Re: Calculating accurate bounds of stroked paths

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Suter
Hi Graham, On 08/07/2008, at 10:16 PM, Graham Cox wrote: A close second best would be a rect that was the worst case bounds for a given stroke width (it wouldn't need to know the actual path, just its basic bounds), which thus assumed that all angles were acute enough to trigger the mitre

Making a text cell in a table editable

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Idou
How do I programmatically make a text cell in a NSTableView to have focus and be in edit mode? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the

counting managed objects of a certain type

2008-07-09 Thread Daniel Child
How do you determine how many managed objects of a certain entity type exist in the managed object context? Apple's sample code gives this example for finding managed objects. NSManagedObjectContext *moc = [self managedObjectContext]; NSEntityDescription *entityDescription =

Re: Calculating accurate bounds of stroked paths

2008-07-09 Thread Peter Zegelin
Ok - one last time!! I believe the fully correct answer to calculate the extension is: (strokeWidth/2)/ sin(angle/2); Take a stroke width of 20 half of which is 10. At 90deg the extension is: 10/sin(45) = 14.2 At 45deg the extension is 10/sin(22.5) = 26.1 At the limit of approx. 11deg the

Re: Calculating accurate bounds of stroked paths

2008-07-09 Thread Peter Zegelin
Cool I got it right - finally! Its on page 154 of the spec (174 in PDF viewer) section 4.3. Me in another post I believe the fully correct answer to calculate the extension is: (strokeWidth/2)/ sin(angle/2); Peter On 09/07/2008, at 4:02 PM, Chris Suter wrote: snip The miter limit

Re: counting managed objects of a certain type

2008-07-09 Thread mmalc crawford
On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Daniel Child wrote: NSManagedObjectContext *moc = [self managedObjectContext]; NSEntityDescription *entityDescription = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@Employee inManagedObjectContext:moc]; NSFetchRequest *request = [[[NSFetchRequest alloc] init]

Re: Calculating accurate bounds of stroked paths [SOLVED]

2008-07-09 Thread Graham Cox
On 9 Jul 2008, at 4:02 pm, Chris Suter wrote: so you can get a worst case bounds by ignoring the mitre limit. No you can't. If the stroke width is 'w' then you can outset the bounds by w/2 to enclose the path for straight edges and angles = 90 degrees. When there is a more acute angle

Re: Calculating accurate bounds of stroked paths

2008-07-09 Thread Graham Cox
Indeed, I think this is the same as m = 2w/sin(a). But for worst case bounds, the angle itself doesn't need to be measured or known, only the miter limit. Thanks for your help! cheers, Graham On 9 Jul 2008, at 4:34 pm, Peter Zegelin wrote: Cool I got it right - finally! Its on page 154

Re: Calculating accurate bounds of stroked paths [SOLVED]

2008-07-09 Thread Graham Cox
On 9 Jul 2008, at 4:37 pm, Graham Cox wrote: Thus the angle 'a' of the corner is equal to 2*sin(w/m) That of course should be 'arcsin', not 'sin' Graham ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests

Re: Calculating accurate bounds of stroked paths [SOLVED]

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Suter
Hi Graham, On 09/07/2008, at 4:37 PM, Graham Cox wrote: On 9 Jul 2008, at 4:02 pm, Chris Suter wrote: so you can get a worst case bounds by ignoring the mitre limit. No you can't. If the stroke width is 'w' then you can outset the bounds by w/2 to enclose the path for straight edges and

Re: Calculating accurate bounds of stroked paths [SOLVED]

2008-07-09 Thread Graham Cox
On 9 Jul 2008, at 5:11 pm, Chris Suter wrote: You could ignore the mitre limit and assume it was always mitre joint and it would give you a worst case bounds. However, it wouldn't be sensible to do that since the bounds would stretch out excessively for very acute angles. Without

Re: Distributed Objects connection went invalid while waiting for a reply

2008-07-09 Thread Ken Thomases
On Jul 8, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Hamish Allan wrote: I'm seeing connection went invalid while waiting for a reply in a DO callback. The client passes self in a call to the server; some time later, the server calls a method on that client (proxy), the program hangs for a second or so, the connection

Re: Calculating accurate bounds of stroked paths [SOLVED]

2008-07-09 Thread Peter Zegelin
On 09/07/2008, at 5:24 PM, Graham Cox wrote: snip You will need to also take into account of the line width (as I'm sure you do) so I think the combined offset would be best expressed as: max(w / 2, ml * w / 2) where ml is the mitre limit. That's right, and precisely

Re: problem with IKImageView and filters

2008-07-09 Thread hsanderson
On 8 Jul 2008, at 20:12, douglas a. welton wrote: Am I reading correctly that you have two IKImageViews stacked on top on one another? Yes. If I understand the Core Animation documentation correctly, a view can be composited with underlying views using a Compositing Filter. This seems to

Re: Distributed Objects connection went invalid while waiting for a reply

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Bellerby
I use DOs on 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5. They work correctly on all versions. From your description I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do. Could you post a code example and I try to help. Cheers Mike On 9 Jul 2008, at 01:11, Hamish Allan wrote: I'm seeing connection went invalid while

Re: Making a text cell in a table editable

2008-07-09 Thread Jens Miltner
Am 09.07.2008 um 08:09 schrieb Chris Idou: How do I programmatically make a text cell in a NSTableView to have focus and be in edit mode? I believe -[NSTableView editColumn:(NSInteger)columnIndex row: (NSInteger)rowIndex withEvent:(NSEvent *)theEvent select:(BOOL)flag] is the method

Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Ruotger Skupin
Hi, this is more of an open discussion topic than a concrete question but hopefully someone has a good idea about this: I got a bug report of a non-crash bug I cannot reproduce and where I do not even know where to start looking. The only hint is a line in the console.log: ***

Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread Александр Даровских
Hi, Is there any way to subscribe to frontmost application change notification? For example, via NSDistributedNotificationCenter or some other facility? I have managed to get process startup and shutdown notifications, but I cannot get active application change notification. Maybe it is

Re: controlling system muting ?

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 9 Jul 2008, at 04:21, Jason Bobier wrote: I also need to determine the user's current mute and volume settings and restore them after my alert plays, which is the other reason that I was looking for something other than AppleScript. Well it's still possible to do that with AppleScript,

Re: NSDateFormatter and NSCell oddness

2008-07-09 Thread Nathan Kinsinger
On Jul 8, 2008, at 6:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to replicate the Finder's behaviour for date fields when resizing. I found this on the archives which pretty much has the answer: http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2005/8/9/143911 I'm trying to

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Joan Lluch (casa)
El 09/07/2008, a las 12:13, Ruotger Skupin escribió: So an exception got thrown for a pretty obvious reason, but where? Could be anywhere, even in WebKit (which we use). Is there any chance to get near the culprit without a stack trace (which I don't have)? This question is more

Re: Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Bellerby
Hi Which notifications do you want to receive? Cheers Mike On 9 Jul 2008, at 11:22, Александр Даровских wrote: Hi, Is there any way to subscribe to frontmost application change notification? For example, via NSDistributedNotificationCenter or some other facility? I have managed to get

Re: How to indent in NSOutlineView?

2008-07-09 Thread Aman Alam
Is there a way to indent main headings in NSOutlineView as follows: - Heading 1 Item Item Heading 2 Item Heading 2.1 Item Item Heading 3 Item I tried many ways to indent the

Re: How to indent in NSOutlineView?

2008-07-09 Thread Jens Miltner
Am 09.07.2008 um 13:09 schrieb Aman Alam: I am using datasource that contain two types of object. The first object (Heading) contains a flag. If it is YES then it act as child of other main heading. The second object(item) contains value to show which is always child of main heading.

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Ken Thomases
On Jul 9, 2008, at 5:13 AM, Ruotger Skupin wrote: this is more of an open discussion topic than a concrete question but hopefully someone has a good idea about this: I got a bug report of a non-crash bug I cannot reproduce and where I do not even know where to start looking. The only hint

how to get the status of network when the network is set disable.

2008-07-09 Thread xiaobin
Hello, I am writing a program to detect the status of network. In my program, I need get the status of network when the connection is set disable. here it is not by connecting the network to get the status. which API or method can work for it? for example, if my lan cable is unpluged or the

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Ruotger Skupin
I would rather not try to teach my users gdb... Ruotger Am 09.07.2008 um 12:31 schrieb Joan Lluch (casa): El 09/07/2008, a las 12:13, Ruotger Skupin escribió: So an exception got thrown for a pretty obvious reason, but where? Could be anywhere, even in WebKit (which we use). Is there any

A modal window dialog instead of a sheet

2008-07-09 Thread Ronnie B
I am trying to implement a login UI for a small app. The idea is that after the MainWindow nib is loaded, in case if no credentials were entered, a modal window asking for name and password will show up. The app will be blocked unless the modal window is closed either with Submit or Cancel

Re: A modal window dialog instead of a sheet

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Bellerby
Try [NSApp runModalForWindow:window]; Cheers Mike On 9 Jul 2008, at 13:59, Ronnie B wrote: I am trying to implement a login UI for a small app. The idea is that after the MainWindow nib is loaded, in case if no credentials were entered, a modal window asking for name and password will

Overriding v alueForKeyPath

2008-07-09 Thread Laurent Cerveau
Hi I am trying to us KVC in a way that it allows me to add an accessor semantic to an object so that it can answer to simple valueForKeyPah call. For example I want to be able to write [myObject valueForKeyPath:@texts.title.en] which would give me the english version of the title of my

Re: how to get the status of network when the network is set disable.

2008-07-09 Thread Michael Kaye
Try the SCNetworkReachability API... I borrowed the following from one of Apple's examples: - (BOOL)isDataSourceAvailable { static BOOL checkNetwork = YES; if (checkNetwork) { // Since checking the reachability of a host can be expensive, cache the result and perform the reachability

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Phil
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Ruotger Skupin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** -[NSCFDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:count:]: attempt to insert nil value at objects[0] (key: NSFont) So an exception got thrown for a pretty obvious reason, but where? Could be anywhere, even in WebKit (which we

top most window question when it is launched by another app

2008-07-09 Thread xiaobin
Hello, I have these question for several days. 1. How to make the modal window become the top most when the modal window is launched from another application by using NSTask? 2. And I also want to know the types of window in cocoa application. Is there only modal window in cocoa app when I use

Re: top most window question when it is launched by another app

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 9 Jul 2008, at 15:10, xiaobin wrote: Hello, I have these question for several days. 1. How to make the modal window become the top most when the modal window is launched from another application by using NSTask? 2. And I also want to know the types of window in cocoa application. Is

afferentless mac mini

2008-07-09 Thread em
I have a Network Receiver application which is in my login items section of an Apple Intel mac mini computer running the latest version of Leopard. I do not need a keyboard, nor a mouse directly wired to this computer(or indirectly thru wifi:-)), as these afferent branches are obviously to be

Re: top most window question when it is launched by another app

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Bellerby
In BB.app do [NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES]; before showing the window. Cheers Mike On 9 Jul 2008, at 15:10, xiaobin wrote: Hello, I have these question for several days. 1. How to make the modal window become the top most when the modal window is launched from another application

Re: Finding AS related memory leak

2008-07-09 Thread Antonio Nunes
Taking this back to the list, as I think it came off by mistake... On 9 Jul 2008, at 14:56, John C. Daub wrote: It's difficult to say what the problem IS, but I can suggest a few things to look at: on 7/9/08 1:48 AM, Antonio Nunes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the script runs, the

ANN: CocoaHeads NYC, Thu July 10

2008-07-09 Thread Andy Lee
Ed VanVliet of VVI will be presenting DAQ Plot and Vvidget. Details here: http://www.vvi.com/workshops/2008/0710nyc.html --Andy ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to

Re: counting managed objects of a certain type

2008-07-09 Thread Daniel Child
Somehow I thought a predicate was mandatory. Simply setting the entity works. Thank you. On Jul 9, 2008, at 2:34 AM, mmalc crawford wrote: On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Daniel Child wrote: NSManagedObjectContext *moc = [self managedObjectContext]; NSEntityDescription *entityDescription =

Re: Does this caution need fixed? (newb)

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Paveglio
I'm trying to make sure that this part of my code is good and clean and not leaking. I believe that I have it right (but still think I have something wrong). This code makes a list of file paths, and then copies the files or folders from their location to the destination the user selected. If

Re: Finding AS related memory leak

2008-07-09 Thread Antonio Nunes
On 9 Jul 2008, at 15:40, Antonio Nunes wrote: Taking this back to the list, as I think it came off by mistake... Hmmm, directed it back to the wrong list at that. Apologies. António --- And could you keep your heart in wonder at the

Re: Does this caution need fixed? (newb)

2008-07-09 Thread Jens Alfke
On 9 Jul '08, at 7:44 AM, Chris Paveglio wrote: I'm trying to make sure that this part of my code is good and clean and not leaking. I believe that I have it right (but still think I have something wrong). It looks OK to me on quick reading. The main thing I'd change is to put the path

Re: afferentless mac mini

2008-07-09 Thread Jens Alfke
On 9 Jul '08, at 7:22 AM, em wrote: I have a Network Receiver application which is in my login items section of an Apple Intel mac mini computer running the latest version of Leopard. I do not need a keyboard, nor a mouse directly wired to this computer(or indirectly thru wifi:-)), as

Re: Debugging strategy - exceptions

2008-07-09 Thread Jens Alfke
On 9 Jul '08, at 5:32 AM, Ruotger Skupin wrote: I would rather not try to teach my users gdb... My MYUtilities library includes support for getting exception backtraces at runtime and reporting them to the user (see ExceptionUtils.h).

Re: Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread Jens Alfke
On 9 Jul '08, at 3:22 AM, Александр Даровских wrote: Hi, Is there any way to subscribe to frontmost application change notification? For example, via NSDistributedNotificationCenter or some other facility? I have managed to get process startup and shutdown notifications, but I cannot get

Re: Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread Matt Gough
You can do this (and a lot of other stuff not covered by NSWorkspace ) with a CarbonEvent handler on kEventClassApplication, kEventAppFrontSwitched. Matt On 9 Jul 2008, at 5:44pm, Jens Alfke wrote: On 9 Jul '08, at 3:22 AM, Александр Даровских wrote: Hi, Is there any way to subscribe to

Re: Distributed Objects connection went invalid while waiting for a reply

2008-07-09 Thread Brad Gibbs
Is Distributed Objects still the preferred method for communicating among computers on a local network? It's been hinted that DO may be deprecated in the not-so-distant future. When I asked about DO recently, I was pushed in the direction of Jens Alfke's Blip. Thanks. On Jul 9, 2008,

Re: Distributed Objects connection went invalid while waiting for a reply

2008-07-09 Thread Ken Thomases
On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Brad Gibbs wrote: Is Distributed Objects still the preferred method for communicating among computers on a local network? It's been hinted that DO may be deprecated in the not-so-distant future. I've seen and heard comments from Apple that Distributed Objects

Deploying application with Growl support

2008-07-09 Thread Matthew Gertner
Hi, Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask this, but I have a Cocoa application that uses Growl for notifications. I'm looking for information about how to create a package so the application is distributed with Growl for those users who don't already have the latter installed. Can anyone give

Re: Distributed Objects connection went invalid while waiting for a reply

2008-07-09 Thread Hamish Allan
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Mike Bellerby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use DOs on 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5. They work correctly on all versions. From your description I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do. Could you post a code example and I try to help. Thanks, Mike. Will do -- I'll

Re: Distributed Objects connection went invalid while waiting for a reply

2008-07-09 Thread Hamish Allan
Hi Ken, Thanks for your reply. I already had NSZombieEnabled, so no help there, but the Object Allocations Instrument highlighted that -[NSConnection invalidate] was being called; a breakpoint on that revealed the following trace for thread 2: #0 0x91b1f916 in -[NSConnection invalidate] #1

Re: Overriding v alueForKeyPath

2008-07-09 Thread Hamish Allan
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Laurent Cerveau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently what is happening is that the keyPath is decomposed, each object is verified to be KVC compliant for the appropriate subPath and here we go : nothing unexpected if I refer to the doc except that..the part I do

Re: Deploying application with Growl support

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Abdullah
Adium does exactly this and is open source. I imagine a perusal of their code would be quite handy. Mike. On 9 Jul 2008, at 17:27, Matthew Gertner wrote: Hi, Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask this, but I have a Cocoa application that uses Growl for notifications. I'm looking for

Re: Redrawing CALayer subclass when super layer is scaled

2008-07-09 Thread David Duncan
On Jul 8, 2008, at 10:53 PM, Rick Mann wrote: I'm trying to use scaling of the superlayer to implement a zoom feature in my CAD app. The various elements in the canvas are drawn by a CALayer subclass I have, which overrides drawInContext:. After the zoom finishes animating, I want CA to

Re: Overriding v alueForKeyPath

2008-07-09 Thread Laurent Cerveau
Hi Hamish Thanks for the suggestion : I did in fact sit with a collegue and he also forced me to look at the other side (KVO ) and we kind of found a way Basically the order of calling is valueForKey for the first part of the KV path which goes in valueForUndefinedKey and if this one

Re: Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Yes, so the bad new is that you have to go Carbon to listen front switched events, the good new is that this part of Carbon is available for 64 bits apps (probably because this is the only public way to do this for now). Le 9 juil. 08 à 17:49, Matt Gough a écrit : You can do this (and

Re: Deploying application with Growl support

2008-07-09 Thread Peter Maurer
Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask this, but I have a Cocoa application that uses Growl for notifications. Have a look at the bottom of this page: http://growl.info/documentation/developer/implementing-growl.php?lang=cocoa You'll want to use Growl-WithInstaller.framework. If

Re: Deploying application with Growl support

2008-07-09 Thread Marcelo Alves
Read the growl documentation. There's a chapter explaining how to bundle a growl installer inside your app. Sent from my iPhone On 9 Jul 2008, at 13:27, Matthew Gertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask this, but I have a Cocoa application that uses

Re: Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Cheeseman
on 2008-07-09 11:44 AM, Jens Alfke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Jul '08, at 3:22 AM, Александр Даровских wrote: Hi, Is there any way to subscribe to frontmost application change notification? For example, via NSDistributedNotificationCenter or some other facility? I have managed to get

Re: Deploying application with Growl support

2008-07-09 Thread Matthew Gertner
Thanks for all the advice. I'll take a look and inquire on the Growl list if I need more help. On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Marcelo Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the growl documentation. There's a chapter explaining how to bundle a growl installer inside your app. Sent from my

Re: Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Cheeseman
on 2008-07-09 1:12 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, so the bad new is that you have to go Carbon to listen front switched events, the good new is that this part of Carbon is available for 64 bits apps (probably because this is the only public way to do this for now).

Re: Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread James Montgomerie
On 9 Jul 2008, at 18:46, Bill Cheeseman wrote: on 2008-07-09 11:44 AM, Jens Alfke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Jul '08, at 3:22 AM, Александр Даровских wrote: Hi, Is there any way to subscribe to frontmost application change notification? For example, via NSDistributedNotificationCenter

Re: Redrawing CALayer subclass when super layer is scaled

2008-07-09 Thread Rick Mann
On Jul 9, 2008, at 09:56:36, David Duncan wrote: Your best solution for rendering multi-representational content in Core Animation is to use a CATiledLayer. It will automatically be called to update content as you zoom in and out (assuming you specify that the level of content exists).

Re: Does this caution need fixed? (newb)

2008-07-09 Thread Brian Stern
On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Chris Paveglio wrote: I'm trying to make sure that this part of my code is good and clean and not leaking. I believe that I have it right (but still think I have something wrong). This code makes a list of file paths, and then copies the files or folders from

Re: Redrawing CALayer subclass when super layer is scaled

2008-07-09 Thread David Duncan
On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Rick Mann wrote: My CAD program has a number of parts laid out on the canvas at the whim of the user. These parts are interconnected by the user with lines comprised of a series of orthogonal line segments (it's schematic capture CAD). There is one instance of

Re: Making a text cell in a table editable

2008-07-09 Thread Vitaly Ovchinnikov
I have a similar question. My NSTableView is bound to NSArrayController and I need to make cell editable immediately after adding new row. Rows added with default values and I need to allow user to edit them easy. I have an Add button that fires action like this: - (void) onAdd: (id) sender {

Set string value

2008-07-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
Hello, I'm trying to work through an exercise in the new Hillegass book and am encountering difficulties. The app fails to build. The relevant code snippet is below, with errors noted in the comments: -(IBAction)getCount:(id)sender { NSString *string = [textField

Re: Set string value

2008-07-09 Thread Alex Wait
It's this line [textLabel setStringValue:@\[EMAIL PROTECTED] is %d characters long, string, stringLength]; The setStringValue function does not take more than one argument. If you want to format the string like that try [textlabel setStringValue: [NSString stringWithFormat:@\[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Set string value

2008-07-09 Thread I. Savant
int *stringLength = [string length]; //warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast You're declaring an int pointer (int *) instead of an int (int), then assigning it an int value (the result of asking 'string' for its -length). -- I.S.

Re: Set string value

2008-07-09 Thread Vitaly Ovchinnikov
try this: NSString *string = [textField stringValue]; int stringLength = [string length]; NSString *msg = [NSString stringWithFormat:@\[EMAIL PROTECTED] is %d characters long, string, stringLength] [textLabel setStringValue:msg]; NSLog(@%@, string); On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Kevin

RE: Set string value

2008-07-09 Thread Abernathy, Joshua
And your line int *stringLength = [string length]; should not have the * in front of the variable name. Putting the * in front means it is a pointer to an int, but -[NSString length] returns just an int. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of

Re: Set string value

2008-07-09 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Kevin Walzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to work through an exercise in the new Hillegass book and am encountering difficulties. The app fails to build. The relevant code snippet is below, with errors noted in the comments:

Re: Set string value

2008-07-09 Thread Ken Thomases
In addition to what Alex said... On Jul 9, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: -(IBAction)getCount:(id)sender { NSString *string = [textField stringValue]; int *stringLength = [string length]; //warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast This

Re: Making a text cell in a table editable

2008-07-09 Thread Jens Miltner
Am 9.7.08 um 22:05 schrieb Vitaly Ovchinnikov: I have a similar question. My NSTableView is bound to NSArrayController and I need to make cell editable immediately after adding new row. Rows added with default values and I need to allow user to edit them easy. I have an Add button that fires

Re: Making a text cell in a table editable

2008-07-09 Thread I. Savant
Same goes for -add: ... You'll need to force the array controller to -rearrangeObjects before asking the tableView to reload. If you're using Core Data, you'll probably also need to force a -fetch: before calling -rearrangeObjects, though I don't know for sure. This forces the array

Re: Set string value

2008-07-09 Thread Kevin Walzer
Sherm Pendley wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Kevin Walzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to work through an exercise in the new Hillegass book and am encountering difficulties. The app fails to build. The relevant code snippet is below, with errors noted in the comments:

Calling autorelease on CFAllocated objects?

2008-07-09 Thread Scott Andrew
I have a memory management question. I was looking at the QCTV example on from the quicktime site. It has some code that does the following: ICMCompressionSessionOptionsRef options; .. Do some work .. return (ICMCompressionSessionOptionsRef)[(id)options autorelease]; Can you do this with

Re: Redrawing CALayer subclass when super layer is scaled

2008-07-09 Thread Rick Mann
On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:59:33, David Duncan wrote: Given what it sounds like your content is, I might consider putting the whole canvas on a single or small set of tiled layers (they can be unbounded in size). Oh. I had thought making each individual part its own CALayer was most

Re: Making a text cell in a table editable

2008-07-09 Thread Vitaly Ovchinnikov
In my case I just use [grid selectedRow], because NSTableView selects new row for me. Thanks, will try your method too. On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:49 AM, I. Savant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same goes for -add: ... You'll need to force the array controller to -rearrangeObjects before asking the

Re: Redrawing CALayer subclass when super layer is scaled

2008-07-09 Thread David Duncan
On Jul 9, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Rick Mann wrote: On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:59:33, David Duncan wrote: Given what it sounds like your content is, I might consider putting the whole canvas on a single or small set of tiled layers (they can be unbounded in size). Oh. I had thought making each

Re: Why aren't my bindings firing?

2008-07-09 Thread Scott Anguish
On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:39 AM, Hamish Allan wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Scott Anguish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Hamish Allan wrote: Scott, for what it's worth, I really don't agree with you that Cocoa Bindings and KVB are the same thing or that there

Re: how to get the status of network when the network is set disable.

2008-07-09 Thread Mike
The SCF documentation specifically says SC routines cannot be used to test *remote* reachability and should only be used to test whether a packet can *leave* the host. If this is all you need, then Michael's example will work. If you need to test remote reachability, you will need to devise

Re: Quick look preview multipage rich text

2008-07-09 Thread Julien Jalon
If I understand correctly your point, it seems that in the first case, you use the direct to data print operation and in the second case, you use the direct to file print operation then read back the file in memory and send it to Quick Look. Both methods use

Spaces API issues

2008-07-09 Thread Chilton Webb
Hi, I realize there is no Spaces API, and that there likely won't be, per se. I have an app that my users want to behave differently based on the space it is currently accessed from. There is currently no way to find the current 'space', as I understand it, so that is out of the question (and

[Q] How to add Find feature for an NSTextView?

2008-07-09 Thread JongAm Park
Hello. I'm trying to write codes that searches a given text in an NSTextView. Currently, a window has an NSSearchField and an NSTextView. Some text will be loaded into the NSTextView and I expect users type into the NSSearchField to search some words in the NSTextView. I connected

Re: Quick look preview multipage rich text

2008-07-09 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 9 juil. 08 à 23:54, Julien Jalon a écrit : If I understand correctly your point, it seems that in the first case, you use the direct to data print operation and in the second case, you use the direct to file print operation then read back the file in memory and send it to Quick Look.

Re: Calling autorelease on CFAllocated objects?

2008-07-09 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Wednesday, July 09, 2008, at 03:12PM, Wade Tregaskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a memory management question. I was looking at the QCTV example on from the quicktime site. It has some code that does the following: ICMCompressionSessionOptionsRef options; .. Do some work ..

Re: Quick look preview multipage rich text

2008-07-09 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 10 juil. 08 à 00:20, Jean-Daniel Dupas a écrit : Le 9 juil. 08 à 23:54, Julien Jalon a écrit : If I understand correctly your point, it seems that in the first case, you use the direct to data print operation and in the second case, you use the direct to file print operation then read

Nesting IKImageBrowser GroupStyles

2008-07-09 Thread Ian
The grouping feature of IKImageBrowserView seems to be one of the least documented but most powerful features I've seen in a while. The only references I can find to using groups with IKImageBrowserView all point back to the scant info in the API docs. Anyway, after getting it working with

[Q] How to highlighted text remained as highlighted?

2008-07-09 Thread JongAm Park
Hello. With the Safari, when users search some text in a HTML document, the found text is remained highlighted until they click Done button. I tried using the showFindIndicatorForRage for NSTextView, but the yellow highlight just disappears after it blinks. Is there any way to leave it

Re: Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Cheeseman
on 2008-07-09 1:58 PM, James Montgomerie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can register to observe the accessibility notifications AXApplicationActivated and AXApplicationDeactivated. These require you to register to observe a specific target application. Therefore, in order to catch every

Re: [Q] How to highlighted text remained as highlighted?

2008-07-09 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Jul 9, 2008, at 4:07 PM, JongAm Park wrote: With the Safari, when users search some text in a HTML document, the found text is remained highlighted until they click Done button. I tried using the showFindIndicatorForRage for NSTextView, but the yellow highlight just disappears after it

Re: [Q] How to highlighted text remained as highlighted?

2008-07-09 Thread Seth Willits
On Jul 9, 2008, at 4:07 PM, JongAm Park wrote: With the Safari, when users search some text in a HTML document, the found text is remained highlighted until they click Done button. I tried using the showFindIndicatorForRage for NSTextView, but the yellow highlight just disappears after it

Attributed menu titles

2008-07-09 Thread Kiel Gillard
Hi all, I have a menu of items whose titles are attributed strings. I have specified custom colours for parts of those strings. The documentation reads: If you do not set a text color for the attributed string, it is black when not selected, white when selected, and gray when disabled. Colored

Re: Calling autorelease on CFAllocated objects?

2008-07-09 Thread Wade Tregaskis
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2008/7/5/212046 I wish this were better documented; the Search Kit docs show autorelease being sent to an SKDocumentRef, also, and that's always made me nervous (I think I actually sent feedback on that one a long time ago). I do

Re: Nesting IKImageBrowser GroupStyles

2008-07-09 Thread thomas goossens
Hi Ian, On Jul 10, 2008, at 1:07 AM, Ian wrote: The grouping feature of IKImageBrowserView seems to be one of the least documented but most powerful features I've seen in a while. The only references I can find to using groups with IKImageBrowserView all point back to the scant info in the

Re: Nesting IKImageBrowser GroupStyles

2008-07-09 Thread Ian
On 10 Jul 2008, at 00:49, thomas goossens wrote: Hi Ian, On Jul 10, 2008, at 1:07 AM, Ian wrote: The grouping feature of IKImageBrowserView seems to be one of the least documented but most powerful features I've seen in a while. snip It is possible to add one or more bezel groups inside

Re: Attributed menu titles

2008-07-09 Thread Brett Powley
On 10/07/2008, at 9:42 AM, Kiel Gillard wrote: Is there some way to provide a colour for the NSMenuItem's attributedTitle when the item is selected or disabled? For example, is there some key I can You could draw it yourself -- in 10.5 at least you can call setView on the NSMenuItem:

Re: Attributed menu titles

2008-07-09 Thread Peter Ammon
On Jul 9, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Kiel Gillard wrote: Hi all, I have a menu of items whose titles are attributed strings. I have specified custom colours for parts of those strings. The documentation reads: If you do not set a text color for the attributed string, it is black when not

Crying Over CoreAnimation Center Rotation Math

2008-07-09 Thread Chilton Webb
Hi, I have an NSView subclass. I rotated it with -setFrameCenterRotation, and that works just fine. But now I want to scale it down 50%. If I use NSInsetRect() to shrink it, it flies off in a random direction. Worse, if I set another view to that view, or use the frame of the rotated view

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