Re: iPhone/iPad device orientation problems

2010-10-13 Thread Philip Mobley
On Oct 13, 2010, at 7:16 PM, William Squires wrote: Hi What's the proper way to force an iOS device to set the orientation to one of UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown ? So

Re: UIButton variations?

2010-10-13 Thread Philip Mobley
On Oct 13, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: I was just wondering, given the single choice of a default UIButton (when compared to all the variations that you have in NSButton on OS X) what you guys were doing whenever you need some kind of spiced up UIButtons. You're rolling your

iOS Popup Menus?

2010-09-13 Thread Philip Mobley
How do you create the popup (and scrollable) contextual style menus that are in Safari's when you click the Bookmark / History button? I can't find a prebuilt class in the UIKit that uses that specific behavior, and find it amazing that there isn't one available. At this point, I am guessing

UIGestureRecognizer and CALayers

2010-08-19 Thread Philip Mobley
Are UIGestureRecognizers allowed to be attached to individual CALayers within a UIView layer hierarchy? I originally posted this to the quartz-dev list, but it was recommended to ask here instead. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

NSCountedSet and NSString values question

2010-08-13 Thread Philip Mobley
I am keeping track of the number of times an object is accessed by key value within a NSDictionary. I am using a manager type class where I request the object from the manager, and it accesses the NSDictionary for the object, therefore I am using a method such as this: - (CGImageRef)

Re: NSCountedSet and NSString values question

2010-08-13 Thread Philip Mobley
On Aug 13, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Greg Guerin wrote: My question is basically how does NSCountedSet handle string values, are they interpreted by their string values or by their object values? If they are by object, then I need to do more work to pull the exact key object from the

CGImage / UIImage non destructive scaling possible

2010-08-07 Thread Philip Mobley
Reading up on the docs for both CGImage and UIImage, I see that there is a scale property, but there doesn't appear to be any way to modify the scale factor of an CGImage without resampling (and therefore changing the pixels). Below is a comment from the UIImage.scale (property) read-only, and

Exit( ) necessary? (oalTouch sample project)

2010-05-27 Thread Philip Mobley
I have a question about the oalTouch example project. Specifically the sample code uses the exit( ) function after encountering an error such as in the sample code below. I looked up the OpenAL documentation for alGetError( ) and no where does the OpenAL documentation for alGetError( )

Re: Exit( ) necessary? (oalTouch sample project)

2010-05-27 Thread Philip Mobley
On May 27, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Luke the Hiesterman wrote: That is most likely there for simplicity of the code example. Since Touch is in the name, I'm assuming this example is for iPhoneOS? If so, please remember that exit() should never be called in an iPhone program. Only the user should

Re: iPhone resource cache - memory question

2010-05-06 Thread Philip Mobley
On May 5, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Shripada Hebbar wrote: I don't see any point in doing this on our own as the iPhone OS anyway gives you memory warning when we are consuming too much of it, and this is the right occasion to cleanup anything that is not needed ( in

Re: iPhone resource cache - memory question

2010-05-06 Thread Philip Mobley
On May 6, 2010, at 11:02 AM, David Duncan wrote: I am trying to implement David Duncan's suggestion, but because I am dealing with images and sound, its not clear how much memory is actually being used (although worst case estimates can be made). For images I would use a cost estimate of

iPhone resource cache - memory question

2010-05-05 Thread Philip Mobley
I am designing a slightly smarter resource cache that purges less frequently used resources instead of a purge all when getting an UIApplication delegate applicationDidReceiveMemoryWarning: message. I know the target (currently) is 20 MBs (although that could change with future hardware). The

CFUUID question

2010-04-28 Thread Philip Mobley
Is my assumption correct that the CFUUID class only generates RANDOM UUID values? (i.e. UUID version 4) I am interested in creating a reproducible UUID based on a string input value (such as UUID version 3 or 5), and this doesn't seem possible with CFUUID.

Re: CFUUID question

2010-04-28 Thread Philip Mobley
On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Douglas Davidson wrote: Is my assumption correct that the CFUUID class only generates RANDOM UUID values? (i.e. UUID version 4) I am interested in creating a reproducible UUID based on a string input value (such as UUID version 3 or 5), and this doesn't seem

Re: question about read-only rule for Memory Management

2010-04-27 Thread Philip Mobley
On Apr 26, 2010, at 10:50 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: No. The get prefix is used for return-via-pointer. For example, -[NSString getCharacters:range]. As documented here http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/CodingGuidelines/Articles/NamingMethods.html.

question about read-only rule for Memory Management

2010-04-26 Thread Philip Mobley
Assume that an array of images is loaded at the start of the app. There are a number of views which will be displaying multiple copies of the image, but they will be accessing the image array as a read-only property, and I do not plan to have these views adjust the reference count for each

Questions about 2D drawing in Cocoa

2010-04-19 Thread Philip Mobley
I am fairly new to Cocoa, and so I have 2 questions I would appreciate some feedback. For a beginner, Cocoa suffers from the too much info problem and its often difficult to find the answers to seemly simple questions. I have had better luck learning from books, and have purchased the

Re: using coregraphics with vector art from illustrator

2010-04-19 Thread Philip Mobley
On Apr 19, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: Is there perhaps a way to create vector art paths in illustrator, and import the data into xcode and use those paths in CG and stroke/fill them there? Save the path as a PDF file, and then load and draw it as an image. Would that make a opaque

What is the best approach for custom tab bar interface?

2010-04-08 Thread Philip Mobley
I need to have a tab style interface, but am not able to use the built in NSTabView because the style is not customizable. Basically I need something similar in look to the Safari tabs, but on a VERTICAL direction. At this point I am thinking about a custom NSView with CALayers for each tab

Re: What is the best approach for custom tab bar interface?

2010-04-08 Thread Philip Mobley
On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Gideon King wrote: Absolutely. Use an NSTabView, but set it to be tabless, and create your own control to change the selected tab. My question isn't how to get the Tabs to work, but the control which controls the tab switching. =) I need to have a tab style

Re: OS X Game Programming

2010-04-07 Thread Philip Mobley
On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Is there an easy way to download the whole package? I looked around and besides downloading each item individually, I didn't see anything like a dmg or zip or svn link. At the far top-right, there is a button labeled Get Source which lets

Re: Wondering about that iPad page curling

2010-04-07 Thread Philip Mobley
On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: Given that the article's title and opening paragraph suggest that it's about something pretty elementary, and site wants a free registration to show you any more, I'd like to hear from people who have read the whole thing whether

Re: iPhone Programming For OS X Coders?

2010-04-06 Thread Philip Mobley
On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Henry McGilton wrote: There's no NSBezierPath parallel on the phone, so you get down into Core Graphics a lot more than with Appkit. iPhone 3.2 SDK just added UIBezierPath, but the 3.2 OS will only run on iPad right now. Who knows if the iPhone will ever run 3.2

Runtime check if C function exists

2010-03-31 Thread Philip Mobley
I am wanting to perform a runtime check to see if a particular C function exists. While in this particular case, the C function I want to use is only available as part of 10.6 SDK (there are examples of this in archives), but I want to know if there is a runtime method similar to @selector

Re: Solving memory leaks

2010-03-28 Thread Philip Mobley
On Mar 28, 2010, at 10:42 AM, mmalc Crawford wrote: That would be gut for the fact that my fields are released and set to nil whenever a new SELECT query is executed - however, I think I can do this by emptying the array when a new query is done and just counting the size of the array in

Re: Compiler Warning: 'NSDate' may not respond to '+dateWithTimeInterval:sinceDate:'

2010-03-26 Thread Philip Mobley
On Mar 26, 2010, at 1:23 AM, Alec Stewart wrote: This compiler warning 'NSDate' may not respond to '+dateWithTimeInterval:sinceDate:' is driving me up the wall. I don't understand why I am getting the warning because, by all indications, +dateWithTimeInterval:sinceDate: has not been