Re: Swift program termination...

2015-05-26 Thread Randy Widell
(done, wait) == 0) { break } } while(true) On May 24, 2015, at 09:58, Randy Widell randy.wid...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, interesting. I'll give that a shot, thanks. On May 24, 2015, at 08:58, Stephen J. Butler stephen.but...@gmail.com wrote: I think you

Swift program termination...

2015-05-24 Thread Randy Widell
I’m messing around with Swift to create a network server daemon. Maybe I am thinking too much like a C / C++ programmer, but I am trying to figure out how to gracefully exit when launchd unloads the daemon. Normally, you would just trap SIGTERM, but I’m just not finding anything online about

Re: Swift program termination...

2015-05-24 Thread Randy Widell
, and then resume it. On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Randy Widell randy.wid...@gmail.com wrote: I’m messing around with Swift to create a network server daemon. Maybe I am thinking too much like a C / C++ programmer, but I am trying to figure out how to gracefully exit when launchd unloads

Clear NSSearchField

2014-10-18 Thread Randy Widell
It looks like a couple of people have asked about this in the past, but none of the answers are working for me. I am trying to clear the contents of a NSSearchField and have it go back to its empty state. I don’t have a pre-Yosemite Mac handy to check if this is a bug / new behavior in

Re: Clear NSSearchField

2014-10-18 Thread Randy Widell
Yeah, I tried that initially. An invalid parameter exception comes flying out of NSCell’s setStringValue. On Oct 18, 2014, at 14:59, Gerd Knops ge...@bitart.com wrote: Did you try to set it ti nil instead of an empty string? Gerd On Oct 18, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Randy Widell randy.wid

Re: Clear NSSearchField

2014-10-18 Thread Randy Widell
the search field. On Oct 18, 2014, at 15:19, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014, at 04:51 PM, Randy Widell wrote: That works somewhat, but not really. Half the time the search field remains the first responder as if the call to set the outline view as the first

Re: Toolbar icons, yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Randy Widell
1) This is pretty easy. Just create a Pop Up Button, then switch its style to “Pull Down”. This will give you a push button with the single down arrow on the right. Then just edit the Pop Up Button’s menu. You can give it an icon, and then size it down horizontally so that only the icon is

Re: Toolbar icons, yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Randy Widell
will not display in the menu during run time. On Oct 18, 2014, at 17:31, Randy Widell randy.wid...@gmail.com wrote: 1) This is pretty easy. Just create a Pop Up Button, then switch its style to “Pull Down”. This will give you a push button with the single down arrow on the right. Then just

Re: Toolbar icons, yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Randy Widell
I second this site. It’s really useful for finding icons. Just be warned that some of them don’t look like Apple icons and may feel out of place, even with the new flat design style. Agreed. They work well for the application I am working on, but, yeah, that might not be the case for

Self KVO...

2014-10-09 Thread Randy Widell
I’m not sure I am having a hard time figuring this out and I am just not finding anything via Google. I am writing a NSTextFieldCell subclass and I want to recalculate the size whenever the string value changes via a binding. What I can’t seem to figure out is how to observe the change. I

Re: Self KVO...

2014-10-09 Thread Randy Widell
On Oct 9, 2014, at 21:13, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On Oct 9, 2014, at 10:56 PM, Randy Widell randy.wid...@gmail.com wrote: I’m not sure I am having a hard time figuring this out and I am just not finding anything via Google. I am writing a NSTextFieldCell subclass and I

Question about docs / window controllers...

2012-11-28 Thread Randy Widell
What are the best practices concerning connecting documents and window controllers? I understand that when I pop up a window related to a document, I need to add the window controller to the document with addWindowController:. One thing I am not clear on is how to handle a modal sheet in

Re: Question about docs / window controllers...

2012-11-28 Thread Randy Widell
Yep. Cool, thanks. On Nov 28, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Randy Widell wrote: Ah, ok. So, just make the sheet another window in the same XIB and use the same window controller. Makes sense. Or in a different nib. It really

Re: NSArrayController KVO question...

2012-11-23 Thread Randy Widell
, it may be better to use the title property of the menu to switch the title between Archive and Unarchive rather than display a check mark next to Archive. Anyway, thanks again for your help. On Nov 22, 2012, at 12:16 PM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: On 22 Nov 2012, at 18:57, Randy Widell

Re: NSArrayController KVO question...

2012-11-22 Thread Randy Widell
, then iterating over selectedObjects and changing the property on each. On Nov 22, 2012, at 1:36, jonat...@mugginsoft.com jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: On 21 Nov 2012, at 22:19, Randy Widell bornagainsl...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. Well, I am updating the model (and the database that backs it). I

Re: NSArrayController KVO question...

2012-11-22 Thread Randy Widell
: On 22 Nov 2012, at 18:57, Randy Widell bornagainsl...@gmail.com wrote: Right, and in other places it works for me. For instance, I have a window with text fields bound to a model object through an object controller. Updating properties of the model updates the text fields. Reading your

Re: IBOutlet NSNumber

2012-11-21 Thread Randy Widell
the user's selection. Thanks for the help. On Oct 13, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On Oct 13, 2012, at 11:17 PM, Randy Widell wrote: Wow. Woah. OK, sorry my ignorance offends. I didn't express offense. At least, I didn't intend to. What in the world was I

NSArrayController KVO question...

2012-11-21 Thread Randy Widell
Searching around the Internet, I see a lot of questions and answers about how to observe changes to properties of objects in a NSArrayController. Everything I have seen, though, relates to a third object doing the observing. For instance: [arrayController addObserver: viewObject forKeyPath:

Re: NSArrayController KVO question...

2012-11-21 Thread Randy Widell
. Not sure I want to re-query the database to update the full contents of the array controller either...unless it's necessary. On Nov 21, 2012, at 13:46, jonat...@mugginsoft.com jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: On 21 Nov 2012, at 20:42, Randy Widell bornagainsl...@gmail.com wrote: Searching

IBOutlet NSNumber

2012-10-13 Thread Randy Widell
Quick question… For some reason I cannot find an answer. I have a NSWindowController subclass and I want to bind the selection index of a NSComboBox to a NSNumber that is an IBOutlet of the NSWindowController subclass. I have a NSNumber object in the window's XIB and the object is linked to

Re: IBOutlet NSNumber

2012-10-13 Thread Randy Widell
PM, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On Oct 13, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Randy Widell wrote: Quick question… For some reason I cannot find an answer. I have a NSWindowController subclass and I want to bind the selection index of a NSComboBox to a NSNumber that is an IBOutlet

File types...

2012-03-27 Thread Randy Widell
OK, this is killing me…primarily because I have had this working in other applications and cannot find the difference between this current application and others where it works. I have an application that opens one file type, and I have the following document type declaration (anonymized):

Re: File types...

2012-03-27 Thread Randy Widell
) only: success. Thanks so much. That was driving me crazy. Randy Widell On Mar 27, 2012, at 7:50 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Mar 26, 2012, at 11:14 PM, Randy Widell bornagainsl...@gmail.com wrote: It is a custom UTI, so, of course, I export it: keyUTExportedTypeDeclarations/key array

Re: File types...

2012-03-27 Thread Randy Widell
that again. So, all is right with the world, I guess. On Mar 27, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Randy Widell wrote: Yup, that was it. public.data has to be the first item in the array. I tried: * public.database (item 0) only: fail. * public.database (item 0), public.data (item 1): fail

Key equivalents for non-menu items

2011-02-15 Thread Randy Widell
I am trying to wrap my mind around something and the Apple docs are just not helping. I am not sure if I am looking in the wrong places or what, but I am just not getting it. Binding a menu item to First Responder and setting a key equivalent for the menu item is trivial. However, what if

Re: Key equivalents for non-menu items

2011-02-15 Thread Randy Widell
On 2/15/11 6:11 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Randy Widellbornagainsl...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to wrap my mind around something and the Apple docs are just not helping. I am not sure if I am looking in the wrong places or what, but I am just not getting it.

Re: Key equivalents for non-menu items

2011-02-15 Thread Randy Widell
On 2/15/11 7:49 PM, Graham Cox wrote: On 16/02/2011, at 2:36 PM, Randy Widell wrote: I have a view displaying waveforms. I would like to have a keyboard shortcut that tags a location on the waveforms at the location of the mouse cursor. These commands do not make any sense in the main menu

Re: Key equivalents for non-menu items

2011-02-15 Thread Randy Widell
On 2/15/11 8:20 PM, mlist0...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 15, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Randy Widell wrote: I would like to have a keyboard shortcut that tags a location on the waveforms at the location of the mouse cursor. These commands do not make any sense in the main menu...they could go

RE: synthesised variables on 64-bit

2008-10-06 Thread Randy Widell
Are you running the app in the debugger? If you're building a 4-way universal binary, then the debugger will always launch the 32-bit version of the executable, even if you're using a 64-bit Mac. If you want to build the app for 64-bit only, then you have to manually set the architectures

Interface Builder changing size of controls...

2008-09-07 Thread Randy Widell
I cannot seem to find any documentation on this behavior and I really do not understand what Interface Builder is doing and why. Sometimes, when I add a control to a window, it automatically sets the control size to mini. For instance, I added a multiline label to a new window to advise the user

User input while reading document

2008-09-07 Thread Randy Widell
I am writing an application that supports a couple of different document types. One of the document types is a subset of another, so I am using the same document class for both. When opening the subset type, however, I need the user to specify a few things about how to import the data. As for