Re: Quitting all active applications

2008-08-28 Thread Phil Faber
un another memory / processor intensive app. I could just quit each one individually but I guess I'm lazy! I'm not suggesting anything more sinister! Thanks to you & everyone for the advice. Phil On 28 Aug 2008, at 12:12, Rob Keniger wrote: On 28/08/2008, at 8:36 PM, Phil F

Quitting all active applications

2008-08-28 Thread Phil Faber
Is there a simple way to quit all running applications? Basically I want to achieve the same result as the first stage of hitting 'shut down' (closing all applications) without actually shutting down the system. Thanks. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: How to get array of characters from NSString

2008-08-08 Thread Phil Faber
I'm a newbie myself but this might help you: As far as I know, [ob characterAtIndex:] (replacing with the character you are after) ..will extract the single character at index . For example: NSLog(@"%c",[ob characterAtIndex:i]); Outputs to the console that character in question. P

[Newbie] Extracting a specific character number from a string

2008-08-06 Thread Phil Faber
I'm trying to learn more about string manipulation and want to be able to extract a single character from a string. I think I need to use subStringWithRange (exacting from and to the same character location) but I'm not sure and I'm also unsure how to code it. Basically I'm after the equiv

How to locate coding examples for specified commands [Newbie]

2008-07-26 Thread Phil Faber
Can anyone direct me to an on-line resource that includes examples of how to use specific Cocoa commands? (Are things like - (NSString *)capitalizedString called 'commands' or should I call them something else?) It's often so much easier to understand how it works by seeing an example.

Re: Obtaining the number of characters in a string

2008-07-20 Thread Phil Faber
Thanks to all who helped me with this challenge of obtaining the number of characters in a string. On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:12, Tim Isted wrote: Try using [text2 setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", [[Field1 stringValue] length]]]; Using setIntValue on a text field won't set the

Obtaining the number of characters in a string

2008-07-20 Thread Phil Faber
Still struggling with documentation! Simple task. I have two text fields (text1 & text2) and all I'm trying to achieve is to put into text2 a number specifying how many characters there are in the text in text1. I started with: [text2 setStringValue:[text1 stringValue]]; ..just to make s

Newbie: How to understand Xcode's documentation

2008-07-15 Thread Phil Faber
Hi all. As a relative newbie I'm eager to learn but my biggest stumbling block is understanding that the XCode's Help>Documentation actually means; can someone guide me? For example, if I want to put a substring of a larger string (eg. "ertyu" from "qwertyuiop") into a second field, I sea