Seems like a poor example to me, given that the path to the iTunes DRM
directory was posted right
On 29.Apr, 2009, at 21:02 , Charles Srstka wrote:
On 29 Apr 09, at 06:15, Mark Douma wrote:
Carbon and the Finder are displaying the filenames as is, as HFS
allows slashes to be in a filename, and the colon is the separator.
Cocoa and the BSD layer, on the other hand, do swap the slashes
On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:36 , Jeffrey Oleander wrote:
%S specifies a null-terminated array of 16-bit unicode
characters. What you're passing is an NSString object.
So the specifier should be the object specifier, %...@.
Yes, that is what I had tried first. Still, the warning
comes and goes.
Not sure this was solved.
On 13.Mar, 2009, at 5:45 , Joe Turner wrote:
NSImage *original = [NSImage imageNamed:NSImageNameComputer];
[original setSize:NSMakeSize(10.0f, 10.0f)];
- this will not make your bitmap 10x10 pixels, but just change the
DPI settings to make sure it
On Apr 20, 2009, at 23:09 , Alex Kac wrote:
I am trying to log some specific error conditions in a fairly
dynamic environment (of course Obj-C's forté), and would like to log
some sort of backtrace of method calls that reached a specific method.
What is the best way to get that info? This
. Learned something new with your message.
On Apr 16, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
I would do the following:
1. map the file into memory using -[NSData
dataWithContentsOfMappedFile:] (or mmap() if you really want to)
2. Do not convert to individual objects for the words
3. get
On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:10 , Miles wrote:
Marcel, NOW we're talking. This has really been such an eye-opening
thread.
Now it's googling time to try to figure out how to search for a
string in there.
1. Get the bytes out of your search string in the encoding that your
dictionary is in
On Apr 16, 2009, at 12:01 , Miles wrote:
It looks like I have the search working like this, but I have to
double-space the dictionary file to have a leading \n.
No, you just need one initial extra newline at the start, the newline
from the end of the last string matches up with the
On Apr 16, 2009, at 18:59 , Michael Ash wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, WT jrca...@gmail.com wrote:
since he'll be dealing with the string's raw bytes, won't Miles
have to
manually add a null byte to terminate the search string?
The strnstr() function takes a length, and can thus
On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:12 , Miles wrote:
I'm trying to find the best way to load in a 2MB text file of
dictionary
words and be able to do quick searches.
Simply loading the uncompressed txt file takes about 0.5 seconds
which I can
handle.
What do you do to load the txt file? 0.5
On Apr 14, 2009, at 17:22 , Harry G wrote:
Hi, I'm currently writing an app for iphone that downloads large
tables of text and images , and my server outputs big endian.
Hmm...I would generally expect both text and images to be endian-
neutral, are you sure byte-order is an issue?
How
On Apr 12, 2009, at 23:26 , Oleg Krupnov wrote:
I haven't tried either of the methods I mentioned so far (because I'm
lazy, sorry:), but what I have tried is I created NSData from the
large object by using NSKeyedArchiver. It has taken forever, so that I
had to force-quit the process.
Yes,
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