Off Topic: selling a product line
This is not the usual development question, but this list probably has the best people to answer. Suppose you wrote a cool Mac product, and it's been selling well as shareware for years. Then a larger software development company contacts you and says they want to purchase the entire product outright, source and all, for a lump sum, no royalties. And they ask what do you want for it? How would you ever determine the price? Some people have said to estimate at what it brings in over 1 or 2 years. Others have said that it shouldn't be a price more than it would cost the company to develop the product themselves from scratch. Is there a standard method for determining the cost of a product, possibly similar to appraising the price of a house before you sell it? I hope this topic is not too far off-topic. Thanks for any help. -Kimo ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sending an image to Preview to preview the image
My app produces a list of images (NSData format), and I'd like the app Preview to display the image when the user double-clicks on an image in my app. Currently I use NSPerformService as shown below, which works, but Preview always asks to save the file when you close its window. I've seen other apps where you double-click an image and Preview opens a window with a title something like Preview of and it doesn't try to save the image when you close the window. To send an image to Preview using NSPerformService: NSData *data; /* assume exists */ NSPasteboard *pb = [NSPasteboard pasteboardWithUniqueName]; [pb declareTypes:[NSArray arrayWithObject:NSTIFFPboardType] owner:nil]; [pb setData:data forType:NSTIFFPboardType]; NSPerformService( @Preview/Open images, pb ); It works, but is there a better way to send image data to Preview? Thanks in advance! ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NSMenuItem view bug with status bar menu
I believe I have found a bug with a menu item view when used in the status bar menu. Here's how to recreate the bug. Assume the app MyApp is active and has a status bar menu, and one of the menu items has a view: 1. Bring another app to the front (such as Safari), and access the MyApp status bar menu, displaying the view. 2. Bring MyApp to the front. 3. Now there is a ghost image from the view displayed when MyApp was inactive. The ghost image goes away after about 20 seconds. When I say ghost image it's just a white space void of any of the views contents. Maybe the NSMenuItem view is not meant to be used with a status bar menu? Or this is a bug? Or more importantly, does anyone know a workaround so I don't get this ghost image on the screen? Thanks. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Predicate works with array controller but not fetch request
I have a Core Data app with an entity that contains a date attribute,
called startTime. I have a predicate defined as startTime =
today. If I apply that predicate to an array controller using
setFilterPredicate, it works fine. However, if I use the same
predicate with NSFetchRequest, it does not work (returns an empty
array). My code for fetching the data using a NSFetchRequest is
below. Why does this predicate work with an array controller but not
with a fetch request? All other predicates I have used work with both
the array controller and the fetch request. Just not when the
predicate is defined as startTime = today. Does anyone know why?
+(NSArray *)objectsForEntityName:(NSString *)name
predicate:(NSPredicate*)predicate
inContext:(NSManagedObjectContext *)context
{
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:name
inManagedObjectContext:context];
NSFetchRequest *req = [[[NSFetchRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
[req setEntity:entity];
[req setPredicate:predicate];
NSError *error = nil;
NSArray *array = [context executeFetchRequest:req error:error];
return array;
}
Thanks in advance,
Kimo
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