Re: Any way to determine where a string will be truncated?

2014-01-17 Thread T.J. Usiyan
I think that you might want NSLayoutManager. This depends on how you are displaying the text, NSLayout manager can allow you to both find out and change where truncation will happen. WWDC 2013 session 220 has some info about iOS's version of this which is very similar to Cococa's. TJ On Fri,

Re: Apple Sample Code WWDC 2010 session 114 (2551)

2013-11-09 Thread T.J. Usiyan
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=wwdc On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:23 PM, 2551 2551p...@gmail.com wrote: For all those interested: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqdsguiap4qs9ec/WWDC_2010_114.zip Best Phil http://applehelpwriter.com On 9 Nov 2013, at 01:54, Brian Clark

Re: No options constant

2013-10-17 Thread T.J. Usiyan
I am not sure that there is a catch-all 'no options' constant. I did find framework specific examples like kCFDateFormatterNoStyle, kCFNumberFormatterNoStyle, kCollectionDontWantTag, kCollectionDontWantId, kCollectionDontWantSize, kCollectionDontWantAttributes, kCollectionDontWantIndex,

Re: The cost of using objects rather than plain C variables

2013-07-07 Thread T.J. Usiyan
The short answer is yes the overhead of an object versus a primitive value is huge. The longer answer is that however tiny you think the difference might be, you need to multiply it by somewhere between 200,000 and 600,000 to really get a sense for the difference in context. For the same reasons

Re: book for n00b

2013-01-16 Thread T.J. Usiyan
I would suggest starting with this book by Aaron Hillegass : Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guidehttp://www.bignerdranch.com/book/objective-c_programming_the_big_nerd_ranch_guide. An alternative is Stephen Kochan's Programming Objective

Re: ARC not ready for primetime?

2012-03-24 Thread T.J. Usiyan
Could you post the code for the sublayer and what is the residual memory? On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Scott Andrew scottand...@roadrunner.comwrote: I seem to have hit a few limitations with ARC. 1.) Subclasses of CALayer are not being fully released which causes my view controller to

Re: makeObjectsPerformSelector on a sub class

2012-03-22 Thread T.J. Usiyan
Does it work if you use a for in loop? TJ On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Mar 21, 2012, at 13:23 , Quincey Morris wrote: One thing to check: if your 'scrambleState' actually has a parameter: - (void) scrambleState: …

Re: makeObjectsPerformSelector on a sub class

2012-03-22 Thread T.J. Usiyan
Another option would be a container holding just the tiles. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:06 PM, James Bucanek subscri...@gloaming.comwrote: Pascal Harris mailto:45rpmlists@googlemail.**com45rpmli...@googlemail.com wrote (Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:56 AM -): Now I want to scramble the

Re: CALayer composition changes with frame position

2012-03-22 Thread T.J. Usiyan
How is the red rectangle drawn? I don't have any great insight right now other than the fact that the change you are talking about happens at a specific place. When the top aligns with the red rectangle. You might consider color space or something like that. Maybe (and I am most certainly guessing

Re: Why so many public properties all up in my grizzle?

2012-03-22 Thread T.J. Usiyan
2) Technically, nothing is truly private in Objective-C, so let's stop trying to completely prevent people from using private APIs. contradiction++ ___ Not quite. You actually CAN hide the ivars and it is odd to expose them because you have

Re: Why so many public properties all up in my grizzle?

2012-03-22 Thread T.J. Usiyan
Well damn, @package accomplishes the 'compilation unit' request. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:36 PM, T.J. Usiyan griotsp...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Technically, nothing is truly private in Objective-C, so let's stop trying to completely prevent people from using private APIs. contradiction