Does anyone know how to get the keycode out of a NX_SYSDEFINED
CGEvent? If so, is that keycode the same thing you'd get out of say
(([event data1] 0x) 16)? I'm trying to support the media
keys on the Apple aluminum keyboards without having iTunes also get
the events.
Thanks,
I think I would like to try drawing my app's content in a secondary
thread to see if it will improve performance and teh snappy™. Docs on
this topic are a bit sketchy, and I've not been able to put my finger
on any sample code that is pertinent.
The docs mention bracketing all drawing
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I realise these questions must sound rather fundamental, but nothing in the
Cocoa Drawing Guide or Thread Guide really addresses them. I have used
threads before to perform tasks not involving drawing, so I'm not completely
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Mike Rossetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I've discovered an interesting behavior in NSPathControl and am wondering
if it warrants a Radar.
Since you are overriding -setObjectValue: it's pretty much necessary
for you to post your code before making any
Hi.
I know I can stop the machine from going to sleep through calling the function
UpdateSystemActivity ( UInt8 activity );
But I also want to stop it from turning off the screen, as quicktime or vlc do.
How can I do this?
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And again we fall.
Probably means you'll need to use the event taps API and swallow the
event - which is relatively simple to achieve as long as you can
install an event tap that isnt a listener only. I presume since
you're already talked about CGEvent structures, that this is indeed
what you are doing -
Hi All,
Does anyone know of some code that mimics the graphics that are
displayed by Apple when one modifies the system volume? Specifically
the grey box + white shadowed text that pops up briefly. I want to do
something similar in my app, so any kind of guiding code would be
useful.
No, but it remain the Load symbols lazily preference that should be
disabled.
It may solve some debugger does not break issues.
Le 2 mai 08 à 06:36, Scott Ribe a écrit :
This may not apply anymore
It doesn't even exist in Xcode 3.
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on 2008-05-02 4:34 AM, John Clayton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Installing an event tap that modifies the event chain won't require
special privs (from memory), so long as you don't install it at the
window server level.
Working with the key down and key up events via event taps requires the
3) The only doco I can find for type encodings in ObjC is the
Runtime System Type Encodings page. Is there any other doco I
should be reading?
You can use the @encode() helper. This is also useful when using
NS(U)Integer as it will encode the correct type for 32/64 bit
depending on the
On 2 May 2008, at 6:13 pm, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I realise these questions must sound rather fundamental, but
nothing in the
Cocoa Drawing Guide or Thread Guide really addresses them. I have
used
threads before to perform
You can have a look at DistributedObject. I think you can publish a
drawer object in your drawing thread and then, just call draw fro your
main thread.
To be more generic, a worker thread may do this:
- start and setup thread.
- create IPC objects. (publish an object using Distributed
Any info about the box or code that emulates this would be useful,
There's no public API, but there's this:
http://growl.info/documentation/developer/
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Jens Alfke wrote:
On 1 May '08, at 4:49 PM, Western Botanicals wrote:
[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval: defaultSleepTime target:
self selector: @selector(run:) userInfo: nil repeats: YES];
That timer is autoreleased, so you have to retain it or it'll go away
after your init method
I am a beginner with Cocoa and XCode. I am trying to develop a simple
game for iPhone/iPod Touch and OS X. To get started I created a
simple framework that represents (code only for iPhone) the data model
and logic engine for the game. I am now writing some simple unit
tests for the
On May-2-2008, at 2:26 AM, Jere Gmail wrote:
I know I can stop the machine from going to sleep through calling
the function
UpdateSystemActivity ( UInt8 activity );
But I also want to stop it from turning off the screen, as quicktime
or vlc do.
How can I do this?
Pass in UsrActivity as
Ok, I found my problem myself. In
-(BOOL)getObjectValue:(id*)obj forString:(NSString*)string
errorDescription:(NSString**)error
{
if(obj)
*obj = string;
return YES;
}
the line
*obj = string;
needs to be replaced with
*obj = [NSString stringWithString:string];
I
You also need to override -respondsToSelector: and return a logical OR
of your delegate plus the old delegate's response, something like:
- (BOOL)respondsToSelector:(SEL) aSelector
{
BOOL responds = [super respondsToSelector:aSelector];
if( !responds )
Delegate methods aren't sent at all unless the delegate implements
them. I think your delegate is going to have to implement all
possible delegate methods and then forward them *if* the old delegate
implements them, and otherwise return an appropriate default value if
there is a return
Thanks, Graham. It seems like the superclass deals with rejecting the
message, but I was missing respondsToSelector. Added that and now it
works perfectly!
Matt
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You also need to override -respondsToSelector: and return a
on 2008-05-02 10:44 AM, Graham Cox at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You also need to override -respondsToSelector: and return a logical OR
of your delegate plus the old delegate's response, something like:
I use this techhnique in my PreFab Event Taps Testbench utility.
I call this the delegate
On 3 May 2008, at 12:56 am, Matthew Gertner wrote:
Seems like you can pretend you implement them using
respondsToSelector (see Graham's reply).
Exactly - the delegate is sent the message if it says it implements
it, even if it really doesn't. Then NSObject says wait a minute, I
don't
On 2 May '08, at 4:37 AM, Gregory Weston wrote:
Not unless the docs are lying (and based on heavy timer usage in
some of my apps, I'm going to claim they're not). From the NSTimer
overview:
Note in particular that run loops retain their timers, so you can
release a timer after you have
On 2 May '08, at 4:20 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
You can have a look at DistributedObject. I think you can publish a
drawer object in your drawing thread and then, just call draw fro
your main thread.
DO might be overkill for this scenario. The background thread really
just needs to
OK, I have managed to implement this after a lot of poring over the
docs. I'm not sure if it's the most efficient way to actually handle
the thread communication, but it does work (using NSMachPort). As I
hoped, there isn't a big problem with drawing the graphics as they
should be, apart
Le 2 mai 08 à 17:27, Jens Alfke a écrit :
On 2 May '08, at 4:20 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
You can have a look at DistributedObject. I think you can publish a
drawer object in your drawing thread and then, just call draw fro
your main thread.
DO might be overkill for this scenario.
Xcode 3.1 is in beta and is therefore subject to NDA. The iPhone SDK
is subject to NDA. This question has nothing to do with Cocoa.
Perhaps you've posted to the wrong list?
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is there an Xcode 3.1/iPhone list?
thx.
sean
On May 2, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
Xcode 3.1 is in beta and is therefore subject to NDA. The iPhone SDK
is subject to NDA. This question has nothing to do with Cocoa.
Perhaps you've posted to the wrong list?
--Kyle Sluder
Actually, you're right that merely suppressing display is all I need.
I was assuming this would have to be done with temporary attributes,
but is there an easier way?
THank you,
Adam Solove
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Ross Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure whether you need to
Thanks for more input. I have revised it yet again... and it seems to
be working just fine.
The reason I put the AutoReleasePools in there is because I am getting
these errors in the output. So if you can help me find what is wrong
that would be great. Every time I create a Date or Timer
Folks,
Xcode 2.5 on Leopard, app and all libs built with 10.4u SDK.
If I debug my app using Xcode 2.5 (in the GUI), I get these errors
while calling the destructor of an object created on the stack:
MyApp(26961,0xa02e3fa0) malloc: *** error for object 0x28001660:
pointer being freed was not
Yup, this is true as far as I can tell. I've got the event tap
installed, the issue is that I'm not able to pull any useful data out
of NX_SYSDEFINED typed events. Any thoughts on that?
-Ben
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Acacia Tree Software
http://acaciatreesoftware.com
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Adam,
I guess that the approach you will take depends on how the textStorage
string is set up. Sorry, I don't know anything about TEI, so I can
only offer general comments.
If the textStorage series are sequential and the number and sequence
of series are known in advance, and the
On 2 May '08, at 9:32 AM, Western Botanicals wrote:
The reason I put the AutoReleasePools in there is because I am
getting these errors in the output. So if you can help me find what
is wrong that would be great. Every time I create a Date or Timer
object, I get one or both of these:
On 1 May '08, at 11:57 PM, Aby wrote:
How to implement Image reflection for all the images in
IKImageBrowserView.
You can't make the view draw reflections; it's not very customizable
at all.
The best you can do is give it images that already have reflections in
them. Take each
On May 1, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Mike Rossetti wrote:
So I've discovered an interesting behavior in NSPathControl and am
wondering if it warrants a Radar.
I'm building up my own presentation of the file path to be shown in
the NSPathControl. Specifically, if the file for which the path is
On May 2, 2008, at 4:00 AM, I. Savant wrote:
Any info about the box or code that emulates this would be useful,
There's no public API, but there's this:
http://growl.info/documentation/developer/
Alternatively, you could mimic the effect using a transparent panel
[1] -- I expect that's
First, Ross, thank you for your comments. I was going about this
somewhat wrong and you took the time to think it through.
I think you are right that it would be easiest to separate the
different note series into their own TextStorage. Then I could add
custom attributes to each text that
Rollover buttons highlight when you move the mouse pointer over them.
The appearance is widely configurable.
Now comes with an Interface Builder 3.x plugin.
http://www.harmless.de/cocoa-code.php#rollover
This source code is available under the BSD License.
Andreas
I need to make a fullscreen app in which my window takes over the main
display. I need to be able to prevent the user from accessing the main
system menu bar. Hiding it is no problem but I need to create my own
menubar at the top of the fullscreen window that I create.
Is there an easy way to
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to make a fullscreen app in which my window takes over the main
display. I need to be able to prevent the user from accessing the main
system menu bar. Hiding it is no problem but I need to create my own menubar
at the top
On 2 May '08, at 12:06 PM, Mike wrote:
Is there an easy way to do this or do I have to do all my own
drawing in order to create my own custom menubar at the top of my
fullscreen window?
You're pretty much on your own. Probably the best start is to make a
row of NSPopUpButton controls in
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Christopher Nebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alternatively, you could mimic the effect using a transparent panel [1] --
I expect that's what Growl is doing.
Unfortunately if you pass NSBorderlessWindowMask to a HUD window you
lose the rounded corners. I'm sure
Am 02.05.2008 um 20:03 schrieb Jens Alfke:
You're probably running this as a GUI-less tool process, i.e.
directly calling your code from main(). If you do this, you need to
create a top-level autorelease pool before calling into your code.
In general, main() looks like:
int main(
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Sean frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there an Xcode 3.1/iPhone list?
No. Check the release notes for information on how to submit feedback
/ ask for assistance.
-Shawn
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Shawn Erickson wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to make a fullscreen app in which my window takes over the main
display. I need to be able to prevent the user from accessing the main
system menu bar. Hiding it is no problem but I need to create my own
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Kyle Sluder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Christopher Nebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alternatively, you could mimic the effect using a transparent panel [1] --
I expect that's what Growl is doing.
Unfortunately if you pass
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Shawn Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can get rounded corners, etc. by setting the background color for
the window to be an image of the color and shape you want or by having
the content view define the shape.
Well yes, of course you can have
Hi Guys,
Just to clarify,
I might do this in Obj-C
[NSBundle loadNibNamed:@SettingsDialog owner:self;]
But not sure how to do it from a .c file.
Thoughts?
-Jason
On May 2, 2008, at 3:29 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote:
Hello Guys,
So I am creating an iTunes PLugin, can anyone show me how to
Hi Jon,
Thank you for the reply.
I don't know the specifics of iTunes plug-ins, but normally you load
a NIB with -[NSBundle loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:]
method. That method, and some more convenient form of it are
available in AppKit and declared in NSNibLoading.h.
Yeah, I
Le 2 mai 08 à 23:00, Kyle Sluder a écrit :
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Shawn Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You can get rounded corners, etc. by setting the background color for
the window to be an image of the color and shape you want or by
having
the content view define the
On May 2, 2008, at 4:38 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote:
Yeah, I am using:
[NSBundle loadNibNamed:@SettingsDialog owner:self;]
But that is Objective-C, I need to do it from a .c file.
Change the file's extension from .c to .m and then it becomes an ObjC
file. ObjC is a true superset of C, so
Am 03.05.2008 um 00:38 schrieb J. Todd Slack:
But that is Objective-C, I need to do it from a .c file.
No you don't. Objective C is a superset of C, so if you want to us
Objective C, just change the file into a .m file.
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...
You can convert this to the C equivalent if you absolutely must use C
(off the top of my head):
Class mclass = objc_getMetaClass(NSBundle);
SEL s = @selector(loadNibNamed:owner:);
IMP f = class_getMethodImplementation(mclass, s);
BOOL res = f(mclass, s, @SettingsDialog, self);
On
Hi,
One question though.
When I use:
[NSBundle loadNibNamed:@SettingsDialog owner:self]; // the nib name
is SettingsDialog.nib
Xcode complains that this is the first time that self is used.
I am a bit rusty right now, can anyone explain why? I thought self
could be used like this.
I should have mentioned, if you're calling from C there probably is no
'self' since you're not calling from inside an object's method.
You'll have to pass a pointer to the object you want to be the owner.
On May 2, 2008, at 5:33 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote:
One question though.
When I use:
On May 2, 2008, at 5:33 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote:
When I use:
[NSBundle loadNibNamed:@SettingsDialog owner:self]; // the nib
name is SettingsDialog.nib
Xcode complains that this is the first time that self is used.
I am a bit rusty right now, can anyone explain why? I thought self
could
On May 2, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Mr. Gecko wrote:
Hello how would you get xml data from the web and read it in cocoa.
[[NSXMLDocument alloc] initWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:@http://somewhere.com/something.xml
] options:0 error:NULL];
You might want to set options and an error
On May 1, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Peter Hudson wrote:
I have an NSTable View inside an NSSplitView.
I rotate the table view by sending rotateByAngle:270 to the
enclosing scroll view.
The table lands up exactly as I want it with vertical rows.
The problem is that when I resize the split
Thanks I will look into it
On May 2, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Mr. Gecko wrote:
Hello how would you get xml data from the web and read it in cocoa.
[[NSXMLDocument alloc] initWithData:[NSData
Hi Everyone,
Does anyone have an example on how to put an icon in the menu bar for
my app. I want something like the airport menu, volume menu, spaces
menu (on Leopard), etc if this helps explain what I want to do. I am
not even sure what to call this
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
-Jason
Re-sending as this did not seem to get make it to the list.
I have been reading the documentation for implementing the
NSFastEnumeration protocol and am having some difficulties following it.
For completeness, here is the protocol method:
-
iTunes is a Carbon app, so there is no Cocoa runtime available. You
can use a nib, but it has to be a Carbon one, so the functions you
need to look at are in the HIView family of Carbon functions.
There may be a way to set up a Cocoa runtime in an iTunes plugin but
I'm not sure about that.
On May 2, 2008, at 7:33 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote:
Hi,
One question though.
When I use:
[NSBundle loadNibNamed:@SettingsDialog owner:self]; // the nib
name is SettingsDialog.nib
Xcode complains that this is the first time that self is used.
You probably want to create an instance of a
On 2 May '08, at 3:29 PM, Angel Todorov wrote:
I want to serialize in an archive a set of objects (big ones) that are
instances of a class which implements NSCoding. On deserialization,
I don't
want the whole archive to be loaded in memory, but only the object
for the
*key* that I am
http://mooseyard.com/projects/CDBStore/
CDBStore is a file-backed persistent dictionary. You can store and
retrieve values using keys; only the values you ask for get read from
the file, and only modified values get written back to the file. The
values can be arbitrary archivable
On 2 May '08, at 12:18 PM, Ben wrote:
I have a C array where the elements within it can be converted into
multiple objects. Say I have 5 objects. Do I provide them all in one
go and return the total number? Or just one per call and return the
number remaining?
Return as many as you can
On 3 May 2008, at 10:45 am, J. Todd Slack wrote:
I have a question.
1. Can you point me to where it puts the UI inside the iTunes
Visualizer window?
Not sure what you mean by putting the UI in the iTunes visualizer
window? It doesn't - it creates a separate dialog window which seems
On May 2, 2008, at 9:07 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
CDBStore is a kind of middle ground between simple property-lists or
archived objects, and CoreData. There's a very large empty space
there, and I kept getting annoyed by having to cobble together yet
another bit of code to read and write a
On May 2, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Ben wrote:
Re-sending as this did not seem to get make it to the list.
I have been reading the documentation for implementing the
NSFastEnumeration protocol and am having some difficulties following
it.
[...]
Apologies if these are basic questions, but I
Following the View Programming Guide for Cocoa if I use a Custom-
View proxy in IB, the view's initWithFrame: method will be called when
the NIB is loaded (this can be found in Initializing View Instances
Created in Interface Builder).
I do have a custom NSView derived view and a simple
Sounds OK - so post your code. The documentation is correct.
G.
On 3 May 2008, at 12:05 pm, Markus Spoettl wrote:
Following the View Programming Guide for Cocoa if I use a Custom-
View proxy in IB, the view's initWithFrame: method will be called
when the NIB is loaded (this can be found in
You might also check out the RoundedFloatingPanel code from Matt
Gemmell: http://mattgemmell.com/source about 60% of the way down.
JP
On May 2, 2008, at 3:38 AM, John Clayton wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone know of some code that mimics the graphics that are
displayed by Apple when one
On May 2, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Western Botanicals wrote:
http://expresslanevideo.com/transfer/code/CacheTesterh.txt
http://expresslanevideo.com/transfer/code/CacheTesterm.txt
You can use Xcode's unit testing functionality -- built atop Sen:te's
OCUnit framework -- to write tests in a standard
Hoping that there is somewhere a class or a demo of how to code for
nstextview and the like little objects like the mail addresses in the
to: line of apple mail. Hope someone can help; it would help bring my
app to a new level.
Matthew Weinstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have a look at the documentation for NSTokenField, it does what you
are looking for.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSTokenField_Class/Reference/Reference.html
-Mike
On May 2, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Matthew Weinstein wrote:
Hoping that there is
On May 2, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
Sounds OK - so post your code. The documentation is correct.
Well the code is totally straight forward:
@interface MyView : NSView {
MyObjectData *data;
}
@property (readonly) MyObjectData *data;
- (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frame;
@end
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing to clarify about Carbon vs. Cocoa - while Cocoa itself is
unavailable, you can of course use Core Foundation. However everything in
Carbon is lower level and generally more work than Cocoa, so be prepared ;-)
Cocoa
On 3 May 2008, at 12:34 pm, Markus Spoettl wrote:
The view is instantiated correctly because it draws right. When I
put the debugger breakpoint in initWithFrame: it doesn't get called.
Is there something wrong with this?
No, not that I can see. Maybe you aren't actually running in the
OK, that's cool :)
What's involved in setting up a Cocoa runtime environment in such a
case?
G.
On 3 May 2008, at 12:40 pm, Michael Ash wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
One thing to clarify about Carbon vs. Cocoa - while Cocoa itself is
Okay, but I'm looking for something related to nstextview rather than
nstextfield.
Anything that anyone knows out there like that. It's perfect except I
need something more wordprocessorish.
--Matthew
Have a look at the documentation for NSTokenField, it does what you
are looking for.
On May 2, 2008, at 19:05, Markus Spoettl wrote:
Following the View Programming Guide for Cocoa if I use a Custom-
View proxy in IB, the view's initWithFrame: method will be called
when the NIB is loaded (this can be found in Initializing View
Instances Created in Interface Builder).
I do
The doc I found says there are *two* ways a custom view is
initialized. One uses initWithFrame:, the other doesn't. Are you
sure your case is the first case? It sounds like it, but I thought
I'd double-check.
On May 2, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: Re: drawing in a separate thread
OK, I have managed to implement this after a lot of poring over the
docs. I'm not sure if it's the most efficient way to actually handle
the thread communication, but it does work
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, that's cool :)
What's involved in setting up a Cocoa runtime environment in such a case?
ObjC gets set up simply by linking to it, so that happens without any
intervention. Foundation can be used with no additional setup
On 3 May 2008, at 1:40 pm, Duncan wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Subject: Re: drawing in a separate thread
OK, I have managed to implement this after a lot of poring over the
docs. I'm not sure if it's the most efficient way to actually
On May 2, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
- (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frame;
BTW: you don't need to declare methods in @interface that are
inherited from the superclass.
True.
However, it is often useful to do that when you subclass so you can
tell just by looking at the headers
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