Re: Best way to put a fixed view in a UITableViewController scene?

2013-11-27 Thread Diederik Meijer | Ten Horses
Not if your UITableView has only one section and you use the section's header 
view in the way Marcelo suggests. Sections headers scroll up to the top and 
then remain there - visible - while additional cells scroll underneath it…




Op Nov 27, 2013, om 4:30 AM heeft Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com het 
volgende geschreven:

 
 On Nov 26, 2013, at 19:18 , Marcelo Alves marcelo.al...@me.com wrote:
 
 Probably I’m missing something or I’m just naïve (or stupid), but what about 
 the tableHeaderView (or tableFooterView) property? (not the same as section 
 headers)
 
 It scrolls with the table content.
 
 -- 
 Rick
 
 
 
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iTunes Parental Preferences doesn't change on editing plist file on Mavericks OS X

2013-11-27 Thread Arjun SM
Hi all,

I have an application which monitors the iTunes plist file to control the
Parental tab settings and I am running to an issue on Mavericks 10.9.

On Mountain Lion 10.8.x and Lion OS X 10.7.x , I would monitor and update
the plist file present at path
 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist for some of the settings and
the same would reflect on Parental control tab in iTunes Preference window
User Interface.
On OSX Mavericks 10.9, updating iTunes plist file does not reflect on the
Parental control tab in iTunes Preference window User Interface. But If I
change the settings by navigating to the Parental control tab in
Preferences window, the same would reflect in the
 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist.

How can I monitor the iTunes plist file on Mavericks OS X so that if I
update few fields at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist file ,
the same would reflect on the UI as well.

thanks,
~Arjun
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Re: Best way to put a fixed view in a UITableViewController scene?

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Mann
Multiple sections.

-- 
Rick


 On Nov 27, 2013, at 1:03, Diederik Meijer | Ten Horses 
 diede...@tenhorses.com wrote:
 
 Not if your UITableView has only one section and you use the section's header 
 view in the way Marcelo suggests. Sections headers scroll up to the top and 
 then remain there - visible - while additional cells scroll underneath it…
 
 
 
 
 Op Nov 27, 2013, om 4:30 AM heeft Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com het 
 volgende geschreven:
 
 
 On Nov 26, 2013, at 19:18 , Marcelo Alves marcelo.al...@me.com wrote:
 
 Probably I’m missing something or I’m just naïve (or stupid), but what 
 about the tableHeaderView (or tableFooterView) property? (not the same as 
 section headers)
 
 It scrolls with the table content.
 
 -- 
 Rick
 
 
 
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Re: Best way to put a fixed view in a UITableViewController scene?

2013-11-27 Thread Ray Raphaël
I do the following, the property *tableView in UITableViewController is not 
backed by a _tableView instance variable, so I synthesize that (@synthesize 
tableView = _tableView;) and then in viewDidLoad:

if (!_tableView  [self.view isKindOfClass:[UITableView class]]) 
self.tableView = (UITableView *)self.view;
self.view = [[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[UIScreen 
mainScreen].applicationFrame] autorelease];
self.tableView.frame = self.view.bounds;
[self.view addSubview:self.tableView];

Then add whatever fixed view to self.view.

Better maybe is adding a view to self.tableView and then offset the view while 
scrolling, as described in the WWDC 2011 Session 125...

HTH


On Nov 27, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote:

 Multiple sections.
 
 -- 
 Rick
 
 
 On Nov 27, 2013, at 1:03, Diederik Meijer | Ten Horses 
 diede...@tenhorses.com wrote:
 
 Not if your UITableView has only one section and you use the section's 
 header view in the way Marcelo suggests. Sections headers scroll up to the 
 top and then remain there - visible - while additional cells scroll 
 underneath it…





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Re: Best way to put a fixed view in a UITableViewController scene?

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Mann

On Nov 27, 2013, at 01:37 , Ray Raphaël cocoa-...@deployedsmarts.com wrote:

 I do the following, the property *tableView in UITableViewController is not 
 backed by a _tableView instance variable, so I synthesize that (@synthesize 
 tableView = _tableView;) and then in viewDidLoad:
 
 if (!_tableView  [self.view isKindOfClass:[UITableView class]]) 
 self.tableView = (UITableView *)self.view;
 self.view = [[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[UIScreen 
 mainScreen].applicationFrame] autorelease];
 self.tableView.frame = self.view.bounds;
 [self.view addSubview:self.tableView];
 
 Then add whatever fixed view to self.view.

Yeah, that's what I used to do. But in this era of autolayout, I can't make it 
work any more.

 Better maybe is adding a view to self.tableView and then offset the view 
 while scrolling, as described in the WWDC 2011 Session 125...

I've been experimenting with this approach. You can drop a tableHeaderView into 
the view in IB, and I've been offsetting that. Got it all pretty much working, 
but I'm not sure I can slide-hide/show with animation in that approach. Maybe a 
view that's NOT the tableViewHeader will work a bit better. iOS 7 complicates 
things by having the table view up under the top bar, which requires an extra 
scroll offset that doesn't get set until sometime well after viewDidLoad.

-- 
Rick





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Re: Responder chain query

2013-11-27 Thread jonathan

On 21 Nov 2013, at 22:29, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote:

 Looking at the action responder chain for a document based app (fig 1-10):
 https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/eventoverview/EventArchitecture/EventArchitecture.html
 
 This shows that the action responder chain extends past the window controller 
 up to the document controller.
 
 Sometimes I want to respond to an action and then forward it on up the 
 responder chain like so:
 [self.nextResponder tryToPerform:selector with:sender];
 
 However, in this case the responder chain followed terminates at the window 
 controller (as does the event message window controller).
 This means that higher level items like NSDocument etc are never queued as 
 part of the chain search.
 
 Will I have to manually patch up the responder chain to include the higher 
 level items when doing this sort of thing? 
 
I guess the answer is yes.
The following has been included in 
https://github.com/mugginsoft/XSViewController

Jonathan

#import NSResponder+XSViewController.h

NSString *XSVChainTypeKey = @ChainType;

@implementation NSResponder (XSViewController)

#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Event responder chain

- (NSArray *)xsv_eventResponderChain
{
   return [self xsv_eventResponderChainFromResponder:nil];
}

- (NSArray *)xsv_eventResponderChainFromSelf
{
   return [self xsv_eventResponderChainFromResponder:self];
}

- (NSArray *)xsv_eventResponderChainFromResponder:(NSResponder *)responder
{
   return [self xsv_responderChainFromResponder:responder 
options:@{XSVChainTypeKey: @(XSVEventChainType)}];
}

#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Action responder chain

- (NSArray *)xsv_actionResponderChain
{
   return [self xsv_actionResponderChainFromResponder:nil];
}

- (NSArray *)xsv_actionResponderChainFromSelf
{
   return [self xsv_actionResponderChainFromResponder:self];
}

- (NSArray *)xsv_actionResponderChainFromResponder:(NSResponder *)responder
{
   return [self xsv_responderChainFromResponder:responder 
options:@{XSVChainTypeKey: @(XSVActionChainType)}];
}

#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Responder chain construction

- (NSArray *)xsv_responderChainFromResponder:(id)initialResponder 
options:(NSDictionary *)options
{
   // Chain should conform to description given here:
   // 
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/eventoverview/EventArchitecture/EventArchitecture.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/1060i-CH3-SW2

   NSMutableArray *chain = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:10];

   // If no initial responder then use the window first responder
   if (!initialResponder) {
   if (![self respondsToSelector:@selector(window)]) {
   return chain;
   }
   NSWindow *window = [(id)self window];

   initialResponder = [window firstResponder];
   }

   // This is going nowhere...
   if (!initialResponder) {
   return chain;
   }

   // Probe the accessible chain. By default this will be the event chain
   NSResponder *responder = initialResponder;
   do {
   [chain addObject:responder];
   } while ((responder = responder.nextResponder));

   responder = [chain lastObject];

   // Append action responder chain items
   if ([options[XSVChainTypeKey] integerValue] == XSVActionChainType) {

   // A window is required
   if (![self respondsToSelector:@selector(window)]) {
   return chain;
   }
   NSWindow *window = [(id)responder window];
   if (!window) {
   return chain;
   }

   // Append the top level action responder chain
   NSArray *actionTopLevelChain = [self 
xsv_actionResponderChainAboveControllerForWindow:window];
   [chain addObjectsFromArray:actionTopLevelChain];
   }

   return chain;
}

- (NSArray *)xsv_actionResponderChainAboveControllerForWindow:(NSWindow *)window
{
   // Chain should conform to description given here:
   // 
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/eventoverview/EventArchitecture/EventArchitecture.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/1060i-CH3-SW2

   id windowDelegate  = [window delegate];
   NSWindowController *windowController = [window windowController];
   NSDocument *document = [windowController document];
   id appDelegate = [NSApp delegate];
   NSMutableArray *chain = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:5];

   if (!window) {
   return chain;
   }

   if (windowDelegate) {
   [chain addObject:windowDelegate];
   }

   if (document) {
   [chain addObject:document];
   }

   [chain addObject:NSApp];

   if (appDelegate) {
   [chain addObject:appDelegate];
   }

   if (document) {
   [chain addObject:[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController]];
   }

   return chain;
}
@end


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Re: iTunes Parental Preferences doesn't change on editing plist file on Mavericks OS X

2013-11-27 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Nov 27, 2013, at 1:10 AM, Arjun SM arjun...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi all,
 
 I have an application which monitors the iTunes plist file to control the
 Parental tab settings and I am running to an issue on Mavericks 10.9.

Editing plist files directly is not and has never been a supported way of 
changing or monitoring user defaults. Use CFPreferences or NSUserDefaults.

--Kyle Sluder

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Re: Can't remove autoresizing constraints?

2013-11-27 Thread Kyle Sluder
 On Nov 26, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote:
 
 In my ongoing experimentation with getting a fixed view above my table view, 
 I'm trying to do what I did successfully in the days before autolayout: 
 separate the UITV's view and tableView properties. This works, but I can't 
 figure out how to make it work with autolayout constraints.
 
 The problem is that IB/iOS create autoresizing mask constraints on the table 
 view. By the time I can setTranlates to NO, it's too late, the constraints 
 are made. So I try to remove them in -viewDidLoad, by calling:
 
 [self.tableView.superview removeConstraints: self.tableView.constraints]
 
 But this has no effect. I tried calling it on self.tableView, as well. The 
 constraints are still there after removal.
 
 I'm doing this in an attempt to programmatically create constraints for both 
 the table view and the banner view that live within a 
 programmatically-created UIView.
 
 I need the constraints because the banner slides in from the top when shown, 
 and slides out when hidden (this part is currently working with the view 
 container solution I have).

The timing of the addition and removal of autoresizing mask constraints is not 
documented. Experimentally, one can deduce that this is done during the 
updateConstraints phase on the Mac, but there might be other times at which 
this happens.

Either way, the relationship between a UITVC's view and tableView is not yours 
to modify. In the time you've spent trying to hack this, you could have moved 
your cells to XIBs and implemented a static data source in your own 
banner-and-table-view presenting view controller.

--Kyle Sluder

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Re: NSTask and 10.9 [SOLVED]

2013-11-27 Thread koko

NSString *scriptPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@DeleteHidden 
ofType:nil];

NSTask *task;
task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
[task setLaunchPath:scriptPath];

The script DeleteHidden had line endings of cf,lf which caused an exception 
on 10.9
removing the cr via a hex editor resolved the 10.9 issue

Thanks to all for the cycles.

-koko




On Nov 26, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 26, 2013, at 09:37 AM, koko wrote:
 
 On Nov 26, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
 
 Error 2 is ENOENT. The path you passed to -setLaunchPath: does not exist.
 
 
 
 Not possible as 
 
 [task setLaunchPath:rootScriptPath];
 
 where rootScriptPath is NSString *rootScriptPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle]
 pathForResource:@DeleteHiddenRoot ofType:nil];
 
 Well, you never actually proved that this method returns something other
 than nil. But we'll assume you verified that even passing a hardcoded,
 known-good path to -setLaunchPath: causes the same symptoms.
 
 
 so do you know if Mavericks disallows NSTask access to the App Bundle?
 
 
 Perhaps.
 
 Starting in Mavericks, all the binaries within a signed bundle must be
 themselves signed before the bundle is signed, because their signatures
 form part of the bundle's designated requirement. I've only seen this
 discussed in the context of frameworks, but I would not be surprised if
 it also applied to scripts or other tasks launched via posix_spawn.
 
 For more details, see Craig Hockenberry's blog post:
 http://furbo.org/2013/10/17/code-signing-and-mavericks/
 
 --Kyle Sluder
 

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Re: NSTask and 10.9 [SOLVED]

2013-11-27 Thread Kyle Sluder
 On Nov 27, 2013, at 7:59 AM, koko k...@highrolls.net wrote:

 
 NSString *scriptPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@DeleteHidden 
 ofType:nil];
 
 NSTask *task;
 task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
 [task setLaunchPath:scriptPath];
 
 The script DeleteHidden had line endings of cf,lf which caused an exception 
 on 10.9
 removing the cr via a hex editor resolved the 10.9 issue

Ha! Indeed, I can reproduce this on my machine using Terminal.app:
 
% cat foo
#!/bin/sh

echo Hello, world

% ./foo
zsh: ./foo: bad interpreter: /bin/sh^M: no such file or directory


So technically posix_spawn wasn't lying—when it parsed your shebang
line, it saw `#!/bin/shCR`, and couldn’t find a shell named `shCR`
to launch it.

--Kyle Sluder

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Re: iOS screen physical size (or px density)

2013-11-27 Thread David Duncan
Roland is 100% correct here. You can't reliably predict what the device 
identifiers will be and filing bugs is the best way to register your needs.

The fact that you could guess device identifiers has more to do with the fact 
that there have only been 2 released generations of the iPad mini and less to 
do with any patterns you may think you have seen.

--
David Duncan @ My iPhone

 On Nov 26, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Roland King r...@rols.org wrote:
 
 Rubbish. 
 
 And any reading of the Apple Dev Forums will find many messages from Apple 
 engineers telling you NOT to do that, NOT to guess, NOT to make assumptions 
 based on what you think identifiers are or are going to be and to stick to 
 the API points there are. They also ask people file bug reports with use 
 cases about why one might need the physical device screen size, which I have 
 done. 
 
 On 26 Nov, 2013, at 9:41 pm, Maxthon Chan xcvi...@me.com wrote:
 
 There is no reason for Apple to provide such an clearly redundant API point. 
 Developers can somehow predict the new devices’ identifiers and the sizes 
 are largely correctly guessed so a quick table look-up will work very well.
 
 On Nov 26, 2013, at 21:38, Igor Elland igor.ell...@me.com wrote:
 
 If there isn't a proper API point for it, then I'm not doing it.
 
 I’m quite sure there’s no public API to get the physical screen size or 
 otherwise differentiate between the regular size screen iPad and the mini.
 
 
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Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Graham Cox
Apparently, OS X 10.9 caches preference files. This is the first I’ve heard 
about it (on a discussion on Ars Technica of all places). Is there any 
documentation about this, like an explanation as to what purpose this has?

I noticed recently that after deleting my app’s prefs file, I was still getting 
an old value coming up, despite changing it in the defaults plist I use with 
-registerDefaults: on startup. I was unable to track down where this old value 
was coming from, and gave up, baffled, since it was only a curiosity in that 
case. Now I know why. However, if something really seriously does need 
changing, then this caching means I’m not going to be able to test it without 
writing code to forcibly update the user defaults, rather than just passively 
changing the value in my plist and trashing the prefs file. That’s a pretty 
major problem.

Also, very rarely, but once in a while, deleting the prefs file can be a useful 
solution to get a user around a problem due to a bug, etc. If that’s no longer 
an option, we are going to be stuck with bugs that are going to be very hard to 
triage in the field. That’s a pretty major problem.

Please someone tell me there’s a way to opt out of this travesty? At this rate 
I’ll be writing a full-on replacement for NSUserDefaults just to get back the 
behaviour it’s always had in the past. What good is this change anyway?

—Graham



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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread David Duncan
The preferences file has always been considered an implementation detail. I'm 
not up on all the reasons for the change, but you should be able to use the 
'defaults' command line tool to do the same thing that trashing prefs used to 
do. Something like 'defaults delete com.yourcompany.yourapp' should do the 
trick.

--
David Duncan @ My iPhone

 On Nov 27, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:
 
 Apparently, OS X 10.9 caches preference files. This is the first I’ve heard 
 about it (on a discussion on Ars Technica of all places). Is there any 
 documentation about this, like an explanation as to what purpose this has?
 
 I noticed recently that after deleting my app’s prefs file, I was still 
 getting an old value coming up, despite changing it in the defaults plist I 
 use with -registerDefaults: on startup. I was unable to track down where this 
 old value was coming from, and gave up, baffled, since it was only a 
 curiosity in that case. Now I know why. However, if something really 
 seriously does need changing, then this caching means I’m not going to be 
 able to test it without writing code to forcibly update the user defaults, 
 rather than just passively changing the value in my plist and trashing the 
 prefs file. That’s a pretty major problem.
 
 Also, very rarely, but once in a while, deleting the prefs file can be a 
 useful solution to get a user around a problem due to a bug, etc. If that’s 
 no longer an option, we are going to be stuck with bugs that are going to be 
 very hard to triage in the field. That’s a pretty major problem.
 
 Please someone tell me there’s a way to opt out of this travesty? At this 
 rate I’ll be writing a full-on replacement for NSUserDefaults just to get 
 back the behaviour it’s always had in the past. What good is this change 
 anyway?
 
 ―Graham
 
 
 
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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Graham Cox

On 27 Nov 2013, at 8:18 pm, David Duncan david.dun...@apple.com wrote:

 The preferences file has always been considered an implementation detail. I'm 
 not up on all the reasons for the change, but you should be able to use the 
 'defaults' command line tool to do the same thing that trashing prefs used to 
 do. Something like 'defaults delete com.yourcompany.yourapp' should do the 
 trick.


Great. For me. For users in the field, the command line is the badlands, and we 
can’t expect many users to be comfortable doing that. Trashing a file is at 
least something they can understand, even if sometimes even that can be an 
ordeal getting them to the ~/Library/Preferences folder, now it’s hidden by 
default.

Really, Apple are supposed to be the champions of the average user aren’t they? 
Have they talked to any recently? Honestly, it would serve everyone well if 
every developer served a month in a call centre.

I guess we’re going to have to put a button somewhere that’s going to do this 
for them. Sigh.

―Graham


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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Alex Kac
While I agree that sometimes deleting a prefs file is useful, its not really a 
good idea - never was. Its still asking the user to muck around app internals. 
The fact that mavericks now caches really shouldn’t matter. 

I think if deleting your prefs file is a common case, or even somewhat common, 
or used at all - then yes, its far more appropriate for you to have a button. 
Asking the user to trawl through internal implementation details of the system 
was never a good idea.

So in this case, I think Apple is doing the right thing.

On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:

 
 On 27 Nov 2013, at 8:18 pm, David Duncan david.dun...@apple.com wrote:
 
 The preferences file has always been considered an implementation detail. 
 I'm not up on all the reasons for the change, but you should be able to use 
 the 'defaults' command line tool to do the same thing that trashing prefs 
 used to do. Something like 'defaults delete com.yourcompany.yourapp' should 
 do the trick.
 
 
 Great. For me. For users in the field, the command line is the badlands, and 
 we can’t expect many users to be comfortable doing that. Trashing a file is 
 at least something they can understand, even if sometimes even that can be an 
 ordeal getting them to the ~/Library/Preferences folder, now it’s hidden by 
 default.
 
 Really, Apple are supposed to be the champions of the average user aren’t 
 they? Have they talked to any recently? Honestly, it would serve everyone 
 well if every developer served a month in a call centre.
 
 I guess we’re going to have to put a button somewhere that’s going to do this 
 for them. Sigh.
 
 ―Graham

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Web Information Solutions, Inc. 

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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
 Really, Apple are supposed to be the champions of the average user aren’t
 they? Have they talked to any recently? Honestly, it would serve everyone
 well if every developer served a month in a call centre.

If you think deleting a plist in ~/Library/Preferences is a solution
to any problem to which run `defaults delete` is not, I think you're
concerned about a very narrow definition of average user.

--Kyle Sluder

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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Bill Cheeseman

On Nov 27, 2013, at 2:18 PM, David Duncan david.dun...@apple.com wrote:

 The preferences file has always been considered an implementation detail. I'm 
 not up on all the reasons for the change, but you should be able to use the 
 'defaults' command line tool to do the same thing that trashing prefs used to 
 do. Something like 'defaults delete com.yourcompany.yourapp' should do the 
 trick.
 
 On Nov 27, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:
 
 Apparently, OS X 10.9 caches preference files. This is the first I’ve heard 
 about it (on a discussion on Ars Technica of all places). Is there any 
 documentation about this, like an explanation as to what purpose this has?
 
 
 
 Please someone tell me there’s a way to opt out of this travesty? At this 
 rate I’ll be writing a full-on replacement for NSUserDefaults just to get 
 back the behaviour it’s always had in the past. What good is this change 
 anyway?


On one of the forums or mailing lists a little while ago, an apparently 
knowledgeable Apple engineer reported that it has NEVER been proper to manually 
delete preferences files but that it did happen to work most of the time before 
Mavericks. Now in Mavericks it doesn't work, as you've discovered. Here is an 
AppleScript (written using new Mavericks techniques, so don't run it on older 
systems) that I wrote to do it right using the defaults tool. I put this script 
in my Script Menu and it is now even easier than before to delete preferences 
files. (But note the caution at the end about Sandboxed applications, for which 
I don't have an answer.)

(*
This script removes the preferences cache and file for non-sandboxed 
applications.
Starting with Mavericks, application preferences may be cached in such a way 
that deleting a preferences file is not immediately effective. This script for 
OS X 10.9 Mavericks immediately removes any cached preferences for the chosen 
application and then deletes the preferences file or files. The script reports 
whether cached preferences were found and deleted before giving you the option 
to delete the preferences file or files. The application must not be running. 
Authentication with an administrator password is required.
*)

use scripting additions

choose application with title Delete Preferences for Application with prompt 
Choose an application: as alias
set info to (info for result)
set displayName to displayed name of info
if application displayName is running then
display alert \  displayName  \ is running. message 
Preferences should not be deleted while the application is running. Quit 
application \  displayName  \ and run this script again. buttons {OK} 
default button OK
else
set bundleID to bundle identifier of info
try
do shell script defaults delete -app   quoted form of 
displayName with administrator privileges
display alert Cached preferences of \  displayName  \ 
were deleted. message You can now delete the preferences file. buttons 
{Cancel, Delete} default button Delete cancel button Cancel
on error errMsg number errNum
if errNum is 1 then
display alert \  displayName  \ has no cached 
preferences. message You can delete the preferences file. buttons {Cancel, 
Delete} default button Delete cancel button Cancel
end if
end try
do shell script rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/  bundleID  * -- for 
non-sandboxed apps

-- The following statement removes the preferences file from a 
sandboxed application's container, but then the application's preferences 
system gets confused and the application will not create a new preferences 
file. Therefore, don't do it.
--do shell script rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/  bundleID  
*/Data/Library/Preferences/  bundleID  * -- for sandboxed apps
end if

-- 

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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Graham Cox

On 27 Nov 2013, at 8:42 pm, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:

 If you think deleting a plist in ~/Library/Preferences is a solution
 to any problem to which run `defaults delete` is not, I think you're
 concerned about a very narrow definition of average user.


Well, I’m more concerned about the “below average” user then. Like it or not we 
can’t choose our users, and many fall into the category where using a GUI to 
locate and drag a file to the trash is infinitely preferable to opening 
terminal and typing commands that have to be letter-perfect. That may be 
second-nature to us, and so we forget just how afraid of this some users can be.

Thankfully, this is extremely rare, and in many cases I’m afraid “trashing the 
prefs” is akin to voodoo as a solution for a problem, but it’s often put out 
there (not by us if we really don’t think it will help I hasten to add).

Adding a button it is, I agree it’s better all round.

So let me turn this into a dev question then. Do I need to actually run a 
command line task to do this, or is there some API I can use? For example, what 
does + resetStandardUserDefaults achieve? Anything useful in this case?

—Graham



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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
 So let me turn this into a dev question then. Do I need to actually run a
 command line task to do this, or is there some API I can use? For
 example, what does + resetStandardUserDefaults achieve? Anything useful
 in this case?

Not what you want.

Use -[NSUserDefaults removePersistentDomainForName:] with your app's
bundle ID.

--Kyle Sluder
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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Graham Cox

On 27 Nov 2013, at 9:00 pm, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:

 On Wed, Nov 27, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
 So let me turn this into a dev question then. Do I need to actually run a
 command line task to do this, or is there some API I can use? For
 example, what does + resetStandardUserDefaults achieve? Anything useful
 in this case?
 
 Not what you want.
 
 Use -[NSUserDefaults removePersistentDomainForName:] with your app's
 bundle ID.

Thanks, that’s a good one to know. The documentation doesn’t even begin to 
suggest this method would be appropriate.

Am I right in thinking I’ll have to also reload my defaults plist and use 
-registerDefaults: after this?

—Graham



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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Graham Cox

On 27 Nov 2013, at 9:12 pm, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:

 Not what you want.
 
 Use -[NSUserDefaults removePersistentDomainForName:] with your app's
 bundle ID.
 
 Thanks, that’s a good one to know. The documentation doesn’t even begin to 
 suggest this method would be appropriate.
 
 Am I right in thinking I’ll have to also reload my defaults plist and use 
 -registerDefaults: after this?


Well, this seems to work just fine, so I’m fairly happy with that solution - 
thanks :)

The only thing I can see being an issue with this approach is that if something 
in the prefs prevents the app launching successfully. We’ve had that happen in 
the past, luckily only once in a blue moon (and the root cause of that 
particular bug has long been dealt with). I guess if/when it crops up again 
we’ll just have to navigate the unfortunate user through the command line. 
Thankfully, that won’t have to be me, we have far more patient people to do 
that.

—Graham


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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Lee Ann Rucker

On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Graham Cox wrote:

 
 On 27 Nov 2013, at 8:42 pm, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:
 
 If you think deleting a plist in ~/Library/Preferences is a solution
 to any problem to which run `defaults delete` is not, I think you're
 concerned about a very narrow definition of average user.
 
 
 Well, I’m more concerned about the “below average” user then. Like it or not 
 we can’t choose our users, and many fall into the category where using a GUI 
 to locate and drag a file to the trash is infinitely preferable to opening 
 terminal and typing commands that have to be letter-perfect. That may be 
 second-nature to us, and so we forget just how afraid of this some users can 
 be.
 

If they're that naive a user, they can't navigate the GUI to get to the prefs - 
~/Library has been hidden by default for years now.

 Thankfully, this is extremely rare, and in many cases I’m afraid “trashing 
 the prefs” is akin to voodoo as a solution for a problem, but it’s often put 
 out there (not by us if we really don’t think it will help I hasten to add).
 
 Adding a button it is, I agree it’s better all round.
 
 So let me turn this into a dev question then. Do I need to actually run a 
 command line task to do this, or is there some API I can use? For example, 
 what does + resetStandardUserDefaults achieve? Anything useful in this case?
 
 —Graham


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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Graham Cox

On 27 Nov 2013, at 10:20 pm, Lee Ann Rucker lruc...@vmware.com wrote:

 If they're that naive a user, they can't navigate the GUI to get to the prefs 
 - ~/Library has been hidden by default for years now.


Yes, that was a bit of a headache when the folder was hidden by default, and we 
had to add additional steps to option-click in the ‘Go’ menu. But that’s still 
much easier than command line typing. When I said “afraid” I could equally have 
said “incompetent”.

But if you think using a command line is as easy as navigating a GUI - even a 
hidden one - I suggest you take a few calls from actual users who need help of 
this nature. You’ll soon understand the difference the first time they don’t 
type EXACTLY what you tell them, which is almost every. single. time. Us 
developers are FAR from typical users. After all, the Mac pioneered the GUI for 
exactly this reason.

—Graham


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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Quincey Morris
On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:53 , Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:

 in many cases I’m afraid “trashing the prefs” is akin to voodoo as a solution 
 for a problem, but it’s often put out there (not by us if we really don’t 
 think it will help I hasten to add).
 
 Adding a button it is, I agree it’s better all round

FWIW I would say: right diagnosis, wrong solution.

What on earth is going on with your app(s) that requires preferences to be 
deleted? If, after all these years of your being a very accomplished developer, 
your apps aren’t robust enough to deal with unusable or inconsistent values in 
prefs — or, more to the point, put the prefs into such a state to begin with — 
then I humbly suggest you treat that as a major bug, and fix it.

It’s certainly true that there have been been scenarios in the past where some 
condition external to your app code could cause a corruption — e.g. a crash — 
but I think you can look at the new Mavericks caching as Apple’s side of a 
commitment to avoiding that. Now, a crash or sudden termination in your app 
can’t corrupt the prefs, since the user defaults daemon doesn’t crash too.

Is there a genuine reason why you can’t robustify your app’s dealings with 
preferences, and avoid the entire problem of deleting them?

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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Graham Cox

On 27 Nov 2013, at 10:43 pm, Quincey Morris 
quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote:

 FWIW I would say: right diagnosis, wrong solution.
 
 What on earth is going on with your app(s) that requires preferences to be 
 deleted? If, after all these years of your being a very accomplished 
 developer, your apps aren’t robust enough to deal with unusable or 
 inconsistent values in prefs — or, more to the point, put the prefs into such 
 a state to begin with — then I humbly suggest you treat that as a major bug, 
 and fix it.

Absolutely correct, and we have very diligently done this whenever it has 
arisen.

 
 Is there a genuine reason why you can’t robustify your app’s dealings with 
 preferences, and avoid the entire problem of deleting them?

The point is, if we could predict all bugs, they wouldn’t be there.

We’ve had rare cases in the past where a prefs file has caused an issue. 
Obviously we did not anticipate it, otherwise it would have been discovered in 
testing and fixed before it got out into the wild, but we know that nobody’s 
perfect, and not every case can be tested for. Therefore we approach things 
with the cautious knowledge that no matter how hard we try, there will always 
be bugs. Since we’ve experienced bugs caused by prefs in the past, it’s not 
impossible that there could be other bugs triggered by bad prefs in the future. 
We need to have something up our sleeves if that occurs (like having a fire 
department). Deleting the prefs file has been an acceptable solution in the 
past because we know it’s super-rare that it’s needed. We always follow up 
where we can and find out the real cause and fix it, so these problems are 
virtually non-existent now, but we can’t be 100% certain.

One of the things that our app allows is that the user can build vector 
“styles” in pretty much any way that they can imagine. It means that there are 
literally billions of combinations. Each tool in the app might be working with 
any style at any time, and as a courtesy to the user we save the tool’s style 
data in the prefs so they can pick up where they left off. When we’ve had a 
problem with prefs, it’s usually turned out to be a user-built style that 
contains crazy values. We’ve worked extremely hard to make sure “crazy” values 
are impossible, but you can only make an app foolproof, not damn fool proof, 
and occasionally something totally unanticipated slips through. These days such 
occurrences are very rare, but as I say, we can’t guarantee there is certainty, 
given the sheer number of combinations making it impossible to test them 
exhaustively.

But the other reason it’s nice to have a quick way to restore the original 
defaults is in development and testing itself, so that a “clean install” can be 
tested as well as an update where an existing set of prefs needs to be 
considered. In this case the command line is fine, but clicking a button even 
better. Even developers and testers like an easy life.

—Graham
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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Quincey Morris
On Nov 27, 2013, at 14:12 , Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:

 We’ve had rare cases in the past where a prefs file has caused an issue. 
 Obviously we did not anticipate it, otherwise it would have been discovered 
 in testing and fixed before it got out into the wild, but we know that 
 nobody’s perfect, and not every case can be tested for. Therefore we approach 
 things with the cautious knowledge that no matter how hard we try, there will 
 always be bugs. Since we’ve experienced bugs caused by prefs in the past, 
 it’s not impossible that there could be other bugs triggered by bad prefs in 
 the future. We need to have something up our sleeves if that occurs (like 
 having a fire department). Deleting the prefs file has been an acceptable 
 solution in the past because we know it’s super-rare that it’s needed. We 
 always follow up where we can and find out the real cause and fix it, so 
 these problems are virtually non-existent now, but we can’t be 100% certain.
 
 One of the things that our app allows is that the user can build vector 
 “styles” in pretty much any way that they can imagine. It means that there 
 are literally billions of combinations. Each tool in the app might be working 
 with any style at any time, and as a courtesy to the user we save the tool’s 
 style data in the prefs so they can pick up where they left off. When we’ve 
 had a problem with prefs, it’s usually turned out to be a user-built style 
 that contains crazy values. We’ve worked extremely hard to make sure “crazy” 
 values are impossible, but you can only make an app foolproof, not damn fool 
 proof, and occasionally something totally unanticipated slips through. These 
 days such occurrences are very rare, but as I say, we can’t guarantee there 
 is certainty, given the sheer number of combinations making it impossible to 
 test them exhaustively.
 
 But the other reason it’s nice to have a quick way to restore the original 
 defaults is in development and testing itself, so that a “clean install” can 
 be tested as well as an update where an existing set of prefs needs to be 
 considered. In this case the command line is fine, but clicking a button even 
 better. Even developers and testers like an easy life.

You make reasonable points, but the fact that your explanation does a lot of 
tap dancing to get there might suggest an overreaction (in the need for a 
button, I mean, not in the explanation). And, a button is an awfully visible UI 
element for what should be so rare a problem.

In these circumstances, I’d suggest you consider an “alternate” menu item, 
rather than a button. For example, an alternate to your app — Preferences…, 
but with the Option key held down. That way, it’s hidden normally, but the 
reset procedure is easy to explain, even to damn fools. Plus, it’s really, 
really easy to set this up IB these days.

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Re: Can't remove autoresizing constraints?

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Mann

On Nov 27, 2013, at 07:36 , Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:

 Either way, the relationship between a UITVC's view and tableView is not 
 yours to modify. In the time you've spent trying to hack this, you could have 
 moved your cells to XIBs and implemented a static data source in your own 
 banner-and-table-view presenting view controller.

I could have, perhaps, but then I'd just have to do that again next time. It 
completely discards all the benefits of the new paradigm, and was worth 
pursuing.

That judgement, however, does not explain why I can't remove existing 
constraints.

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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Marco S Hyman
 What on earth is going on with your app(s) that requires preferences to be 
 deleted? If, after all these years of your being a very accomplished 
 developer, your apps aren’t robust enough to deal with unusable or 
 inconsistent values in prefs — or, more to the point, put the prefs into such 
 a state to begin with — then I humbly suggest you treat that as a major bug, 
 and fix it.

Ha! Tell that to Apple. There is more than one Apple support note where one of 
the troubleshooting steps is to trash your preferences. An example off the top 
of my head:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3893?viewlocale=en_USlocale=en_US

In this case it is such a common thing to do that there is a third party 
application to save, trash, and restore those specific preferences for you.
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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Quincey Morris
On Nov 27, 2013, at 15:15 , Marco S Hyman m...@snafu.org wrote:

 Tell that to Apple.

Dear Apple, you have a major bug in Final Cut Pro that causes it to go 
kerflooey when its preferences get into a state it doesn’t expect. Please fix 
it.

Marco, don’t you agree that (now, 10+ years into the OS X era) trashing prefs 
is the same kind of voodoo as fixing file permissions? That’s not to say there 
aren’t circumstances where those are the right things to do, but I think we’re 
beyond the point where they should be a regular part of any magical support 
incantation.

I note that even Graham described his need as “rare cases”.

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Re: Preferences caching?

2013-11-27 Thread Shane Stanley
On 28 Nov 2013, at 7:53 AM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote:

 I guess if/when it crops up again we’ll just have to navigate the unfortunate 
 user through the command line.

Or write a one-line AppleScript script:

do shell script defaults delete ...

Save it as a code-signed app, send it to them, and tell them to double-click. A 
lot easier than navigating Library folders for the average user.

-- 
Shane Stanley sstan...@myriad-com.com.au
www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/


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Autosizing an iPhone

2013-11-27 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
A universal app. 
On iPad:
UIView:; frame = (321 0; 447 1024);  with three subviews (top to bottom);
UINavigationBar:; frame = (0 0; 447 44); opaque = NO; autoresize = 
W+BM;   
UIWebView: frame = (0 44; 447 936); clipsToBounds = YES; autoresize = 
W+H; 
UIToolbar:; frame = (0 980; 447 44); opaque = NO; autoresize = W+TM; 

This is all as it should be.


On iPhone it is more complicated:

UIWindow:; frame = (0 0; 320 480); opaque = NO; autoresize = W+H; 
UIView:; frame = (0 0; 320 480); autoresize = W+H; 
UILayoutContainerView:; frame = (0 0; 320 480); autoresize = W+H; 

UILayoutContainerView: 
UINavigationTransitionView:; frame = (0 0; 320 480); clipsToBounds = 
YES; autoresize = W+H;  
UINavigationBar:; frame = (0 20; 320 44); opaque = NO; autoresize = 
W;  ,
UIToolbar:; frame = (0 436; 320 44); opaque = NO; 

UINavigationTransitionView:
UIViewControllerWrapperView:; frame = (0 0; 320 480); autoresize = 
W+H;  

UIViewControllerWrapperView: 
 UIView:; frame = (-96 0; 320 480);   
_UIParallaxDimmingView: 0x12e2dbb0; frame = (0 0; 320 480); opaque = 
NO;  
UIView: 0x125dfe30; frame = (0 0; 320 480);  

UIView: 0x125dfe30; 
_UIParallaxDimmingView: 0x12e2d7a0; frame = (0 0; 320 480); opaque = 
NO;

_UIParallaxDimmingView:
UIImageView:; frame = (-9 0; 9 480); alpha = 0; opaque = NO;  
UIView:; frame = (0 0; 320 480); autoresize = RM+BM; 

UIView: 
UIWebView: 0x125e1d60; frame = (0 240; 320 0); clipsToBounds = YES; 
autoresize = W+H; 
Note: this WebView has a rather narrow height - making it very hard to see.

What I see is: 
top: Navigation bar (ok)
middle: just background (+ maybe a very small WebView ?)
botton: Toolbar (ok)

The WebView has constraints: 
Top Space to Navigation Bar = Auto (=0)
Bottom Space to Toolbar = Auto (=0)
Works fine on iPad where the WebView lives in a view with its two siblings; but 
on iPhone the WebView is an only child - no idea how the autosizing is supposed 
to work in this case.

The iPhone shows the nib which contains Navigation Bar, WebView, ToolBar via:
[ self.navigationController  pushViewController: 
self.detailViewController  animated: YES ]; 
navigationController  is an UINavigationController
detailViewController  is a subclass of UIViewController 

Gerriet.



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