On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Jiva DeVoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or do the NS*Controller classes provide some other cool
features that would be difficult for my mere mortal development skills
to implement?
Well as far as your current use case is concerned, the only things you
need to
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Jens Alfke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You want to set a TXT record for the service.
I disagree. If the updates are frequent, this makes a lot of work for
every other machine on the LAN to update their mDNSResponder caches.
Randall mentioned that there's really
Cocoa uses (automatically) localized strings. I would like to do the
same.
E.g. using NSTextView and pasting a font, the Edit menu will suddenly
show Undo Paste Font.
If the same app is running with German as the preferred language, the
Edit menu will contain Undo Schrift einsetzen (yes,
On 1 Apr, 2008, at 11:49 am, Ron Fleckner wrote:
On 01/04/2008, at 9:28 PM, Ben Dougall wrote:
Hello,
What's the best way to test if another app has likely hung or not?
Programmatically of course. I want to be able to kill an often
hanging app and restart it -- when it's hung that is.
The strings you are looking for are in the AppKit ressources, but I
don't think there are part of the API, the keys can change at anytime
and you cannot rely on the files names. (in Leopard, the Undo.strings
file contains a Paste Font key, but it's not garantee that it remain
like that)
The Window Server considere that an App hangs when it does not process
High Level events fast enought.
What do you mean by hang ? Is it a daemon that process background
request but stop to responds?
Is it a graphical application that present a Spinning Wheel ?
Is it a third party app that
On 01/04/2008, at 9:28 PM, Ben Dougall wrote:
Hello,
What's the best way to test if another app has likely hung or not?
Programmatically of course. I want to be able to kill an often
hanging app and restart it -- when it's hung that is. (10.3.9+)
Thanks, Ben.
Hi Ben,
This question
Drop the application icon on the Script Editor Application. (in /
Applications/AppleScript/)
It will open it's Scripting dictionary.
Le 1 avr. 08 à 13:34, Torsten Curdt a écrit :
Hey,
There is a Cocoa application X that is Apple-scriptable.
Is there any way to find out what functions are
Hi,
I'm trying to communicate with a Linux-based device that sits on the
local network from multiple Macs (also on the local network).
Documentation for the Linux device claims that it provides an XML-RPC
server and that it responds to SOAP requests. However, XML-RPC and
SOAP
Is their no common toolkit like css for Cocoa GUI ?
Or hell just use css for building the apps interface? No a widget but
a real cocoa app.
On 3/31/08, John Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basically you get to rewrite all the controls from scratch :)
It's not a minor undertaking, so be sure
On 1 Apr 2008, at 12:25, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
The strings you are looking for are in the AppKit ressources, but I
don't think there are part of the API, the keys can change at
anytime and you cannot rely on the files names. (in Leopard, the
Undo.strings file contains a Paste Font
On 1 Apr 2008, at 14:40, Leslie Smith wrote:
I'm sure I'm missing something.
Yes. An understanding of Autorelease pools (and presumably Cocoa
memory management in general)
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/MemoryMgmt.html
The unoptimal way to fix your
Hi:
I have a Cocoa application which draws a (very) large number of line
segments using the code below in a loop, in drawRect, in a subclass
of NSView.
p1 = [NSBezierPath bezierPath] ;
[p1 moveToPoint: linebottom] ;
[p1 lineToPoint: linetop] ;
[p1 stroke] ;
(These are the outputs from a
So simple! Thanks!! :)
On Apr 1, 2008, at 14:10, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
Drop the application icon on the Script Editor Application. (in /
Applications/AppleScript/)
It will open it's Scripting dictionary.
Le 1 avr. 08 à 13:34, Torsten Curdt a écrit :
Hey,
There is a Cocoa application X
Le 1 avr. 08 à 14:47, Gerriet M. Denkmann a écrit :
On 1 Apr 2008, at 12:25, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
The strings you are looking for are in the AppKit ressources, but I
don't think there are part of the API, the keys can change at
anytime and you cannot rely on the files names. (in
Torsten Curdt wrote:
On Apr 1, 2008, at 14:10, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
There is a Cocoa application X that is Apple-scriptable.
Is there any way to find out what functions are supported ...except
having proper documentation at hand?
Drop the application icon on the Script Editor
On 01/04/2008, at 10:58 PM, colo wrote:
Is their no common toolkit like css for Cocoa GUI ?
No. This is largely because Mac applications are supposed to have a
consistent user interface. You can read more about this in the Apple
Human Interface Guidelines:
Blimey! I went to (most) of your lectures! Networks I think it was.
Software Engineerng MSc 1985/6 or thereabouts...
Anyway, have you considered using +strokeLineFromPoint:toPoint:
instead? No need for an NSBezierPath instance.
Cheers,
Matt
(Ok then, some of your lectures)
Hi:
I have a
Are you sure? This could be just a convenient interface for creating a
bezier object with the points passed, stroking it and releasing or
autoreleasing it. The docs say nothing about how it's implemented.
A better idea might be to create ONE bezier object at the top of the
loop, collect
Le 1 avr. 08 à 14:50, Matt Gough a écrit :
On 1 Apr 2008, at 14:40, Leslie Smith wrote:
I'm sure I'm missing something.
Yes. An understanding of Autorelease pools (and presumably Cocoa
memory management in general)
On 1 Apr 2008, at 11:40 pm, Leslie Smith wrote:
Hi:
I have a Cocoa application which draws a (very) large number of line
segments using the code below in a loop, in drawRect, in a subclass
of NSView.
p1 = [NSBezierPath bezierPath] ;
[p1 moveToPoint: linebottom] ;
[p1 lineToPoint:
Hi Leslie,
NSView does not store any drawing. If the code bellow
is
executed in the loop as you are indicating and
possibly several thousand times, each time through the
loop you are creating a new autoreleased NSBezierPath.
If this is the case, you should include
NSAutoreleasePool and drain or
Honestly I think most people don't appreciate how much stuff you get
for free in Cocoa, but you learn pretty fast when you get to
reimplement it yourself! :)
True, but there are many legitimate reasons not to use a standard
UI. FrontRow is a prime example of this. A kiosk application
The class reference has this to say about it:
Strokes a line between two points using the current stroke color and
the default drawing attributes.
+ (void)strokeLineFromPoint:(NSPoint)point1 toPoint:(NSPoint)point2
So it will just draw a line.
Cheers,
Matt
Are you sure? This could be
On 1 Apr '08, at 1:35 AM, Hamish Allan wrote:
I disagree. If the updates are frequent, this makes a lot of work for
every other machine on the LAN to update their mDNSResponder caches.
If they're updating every second, then yes, TXT records would be
inappropriate. But Randall didn't say
The FindPanel in TextEdit has in the bottom left corner a button
Replace All which changes to In Selection when the ⌥-key is
pressed.
How is this done? I want to have such a changing button in some of my
own panels.
Kind regards,
Gerriet.
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Hi,
I’d like to know if there’s any way to use a UNC path with a NSURLConnection
object ? Can the UNC perhaps be transformed in a NSURL ?
Or is there another way to get a remote file from a server that requires
authentication if I only have the file’s UNC ?
Thanks !
On 1 Apr '08, at 5:39 AM, Brad Gibbs wrote:
Given this, I'm suspecting it responds to HTTP Posts, rather than
XML-RPC or SOAP requests.
But both those protocols do use HTTP POSTs. (XML-RPC can use alternate
transports, but in practice it's almost always over HTTP.)
I've seen references
On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 1 Apr '08, at 1:35 AM, Hamish Allan wrote:
I disagree. If the updates are frequent, this makes a lot of work for
every other machine on the LAN to update their mDNSResponder caches.
If they're updating every second, then yes, TXT records would
I dont think there is an automatic way to have it (except for menu),
but you can have a look at the flagsChanged: event
Le 1 avr. 08 à 17:24, Gerriet M. Denkmann a écrit :
The FindPanel in TextEdit has in the bottom left corner a button
Replace All which changes to In Selection when the
Sorry for the previous unfinished message.
I dont think there is an automatic way to have it (except for menu
items), but you can have a look at the flagsChanged: method of
NSResponder.
Le 1 avr. 08 à 17:24, Gerriet M. Denkmann a écrit :
The FindPanel in TextEdit has in the bottom left
Thanks for the reply.
On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 1 Apr '08, at 5:39 AM, Brad Gibbs wrote:
Given this, I'm suspecting it responds to HTTP Posts, rather than
XML-RPC or SOAP requests.
But both those protocols do use HTTP POSTs. (XML-RPC can use
alternate
On 1 Apr '08, at 8:25 AM, Randall Meadows wrote:
If they're updating every second, then yes, TXT records would be
inappropriate. But Randall didn't say whether the updates were that
frequent.
I would expect maybe 5-10 over a 2-3 minute period, and then a
downtime of about the same;
On 1 Apr '08, at 8:42 AM, Valentin Dan wrote:
I’d like to know if there’s any way to use a UNC path with a
NSURLConnection object ? Can the UNC perhaps be transformed in a
NSURL ?
I had to look up UNC on Wikipedia; I think what you're talking about
is a type of path string used on
From the look of it, I think there is floating-point rounding involved.
After all, the graphics system is treating it as a scalable font so
the notion of bitmap (or pixel-based) font design doesn't apply.
Aki
On 2008/04/01, at 9:48, Tobia Conforto wrote:
Thank you!
I hadn't thought of
Thank you!
I hadn't thought of using gdb :-)
Now I only need to understand why y = -2.6643 instead of -2.6651
Tobia
On 1 Apr 2008, at 18:36, Aki Inoue wrote:
This is the information returned from the font.
(gdb) p glyphBBox
$30 = {
origin = {
x = 0,
y = -2.6643
},
size
I'd like to create something like a spaceship with core animation.
That is the object should be animated on screen, but it's velocity
will always be changing. Because of this I'm not sure if using core
animations build in animation system makes sense, because it seems
like most of those
On 1 Apr '08, at 10:22 AM, Kimo wrote:
ERROR: __CFURLCache::StepSQLStatement - step failed (exceed retry) -
ErrCode: 5
That's an internal error from CFNetwork's URL cache (which happens to
use a sqlite database.) Nothing to do with CoreData.
—Jens
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME
I want to pop up photographs inside their own Core Animation layers,
but I get huge real memory usage that never goes down.
I have an FRPhoto class whose instances manage other metadata for the
image, and also have a convenience method to get an NSImage* as follows:
- (NSImage*)image {
On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to add a pdf image to an NSTextAttachment.
I create a file wrapper from a pdf image on disk and insert it into
my textstorage, with no problem, which draws fine on screen but then
when I want to print the document it draws
On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 1 Apr '08, at 10:22 AM, Kimo wrote:
ERROR: __CFURLCache::StepSQLStatement - step failed (exceed retry)
- ErrCode: 5
That's an internal error from CFNetwork's URL cache (which happens
to use a sqlite database.) Nothing to do with
Hi All,
I haven't registered for a creator code since System 7.5. Apple has
information and registration page (http://developer.apple.com/datatype/index.html
) about it but no indication if it's actually still required. Can
anyone tell me if it is still required or maybe point me at the
On Apr 1, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Marc Respass wrote:
Hi All,
I haven't registered for a creator code since System 7.5. Apple has
information and registration page (http://developer.apple.com/datatype/index.html
) about it but no indication if it's actually still required. Can
anyone tell me
On 01 Apr 08, at 12:59, Marc Respass wrote:
I haven't registered for a creator code since System 7.5. Apple has
information and registration page (http://developer.apple.com/datatype/index.html
) about it but no indication if it's actually still required. Can
anyone tell me if it is still
The next meeting of tacow / Cocoaheads Toronto will be held on
Tuesday, April 8 at 6:30 PM at Ryerson University.
Apple's Steve Hayman will be talking about the iPhone SDK.
More info and directions are available at http://www.tacow.org/?p=74.
Thanks and see you there.
Karl Moskowski
On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:13 AM, I. Savant wrote:
Of course we don't know what the requirements are. You may have a
perfectly valid reason but customizing AppKit might be a perfectly
poor choice ... The best thing to do - as I said - is to explain what
you are trying to accomplish and why Cocoa
I'm trying to use the editor you get when you get info on a target in
Xcode to add support to my application to open files ending in .gpx.
I've added a second line to that editor with what I thought was the
appropriate information. But I'm confused, because these lines create
What exactly would I put in here?
It calls into my code with
void DisplayReconfigurationCallBack (CGDirectDisplayID display,
CGDisplayChangeSummaryFlags flags, void *userInfo)
{
if (flags kCGDisplayAddFlag)
{
// do stuff
}
else if (flags kCGDisplayRemoveFlag)
{
On 1 Apr '08, at 10:44 AM, Jesse Grosjean wrote:
n my app it seems like it would be simpler to just setup a timer and
just directly update the ships position based on it's velocity for
each time interval from my timer. I'd still want to use the built in
core animation animations for other
I went to check the referenced thread, as this is something I wanted
to do occasionally, when I noticed that I was the OP for it.
The discussion was exhaustive, and veered OT at the end, but I'm not
sure that I ever discerned how one would do this efficiently.
This was probably the most
Hello List,
i've created a NSTableview with Interface Builder. In one of my
Collums is a NSButton. I've no idea how to set up the DataSource for
this.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks a lot
Thomas Bartelmess
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I have a need to find a way for my application to find out when new
windows are opened within it.
The specific case I'm currently looking at is when the print dialog is
opened and the user chooses Save as PDF This action will open a
file save dialog and I need to know when this happens.
Jens,
Thanks for your reply.
What I'm doing now is something like this:
[CATransaction begin];
[CATransaction setValue:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:0]
forKey:kCATransactionAnimationDuration];
for (CALayer *each in [rootLayer.sublayers copy]) {
I have a vague recollection that the mechanism used by Activity Monitor
and friends is not public API, unfortunately.
Martin Redington wrote:
I went to check the referenced thread, as this is something I wanted
to do occasionally, when I noticed that I was the OP for it.
The discussion
As we are on the cocoa list, I assume you are using obj-c.
If you are using plain C API in your code, you should not have problem.
But if // do stuff contains some obj-c calls that can raise an
exception, you have to make sure to catch it.
void DisplayReconfigurationCallBack
On 1 Apr '08, at 11:07 AM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote:
The NSImage that my FRPhoto holds on to should have invalidate[d]
and free[d] the offscreen caches of all image representations.
That doesn't mean the image representations themselves are flushed,
though. They're still there, typically
I'm pretty sure this is no longer the recommended way to do a kiosk
application. Instead, you can use SetSystemUIMode to hide the menubar
and dock (or replace the Finder as the first app launched).
TN2062 http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2062.html has
more information.
--Kyle
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Martin Redington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm running /sbin/md5 via an NSTask on a number of files (3,000 or
so, with a new NSTask each time).
This would run a lot faster (and avoid fd issues) if you used libcrypto. Try
man EVP_DigestInit to get an idea of
On 1 Apr '08, at 12:06 PM, Bill wrote:
Is my app causing it to happen? If so, should I try and correct
it? Or can I safely ignore it?
IIRC, sqlite error 5 means the database is locked. I think the only
way that could happen is if you have multiple copies of your app/
process running at
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:23:40, Casey Becking wrote:
Sorry to take any ones time if this has been discussed before. I was
curious
if there was any group meeting for Southern California coders to get
together?
Well, Southern California is a pretty big area. I have seen reference
to Lake
Le 2 avr. 08 à 01:36, stephen joseph butler a écrit :
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Martin Redington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm running /sbin/md5 via an NSTask on a number of files (3,000 or
so, with a new NSTask each time).
This would run a lot faster (and avoid fd issues) if you
At 15:21 -0700 01/04/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:26:58 -0700
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On 01 Apr 08, at 12:59, Marc Respass wrote:
I haven't registered for a creator
This is a good part of the solution. You also want to consider your window
level. Rather than taking over the entire screen, move your window level up
to NSModalPanelWindowLevel-1 and put a masking window at
NSModalPanelWindowLevel-2. That way the modal dialog will pop up over your
app.
-Rob
On
Hi Brad,
Based on the description of your application, I think you'll find Brent
Simmons' excellent XML-RPC Class for Cocoa helpful. And as Eric Wing pointed
out, you can't go wrong with Cocoaheads and NSCoder Night!
Sincerely,
Joel
http://ranchero.com/cocoa/xmlrpc/
What is bound to your NSTreeController? If its something like an
OutlineView you can have the delegate impliment
outlineViewSelectionDidChange. I tested it in my app and it does get
called when the OutlineView selection is changes to empty.
Adam
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Jeff LaMarche
I haven't experimented with CC_MD5, but we do have code which calculates
MD5s (calculated via simple C code).
Is CC_MD5 optimized e.g. using SSE or AltiVec? Should I expect to see a
perf boost if I swapped in this code instead of our regular C code?
Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
Le 2 avr. 08 à
On 2 Apr 2008, at 00:46, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
Le 2 avr. 08 à 01:36, stephen joseph butler a écrit :
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Martin Redington
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm running /sbin/md5 via an NSTask on a number of files (3,000 or
so, with a new NSTask each time).
This
On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Scott Guyer wrote:
Thanks Jeff,
That would explain it. Crikey...whole lotta Zs in the CD created
SQLite schema. :)
In XCode, there is an Design - Data Model - Import... menu item.
It is looking to import an XML file of a particular format. Any
Hey all,
I've made a whole set of custom controls, including custom
NSScrollers, a NSScrollVIew to use them in, and an NSTableView based
off these. What I can't figure out is my table is set to show
Scrollers when needed, but when they appear, I get a white corner
where the two
Thanks Ricky, Kyle and Rob.
I do appreciate your comments, but none of this addresses my question.
I started working from TN2062 several months ago and only after a ton
of research and experimentation found that this alone does not meet my
needs (for reasons I won't get into here). I do, in
I create a file wrapper from a pdf image on disk and insert it into
my textstorage, with no problem, which draws fine on screen but
then when I want to print the document it draws the image at low
resolution.
This is a bug that was introduced in Leopard that affects PDF and EPS
images. I
Martin Redington wrote:
There were some AppleScript based approaches, but they all seemed to
involve activating the app ...
Shouldn't do, as long as you check to see if the application is
running first. That said, you may not want to use AppleScript itself
as it has issues running in
You can get what you're looking for by observing
NSWindowDidBecomeKeyNotification or several of the others. Look at the
Notifications section at the bottom of NSWindow's documentation. Should be
something like
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:...
On 02/04/2008, at 5:11 AM, Jeff LaMarche wrote:
I've also tried using @selectedObjects rather than @selection.
Now this notifies me when the selection changes, except it doesn't
notify me if the user clicked somewhere resulting in an empty
selection, nor when the selection is currently
On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Rob Napier wrote:
It won't exactly match Mail or iTunes, but the new Leopard way of
doing what you're talking about is to use an NSTableView or
NSOutlineView and call:
[tableView
setSelectionHighlightStyle:NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSurceList
]
On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Rob Keniger wrote:
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/SourceView
Excellent, thanks Rob!
Regards
Markus
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Ah, a subject near and dear to my heart.
I agree with Rainer, UTIs can be deduced from file types, extensions
and file creators, but I would sure like it if one could set a UTI for
a document and have this take care of things, not the other way around.
Also, it certainly seems that UTIs do
I was surprised to see a Core Data object throw an exception during
'processPendingChanges' because the object couldn't handle
'setValue:nil forKey:'.
AFAICT, this happened under the following conditions:
-- the object had been inserted into the managed object context
-- the object had then
Thanks Rob.
I thought I looked through all the window notifications. Maybe I just
overlooked this. I'll try.
This really is a stop-gap measure. I want to be implementing the
drawing of all the dialogs myself but need to get this out with a
reasonable solution in the mean time.
Paul
On
I have a classic NSTreeController / NSOutlineView situation. The
TreeController has a SortDescriptor on it. I am programatically adding
a leaf node to a group node. It does not appear in the OutlineView
when I first add it. When I inspect the CoreData .xml file the leaf
node is there and it
On 1 Apr '08, at 7:47 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote:
Looks like I'll have to design a smarter architecture to keep the
right images in memory at the right time.
IKImageBrowserView (new in 10.5) pretty much does this for you. If its
look and feel are compatible with what you're doing (it's
On 1 Apr '08, at 4:53 PM, Martin Redington wrote:
You'd kind of hope that NSTask would clean up in its dealloc method,
but apparently not.
But you're not (and shouldn't be) calling -dealloc, you're calling -
release. My guess is that the NSTask retains itself while the process
is
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