Re: finder eject images

2011-07-05 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Ulf Dunkel dun...@calamus.net wrote: Hi Lee Ann. Also I think Apple frowns on copying their icons into your apps. Only the ones you can get through imageNamed: or iconForFileType: are fair game. Wasn't it Steve Jobs who invited us to pick all their nice icons,

Re: Re-using the same NIB on two owners

2011-06-26 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Daniel Luis dos Santos daniel.d...@gmail.com wrote: My problem is that I need to load the same NIB from two different classes, so the owner is different according to which class I load it from. Is there another way to do it without the file's owner ?

Re: ObjC stdin equivalent? and other questions

2011-06-10 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:56 PM, William Squires wsqui...@satx.rr.com wrote: Hi! 1st question:  In regular C, you have the stdio.h functions for reading/writing to stdio; printf(), scanf(), etc...  In C++, you have cin/cout and the overridden '' and '' operators.  What does ObjC have

Re: tools for writing help books

2011-06-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Michael Thon m...@michaelrthon.com wrote: What tools to y'all recommend for writing content for the help viewer on Mac OS? Do you write them directly in html/xhtml? I just use BBEdit and write the markup by hand - HTML ain't exactly rocket surgery to begin with,

Re: What is the point of a host-reachability test that doesn't test the reachability of the host?

2011-06-02 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote: Why does everyone insist on using roundabout ways to detect if maybe a host will accept connections on a completely unrelated port ... when it may not even accept *those* on the next attempt. Can you say race condition?

Re: Using WebKit for UI instead of Cocoa in cross-platform app

2011-05-23 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:52 AM, John Joyce dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: Apps that try to be somehow universal without trying to behave naturally on a given OS usually suffer for it. Even Microsoft had to learn that lesson the hard way - google for Word 6 fiasco. sherm-- --

Re: I'm given a project.pbxproj file....

2011-05-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
Have you tried simply checking out the source tree directly from Subversion? Google Code usually allows anonymous check outs. sherm-- On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:45 PM, R4EE r4eem...@gmail.com wrote: Howard, That was my original approach but the .xcodeproj file wants to save as html.  I then,

Re: Framework Installation Directory

2011-04-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Mr. Gecko grmrge...@gmail.com wrote: I need help with the Installation Directory for a framework that will be shared between a application and 2 daemons within side it. I think I may be able to do it if I were to have the 2 daemons executables in the MacOS path

Re: Framework Installation Directory

2011-04-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
if I was to place it in Contents/Daemon/Daemon.app/Contents/MacOS/Daemon? Thanks for the response, Mr. Gecko On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: The details will vary according to how you've structured your bundles, but the principle is the same. The install name of the framework

Re: Framework Installation Directory

2011-04-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
compiled the daemon, have it run a post script that will change the path to go back 4 directories instead of 1 if I was to place it in Contents/Daemon/Daemon.app/Contents/MacOS/Daemon? Thanks for the response, Mr. Gecko On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: The details will vary

Re: Compiling screensaver for 10.5

2011-04-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Nick Zitzmann n...@chronosnet.com wrote: ppc. The linker may change this to ppc7400 under certain circumstances. This is normal, and only means that your screen saver will not load on G3 Macs. This has to do with the deployment target, right? That is, it will

Re: Test for TCP port

2011-04-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Heizer, Charles heiz...@llnl.gov wrote: What is the best way to test to see if a TCP port is reachable and will answer connections? I was trying to use NSSocketPort and NSConnection but I'm not getting a valid connection. NSSocketPort *sendPort =

Re: special characters are destroyed when copying a string character by character

2011-04-05 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Horst Jäger h.jae...@medienkonzepte.de wrote:                [dst appendFormat:@%c, chr]; %c is the format specifier for 8-bit chars - use %C for 16-bit unichars. sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net

Re: Simulate touch event with cordinate?

2011-04-02 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Jesse Armand mnemonic...@gmail.com wrote: But, my word of advice: People don't read PDFs with the gestures of their face or head. It's just silly. Tell that to Stephen Hawking. There are cases where what seems silly to most of us are the only options one has

Re: Book for expert programmer about cocoa and Objective-C

2011-04-02 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Rodrigo Zanatta Silva rodrigozanattasi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I need to have a good book in my side to program with Objective-C using the cocoa. I read the beginner books like ... for absolute beginner, starting to program with But now, I need a book for

Re: Can't keep untitled windows from opening!

2011-03-31 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Carlos Eduardo Mello carloseme...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't the document subclass the app's delegate by default in the document architecture? No, it isn't. The document's job is to handle per-document responsibilities; the app delegate's job is to handle tasks

Re: doesNotRecognizeSelector exception

2011-03-26 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: I have a protocol and declarations as follows. respondsToSeletor returns NO. If I ignore respondsToSeletor (and send the message), I get an expeption. // FilePicker.m - try both BOOL responds = [delegate

Re: doesNotRecognizeSelector exception

2011-03-26 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: 2011-03-26 22:12:50.029 CryptoSandbox[123:707] -[UIView userSelectedFile:fileSystemObject:suppliedContext:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1dbd00 The delegate message is being sent to an instance of UIView -

Re: Mutable and immutable class cluster implementation / method swizzling question

2011-03-25 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Louis Gerbarg lgerb...@gmail.com wrote: The corner case you mention below ( [myMutableArrayInstance isKindOfClass:[NSMutableArray class]] ) is a nonissue for a somewhat surprising reason. All instances of NSArray are actually implemented via the concrete

Re: Problem opening file

2011-02-22 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Carlos Eduardo Mello carloseme...@gmail.com wrote: I have a configuration file which is used by an internal library in my app's data model engine. The engine was written in c++ and needs this file for loading the app's documents correctly. Theis file never

Re: NSDocument Problems

2011-02-21 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Bruce Cresanta cresa...@me.com wrote: Hello Volker, I have the following two methods implemented in AnalyzerDocument, but I still get greyed menu items. - (NSData *)dataOfType:(NSString *)typeName error:(NSError **)outError - (BOOL)readFromData:(NSData

Re: Two Newbie Questions

2011-02-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Bruce Cresanta cresa...@me.com wrote: I have an NSTableView set up to a datasource of a single array.   When I run my code, I get two columns (the default in IB) instead of just one with the data duplicated in each column.    I only want one column, how best

Re: NSDocument without Save

2011-02-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: I'm trying to prevent NSDocument from doing any saving at all, for a demo version of my app. I need to suppress the menu commands (done) and all the automated UI such as the 'save changes' dialog and 'Save As' dialog

Re: NSDocument Question

2011-02-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bruce Cresanta cresa...@me.com wrote: Ii have two subclasses of NSDocument. One of the subclasses only ever needs one instance window. How do I query NSWindowController for the open window, and if that fails, create it. Sorry for the confusion. Override

Re: Main menu in NSDocument based application

2011-01-31 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Bruce Cresanta cresa...@me.com wrote:        I've been scouring through the docs trying to figure out how to get a reference to the main menu in an NSDocument based app.    I need to make programmatic changes to the menu depending on which NSDocument is key.  

Re: Using NSWindow without NIB (XIB) file ?

2011-01-25 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:48 AM, David Remacle lis...@clampin.com wrote: Is it possible to use NSWindow without NIB file ? Yes. Interface Builder uses documented, public methods to create interface elements before serializing them to a NIB file. You can use the same methods in your app.

Re: printing a different representation than what is on the screen

2011-01-20 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Dave Reed davel...@mac.com wrote: I'm working on a document-based application that has a couple tabs. Most of the tabs contain NSTableViews, NSTextFields, etc. I want to provide a way for the user to print the data contained in them (just text, possibly with

Re: Setting a discontinuous selection in NSMatrix

2011-01-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:45 PM, James Bucanek subscri...@gloaming.com wrote: I have an NSMatrix view that's driving me nuts. It's mode is set to NSListModeMatrix, which allows the user to click, shift+click, command+click, and drag to create arbitrary selections of cells. I can get the set

Re: Gestures

2011-01-17 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:53 AM, koko k...@highrolls.net wrote: My shipping app is developed with 10.6.6 SDK. Some MacBook customers have asked for gesture support. Can I do this?  I have had no luck finding a reference. Yes - the MacBook's screen isn't touch-sensitive, but its trackpad can

Re: NSSegmentedControl Label

2011-01-14 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote: Images-and-text on segmented cells can look atrocious. It can look like Windows. It can look like someone feels like disrespecting platform conventions. But sometimes violating the HIG is precisely the right thing to

Re: Right way to change default app launch behavior?

2011-01-11 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: I have a document-based app. I want to modify the behavior when it launches: instead of opening a new, untitled document, I want it to first check some stuff, then generally re-open the last-opened document. After

Re: LOCATING MEDIA FILES IN MACINTOSH

2011-01-06 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Abhinav Tyagi abhityag...@gmail.com wrote: Problem: Scanning the disc for media files. As the media files can be present anywhere in the disc, searching whole disc by enumerating the directory listings will be very tedious i guess (like combining ls and grep

Re: [Moderator] Re: Mac Apps

2010-12-24 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Scott Anguish sc...@cocoadoc.com wrote: On Dec 24, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: I hope this helps, more than No soup for you!!!” I certainly didn’t mean no soup for you. Godwin! sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl:

Re: Performance: Drawing hundreds of short text strings

2010-12-20 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Joar Wingfors j...@joar.com wrote: On 20 dec 2010, at 01.22, Mark Coniglio wrote: My application needs to draw hundreds of short text strings into an NSView. After reviewing the Cocoa documentation on drawing text, I am left unsure as to how to do this

Re: cannot be sent to an abstract object of class

2010-12-04 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Stephen J. Butler stephen.but...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Shane software.research.developm...@gmail.com wrote: @interface {        NSNumber *rate;        // ... } // ... #end - (id) init {        // …        rate = [[NSNumber

Re: Basic HTTP program failed to compile

2010-12-03 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:06 AM, ico jche...@gmail.com wrote: My program is actually a Mac program rather than iPhone In that case... On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:49 AM, ico jche...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Drawers on windows...

2010-11-30 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:06 PM, lbland lbl...@vvi.com wrote: When drawers first came out they were all the rage. Then they went out of favor by some, so much so I thought they would be depreciated. But, it seems like drawers are sticking around. But, on the other hand, drawers seem to

Re: Foundation vs Core Foundation

2010-11-29 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Jon Sigman rf_...@yahoo.com wrote: Before I start down the wrong path: What is the difference between a Foundation tool and a Core Foundation tool? You mean, the project types when you start a new project in Xcode? A Core Foundation tool links against (you

Re: Notification of CD-ROM inserted

2010-11-21 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Bilel Mhedhbi bilel.mhed...@gmail.comwrote: I want my application to be notified when a CD-ROM is inserted. Watch for NSWorkspaceDidMountNotification notifications. See:

Re: valueForKeyPath: not found in protocol

2010-11-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Remco Poelstra re...@beryllium.net wrote: Op 16 nov 2010, om 12:18 heeft Mark Wright het volgende geschreven: You need to write your protocol declaration in AudionetQueueDelegateProtocol.h as: @protocol AudionetQueueDelegate NSObject That does not seem

Re: valueForKeyPath: not found in protocol

2010-11-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Sherm Pendley sherm.pend...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Remco Poelstra re...@beryllium.netwrote: Op 16 nov 2010, om 12:18 heeft Mark Wright het volgende geschreven: You need to write your protocol declaration

Re: How to remove 'not found in protocol' compiler warning

2010-11-12 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Paul Johnson p...@askerko.net wrote: I'm getting a compiler warning message at the following line of code: NSArray *selectedObjects = [[secondTableView dataSource] selectedObjects]; The warning message is 'selectedObjects' not found in protocol. Note

Re: image arithmetic

2010-11-10 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Amy Gibbs h...@willowtreecrafts.co.uk wrote:        //calc image width        float width = 300 / ki;        NSLog(@Width: %@,width); Width isn't an object. Use %f to print a float. sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net

Re: Understanding the Run loop idea and the updating of controls during long operations

2010-11-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:35 AM, eveningnick eveningnick eveningn...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to be trying to find ways to use the frameworks in ways that are not intended. Why are you not using NSApplicationMain in the normal way? Just for the sake of my own understanding. An admirable

Re: Interrupt copyItemAtPath

2010-11-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:09 PM, gMail.com mac.iphone@gmail.com wrote: I have checked FSCopyObjectAsync and the copy works well. I can get my callback function called so I can observe the working progress as the kFSOperationBytesCompleteKey and kFSOperationTotalBytesKey and get the

Re: Interrupt copyItemAtPath

2010-11-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, gMail.com mac.iphone@gmail.com wrote: A quick question more please. As I have seen on the Apple sample code FSFileOperation, I can wait until FSCopyObjectAsync is done, using CFRunLoopRunInMode.        while(!gFileCopiedDone !mUserPressedStop){          

Re: NSDictionary casting

2010-11-05 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Dan Hopwood d...@biasdevelopment.com wrote: I am using XML-RPC technology to invoke a website back end. I used the Wordpress project to extract what I needed in order to send off requests and decode what I get back from the webservice. This works. The

Re: Set Icon For Document-Based Files

2010-11-04 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Markus Spoettl msappleli...@toolsfactory.com wrote: On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:21 AM, PJBorges wrote: I have done that, and yet my application registers no changes. It still saves the data with the plain white icon. Is it possible that you have multiple copies of the

Re: init method ambiguity

2010-11-04 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Jonny Taylor j.m.tay...@durham.ac.uk wrote: This leads me to believe that what I am writing is not actually doing anything wrong, and the compiler warning is associated with the fact that [MyClassA alloc] returns a plain id leaving the compiler to do some

Re: init method ambiguity

2010-11-04 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Jonny Taylor j.m.tay...@durham.ac.uk wrote: One workaround is to include explicit casts like I have shown. However this leaves me wondering whether it goes against convention and/or recommendations to have two init methods with the same name but different

Re: init method ambiguity

2010-11-04 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Sherm Pendley sherm.pend...@gmail.com wrote: - (id)initForCamera:(idCameraProtocol)cam {    [self release]; I remember there being a bit of contention on this, but Greg Parker's wisdom

Re: Set Icon For Document-Based Files

2010-11-04 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:39 PM, PJBorges philipjbor...@gmail.com wrote: Does it matter where you put the key CFBundleTypeIconFile in the info.plist file? To some extent, yes - the overall structure of the .plist must be right. That is, the CFBundleDocumentTypes key must have an array of

Re: Set Icon For Document-Based Files

2010-11-04 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Sherm Pendley sherm.pend...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:39 PM, PJBorges philipjbor...@gmail.com wrote: Does it matter where you put the key CFBundleTypeIconFile in the info.plist file? To some extent, yes - the overall structure of the .plist

Re: Set Icon For Document-Based Files

2010-11-03 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:17 AM, PJBorges philipjbor...@gmail.com wrote: How do I change that standard icon into a custom one? I've tried to add this to the Info.plist file, according to apple's documentation: keyCFBundleTypeIconFile/key stringmyCustomIcon/string Some things to check:

Re: Set Icon For Document-Based Files

2010-11-03 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:50 AM, PJBorges philipjbor...@gmail.com wrote: Some things to check: Second, did you forget to include the extension, or was that just a typo in your email?         I haven't included the extentions, icns, since the documentation says that it is not necessary. I

Re: Operating with a file /Library/LaunchAgents/my.application.plist from a non-root application

2010-10-31 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:31 AM, eveningnick eveningnick eveningn...@gmail.com wrote: Hello How, using an ordinary application (started by doubleclicking from /Applications), i could create/modify/delete that file? Is it possible at all, according to OS X current security model? Not unless

Re: Adding and removing menu items causes memory usage to grow

2010-10-27 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, George Nachman gnach...@llamas.org wrote: I was tracking down memory growth in my application and isolated it to the repeated adding and removing of menu items. Doing this causes a growth of about 1MB:    for (int i = 0; i 1000; ++i) {

Re: The dreaded UITableView won't refresh problem.

2010-10-12 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Fritz Anderson fri...@manoverboard.org wrote: On 12 Oct 2010, at 2:58 PM, G S wrote: Wow, nobody has seen this problem?  Lovely. You expect a mailing list consisting of people reading in their spare time, and writing out of charity, most of whom have been

Re: Google custom search

2010-10-11 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote: A while back someone set up a Google custom search that was tailored to find Cocoa info, and posted it on this list.  As I recall it searched a pretty good list of sites. I just use the site: feature on Google. For example:

Re: ivars and fundamental types

2010-10-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: Can I not use the objective-C runtime to get and set an objects ivar's if they are of primitive types like int and float? Of course you can - it would be useless otherwise. Where did you get the idea you can't? sherm-- --

Re: Disable NSSavePanel's New Folder button dynamically?

2010-10-05 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Kevin Wojniak kain...@kainjow.com wrote: I'm assuming the answer is no, as I've looked over the documentation, but just incase I missed something: is there a way to prevent NSSavePanel's New Folder button from being enabled on the fly? [thePanel

Re: Linked List

2010-09-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Fritz Anderson fri...@manoverboard.org wrote: On 18 Sep 2010, at 6:09 PM, k...@highrolls.net wrote: What is the Cocoa equivalent of a doubly linked list? Should I consider NSMutablearray as the analog? Yes. The Foundation data types are distinguished by

Re: Statically link libmysqlclient.a to my Foundation tool

2010-08-20 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Heizer, Charles heiz...@llnl.gov wrote: I have been googling for a while now and have tried a few suggestions I have found in other like posts but have not had much success. I'm trying to create a stand alone Foundation tool which will connect to MySQL and I

Re: Statically link libmysqlclient.a to my Foundation tool

2010-08-20 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Heizer, Charles heiz...@llnl.gov wrote: Thanks for the quick response. So I just tried this and I'm having the same issue. I changed my Other linker flags as suggested and when I try to run this without the libmysqlclient.dylib in my path it still complains

Re: Trying to capture XML data and convert to a String...

2010-08-19 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM, R r4eem...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new and in the process of learning Objective-C and Cocoa. I want to take some raw XML data, isolate, and convert to a string.  I seem to be able to capture the data I want, but cannot seem to get into a string format.  

Re: Set the Cursor Position

2010-08-19 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Murat Konar mu...@pixar.com wrote: CGDisplayMoveCursorToPoint(CGDirectDisplayID display, CGPoint point); But heed the other's hints that, except for special classes of software (like a VNC app), software that warps the pointer's location independent of the

Re: stringByReplacingCharactersInRange leading to bus error

2010-08-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Murat Konar mu...@pixar.com wrote: On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:06 AM, John C. Randolph wrote: -stringByReplacingCharactersInString: creates and returns a new string, which is autoreleased. Always? Yes, always. I recall running into a problem that was caused by

Re: stringByReplacingCharactersInRange leading to bus error

2010-08-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Sherm Pendley sherm.pend...@gmail.com wrote: Possibly, but even in that case it would still have to return [[self retain] autorelease]; in order to fulfill its end of the memory

Re: stringByReplacingCharactersInRange leading to bus error

2010-08-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Sherm Pendley sherm.pend...@gmail.com wrote: The [foo release] is perfectly correct, but if -stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString: is implemented with a simple return self

Re: stringByReplacingCharactersInRange leading to bus error

2010-08-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Sherm Pendley sherm.pend...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, on that very page, at http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Articles

Re: stringByReplacingCharactersInRange leading to bus error

2010-08-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Martin Wierschin mar...@nisus.com wrote: On 2010.08.18, at 2:08 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: Implementing -stringByReplacing... as return [[self retain] autorelease]; makes the same guarantee, that the object returned by -stringByReplacing... will remain valid

Re: Wow! Just installed OPENSTEP ENTERPRISE 4.2

2010-08-06 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Todd Heberlein todd_heberl...@mac.com wrote: It took a lot longer to bring out Mac OS X than I expected after the acquisition. We never got our yellow box for windows (with the promised free runtime libraries). Have you seen Cocotron?

Re: Calling Matlab from Cocoa

2010-07-30 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Chris Goedde cgg.li...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone here have any experience calling Matlab from a Cocoa program? I have a rather complex calculation that I've implemented in Matlab that I would like to call from a Cocoa program. (I could re-implement it in

Re: Elapsed time vs sleep

2010-07-26 Thread Sherm Pendley
That depends on what you mean when you say animation. NSTimer works fine for triggering screen updates. But if your animation is physics-based - a 3d shooter game, for instance - you'll want something like the aforementioned mach_absolute_time to keep the animation smooth. sherm-- On Mon, Jul

Re: NSTask

2010-07-26 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:39 PM, k...@highrolls.net wrote: where is rm? Ironically, that's almost exactly the shell command you'd use to find it: whereis rm. :-) Bill's right though - NSFileManager seems like a much better way to do this. sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl:

Re: Screen pixels changed notification?

2010-07-26 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Ryan Joseph r...@thealchemistguild.org wrote: Are there any notifications I could get that would tell me if screen pixels changed I don't know of any Objective-C methods - you might have a look at the Core Graphics function CGRegisterScreenRefreshCallback().

Re: NSInteger compare - Help Needed

2010-07-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Steve Wetzel stevewet...@mac.com wrote: Thanks guys, that was the problem,  There are so many little things to learn with Objective C. Out of curiosity, what programming language are you comparing it to? I've used *many* of them over the past twenty years, and

Re: Link Error: following -F not found

2010-07-17 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Joseph Ayers lobs...@neu.edu wrote: ld: warning: directory '/Users/lobster/Programming/Roboplasm/../../../core-plot/framework/build/Debug' following -F not found I can't find a reference to core-plot anywhere in the code. It's not coming from your code,

Re: modal loops memory

2010-07-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Scott Ribe scott_r...@killerbytes.com wrote: Does [NSApp runModalForWindow: ...] wrap an autorelease pool around its event handling? Yes, autorelease pools work normally during a modal session. sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://www.camelbones.org

Re: Sanity Check

2010-07-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM, k...@highrolls.net wrote: his seems weird. Why assign the panel/window to your own ivar when this is exactly -[NSWindowController window] is designed to do for you? I was thinking I might need to reference it and rather than call for it just have it hanging

Re: eval?

2010-05-31 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Louis-Philippe defa...@spiralix.org wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but there is no way in objective-c to do a runtime string execution for which the responding object is not an Objective-C class? like, if I have a c++ lib I would like to call from within an

Re: isKindofClass with NSData and NSKeyUnarchiver

2010-05-28 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Philip Vallone philip.vall...@verizon.net wrote: This is a relative question, which depends on how the data is coming and going. My question comes from the following situation. Suppose I have a GKSession that is passing information via Bluetooth. The sender

Re: subclass overwriting superclass ivar

2010-05-26 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, vincent habchi vi...@macports.org wrote: Le 26 mai 2010 à 13:40, jonat...@mugginsoft.com a écrit : A subclass ivar is apparently overwriting a super class ivar. When an instance of MGS_B sets stderrData the super class ivar tempFilePath gets overwritten. If

Re: Crash trying to unarchive webview from IB document

2010-05-25 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Laurent Daudelin laurent.daude...@gmail.com wrote: I was doing a little demo to a colleague this morning and built a simple app consisting of a text field and a web view in IB. I was able to run the thing from IB but when I tried to compile it as release and

Re: Regarding MVC design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Joanna Carter cocoa...@carterconsulting.org.uk wrote: Any outlets for controls (top level objects) in the Nib should be released in the dealloc method only for OS X apps but not for iPhone apps. Setting the properties to nil will ensure that the synthesized

Re: Synthesized ivar for std::tr1::shared_ptrMyClass?

2010-05-06 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Barry Wark barryw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm no C++ guru, so I'm hoping someone can help me by explaining why the following gives a compiler error: I'm no guru either, but my guess would be that the interaction between synthesized ivars and C++ templates is rocky

Re: Seeking a graceful way to end a program

2010-04-29 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Markus Spoettl msappleli...@toolsfactory.com wrote: On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I would like to have some guidance on the proper way to 'gracefully' terminate a program that cannot proceed, for example, when some critical resource can't be

Re: Introspecting the current method

2010-04-18 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: On 19/04/2010, at 10:14 AM, Dave DeLong wrote: If I'm inside a method, is there a way to know at runtime whether that method is a class or an instance method?  Currently the only way I though of to do this is to see

Re: NSTask dilema...

2010-03-31 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet jeannicolasco...@gmail.com wrote: I have to run a bunch of NSTasks and I'm not sure to proceed considering I want to be able to update the UI when a task is completed, and I want the process to be as fast as possible (obviously)... So

Re: NSImage and NSBitmapImageRep

2010-03-17 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Martin Beroiz martinber...@gmail.com wrote: So how would you guys do this? Initialize an empty NSImage using -initWithSize:, which according to its description does not add any image representations to the image object. Then add your NSImageRep to it with

Re: Threads Question

2010-03-17 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Philippe Sismondi psismo...@arqux.com wrote: So, I want to launch the secondary task in a separate thread to keep the main runloop responsive. NSTask only blocks the runloop if you call -waitUntilExit. So - don't do that. :-) sherm-- -- Cocoa programming

Re: short question but I don't know how to describe it

2010-03-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Marx Bievor mar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I can substitute a String with %@ and an int with %d... like in return @Hi I am %@ and %d years old, name, age; what is the right command to substitute a bool and a float? I cannot find any reference at apple's docs.

Re: How a window was closed?

2010-03-05 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Eric Gorr mail...@ericgorr.net wrote: My point is not that I don't know how to fix it or cannot (as an absolute) fix it, but that it is not practical to fix it at this time, so I need a way to determine how the window was closed. Given that there's no reliable

Re: Carbon is C++?

2010-02-25 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Dave Carrigan d...@rudedog.org wrote: On Feb 25, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote: is Apple's Carbon basically code written in C++, while Cocoa is written in Objective-C?  should developers avoid using frameworks written in C++ (like some sound frameworks)?

Re: Carbon is C++?

2010-02-25 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Stephen J. Butler stephen.but...@gmail.com wrote: Apple has deprecated libraries/frameworks. They haven't stopped supporting any languages though. I'm pretty sure they no longer support Pascal. ;-) sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl:

Re: Odd NSString behavior

2010-02-24 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM, McLaughlin, Michael P. mp...@mitre.org wrote: This is just a minor glitch but I hate loose ends. I have a Cocoa app as a resource in my MainBundle.  If I try to get its executable via the obvious NSString * linrgPath = [myBundle pathForResource:

Re: Looking for info on anti-piracy and trial-mode techniques for my app . . .

2010-02-24 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Michael A. Crawford michaelacrawf...@me.com wrote: I've purchased apps from other developers on this forum, which have mechanisms for limiting functionality until a valid registration code has been provided.  I'd like to include this functionality in my own

Re: Embedded frameworks and hard links

2010-02-24 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Ashley Clark acl...@ghoti.org wrote: I've been using an embedded framework in a couple of my apps for database access. I've recently created an Automator action which also embeds this framework, built from within the same project. This Automator action is, in

Re: NSString category name collision?

2010-01-26 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote: Yes. To avoid these kinds of collisions, if you add a category method to an external class you should add some sort of hopefully-unique prefix to its name. CocoaDev has a list of prefixes many people are using. Since it's

Re: dynamic typing in a text field

2010-01-25 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ronald Hofmann pro...@jumbosoft.de wrote: I want a textfield in my project which triggers a method while I´m writing in it. I saw this option 'continous' in the interface builder which works fine with sliders. While I move the slider the method executes.

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