NSUndoManager grouping somewhat broken?

2008-04-08 Thread Graham Cox
I am getting funny results using grouping in NSUndoManager. If I begin a group on mouse down, and end the group on mouse up, even if I do nothing in between, it seems to record an undo task, with the plain name Undo in the menu, dirtying the document. The task is null - it doesn't actually

alBufferData, void * data

2008-04-08 Thread David Harper
hello! I'm trying to figure out how to use openAL without alut (as alut is no longer included in the openAL framework). The roadblock I am facing is that alBufferData requires a pointer to a sound's bitmap data. NSSound doesn't seem to have the appropriate method. Any suggestions? Please

Re: Constraining a NSSlider to Certain Values

2008-04-08 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 8 avr. 08 à 05:28, Peter Zegelin a écrit : I have managed to get my slider working the way I want it to by overriding mousedown and mousedragged, however there is still one small detail. I cant see how to make the slider knob show its 'pushed' image while the slider is being dragged.

Re: NSUndoManager grouping somewhat broken?

2008-04-08 Thread Florent Pillet
Graham Cox wrote: I am getting funny results using grouping in NSUndoManager. If I begin a group on mouse down, and end the group on mouse up, even if I do nothing in between, it seems to record an undo task, with the plain name Undo in the menu, dirtying the document. The task is null - it

Re: Constraining a NSSlider to Certain Values

2008-04-08 Thread Peter Zegelin
I have managed to get my slider working the way I want it to by overriding mousedown and mousedragged, however there is still one small detail. I cant see how to make the slider knob show its 'pushed' image while the slider is being dragged. Does anyone know how to do this? thanks!

Re: Returning a value from a function

2008-04-08 Thread Bryan Henry
Change your function definition to - (NSString*)convertFunctionWithValues:(NSString*)etc and just add return retVal; Also, its not really necessary but in the interest of good coding practices you may want to consider passing an array (NSArray of NSNumber or whatever) to

Re: Returning a value from a function

2008-04-08 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 8 Apr 2008, at 09:37, Bryan Henry wrote: Change your function definition to - (NSString*)convertFunctionWithValues:(NSString*)etc and just add return retVal; Also, its not really necessary but in the interest of good coding practices you may want to consider passing an array

Re: Returning a value from a function

2008-04-08 Thread Bryan Henry
Also, according to your code at the bottom here, you want to return a value from a METHOD not a function. Mike. That's splitting hairs just a little. Most people use the terms interchangeably, at least informally, and trying to introduce the distinction just for the sake of it has the

Re: Returning a value from a function

2008-04-08 Thread Mike R. Manzano
Well, you can't return anything if your method's return is declared as void. It would have to be the type of object you're returning, which in this case is an NSString. Hence: - (NSString) convertFunctionWithValues:(NSString *) valueOne ... At the end of your method, you would use the

Re: Returning a value from a function

2008-04-08 Thread Ryan Chapman
Does it have to return void? If not, how about returning an NSString*? - (NSString *)convertFunctionWithValues:(NSString *)valueOne ValueTwo:(double)valueTwo ValueThree:(double)valueThree ValueFour:(double)valueFour ValueFive:(NSString *)valueFive ValueSix:(double)valueSix { NSString

Re: NSString format parameter order

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
There's quite a few printf arguments the Mac OS doesn't support right now. An alternative is to shuffle pointers around: NSString * string1 = @you, * string2 = @hello; ... if([language isEqualToString:@Backwards Latin]) { NSString * temp = string1; string1 = string2;

NSString format parameter order

2008-04-08 Thread Jere Gmail
I'm looking for a way to switch parameters order in order to use the same parameters for different languages. something like NSString string1=@you NSString string1=@hello NSString str=[NSString stringWithFormat:@%2 %1, string1,string2]; will make str value hello you. I have been working with

Re: NSConnection registerName

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
Mac OS X has layered bootstrap nameservers. The bottom layer is the root layer and all others like the console user's layer go on top. For security, layers can see connections at their level or below, but not above. This in short means the root layer cannot see any other connections not

Re: NSString format parameter order

2008-04-08 Thread Jere Gmail
Well, I have found a good solution using stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString:options:range: The only problem is that one of the parameters is a float, and if I want to display it with more or less precision I would have to make a preprocess of the parameter format into the string. Now

Re: NSString format parameter order

2008-04-08 Thread B.J. Buchalter
You can use the POSIX standard library (sprintf) rather than NSStrings for this... On Apr 8, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Jere Gmail wrote: On Apr 8, 2008, at 3:33 AM, Jere Gmail wrote: I'm looking for a way to switch parameters order in order to use the same parameters for different languages.

Re: Saving AttributedString with Attachments to RTFD

2008-04-08 Thread fred . redcliffe
Douglas Thanks, I did realize my mistake as I remembered that the RTFD is a package and not a file. Fred On 7 Apr 2008, at 17:36, Douglas Davidson wrote: As others have noted, RTFD is a packaged file format, consisting of a directory in the file system containing the underlying RTF and

Re: Returning a value from a function

2008-04-08 Thread I. Savant
On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:52 AM, Bryan Henry wrote: Also, according to your code at the bottom here, you want to return a value from a METHOD not a function. That's splitting hairs just a little. No, it's precisely accurate. While the meaning is clear in this case, failure to use proper

Re: NSString format parameter order

2008-04-08 Thread matt . gough
On 8 Apr 2008, at 11:33, Jere Gmail wrote: I'm looking for a way to switch parameters order in order to use the same parameters for different languages. something like NSString string1=@you NSString string1=@hello NSString str=[NSString stringWithFormat:@%2 %1, string1,string2]; will make str

Re: NSString format parameter order

2008-04-08 Thread Frédéric Testuz
I think using the capacity of Cocoa would be simplier. Look at the doc on the localization : http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Articles/StringsFiles.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/2005 This line : NSLog(@%3$u : %2$@ : %1$@, @le 1, @le 2, 3); result

Re: NSUndoManager grouping somewhat broken?

2008-04-08 Thread Graham Cox
Thanks, but unfortunately you're mistaken as far as I and my exhaustive project find command can see - Sketch does not use undo grouping at all (seems there is no real need for Sketch to deal with the possibility of multiple undoable operations being grouped because it's so simple and only

Re: How to add number do Dock Icon like in Mail?

2008-04-08 Thread Adam P Jenkins
See [NSApplication setApplicationIconImage: (NSImage*)]. This changes the application's icon, and updates its dock icon. On Mar 30, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Samvel wrote: I'd like my application to show number of completed tasks in Dock Icon as it is done in Mail (number of unread emails).

Core Animation layer-backed NSViews and mouse handling

2008-04-08 Thread Manfred Schwind
Hi, I have a layer-backed NSView, say an NSButton (or a complete view hierarchy with many controls), and I am transforming - moving, rotating, etc. - its layer around. Now when I try to click the NSButton at its currently visible position, drawn by the CALayer, it does not work. I have

Re: How to add number do Dock Icon like in Mail?

2008-04-08 Thread matt . gough
On leopard or later, you can just do: [[[NSApplication sharedApplication] dockTile] setBadgeLabel:[[NSNumber numberWithInt:42] stringValue]]; to put 42 as a badge Matt On 8 Apr 2008, at 14:06, Adam P Jenkins wrote: See [NSApplication setApplicationIconImage: (NSImage*)]. This changes

Returning a value from a function

2008-04-08 Thread Stuart Green
Hi, I've currently got a function of type void that works swimmingly in the debugger. I now need to populate a text field with the value of the generated string within the function. The function is declared along the lines: - (void)convertFunctionWithValues:(NSString *)valueOne

Re: Returning a value from a function

2008-04-08 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 8 Apr 2008, at 13:20, Jason Stephenson wrote: I. Savant wrote: No, it's precisely accurate. While the meaning is clear in this case, failure to use proper terminology on a technical mailing list can cause confusion resulting in more noise and wasted time. A method is a method. A

Re: NSString format parameter order

2008-04-08 Thread mmalc crawford
On Apr 8, 2008, at 3:38 AM, Frédéric Testuz wrote: I think using the capacity of Cocoa would be simplier. Look at the doc on the localization : http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Articles/StringsFiles.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/2005 Or perhaps

Re: Using existing SQLite database with core data?

2008-04-08 Thread mmalc crawford
On Apr 7, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: On Apr 7, 2008, at 12:10, Chris Hanson wrote: On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:50 AM, Quincey Morris wrote: Yet a core principle of Core Data is its abstraction of the model away from the structure of the various persistent store formats. Core Data

Saving NSFonts and changedFont: trouble

2008-04-08 Thread Thomas Backman
Hey everybody. I'm working on a small app - to make the post shorter, lets just say that it displays (plain) text, but I want the user to be able to pick the font used (the same font should be used for all the text). Right now, I have a changedFont: method in my controller class, that

Re: Saving NSFonts and changedFont: trouble

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
Are you sending convertFont: to the sender of changedFont:? I think this is required or controls start to get confused. May or may not solve your problem though. On Apr 8, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Thomas Backman wrote: Hey everybody. I'm working on a small app - to make the post shorter, lets

Reformatting percent string to two decimal places

2008-04-08 Thread Lorenzo Thurman
I have the string representation of a percentage value, that goes to 6 places beyond the decimal point. Something like this: 64.123456%. I want to round that to 2 places and keep the percent sign at the end e.g. 64.12% and return it as an NSString. I was playing around with NSNumberFormatter (in

Re: IB outlets and NSCollectionViews

2008-04-08 Thread Torsten Curdt
Hm ...I had to bind it to a NSCollectionItemView subclass that routes to the AppController. cheers -- Torsten On Apr 7, 2008, at 18:04, Torsten Curdt wrote: Hm ...I was trying to bind a button inside a NSCollectionItemView view to an action in my AppController. This obviously does not work.

Re: Reformatting percent string to two decimal places

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
For string formats there's %.2f which means show 2 places after the decimal, it's rounded as well. Also, you can use %% to print a literal % symbol. On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Lorenzo Thurman wrote: I have the string representation of a percentage value, that goes to 6 places beyond the

Re: Reformatting percent string to two decimal places

2008-04-08 Thread Hank Heijink (Mailinglists)
This seems like a lot of trouble to go to. Why not do something like this? NSString *inString = @64.123456%; NSString *outString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@%.2f%%, [inString doubleValue]]; Hank On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Lorenzo Thurman wrote: I have the string representation of a

Re: Reformatting percent string to two decimal places

2008-04-08 Thread James Bucanek
Call me crazy, but why wouldn't this work? (warning: typed in mail) return ([NSString stringWithFormat:@%.*f%%,places,[valueToRound doubleValue]]); Lorenzo Thurman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (Tuesday, April 8, 2008 8:07 AM -0500): I have the string representation of a percentage

Re: Saving NSFonts and changedFont: trouble

2008-04-08 Thread Thomas Backman
Yep, I am, unfortunately. The whole method, bar 3 lines for saving to user defaults, is - (void)changeFont:(id)sender { NSFont *oldFont = [textView font]; NSFont *newFont = [sender convertFont:oldFont]; [textView setFont:newFont]; } Worth mentioning is that before clicking in the

Re: Core Animation layer-backed NSViews and mouse handling

2008-04-08 Thread Mike R. Manzano
From Core Animation for OS X, by Bill Dudney: Since the view is managing the layer and has to be intimately familiar with what is going on with the layer it is not recommended that we manipulate the layer in any way except through the methods exposed through the view. As long as we use

Re: Saving NSFonts and changedFont: trouble

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
The font panel sends it's messages to the shared font manager. You can make your own font panel subclass and tell the font manager to use it with setFontPanelFactory:. It's possible the textView is absorbing the changedFont: message, you might need to implement

Getting the mouse location in a CAlayer's coordinates

2008-04-08 Thread douglas a. welton
Hi All, Would someone provide me a pointer for how to get the mouse location in the coordinate system of a transformed layer that is underneath the mouse. I thought I could do something like this: Mouse_Location = [Target_Layer convertPoint: NSPointToCGPoint( [NSEvent mouseLocation] )

Re: Open-source NSToolbar?

2008-04-08 Thread John Stiles
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of an RBSplitView, something you can just drop into your nib/code and suddenly your toolbars are better :) Thanks for the pointers, everyone. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2008-04-07 17:47:30: I'm looking for an open-source

Re: Core Animation layer-backed NSViews and mouse handling

2008-04-08 Thread Matt Long
Hey Mani, I never solved the problem completely, however, I realized that what you need to do, or so it seems, is to somehow get notified when the animation has finished and then actually move the button to the position where the animation stopped. It seems really convoluted to me, but I

Re: fileHFSCreatorCode fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink on app bundles

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Christensen
On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:03 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On 7 Apr '08, at 8:11 PM, Mike wrote: I need to get the creator code of my app's bundle without diving into the bundle and reading the plist directly. You're mixing up HFS creator codes with bundle identifiers, I think. HFS creator codes are

Core Data with NSArrayController Confusion

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Burns
After a great amount of trial and error, It is my belief that I would like to use Core Data with bindings in order to keep my UI synced with my model objects. Here's the summary: I have a custom view (CellMapView) controlled by a custom window controller (CellMapController) in an

Re: Core Animation layer-backed NSViews and mouse handling

2008-04-08 Thread Scott Anguish
don't work with the layer directly when you have layer-backed views only do it when you are using layer-hosting views On Apr 8, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Manfred Schwind wrote: Hi, I have a layer-backed NSView, say an NSButton (or a complete view hierarchy with many controls), and I am

Re: Core Data with NSArrayController Confusion

2008-04-08 Thread I. Savant
Adding a cell, in addition to creating a new Cell entity, also has to do some custom tasks on initialization. Each cell has a one-to-one relationship with another managed object (Scene), so the scene object needs to be created and inserted in to the MOM when the cell is created. This is

Re: Getting the mouse location in a CAlayer's coordinates

2008-04-08 Thread Nathan Vander Wilt
On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:15 AM, douglas a. welton wrote: Hi All, Would someone provide me a pointer for how to get the mouse location in the coordinate system of a transformed layer that is underneath the mouse. I thought I could do something like this: Mouse_Location = [Target_Layer

Re: enterFullScreenMode trouble

2008-04-08 Thread Wesley Smith
I don't know about NSView, but I was having the same issue with NSWindow and this fixed it: -(BOOL)canBecomeKeyWindow { return YES; } wes On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply. Actually I read those posts already, that's why I threw out the

Re: Core Data with NSArrayController Confusion

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Burns
My only question with that is that I will need to fetch all existing cells, and I as I understood it this was something that was not to be done in awakeFromInsert. Is that something I dreamed up? Thanks, Mike On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:20 PM, I. Savant wrote: Adding a cell, in addition to

Re: Core Data with NSArrayController Confusion

2008-04-08 Thread I. Savant
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Michael Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only question with that is that I will need to fetch all existing cells, and I as I understood it this was something that was not to be done in awakeFromInsert. Is that something I dreamed up? If that's a rule

Re: Forcing a text input method on a NSTextField

2008-04-08 Thread Aki Inoue
Right now, there is no way to specify Japanese Hiragana just using Cocoa API. Starting from Leopard, you can use -[NSTextFieldCell setAllowedInputSourceLocales:] with an array containing @ja (the Japanese locale) to narrow it to Japanese input modes. Or, also from Leopard, you can use

Forcing a text input method on a NSTextField

2008-04-08 Thread Dimitri Bouniol
I would like to force a text input method, such as the Japanese hiragana input, onto a NSTextField programatically. How would I go about doing this? -- 定魅刀利 Dimitri Bouniol [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mac.com/dimitri008/ ___ Cocoa-dev mailing

Re: Core Data with NSArrayController Confusion

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Burns
Interestingly enough, I started looking back to figure out where I had read that and realized it had come up in a thread I started back in September (http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/ 2007/9/21/189533). The only way I have found to accomplish what I need to is by putting

Re: NSTextField height in Interface Builder

2008-04-08 Thread Aki Inoue
By default, the line break mode is clip (single line). Change it to word-wrapping let you change the height. Aki On 2008/04/08, at 12:28, Dean Ritchie wrote: I'm new to XCode 3 and Interface Builder. Trying to redo an earlier Cocoa application, I need to specify a vertical text field,

Re: Core Data with NSArrayController Confusion

2008-04-08 Thread I. Savant
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Michael Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly enough, I started looking back to figure out where I had read that and realized it had come up in a thread I started back in September (http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2007/9/21/189533). The

NSTextField height in Interface Builder

2008-04-08 Thread Dean Ritchie
I'm new to XCode 3 and Interface Builder. Trying to redo an earlier Cocoa application, I need to specify a vertical text field, like 20x120, but Interface Builder dims out the height value. Since this was available in 1.5, I assume I'm missing some obvious parameter somewhere that would

Re: How to add number do Dock Icon like in Mail?

2008-04-08 Thread Jim Puls
On Apr 8, 2008, at 5:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On leopard or later, you can just do: [[[NSApplication sharedApplication] dockTile] setBadgeLabel: [[NSNumber numberWithInt:42] stringValue]]; to put 42 as a badge Matt On 8 Apr 2008, at 14:06, Adam P Jenkins wrote: See [NSApplication

Menu on system bar

2008-04-08 Thread Jere Gmail
I know I can place a menu on the system bar to make my application accesible when on background, but right now I can't find it. I did it last year but totally forgot. Anyone can help? -- http://zon7blog.wordpress.com/ And again we fall. ___ Cocoa-dev

Re: observeValueForKeyPath:... called multiple times on exit

2008-04-08 Thread Keary Suska
on 4/8/08 1:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: I have an object observing an NSArrayController's arrangedObjects property. My observeValueForKeyPath:... is called as expected, except for shutdown. When I quit my application, it is called multiple times, but the array contents haven't

Re: Menu on system bar

2008-04-08 Thread slasktrattenator
NSStatusItem? On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Jere Gmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I can place a menu on the system bar to make my application accesible when on background, but right now I can't find it. I did it last year but totally forgot. Anyone can help? --

Re: Continunous NSSegmentedControl?

2008-04-08 Thread slasktrattenator
I'm not sure if it's supposed to work or not, but I have been struggling with the same thing and finally settled for a solution where I created a timer when the cell started tracking. The timer fires after half a second and if the button is no longer pressed by then invalidates itself. It's not

PDFView and Core Data undos

2008-04-08 Thread Justin Hawkwood
I have a PDFView in my Core Data application which I generate when the tab is changed to view it. During the generation of the PDF file, the undoManager seems to get cleared out (but the window stays dirty) when I call: [myPDFView setDocument:previewPDF]; So I tried adding the following

Re: Binding NSTableColumn to NSArrayController programatically.

2008-04-08 Thread Keary Suska
on 4/7/08 3:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: [column bind:NSValueBinding toObject:contentsCTRL withKeyPath:@myKey options:nil]; Is myKey a property of the NSArrayController? If not, why should it respond to it? Best, Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. Demystifying technology for your

missing (some) window names in Window menu

2008-04-08 Thread Hal Mueller
My NSPersistentDocument app has two kinds of windows that can be shown for a given document. A few revisions back (I just noticed it last night, though), Type2 windows stopped showing up in the Window menu. I can create them, and they respond to the Bring All To Front menu item. Type1

Re: missing (some) window names in Window menu

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
You can use NSApplication's addWindowsItem:title:filename: to manually add windows to the list. Also make sure your windows don't have isExcludedFromWindowsMenu set to YES. On Apr 8, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Hal Mueller wrote: My NSPersistentDocument app has two kinds of windows that can be

want to keep a main window still, not close

2008-04-08 Thread norio
Hi, My app is not a document-based application. And it has a main window and other windows. What I want to ask you to tell me is how to remain still the main window even if user option-clicks the close box of one of the other windows. I tried observing with its name nil and object nil.

Re: missing (some) window names in Window menu

2008-04-08 Thread Hal Mueller
On Apr 8, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote: Also make sure your windows don't have isExcludedFromWindowsMenu set to YES. Thanks, that was the clue to the fix. In IB I had accidentally changed the class of the window to something that had that set to NO by default. Hal

Re: PDFView and Core Data undos

2008-04-08 Thread Antonio Nunes
On Apr 8, 2008, at 10:19 PM, Justin Hawkwood wrote: How do I call [myPDFView setDocument:previewPDF] without clearing out the undoManager? I don't think you can. (And if you can, I'd really, really like to know :-) I filed a bug report on this back in Feb. (#5733716). António

Re: observeValueForKeyPath:... called multiple times on exit

2008-04-08 Thread Mike R. Manzano
I put some code into my observe method to get the arrangedObjects array out of the NSArrayController, and then I print that array to the screen. On exit of the application, the observe method gets called around 7 times, and there doesn't seem to be a difference in the array contents

Core Data for managing subtree?

2008-04-08 Thread Hamish Allan
Hi, I have a source list (an NSOutlineView bound to an NSTreeController), with three sections: one containing fixed items, one dynamic items, and one items the user can add and remove (c.f. the iTunes source list sections 'Library', 'Shared' and 'Playlists'). Because my add and remove controls

NSString stringWithFormat woes

2008-04-08 Thread Stuart Green
Hi, I have a string declaration of: returnString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@%c-%i-%i-%f, asciiString, firstDouble, secondDouble, thirdDouble]; Which is producing a weird output when used outside of an NSLog. Examining each parameter in the debugger shows exactly what I want, i.e. an

Re: NSString stringWithFormat woes

2008-04-08 Thread Randall Meadows
On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Stuart Green wrote: Hi, I have a string declaration of: returnString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@%c-%i-%i-%f, asciiString, firstDouble, secondDouble, thirdDouble]; If asciiString really is an ASCII (null-terminated) string, then you need to use %s, not %c.

Re: NSUndoManager grouping somewhat broken?

2008-04-08 Thread Graham Cox
Hi, thanks for that. The current version of Sketch doesn't have this code, which is why I couldn't find it ;-) It does confirm the problem I'm having though so that's useful to know - it means I'm not doing something stupid with the undo manager. Interesting that they removed this from

Re: NSString stringWithFormat woes

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
Try casting them to ints before formatting: returnString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@%c-%i-%i-%f, asciiString, (int)firstDouble, (int)secondDouble, thirdDouble]; On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Stuart Green wrote: Hi, I have a string declaration of: returnString = [NSString

Re: NSString stringWithFormat woes

2008-04-08 Thread Jack Repenning
On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Stuart Green wrote: returnString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@%c-%i-%i-%f, asciiString, firstDouble, secondDouble, thirdDouble]; Which is producing a weird output when used outside of an NSLog. Examining each parameter in the debugger shows exactly what I

Re: NSString stringWithFormat woes

2008-04-08 Thread Hamish Allan
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Stuart Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: returnString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@%c-%i-%i-%f, asciiString, firstDouble, secondDouble, thirdDouble]; You have a format string for character-integer-integer-float/double, not string, double, double, double.

Cocoaheads Lake Forest (93620) meeting Wednesday, 4/9 at 7pm

2008-04-08 Thread Scott Ellsworth
CocoaHeads Lake Forest will be meeting on the second Wednesday in April. We will be meeting, as usual, in the community room of the El Toro branch of the Orange County Public Library at 24672 Raymond Way, Lake Forest, CA 92630. Please join us from 7pm to 9pm on Wednesday, 4/9. We are going to

NSUInteger question

2008-04-08 Thread Timothy Reaves
What advantage does NSUinteger have over uint32? I realize that on a 64 bit machine, it would be a uint64. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the

Re: NSUInteger question

2008-04-08 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Apr 8, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Timothy Reaves wrote: What advantage does NSUinteger have over uint32? I realize that on a 64 bit machine, it would be a uint64. None. It only declares the integer to be 32-bit on 32-bit builds, and 64-bit on 64-bit builds. Nick Zitzmann

Re: NSUInteger question

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
That's pretty much it. Since 64bit on mac are LP64, int is always 32bits. Using NSUInteger gives you an integer that behaves like ILP64, 32bit on 32bit arch, 64bit on 64bit arch, if you're looking for that behavior. On Apr 8, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Timothy Reaves wrote: What advantage does

Re: NSUInteger question

2008-04-08 Thread Christopher Nebel
On Apr 8, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Timothy Reaves wrote: What advantage does NSUinteger have over uint32? I realize that on a 64 bit machine, it would be a uint64. Advantage? None, really. It's a question of what you're trying to express -- do you want specifically a 32-bit unsigned integer,

Re: fileHFSCreatorCode fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink on app bundles

2008-04-08 Thread Mike
Ken Thomases wrote: On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Mike wrote: In that case, how do I get the fullpath to the item from the iterator? There doesn't seem to be any key in the info dictionary for the current item's fullpath. Huh? You mean the enumeratedItem from your original code snippet? You

Programmatic binding not working both ways?

2008-04-08 Thread Doug Knowles
I'm using bind:toObject:withKeyPath:options: to programmatically set up bindings from a set of proxy objects (the receiver) to various properties on a model object, and while changes to the model properties are properly being reflected in the proxies, changes to the proxy properties are not being

Re: NSDictionaryController and inserting new objects.

2008-04-08 Thread Guy Umbright
But that still leaves the question unresolved. How do you add an object into a dictionary via NSDictionaryController? I have a NSCollectionView bound to a NSArrayController and am able to add things to its content array via addObject. Works great, the object immediately shows up in the

Re: How to store NSRect as Core Data attribute?

2008-04-08 Thread Adam P Jenkins
Actually on Leopard you should be able to store an NSValue as an attribute, simply by using an attribute of type Transformable, and setting the Value Transformer Name to NSUnarchiveFromData. I just tried it though, and it seems like there is a bug which prevents it from working. Basically

Re: How to store NSRect as Core Data attribute?

2008-04-08 Thread stephen joseph butler
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Daniel Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have gone with using a ...AsString attribute and using NSRectFromString. Seems to work okay, although I've got no idea if it's the most efficient method. I think Core Data seems a little limited in that you can't store an