Re: Problems with Launchd Daemon

2008-04-29 Thread JanakiRam
My daemon should run in log-off mode as well , hence starting with root previlages. UI is required only if the user has been logged-in. JanakiRam. On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Jens Alfke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Apr '08, at 9:52 PM, JanakiRam wrote: My Daemon will perform

Re: autosizing problem

2008-04-29 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Yann Disser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to put all the content in a simple window and everything worked fine until I resized the window to a size too small for the table view to be displayed at all. When I made it larger again, the same problem occured. I

Re: Problems with Launchd Daemon

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:12 PM, JanakiRam wrote: My daemon should run in log-off mode as well , hence starting with root previlages. UI is required only if the user has been logged-in. In general, privilege escalation and -- much harder if not impossible -- de-escalation is an exceedingly

Re: Deleting preference file from within the application

2008-04-29 Thread Andy Lee
If you call this, the prefs file will be deleted for you, and will stay deleted: [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] removePersistentDomainForName:@bundle.identifier.for.your.app]; I tested this by calling it in -applicationWillTerminate:. I assume you could call it

Re: Deleting preference file from within the application

2008-04-29 Thread Andy Lee
This would be better than hard-coding the bundle identifier... [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] removePersistentDomainForName: [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier]]; --Andy On Apr 29, 2008, at 2:18 AM, Andy Lee wrote: If you call this, the prefs file will

Re: How to adopt a superclass's protocol?

2008-04-29 Thread Michael Vannorsdel
You can make the superclass's method look like this: - (void)doSomething { if([self conformsToProtocol:@protocol(Check)]) [(SuperClass Check *)self optionalMethodToImplement]; } The cast eliminates the compiler warning. As far as making it private it depends what you

Re: Group rotation

2008-04-29 Thread Graham Cox
Implementing grouping that really works is quite hard. What about when groups are nested? This can go on indefinitely, so you need a mechanism that can take account of any number of nested groups. Since transforms from any level can be appended or prepended, this is the way to go I believe

Re: Deleting preference file from within the application

2008-04-29 Thread Andrew BusH
Hi all, thanks for the quick response. funny, I thought I had tried that and that it had failed, leading me to assume that removePersistentDomainforName was intended for something else (its not like the docs are particularly specific on what it does) but doing it again it seems to work

Re: Problems with Launchd Daemon

2008-04-29 Thread JanakiRam
Hi All, From the error log , it looks like my app is not trusted , hence its unable to connect to Windows server before login. Is there any way i can my application trusted to make my daemon work ? *Warning: 3891612: (CGSLookupServerRootPort) Untrusted apps are not allowed to connect to or

Re: Problems with Launchd Daemon

2008-04-29 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:37 AM, JanakiRam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way i can my application trusted to make my daemon work ? Again, read the documentation. The message you are seeing is generated because you are acting in defiance of the rules for daemons on Mac OS X, which I and

Re: How to adopt a superclass's protocol?

2008-04-29 Thread Paul Sargent
On 29 Apr 2008, at 04:22, K. Darcy Otto wrote: First, I still get the warning that the superclass may not respond to the method (and to be sure, it is only implemented in the subclass, but the superclass calls it after a conformsToProtocol: check). Sounds like the way things a decomposed

How can i connect to database?

2008-04-29 Thread vinitha
hi, I'm working in xcode3.0 in leopard machine in cocoa application and using objective c.How can i connect to database in my cocoa application?And how can i make final exe of my project? Thanks vinitha ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: How can i connect to database?

2008-04-29 Thread parag vibhute
While asking queries, be specific. Which database do u want to connect? and what do you mean 'how to make final exe'? If you don't know about making application on Mac, please go through the beginner's doc. On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I'm working in

How can i connect to database?

2008-04-29 Thread vinitha
hi, I'm working in xcode3.0 in leopard machine in cocoa application and using objective c.How can i connect to database in my cocoa application?And how can i make final exe of my project? Thanks vinitha ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

NSTableView calls setPlaceHolderString: for image cell

2008-04-29 Thread Ferhat Ayaz
Hi, I wrote a custom cell (subclass of NSActionCell) and called [super initWithImage: nil] in my initialization method. I have set my custom cell to use with a NSTableView. However, in random cases I get this error message *** -[MyBlockCell setPlaceholderString:]: unrecognized selector

Re: How can i connect to database?

2008-04-29 Thread I. Savant
I'm working in xcode3.0 in leopard machine in cocoa application and using objective c.How can i connect to database in my cocoa application?And how can i make final exe of my project? If you're at the stage where you're still learning how to create a final build of your application or

Re: Calculating file size

2008-04-29 Thread ajb . lists
I dug up some code that might help. This uses a category to replace NSFileManager's fileAttributesAtPath: traverseLink and provides more attributes than the standard implementation. With this category method, you can continue to use the directory enumerator, so your calculation becomes:

Immediate memory release

2008-04-29 Thread Yannick De Koninck
Hi everybody, I am writing an application where, at some point in time, the user clicks a button and for a great amount of images the average pixel values are calculated and stored in an array. Basically this looks like this: -(IBAction)Generate:(id)sender { // some code for (i =

Re: Immediate memory release

2008-04-29 Thread Graham Cox
It sounds like something in some code is also retaining tempSource (probably autoreleasing it), so that the release at the end of the loop is not actually releasing, but the subsequent release of the autorelease pool at the end of the event is doing so. So without some code it's hard to

Re: Immediate memory release

2008-04-29 Thread João Pavão
Hi, Calling -[NSObject release] is almost never a guarantee that your object will be deallocated. By releasing tempSource in your code you're simply stating that you no longer need that object and that Cocoa can free up the memory taken by the object **when appropriate** (i.e., when

Re: starting...

2008-04-29 Thread Vineet Bhatia
Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition by Aaron Hillegass is available on Oreilly's Safari Books online. http://safari.oreilly.com/9780321562739?tocview=true On Apr 25, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Brad Gibbs wrote: I also began learning Objective-C programming about a month ago, without

NSTokenField

2008-04-29 Thread Ivan Blagdan
Greetings, I have some issues regarding the behavior of the NSTokenFiled i need to act on removal/addition of tokens(autocompleted reresentations of some objects) in the field. My setup is as follows: NSTokenField content is handled by a delegate that in turn, autocompletes, fills it

Webservices and Structure of SOAP Envelope

2008-04-29 Thread Krys Malak
Hi, i'm trying to access a webservice and retrieve data from it, but something goes wrong when i get the response from the server and i lose some of the data i actually need. Here's the setup: A webservice (written in java) running in a Glassfish Server on my Windows machine that has a method

Core Animation Caching Resolution

2008-04-29 Thread Kai
Hi, I am having a CALayer with a scale-down transform and many sub layers. It seems to be the case that these sub layers cache their contents with 1 unit to 1 pixel, that is they ignore the (outer) transform until it comes to draw to the screen. Is there a suggested way to work around

Re: Immediate memory release

2008-04-29 Thread Joseph Kelly
You have no guarantee that a method like -initWithContentsOfFile: is not going to add many allocations to the autorelease pool (which probably exists at your top runloop). In my code, in places that sit in tight processing loops, I've had to create an autorelease pool at the top of the loop

Re: NSTableView calls setPlaceHolderString: for image cell

2008-04-29 Thread Corbin Dunn
Hmm..NSTableView doesn't call that method. Chances are, something else is tickling it. We need more information to really help you out. Break on -setPlaceHolderString:, or something else lower level (like NSLog), get a backtrace (bt in gdb). Post that here. corbin On Apr 29, 2008, at 2:49

Re: Counting instances in Core Data

2008-04-29 Thread I. Savant
Execute a fetch for the entity in which you're interested, and count the returned array. My question is: what is the most efficient fetch to pose given that every fetch is IO. Yes. A given entity might have a lot of records so an array COULD be an unnecessarily

Binding a popup button's selected index to a model integer

2008-04-29 Thread Johnny Lundy
Hello all, I would appreciate some guidance in getting a popup button to use its selectedIndex to set an integer in my model. I am having trouble understanding how to properly bind the selection of a popup to an integer in the model so that changes in the popup's selection changes the

Re: Binding a popup button's selected index to a model integer

2008-04-29 Thread I. Savant
I would appreciate some guidance in getting a popup button to use its selectedIndex to set an integer in my model. Am I correct in assuming you want your popup to represent the -gameType of the selected item in the array controller? If so, the best thing to do is to create an

Re: Counting instances in Core Data

2008-04-29 Thread I. Savant
My question is: what is the most efficient fetch to pose given that every fetch is IO. Yes. Sorry, I thought this was is this the most efficient ... Meaning: mmalc's response of Execute a fetch for the entity in which you're interested, and count the returned array. is the most

Re: autosizing problem

2008-04-29 Thread John Stiles
Kyle Sluder wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Yann Disser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giving a minimum size to my drawer worked. However I think this absolutely is a bug. I would expect my views to vanish if the window is made too small and to reappear normally once the window is again

Any actor or coroutine implementations for Cocoa?

2008-04-29 Thread Jens Alfke
Anyone know if the Actor design pattern for concurrent programming has been implemented for Cocoa? In a nutshell, an Actor is an object that has its own [cooperative] thread and message queue. Actors interact by message-passing instead of shared state. The idea is to eliminate the need for

Re: How to programmatically create an NSObjectController in Entity mode?

2008-04-29 Thread I. Savant
What is the correct way to programmatically creates these things? I believe you've gotten it all right, but the document says of the 'automatically prepares content' flag: If flag is YES and a managed object context is set, the initial content is fetched from the managed object context using

Re: How is Apple + Ctrl + D implemented?

2008-04-29 Thread John Stiles
Really? Does this actually work? I needed to find word boundaries to implement a Find panel which supports searching for Whole Words and I ended up using UCFindTextBreak based on advice from this list. It was a pain to implement (since it's not designed to mesh with Cocoa at all). Graham

Re: Snazzy open-source slideshow controls

2008-04-29 Thread Ben Kazez
Thanks! It isn't actually customizable enough, but I just used the IK image resources to build what I needed. Ben On Apr 29, 2008, at 9:24 AM, douglas a. welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, Have you taken a look at the IKSlideShow class in ImageKit? You can see it demonstrated in

Re: Counting instances in Core Data

2008-04-29 Thread Adam Swift
On Apr 29, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Steve Cronin wrote: Folks; I want to obtain a count of instances for a specific entity in stored in Core Data (SQLite) In the archive I find this: FROM : mmalcolm crawford DATE : Sun Apr 02 21:21:45 2006 On Apr 2, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Frederick

Re: Counting instances in Core Data

2008-04-29 Thread I. Savant
In Tiger that was the best means available, but if you're targeting Leopard there is a better option available: Create your fetch request to fetch all instances of a given entity and execute the fetch with countForFetchRequest:error: which will simply return the number of instances/rows

Re: How is Apple + Ctrl + D implemented?

2008-04-29 Thread Keith Blount
Really? Does this actually work? I needed to find word boundaries to implement a Find panel which supports searching for Whole Words and I ended up using UCFindTextBreak based on advice from this list. It was a pain to implement (since it's not designed to mesh with Cocoa at all). Yes, it

transient attributes of NSManagedObject reflected in isUpdated

2008-04-29 Thread Michael Link
I noticed that if you have a transient attribute in an NSManagedObject and update that attribute then isUpdated will return that the object has unsaved changes. I suppose this makes some sense if the attribute is actually defined in the entity. On the other hand if the managed object has a

Re: Immediate memory release

2008-04-29 Thread Bob Smith
Use a local autorelease pool, like this: - (IBAction)Generate:(id)sender { // some code for (i = 0; i count; i++) { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; NSImage *tempSource = [NSImage imageWithContentsOfFile:sPath[i]]; // some code [pool

Re: How is Apple + Ctrl + D implemented?

2008-04-29 Thread John Stiles
Man, what a bummer. I wish you had been around when I asked the question before :) Keith Blount wrote: Really? Does this actually work? I needed to find word boundaries to implement a Find panel which supports searching for Whole Words and I ended up using UCFindTextBreak based on advice

Re: How to adopt a superclass's protocol?

2008-04-29 Thread K. Darcy Otto
The casting worked, and the protocol gets found; but I'm still getting a warning that the protocol is not found. Here's what I have: Superclass.h: @protocol Check; Superclass.m: @protocol Check @optional -(BOOL)optionalMethodToImplement; @end (I'm relegating the protocol to the .m file

PerlObjCBridge and SFAuthorization

2008-04-29 Thread Cameron Smith
Maybe I'm missing something fundamental, but I can't get this to work. Based on what I've read, I should be able to use the PerlObjCBridge to access the Security.framework through the SFAuthorization class. According to man PerlObjCBridge: Using PerlObjCBridge, Perl programs can reference

Re: Counting instances in Core Data

2008-04-29 Thread Ben Trumbull
In Tiger that was the best means available, but if you're targeting Leopard there is a better option available: Create your fetch request to fetch all instances of a given entity and execute the fetch with countForFetchRequest:error: which will simply return the number of instances/rows

Re: How to adopt a superclass's protocol?

2008-04-29 Thread Andy Lee
Sorry to answer a question with a question, but will this really do what you want? I see from the docs that the @optional keyword means the method is not required. Doesn't that mean you can conform to the Check protocol without implementing -optionalMethodToImplement, which would mean

Modal window and 'hanging' menu

2008-04-29 Thread Manfred Schwind
I have a modal dialog window that pops up at some time. I am doing the modal session with [NSApp runModalForWindow:window]. If the user has clicked into the menu bar just before this modal window opens, the menu is hanging down and can not be closed before the modal window is closed. Is

Re: How to adopt a superclass's protocol?

2008-04-29 Thread Graham Cox
This is what I'd expect. A protocol isn't much different from a class; if you want to subclass a class, you need to import its header. Same here. The concept of a private protocol is a bit of a contradiction in terms - protocols exist to allow more than one class to comply with a common

Re: Any actor or coroutine implementations for Cocoa?

2008-04-29 Thread Jim Roepcke
Hi Jens, I've been researching the Actor model for the last couple of months. I too thought Erlang used Actors, because that's what everyone says, but after a lot of looking I cannot find a single reference where the creators of Erlang say it uses the Actor model! They do say it implements the

Re: Modal window and 'hanging' menu

2008-04-29 Thread Graham Cox
From the docs for runModalForWindow: Use this method in cases where you do not need to do any additional background processing while the modal loop runs. This method consumes only enough CPU time to process events and dispatch them to the action methods associated with the modal window. If

Predicate to get objects in a NSDate interval

2008-04-29 Thread Dex Morgan
Hello Lists, Anyone know how to write a predicate that returns only elements with a NSDate property between a range interval? (ie. two weeks ago - today). Thanks a lot ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin

Re: Debugger at odds with reality? [SOLVED]

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2008 Apr, 28, at 21:34, Chris Hanson wrote: On Apr 27, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: Graham, welcome to the apparently small club (about 3-4 oddballs) who care about what version and configuration of their private framework gets packaged or run. That group includes most

Bug?:? CFPreferencesSynchronize() Remembers Value from Deleted File

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Krinock
Is this a bug, or just me goofing things up again? SUMMARY I call CFPreferencesSynchronize() followed by CFPreferencesCopyValue() with the domain argument in both set to kCFPreferencesAnyUser. I expect that this should always give me the current value of the given key on the disk, in

Re: How can i connect to database?

2008-04-29 Thread Jens Alfke
On 29 Apr '08, at 3:48 AM, I. Savant wrote: ... then, obeying the etiquette and guidelines therein, post specific, pointed questions about individual problems and we'll all be happy to help. Contrast this with How do I build some general, unspecified database application? and I'm sure

Re: Bug?:? CFPreferencesSynchronize() Remembers Value from Deleted File

2008-04-29 Thread Chris Parker
Hi Jerry, On 29 Apr 2008, at 5:21 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: Is this a bug, or just me goofing things up again? No, it's just a bug; you haven't goofed anything up. It's been addressed, but as usual I can't comment on when the fix will appear. .chris -- Chris Parker Cocoa Frameworks

Re: View Getting MouseUp Without Corresponding MouseDown

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Zegelin
Thanks for that - makes sense I guess! Peter On 29/04/2008, at 2:26 PM, Rob Petrovec wrote: FYI, same thing happens in Carbon. Its technically a feature for Drag support. --Rob On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Peter Zegelin wrote: Hi Graham, I don't think so as they are my own rulers -

Re: Tiger bug on NSXMLParser?

2008-04-29 Thread Lorenzo Thurman
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Jens Alfke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Apr '08, at 6:27 AM, Lorenzo Thurman wrote: I tried loading the XML into an NSString using initWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error using Latin1 encoding. Under Leopard, the XML is read in just fine. I can output the

Re: Any actor or coroutine implementations for Cocoa?

2008-04-29 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Jens Alfke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely derailed my regular project and just worked on coroutines all day. Here's what I've got so far. * libCoroutine does not build as-is on Mac OS X 10.5. (It's trying to implement its own ucontext API, which then

Question about DRFrameworks

2008-04-29 Thread Development
I am using the DRFrameworks and trying to set the finder window view mode for the disc thats created. According to the documentation this is done by passing an NSNumber to the properties dictionary for the key DRMacWindowView The problem is that after a couple of hours on google and the