On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:57 PM, john darnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, what I hear from this august crowd is a consensus that the
references are difficult to understand, but necessarily so--that they
ought to be that way.
That's not really it. It's not that they should be difficult to
Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the right list for this question, but I couldn't
find where else to ask, I hope it's ok.
Mac OS X v10.5 has this feature that when RTL keyboard layouts are selected,
the I-beam cursor adds a 'direction indicator' that tells the user to which
direction the cursor
Imagine picking up a dictionary for a foreign language you don't
speak
That is a very good analogy. For my situation I would take it even a
step further
analogy
Let's say I am fluent in Italian and Spanish already. I've even had
one year of French in school.
I am bored to death
I agree with this, and I think a lot of people end up getting stuck at
this intermediate stage. Apple has a great dictionary and they have
decent My name is Bob material. They have little quality material in
the middle. This is where the books fill in. Personally speaking I
spent a lot of time at
I came at Cocoa and Objective-C after years of programming experience
with C, C++, Java, Perl, etc., etc. (My resume, for the curious:
http://www.sigio.com/~jason/resume.html .)
I found two books to be very helpful at getting me up to speed on
Objective-C and Cocoa. These books respectively
On 17 May 2008, at 0:58, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
BTW: Nice paintings.
Thanks
I post the complete solution as an example and to check that I'm
not running close to the wind by using a dummy class definition.
The code gets no compiler warnings.
You don't need the dummy class.
I'd do
On May 16, 2008, at 9:40 PM, John Calhoun wrote:
On May 15, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Laurent Cerveau wrote:
If I have a PDF View , select part of it and get the
currentSelection, showing it tells something like
Page index = 2, Range = (0, 21]
However I do not see where I could get the range of the
The difficulty is methods in ObjC are dispatched messages rather than
hardcoded functions so going from call to method execution has some
hidden intermediate steps. And there can be more than one method with
the same name from different classes/protocols. This is one of the
pillars to
Thanks, Erik ... the behind the scenes explanation was exactly what I
needed ... will take lots of time to absorb it.
One last thing ... an administrative thing, of sorts ... is there a means of
replying to, e.g., this Basic info about outlets, without going to my
email; i.e., using this Web Site
I do not know enough yet. BUT ! I just did get the new Cocoa Book from
Hillgrass Amazon. I found the tool F-Script here. It lets you nearly
instatly get something working. I think something like the Hillgrass
book should be ported to F-Script. As example in the tut for core
image F-Script it gives
I'm thinking the window might be redrawing itself right after your own
drawing and erasing it. You could try disabling the window's auto
displaying and flush the window buffer after your draw to determine if
this is the case.
I don't know where you're doing the drawing to know if it's
On May 17, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Hamish Allan wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:03 PM, colo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
F-Script [...] gives you the code to Create a window from scratch
and logically place the buttons on the window by coordinates. That
kind of knowing how to make a window without IB
On May 17, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote:
I'm thinking the window might be redrawing itself right after your
own drawing and erasing it. You could try disabling the window's
auto displaying and flush the window buffer after your draw to
determine if this is the case.
I
I'm trying to build a Core Data app for which some data is user-provided and
some data is shipped with the program. Consider a travel itinerary program
for instance where the user has a trip from airport A to airport B. If the
program includes data about the airports themselves, that shouldn't be
On May 17, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Laurent Cerveau wrote:
On May 16, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Antonio Nunes wrote:
You ask the page for a selection for the range you provide, and
assign that to PDFView's current selection:
[somePDFView setCurrentSelection:[yourRememberedPage
on 5/16/08 7:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said:
I have created a multidimensional array by creating 3 NSArray's (call
them childArray1, childArray2, childArray3) and them adding them to
one NSArray (call it parentArray). I am using predicate to search out
the array which finds the
on 5/17/08 10:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said:
I'm trying to build a Core Data app for which some data is user-provided and
some data is shipped with the program. Consider a travel itinerary program
for instance where the user has a trip from airport A to airport B. If the
program
On May 17, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Antonio Nunes wrote:
I would suggest you try to verify why John's suggestion fails, as
one would expect it to work. Alternatively try this:
Untested:
1. Ask for the bounds of the selection
2. Get the string of the selection
3. Get the string of the page
4. Use
// ---
// 4) Convert Synchronous Data into Human-Readable String
(Unicode 8) format:
NSString *serverDataString = [[[NSString alloc]
initWithData:serverData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] retain];
This is an extra retain.
[[soapResponse
On May 17, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Wolf wrote:
I tried this in Tiger (IB 2.5.6) and it works as advertised.
However, in Leopard (IB 3.0), it doesn't. Here, the QTMovieView is
only a black box, no controls show up, setting the movie source via
the inspector does not work (It let's me choose the
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Steve Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 17, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Hamish Allan wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:03 PM, colo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
F-Script [...] gives you the code to Create a window from scratch
and logically place the buttons on the
On May 17, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Keary Suska wrote:
on 5/17/08 10:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said:
I'm trying to build a Core Data app for which some data is user-
provided and
some data is shipped with the program. Consider a travel itinerary
program
for instance where the user has a
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Rob Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand the basic idea of using Fetched Properties and how to create
them. What I'm not clear on is how to define a fetched property in one store
against objects in another store, or how to tie multiple stores together
The PlacardScrollView subclass at http://cocoa.karelia.com/AppKit_Classes/PlacardScrollView__.m
demonstrates this technique well.
On 16 May 2008, at 18:15, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Stéphane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This might not be that easily possible as the
The API documentation for -[NSView convertRect:toView:] reads
identically to the documentation for -[NSView convertRect:fromView:]
when a nil parameter is passed for the view:
If aView is nil, this method instead converts from window base
coordinates. Otherwise, both aView and the receiver
I never had any problem with a language's documentation since 1970
with the IBM 360 Reference Manual. That is, until I came across
Apple's documentation of Cocoa. I have never been so frustrated in my
life.
- Everything is defined in terms of something else.
- Interface Builder User Guide
Michael Babin wrote:
On May 17, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote:
I'm thinking the window might be redrawing itself right after your own
drawing and erasing it. You could try disabling the window's auto
displaying and flush the window buffer after your draw to determine if
this
On May 17, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Johnny Lundy wrote:
I never had any problem with a language's documentation since 1970
with the IBM 360 Reference Manual. That is, until I came across
Apple's documentation of Cocoa. I have never been so frustrated in
my life.
snip
The usual pattern for a User
On 17 May '08, at 1:08 AM, Matt Burnett wrote:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=ensafe=offclient=safarirls=en-usq=soap+site%3Adeveloper.apple.combtnG=Search
On May 16, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
and since Apple won't let Google index their online docs, there's
no way around it.
On 17 May '08, at 1:15 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
If aView is nil, this method instead converts from window base
coordinates. Otherwise, both aView and the receiver must belong to
the same NSWindow object.
I think that should read ...converts *to* window base coordinates.
In all the
On May 17, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Mike wrote:
I solved the problem using the IconFamily library:
http://iconfamily.sourceforge.net/
IMO, that's killing a mosquito with a shotgun :).
It just astounds me there is no support for icons in Cocoa.
You can use -[NSImage initWithIconRef:] if you
Johnny Lundy wrote:
Try looking at the documentation for NSDatePicker if you want to see how
NOT to write documentation.
Uh, are you talking about THIS web page?
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSDatePicker_Class/Reference/Reference.html
I
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Steve Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He's quite happy to walk across the floor, but knowing how the floor is
constructed adds enormously to his confidence of doing so. Don't forget this
is an unfamiliar building, a type of which he has not encountered before.
Am 17.05.2008 um 23:42 schrieb Gary L. Wade:
I haven't ever used this class, but from just looking it over
quickly, it seems like it's pretty easy to figure everything out.
If you have a problem, just click on the links (e.g.,
NSDatePickerStyle).
While I think the docs aren't as bad as
Hi there,
I have an NSLevelIndicator in a utility window that does the standard
stuff, but I have just noticed that if I click on the indicator I can
manually select the level. I have read the chapter about indicators
but cannot find info about how to disable this functionality. Can any
Well you didn't present the secret handshake that would open immediate
access to such information.
Actually, it was probably not brought up earlier as it's kind of an
unsaid list etiquette rule exercised by some not to critique someone's
choice of APIs unless specifically asked for. Most
Set its cell as not editable in IB or programatically with [[indicator
cell] setEditable:NO].
On May 17, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Philip Bridson wrote:
I have an NSLevelIndicator in a utility window that does the
standard stuff, but I have just noticed that if I click on the
indicator I can
Johnny Lundy wrote:
I never had any problem with a language's documentation since 1970
with the IBM 360 Reference Manual. That is, until I came across
Apple's documentation of Cocoa. I have never been so frustrated in
my life.
- Everything is defined in terms of something else.
-
I think the AppKit release notes said it's fixed in 10.5, but on 10.4
you have to use setEnabled:NO in code to make it non-editable. This
drove me nuts when I first tried to use NSLevelIndicator.
On May 17, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote:
Set its cell as not editable in IB or
Sorry forgot to copy in Cocoa-Dev - Ooops!
Phil
I looked in IB but it is not available on the version I have for
Indicators - though it is available for other cells. I am using
version 2.5.3 as I do not have an intel mac yet or Mac OS X 10.5 -
they are first on my shopping list when I
Am 15.05.2008 um 11:24 schrieb Apparao Mulpuri:
2008-05-15 14:45:33.469 MyCocoaApp[554:10b] NSExceptionHandler has
recorded the following exception:
NSInternalInconsistencyException -- -[NSNextStepFrame(0x12e0d0)
The last time I got an internal inconsistency exception was when I
was
Hey Philip -
I believe you can control this behavior with the editable property of
the control.
From my phone -
Jon Hess
On May 17, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Philip Bridson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi there,
I have an NSLevelIndicator in a utility window that does the
standard stuff, but I
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