reformat drive to HFS via API

2010-05-25 Thread r c
I would like to be able to reformat a flash drive from control application, but it appears that there is no public API that allows this kind access. Am I missing something in the documentation? Or do I do something like call out to diskutil to make it happen? Rich Collyer

RESOLVED: Blocked Reads

2010-03-17 Thread r c
Thank you all for your ideas. With various suggestions, I found a variation of the CDRomSample code that seems to work well. The sample does reads on the BSN Name of the device root (i.e. /dev/rdisk#). I have found that if I dig a little deeper into the IORegistry for the device (i.e.

determinate NSProgressIndicator animation

2009-08-07 Thread r c
In a determinate NSProgressIndicator the blue portion animates in some application (Finder copy is an easy example). I have noticed that this is not always the case. My guess is that the animation takes place in the main thread of the application, but if the main thread is busy, the animation

Re: determinate NSProgressIndicator animation

2009-08-07 Thread r c
I have read that document, but it indicates that this method (as well as start and stopAnimation:) only apply to indeterminate progress indicators - is this not true? Rich Collyer From: Sean McBride s...@rogue-research.com To: r c iseecol...@sbcglobal.net