On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
IMHO the worst problem with CoreAudio isn't what language it's in,
but that the APIs don't form a coherent framework, rather a
patchwork of complex procedural interfaces plus a pile of
undocumented, mostly-unsupported and poorly-structured
On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:20 AM, Ian Joyner wrote:
Carbon was originally Pascal based, at least as far as the APIs. It does not
essentially matter what it is written in, just what APIs it supports. If it
has been rewritten in C++ (are they mad?), that should make no difference to
whatever
That is excellent and I really like the sound of it. Someone please inform the
authors of Apple's iPhone sample code so that I won't have to deal with C++
anymore! (I'm looking at YOU, SpeakHere!)
On Feb 28, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Erik Buck wrote:
I disagree. I have written very low latency
On Feb 24, 2010, at 3:28 PM, David Blanton wrote:
In an NSDocument app where should or how should the Application
Preferences menu item be connected?
This is kind of old, and its main focus is bindings, but it gives you
everything you need I think
On Feb 24, 2010, at 3:58 PM, David Blanton wrote:
Good Tip. Thanks.
What I was really getting at is how to set the target / action for
when the item is selected. Here is what I did, so if this is way
off base please let me know.
I sub-classed NSMenuItem and set the Preferences menu
I used this method on the app I'm currently working with and it is great.
I can offer two tips. The first is make the tabs be visible in IB because then
it's so much easier to switch between them in IB. Then in awakeFromNib you can
make the tabs be invisible.
The first tip is that I found that
On Jan 19, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
I wish NSDictionary (NSMutableDictionary actually) could handle
arbitrary mappings of one type of object to another, without copying
the keys. A string makes a good key most of the time but what about
the case where you want to do the
-new is the equivalent of an -alloc and -init, so you already own the
object at that point. Then you retain it, so I think that's more
retaining than you want to do.
That's my guess
Sent from my iPhone--typos caused by auto-correct
On Jan 9, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Mr. Gecko grmrge...@gmail.com
I'm a little unclear what you are asking, but I'll tell what I know.
You just want to know if a 5 digit zip code is a valid one? Or do you
want to compare it to the list of valid city names that are assigned
to it? (yes it can be more than one, ugh)
They are (from a non-USPS point of view)
On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:29 PM, David Duncan wrote:
Given that you would likely want to do this test with a binary
search I don't see any reason why it should be slow (effectively you
can do the entire search with about 17*k compares).
To help make this thread more Cocoa-y, I would like to
On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:58 AM, Charles Jenkins wrote:
On 2010-01-03 00:08, Eric Smith wrote:
Correct, do not release the array. If you don't create it with
init, or retain it, then you should not release it.
Eric, thank you for stating that rule. It should be easy enough to
remember and
On Dec 27, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Rainer Standke wrote:
Hello all,
I have a table view with a column that holds a button cell. When the user
clicks the button I need to open a web browser with an URL that is stored in
the object represented by the table view's row. All of this is in a Core
On Dec 27, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Rainer Standke wrote:
Sure. Here is what happens in the method targeted by the button. From the
tableview ( = sender) it gets the first column, from that it gets the array
controller behind the column, from that it gets the selection and finally it
gets the
On Dec 24, 2009, at 4:25 AM, Michael Davey wrote:
Hi,
I have googled around but have found nothing that can help me with this... I
have a menu in my application that I wish to add sub items to
programatically. I have the Menu itself connected up and I can add
NSMenuItems to it just
I would like to know the correct way to implement a non-stored value
that is dependent on members of a collection.
I am setting up the object that holds the dependent value as an
observer of the individual members of the collection like this:
[theFrameModule addObserver:self
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
This is a situation where you use willChangeValueForKey:/
didChangeValueForKey:
- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:
(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context
{
if
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Paul Bruneau
paul_brun...@special-lite.com wrote:
if ([keyPath isEqualToString:kOverallWidth]) {
[self willChangeValueForKey:@overallWidth];
NSLog(@got
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Paul Bruneau
paul_brun...@special-lite.com wrote:
Ugh, so I guess you are saying that derived properties are not
trustworthy
in this usage?
No, just that if you don't actually change the value, KVO might
). Incidentally
I have reported this bug but it came back as a dupe. It's been there since I
started with Cocoa, on 10.2.
I ran into the same problem and my bug was also flagged as a duplicate. Here is
my submission which includes my workaround:
14-Aug-2008 09:31 AM Paul Bruneau:
* SUMMARY
When
On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:29:25 -0500, timm...@gmail.com timm...@gmail.com
said:
The Apple docs for NSPopUpButtons says to avoid accessing it's NSMenu
directly
because it may need to do housekeeping.
I'm really trying to do things correctly with my app but I'm at a
place where I can't figure out what correct is, and all my best
examples do it wrong (I think).
I am working on the drawing parts of my app. In my last app I most
definitely did things Wrong but they work fine and there's
, in this
case). When the model data is all about visual information
(drawing), then you have no choice but to violate the rule.
On Nov 25, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Paul Bruneau wrote:
I am also pretty sure that Cocoa Design Patterns does it wrong
because it admits such:
The model in this example
On Nov 25, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On Nov 25, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Paul Bruneau wrote:
I think I recognize, and I am pretty sure I have read that Sketch
does things Wrong. I see that the shape objects keep their own
bounds (and frame?) information. It seems clear to me
does get updated
in the table (again, thanks Bindings).
It seems like other people would have had issues with this, but
sometimes I do things differently than other people :)
On Sep 17, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Paul Bruneau wrote:
Greetings-
I have written a subclass of NSValueTransformer which
4, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Paul Bruneau wrote:
Hi-
I'm in early development of an app (non-core data, NSDocument app)
that will deal with a lot of doors. I have created a door object,
SLDoor, which currently contains all of the properties that might be
used by any of the several types of doors
Hi-
I'm in early development of an app (non-core data, NSDocument app)
that will deal with a lot of doors. I have created a door object,
SLDoor, which currently contains all of the properties that might be
used by any of the several types of doors.
There is a doorType property which is
I'm trying to do things correctly in my new app that I am writing, so
I wanted to ask this question because I'm not sure if I am.
I have a window for a door object in my document (NSDocument based
app). It's a good thing I don't work for a window company or things
would be really
Yes, I have recently learned how to do this for my under development
app.
Here is the IB part, pretty straightforward (File's Owner (a
controller class) has a door object with a derived fake ivar called
isMonumental:
inline: pastedGraphic.png
The tricky part in your case (and mine)
displayed (the cleaned up, doubly-transformed string)
In textfield:
1. type: 1 1/2
2. press return
3. 1 1/2 is displayed (no change)
4. press undo
5. press redo
6. 1-1/2 is displayed (the cleaned up, doubly-transformed string)
Any help appreciated
On Sep 17, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Paul Bruneau wrote
On Oct 1, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
I don't have a definitive answer for you, but I've observed similar
behaviour in some of my text fields. As long as you're typing, what
you type is what the field will display. On enter/return, the value
is sent to the data model, through the
On Oct 1, 2009, at 10:45 AM, I. Savant wrote:
Have you tried turning on the text field's value binding's
continuously updates value option? Maybe even the validates
immediately option? I imagine the wrong combination of these
(including off) could have something to do with it.
Thanks for
On Oct 1, 2009, at 11:10 AM, I. Savant wrote:
On Oct 1, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Paul Bruneau wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, IS. I had in fact tried those and I
tried them again just now (in all combinations), no change.
Hmmm ... This (figure 2):
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library
On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:23 PM, I. Savant wrote:
As Quincey mentioned, it's probably because the data cell for that
column (the prototype that's reused to draw that column's value for
each row) is being updated per row, which involves reading that
value and setting it as the cell's object
On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
What was the number you tried this with? Some NSNumber values are
singleton objects, so returning a new NSNumber with the same value
might really return the original object. :) Or maybe just equality
of value matters.
It occurs to me that
On Oct 1, 2009, at 3:34 PM, I. Savant wrote:
The problem is, I think, that most developers aren't overloading
the input as you are. :-)
I knew this would come up! :)
But in actuality, this same problem would occur regardless of whether
I was overloading the input. Even in the very
On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:19 PM, I. Savant wrote:
Paul:
Unless I'm missing something, why not add properties to your array
controller class that keeps track of the desired types? If you use
multiple tables for the same array controller instance, you could
get even fancier and keep an
Hi-
I have used mmalc's DNDArrayController class from his Bookmarks
example code to implement drag and drop for one of my NSTableViews. Of
course it works great.
But now I would like to set up a couple other table views with other
types of data.
I can re-use my DNDArrayController, but
Greetings-
I have written a subclass of NSValueTransformer which converts an
NSString from something like 1-1/2 to an NSNumber with a value of 48
for my model to store (converts inches and fractions to number of
32nds). It also does the reverse transformation.
This is working perfectly
The iMac is so much prettier plus can drive a second display. Refurb
store = $999 or even sometimes $849 ones show up.
On Sep 13, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Michael Rogers wrote:
Hi, All:
I've been given a short deadline for choosing between a Mac Mini or
iMac for Cocoa development (especially
Hi all-
I'm just starting my first real document-based Cocoa app. My other app
was non-document based and the undo system was quite different (plus I
know I did some things wrong MVC-wise in that app).
The documentation I have read tells me that I should implement undo in
the Setter
On Mar 1, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Oliver Charles wrote:
At the moment, I have a main MapView control, which creates vertices
in an NSArrayController. I have 2 ways of viewing these vertices - one
is to handle rendering them directly in the MapView, and another
approach creates a new VertexView for
Please excuse this possibly dumb question but here it is:
Why spend so much time and effort to remove some code that is going to
keep running fine for years?
The class isn't even deprecated yet. It's in this weird going to be
deprecated limbo. How many years does it take between when
On Jan 19, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
3) You've over-architected your drawing code. Typically the fewer
objects that are responsible for drawing (i.e. view objects) the
better. Situations like the one you're describing often arise from
making model objects responsible for their own
On Jan 19, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
I don't get this at all (not just the quoted comments, but going all
the way back to Graham's original statement).
-- If a failure in the drawing code destroys the *data model*
(thereby preventing it from being saved) then there's
On Jan 12, 2009, at 12:19 AM, Gami Ravi wrote:
Hi All,
I want to create custom control that looks like a multiple monitor
control that manages monitors on Mac. The custom control should
allow the rectangle dragging and resizing same way we are moving
monitor rectangle can be moved. If
On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:54 AM, I. Savant wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Paul Bruneau
paul_brun...@special-lite.com wrote:
The way I did a similar thing (and I think this is the standard
way) was to
create a custom NSView subclass to draw the control.
Well ... the *standard* way
Hi-
I ran into a problem with my production scheduling application as the
new year approached.
In IB I am using a 10.0 date formatter bound to NSDate properties of a
model object.
I used: %1m/%1d, %1I:%M%p
which gave me something like: 12/23, 12:30PM
This was used mostly for display,
On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Etienne Guérard wrote:
Maybe it's an illustrative example, not a real one.
Anyway you'd better stick to NSObject.
Object is used to implement the metaclass class hierachy inside the
ObjC runtime.
You normally don't play with it. ;)
It is a real example, but it
On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote:
Hello,
Are there in the Foundation framework (or anywhere else on the Cocoa
platform) path handling routines (directory extraction, path
decomposition) ?
Cheers
There are a group of methods in NSString for working with paths.
On Oct 19, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Ricky Sharp wrote:
I will disagree here. It was so worth the effort to move all my
bitmapped images to vector-based artwork. I got beautiful scaling
from 0.5 to 3.0x to include non-integral scaling factors.
In terms of the statement cannot vectorize a raster
On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is anyone poking around in there? (Not a rhetorical question,
I'm interested in knowing what people do visit that folder for)
Since you ask, in my one-user, non-document-based scheduling app, I
keep the data file in there
On Oct 5, 2008, at 5:51 AM, Howard Oakley wrote:
On 05/10/2008 02:25, David Orriss Jr wrote:
I ran into the same thing. Probably one of my biggest complaints
about Addison is that the ebooks they do are digitally signed and
that
the ONE platform Acrobat reader doesn't support for
On Aug 22, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
Keep all of the tree stuff in your data model. When you need to
refresh any given item, flag that to your parent item, which flags
that to its parent item and so on back to the root. The root object
could have one or more controllers which in
I feel I can nearly grasp what I need to do, but not quite. I know
what I shouldn't be doing--which is what I am doing and I feel I'm a
little in the weeds. I seek a nudge in the right direction if someone
can help.
I have a master-detail setup with a normal table displaying a list of
On Aug 22, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
How about having the object post an NSNotification whenever it's
changed? Your controller can observe the notification call
setNeedsDisplay accordingly.
If you're posting a lot of notifications at the same time, you might
look at
On Aug 22, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Paul Bruneau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am forcing the view to update after a change to one of the order
step
objects in what I am sure is The Wrong Way™ by basically chucking
setNeedsDisplay into areas of my
On Aug 22, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
On 23 Aug 2008, at 12:58 am, Paul Bruneau wrote:
I think I could maybe (maybe!) figure out how do this for the order
(the table's selection), but I am totally lost as to how I would do
it for the order's great-grandchildren order steps
Hi-
Some time ago I got some great advice to help me optimize the refresh
rate of my NSView subclass (the answer is, just draw the minimum that
you need to).
So I am working to do this, but I am having some trouble with the
inter-dependence of various elements that appear in my view.
On Aug 8, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
Are you checking the view's -needsToDrawRect: when you actually
iterate through your rectangles? For a view like this it will be
essential to avoid drawing anything that doesn't need drawing - even
checking thousands of rects for intersection
On May 15, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Torsten Curdt wrote:
I have been thinking about BigNerdRanch. It would have been a great
start ...but I guess now I would be more interested in advanced
topics.
Although Big Nerd Ranch's Cocoa Bootcamp is great for people just
starting in Cocoa, it does
On Apr 11, 2008, at 1:23 PM, allan greenier wrote:
Greetings,
Have I missed this somewhere in the Cocoa - Foundation api?
If I have an NSString that is multi lined (say in contains \n
characters)
is there an api call so I can get line 0, line 1, ect? Or should I
just code that myself?
Hi
On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Jack Repenning wrote:
On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:
There's a *very* simple set of rules to follow regarding retain/
release.
Yes, but where are they documented? Or, if they're so simple, can
you quote them here?
Not to sound querulous, but
On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:27 AM, Ben Lachman wrote:
According to the NSSpeechSynthesizer docs:
speechSynthesizer:didFinishSpeaking: is invoked when the speaking of
the string ends. The second parameter of this method indicates
whether the text was entirely spoken or was disrupted (as might
I am sympathetic to using NSCalendar. At his Boot Camp, Aaron told me
that NSCalendarDate was falling out of favor because it's not a good
player regarding calendars other than Gregorian. I understand this.
However, the documentation really doesn't provide any direction as to
this for a
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