Re: Newbie question: What does no-op mean?

2008-08-31 Thread Jon Davis
So do no-ops exist solely for the sake of being there for convention, i.e. do this if you're implemented, ignore if not? Jon On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Steven Noyes wrote: No operation. This is used to indicate a method or instruction that performs nothing. Steven On Aug 30, 2008,

Re: CoreData and mutableArrayValueForKey:

2008-08-31 Thread Alex Duzik
On Aug 30, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Alex Duzik wrote: I'm writing an app where one Core Data entity -- Folder -- has (conceptually) a to-many relationship with another object -- Item. But I want to keep those items in a particular order, so I have

Re: CoreData and mutableArrayValueForKey:

2008-08-31 Thread Alex Duzik
On Aug 30, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Alex Duzik wrote: I'm writing an app where one Core Data entity -- Folder -- has (conceptually) a to-many relationship with another object -- Item. But I want to keep those items in a particular order, so I have

Re: Hard calculation crashes after 60Minutes

2008-08-31 Thread Nathan Vander Wilt
On Aug 30, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Mr. Gecko wrote: Hello I am making a program that does a really hard calculation and it seems to crash after 60 Minutes. I don't really know why it does, I am guessing it is because I am using a for loop that takes awhile to run If you can't find any leaks, it

Re: Target change problem

2008-08-31 Thread Caleb Strockbine
On Aug 30, 2008, at 12:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A program I have developed will not run on a PPC machine (G5 iMac) using OS 10.4.11. It was developed on Xcode 3.0 on an Intel machine running OS 10.5.4. Initially the projects Cross_Develop Using Target SDK was set to Current Mac

Re: Target change problem

2008-08-31 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:23 PM, James Pengra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect there is still some setting in XCode that I need to change, but I don't see anything obvious. Other programs that I've developed with the same system do run nicely on the G5. Their Target SDK setting started

Re: (Newbie) How do Multiple NSWindowControllers find MyDocument?

2008-08-31 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM, John Velman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I think the self.document method you describe will do it for me. This is part of the syntax (and a relation) that I'd missed. So much to learn! self.document is a dot-syntax accessor, which the compiler seamlessly

accessing netinfo db from cocoa?

2008-08-31 Thread Kieren Eaton
Hi, I am trying to find a way to access the netinfo DB from cocoa. Specifically the sharing (AFP, SMB, etc). know that server has the command line util 'sharing' for just this purpose. unfortunately this command is not available in the Client version of os x :( the reason i need this is

NSURLConnection nil result (only on 10.4)

2008-08-31 Thread dexter morgan
Hello List, I'm using NSURLConnection/NSURLRequest in order to download some pages from the web. My app should be compatible both with 10.4 and 10.5. However I've noticed a strange behavior only on 10.4: the method - (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data {

Re: NSURLConnection nil result (only on 10.4)

2008-08-31 Thread dexter morgan
I've solved the problem... on 10.4 does not follow redirects so you need to implement something like this. -(NSURLRequest *)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection willSendRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request redirectResponse:(NSURLResponse *)redirectResponse { NSMutableURLRequest *newRequest =

activateIgnoringOtherApps

2008-08-31 Thread Chris Idou
I want to pop up a window in response to a hot key. So I'm creating a window, setting it makeKeyAndOrderFront, and I'm calling [NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps] so that it gets focus. The thing is, activateIgnoringOtherApps seems to bring ALL my app's windows in front of other windows (my app

Hard calculation crashes after 60Minutes

2008-08-31 Thread Caleb Strockbine
On Aug 31, 2008, at 3:13 AM, Mr. Gecko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am making a program that does a really hard calculation and it seems to crash after 60 Minutes. I don't really know why it does, I am guessing it is because I am using a for loop that takes awhile to run (an estaminet of

Subclassing NSCoder

2008-08-31 Thread Meik Schuetz
Dear everyone, I am trying to create my own NSCoder implementation to serialize objects to a XML format which would like to use to communicate with WCF service. The serialization is already done and I had no problems do it, however I've got some conceptional questions about the de-

Re: accessing netinfo db from cocoa?

2008-08-31 Thread Phil
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Kieren Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to find a way to access the netinfo DB from cocoa. Specifically the sharing (AFP, SMB, etc). know that server has the command line util 'sharing' for just this purpose. unfortunately this command is not

Problem with NSUserDefaultsController

2008-08-31 Thread Mark Allan
Hi, I've been playing around with bindings to NSUserDefaultsController in a very simple app to test saving preferences, but the [sharedUserDefaultsController save:self] method seems to return immediately without waiting for the save operation to complete. The save does actually take place,

Re: Problem with NSUserDefaultsController

2008-08-31 Thread Keary Suska
8/31/08 10:13 AM, also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been playing around with bindings to NSUserDefaultsController in a very simple app to test saving preferences, but the [sharedUserDefaultsController save:self] method seems to return immediately without waiting for the save operation to

Re: Subclassing NSCoder

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Ash
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Meik Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear everyone, I am trying to create my own NSCoder implementation to serialize objects to a XML format which would like to use to communicate with WCF service. The serialization is already done and I had no problems do

Re: Hard calculation crashes after 60Minutes

2008-08-31 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Caleb Strockbine wrote: Did you set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break? If yes, what did you find? If no, doesn't that seem like a good place to start? Probably not. If it is crashing after 60 minutes, it is quite a bit more likely that the problem is in all of

Re: Subclassing NSCoder

2008-08-31 Thread Meik Schuetz
Dear Michael, thank you very much for your valuable information - I definitively will have a look at your MAKeyedArchiver, just to learn how it's done. The idea of implementing the xmlRespresentation methods is just great and serves perfectly. Once again, thanks a lot for your time.

(Newb) Populate NSMutableDictioanry with NSArray

2008-08-31 Thread Jon Davis
I came across tutorial code that looked sort of like this: NSMutableDictionary * myCollection; myCollection = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@a, @b, @c, nil]; The types are not the same. So my first question is, is this a bug? And if so, why didn't the compiler catch it? I come from C# so

NSDictionaryController + NSTableView

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Robinson
Hi I need to use a NSTableView to control data input by the user. The table has two columns, labeled Title and Content. The number of columns is fixed. I've read what I can find on the internet, but a lot of it goes way over my head (I'm fairly new at ObjC and xCode -- coming from

Sending a GET or POST HTTP request with Cocoa

2008-08-31 Thread Sam Schroeder
Hi all, I'm new to Cocoa development and I'm trying to learn the basics of sending HTTP GETs and POSTs from Cocoa. I've been reading up on NSURL and searching for decent sample code. However, I've been unable to find something simple that _just_ explains how to send a GET and capture the

App names

2008-08-31 Thread John Joyce
When dealing with applications (application bundles) by name or path, in Cocoa, when does it make a difference whether you use App Name.app example: Front Row.app or: /Applications/Front Row.app versus App Name example: Front Row or: /Applications/Front Row This seems to be pretty important,

Re: (Newb) Populate NSMutableDictioanry with NSArray

2008-08-31 Thread Keary Suska
8/31/08 2:34 AM, also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: NSMutableDictionary * myCollection; myCollection = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@a, @b, @c, nil]; The types are not the same. So my first question is, is this a bug? And if so, why didn't the compiler catch it? I come from C# so unless

Re: Sending a GET or POST HTTP request with Cocoa

2008-08-31 Thread Keary Suska
8/31/08 10:30 AM, also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm new to Cocoa development and I'm trying to learn the basics of sending HTTP GETs and POSTs from Cocoa. I've been reading up on NSURL and searching for decent sample code. However, I've been unable to find something simple that _just_

Re: Sending a GET or POST HTTP request with Cocoa

2008-08-31 Thread Jaime Magiera
On Aug 31, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Sam Schroeder wrote: However, I've been unable to find something simple that _just_ explains how to send a GET and capture the returned results. My google_fu is weak. My ultimate goal is to send and receive XML (or maybe JSON) requests over HTTP, but first I

Re: Sending a GET or POST HTTP request with Cocoa

2008-08-31 Thread Jaime Magiera
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Re: activateIgnoringOtherApps

2008-08-31 Thread Ken Thomases
On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Chris Idou wrote: I want to pop up a window in response to a hot key. So I'm creating a window, setting it makeKeyAndOrderFront, and I'm calling [NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps] so that it gets focus. The thing is, activateIgnoringOtherApps seems to bring ALL

Re: App names

2008-08-31 Thread Seth Willits
On Aug 31, 2008, at 1:14 PM, John Joyce wrote: When dealing with applications (application bundles) by name or path, in Cocoa, when does it make a difference whether you use App Name.app example: Front Row.app or: /Applications/Front Row.app versus App Name example: Front Row or:

Re: App names

2008-08-31 Thread John Joyce
On Aug 31, 2008, at 4:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're dealing with a file path, then of you of course need to specify the extension -- it's part of the file name. You've always had to, and always will have to. -- Seth Willits AppleScript certainly doesn't care about extensions

Re: Problem with NSUserDefaultsController

2008-08-31 Thread Mark Allan
On 31 Aug 2008, at 17:25, Keary Suska wrote: 8/31/08 10:13 AM, also sprach: I've been playing around with bindings to NSUserDefaultsController in a very simple app to test saving preferences, but the [sharedUserDefaultsController save:self] method seems to return immediately without

Re: App names

2008-08-31 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:07 PM, John Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AppleScript certainly doesn't care about extensions on application bundles... Of course that seems to be due to the syntax... tell application Finder That's because you're not specifying a bundle name. You're specifying an

Re: accessing netinfo db from cocoa?

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Watson
If you want to do it fast, without shell output parsing, and in a way that will work on 10.4 *and* 10.5, use the Directory Services C API. The downside is that it's more complex than many of the Cocoa APIs you're likely used to. Docs:

Seemingly Simple Bindings Question

2008-08-31 Thread Jamie Phelps
I have an NSPopUpButton with five menu items: WTD, MTD, QTD, YTD, and Specific Dates. What I want to do is show and hide two labels and textfields for Start Date and End Date depending on if the Specific Dates option is selected. My first attempt was to do @property (readonly) BOOL

Re: App names

2008-08-31 Thread Gregory Weston
John Joyce wrote: When dealing with applications (application bundles) by name or path, in Cocoa, when does it make a difference whether you use App Name.app example: Front Row.app or: /Applications/Front Row.app versus App Name example: Front Row or: /Applications/Front Row This seems to be

Re: Seemingly Simple Bindings Question

2008-08-31 Thread Graham Cox
On 1 Sep 2008, at 9:38 am, Jamie Phelps wrote: I have an NSPopUpButton with five menu items: WTD, MTD, QTD, YTD, and Specific Dates. What I want to do is show and hide two labels and textfields for Start Date and End Date depending on if the Specific Dates option is selected. My first

Re: Trouble with Scripting Bridge

2008-08-31 Thread Tommy Nordgren
On 31 aug 2008, at 03.12, Peter Stirling wrote: Hi, I've been trying to do some python scripting of iTunes using pyobjc and ScriptingBridge, and I've been having some problems (I reduced everything to objective-c on its own in order work out if it was caused by pyobjc). According to:

Re: activateIgnoringOtherApps

2008-08-31 Thread Chris Idou
It looks like if the window I want to popup has NSBorderlessWindowMask set, then this API pops up TWO windows, both the one I really want, and the last active. On the other hand if it has a title, then it works as expected. Any thoughts? BTW, I'm not popping it up uninitiated, it's in

Re: Seemingly Simple Bindings Question

2008-08-31 Thread Ken Thomases
On Aug 31, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Jamie Phelps wrote: I have an NSPopUpButton with five menu items: WTD, MTD, QTD, YTD, and Specific Dates. What I want to do is show and hide two labels and textfields for Start Date and End Date depending on if the Specific Dates option is selected. My first

Re: activateIgnoringOtherApps

2008-08-31 Thread Ken Thomases
On Aug 31, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Chris Idou wrote: It looks like if the window I want to popup has NSBorderlessWindowMask set, then this API pops up TWO windows, both the one I really want, and the last active. On the other hand if it has a title, then it works as expected. Any thoughts?

Re: activateIgnoringOtherApps

2008-08-31 Thread Ken Thomases
On Aug 31, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: On Aug 31, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Chris Idou wrote: It looks like if the window I want to popup has NSBorderlessWindowMask set, then this API pops up TWO windows, both the one I really want, and the last active. On the other hand if it has a

re: Hard calculation crashes after 60Minutes

2008-08-31 Thread Mr. Gecko
I believe I found the problem and it is a function I am using with a framework, so what I will do is I will get only the things need to run my program from the framework to make my app work and I may not have this problem any more. I will see if that will help and reply. Thanks, Mr. Gecko

Re: App names

2008-08-31 Thread Marcus
31 aug 2008 kl. 22.14 skrev John Joyce: When dealing with applications (application bundles) by name or path, in Cocoa, when does it make a difference whether you use App Name.app example: Front Row.app or: /Applications/Front Row.app versus App Name example: Front Row or: /Applications/Front

Re: accessing netinfo db from cocoa?

2008-08-31 Thread Kieren Eaton
If you want to do it fast, without shell output parsing, and in a way that will work on 10.4 *and* 10.5, use the Directory Services C API. The downside is that it's more complex than many of the Cocoa APIs you're likely used to. Docs:

Re: (Newb) Populate NSMutableDictioanry with NSArray

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Ash
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Jon Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came across tutorial code that looked sort of like this: NSMutableDictionary * myCollection; myCollection = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@a, @b, @c, nil]; The types are not the same. So my first question is, is this a