On 11/02/2009, at 5:11 AM, Christian Graus wrote:
Thanks - that's pretty much what I am going to do. I will move the
objects
that need transparency to NSImageView today, and then once we get this
version out for demo purposes, I will start rewriting the tools I
needed
from IKImageView.
Hi
I created a custom NSCell subclass, defined accessors for stringValue,
setStringValue, objectValue ane setObjectValue. I set the data cell
for a column like so:
[column setDataCell: customCell];
And bind the column to an array controller:
[column bind: @value toObject: controller
I call
ProcessInformationCopyDictionary
(psn, kProcessDictionaryIncludeAllInformationMask);
but if the application has moved since it was launched, the result of this
call in the CFBundleExecutable and BundlePath keys is wrong. The values
contain the original location of the application.
So...
Steve Cronin (steve_cro...@mac.com) on 2008-12-28 8:41 PM said:
I have an application which will have an optional helper NSStatusItem.
The statusItem is a stand-alone application which can be installed as
a LoginItem.
I want this status item to be able to read the preferences file from
Le 11 févr. 09 à 11:43, Trygve Inda a écrit :
I call
ProcessInformationCopyDictionary
(psn, kProcessDictionaryIncludeAllInformationMask);
but if the application has moved since it was launched, the result
of this
call in the CFBundleExecutable and BundlePath keys is wrong. The
values
I think it exists a standard Apple Event to retrieve a process
version. (get «vers»)
But you can also add a custom get version Apple Event handler to
your helper and use it to retrieve the version from your pref pane.
This works great for future versions, but not existing ones. I'll look
I think it exists a standard Apple Event to retrieve a process
version. (get «vers»)
But you can also add a custom get version Apple Event handler to
your helper and use it to retrieve the version from your pref pane.
Hmmm... It seems keyAEVersion ('vers') only gets the version info for
Le 11 févr. 09 à 12:54, Trygve Inda a écrit :
I think it exists a standard Apple Event to retrieve a process
version. (get «vers»)
But you can also add a custom get version Apple Event handler to
your helper and use it to retrieve the version from your pref pane.
Hmmm... It seems
is there a way to change the value transformer used for a binding at
runtime?
You could write an NSProxy subclass to stand in for a given value
transformer - register it instead of the actual value transformer.
Then when you need to change the transformation grab it from the
Le 11 févr. 09 à 12:46, Trygve Inda a écrit :
I think it exists a standard Apple Event to retrieve a process
version. (get «vers»)
But you can also add a custom get version Apple Event handler to
your helper and use it to retrieve the version from your pref pane.
This works great for
Is there a way to programmatically resize a button or text field to
fit its contents exactly? I can do it in the Interface Builder, but I
need to do it at runtime. Thanks!
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in order for modelObject1 to talk to modelObject2, it must have
a reference to that object, similar to how myControllerObject has a
reference to both modelObject1 and modelObject2 which you use to send
messages.
+Clint
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Jason Wiggins jwigg...@optusnet.com.auwrote:
Say I have myControllerObject. I alloc and init modelObject1 and also
modelObject2.
How do I access the ivars of modelObject1 from modelObject2 and vice versa?
modelObject1 and modelObject 2 both exist somewhere in memory, so how do I
get a pointer to or make a connection between these two
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Jon C. Munson II jmun...@his.com wrote:
One other hint, when a keyword search doesn't return something of value, try
looking at the class of interest and follow up the chain until you find, or
not, what
you seek. Sure, it is tedious, but often can resolve
AppKiDo is indeed a very cool tool. Although I haven't used it overly much,
I do appreciate its usefulness.
Peace, Love, and Light,
/s/ Jon C. Munson II
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To:
On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:03 AM, I. Savant wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Jon C. Munson II jmun...@his.com
wrote:
One other hint, when a keyword search doesn't return something of
value, try
looking at the class of interest and follow up the chain until you
find, or not, what
you
Hi Clint (and I.S.)
Thanks for your replies. I understand MVC and am happy with that now
that a few thoughts have been cleared for me (thanks I.S.). OK, I now
understand that and object knows nothing about its parent. Cool. I
thought that was the case, but I wasn't convinced.
Now, I
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Jason Wiggins
jwigg...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
I understand MVC ...
Sorry, but I disagree. You've still got some concepts missing. :-)
Now, I understand I need a pointer to the other object, but I am failing
(in a BIG way) in understanding HOW to get it
You need a line of code in your controller object thus:
[modelObject1 setModelObject2:modelObject2];
Then, in your object code, something like:
- (void)setModelObject2:(ModelObject2 *)anObject
{
modelObject2 = anObject;
}
You will need to include
On Feb 11, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Jason Wiggins wrote:
Now, I understand I need a pointer to the other object, but I am
failing (in a BIG way) in understanding HOW to get it or create it.
myControllerObject has a pointer to it's children because it knows
about it because it created it.
But if
On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Jason Wiggins wrote:
But if modelObject1 doesn't know modelObject2 even exists, how can I
create a pointer to it? Where do I get this reference from?
If you want modelObject1 to have an ivar that refers to modelObject2,
the typical ways to make the connection
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Trygve Inda cocoa...@xericdesign.com wrote:
In my helper app I use:
userDefaults =
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]
persistentDomainForName:kMainAppIdent];
You just need to make sure there is no chance of the helper and the host
writing at the same
OK, now I *think* I've got a bit idea. What I've been trying to do is
get an ivar from object1 into object2 *directly* without using the
controller as a middleman
Is it true that I have to set up properties (using Objc 2) to get and
set the ivars *via* the controller? I just did that and got
On 11-Feb-09, at 11:14 AM, Jason Wiggins wrote:
OK, now I *think* I've got a bit idea. What I've been trying to do
is get an ivar from object1 into object2 *directly* without using
the controller as a middleman
Is it true that I have to set up properties (using Objc 2) to get
and set the
On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Kevin Gessner wrote:
On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:
Assuming I have two identical USB keyboards (actually barcode
scanners) connected to a mac, is there any way to tell which of
them a keyboard event came from?
[snip]
Is there some way to,
On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:09 PM, Daryl Thachuk wrote:
Yes it is possible to do this with UIScrollView but only for a small
amount of images. You eventually run out of memory on the device.
The best way accomplish this task would be to use CALayers which
will allow you to unload images when
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Hi All,
I am working on a project which is an Agent and just has a couple on Windows
and a menu bar icon. The menu bar icon has a menu which is used to call up
the two windows. Now I want to add 'Command-V' so that I can paste into the
NSTextFields in this window, as I don't have the standard
I've just found out that some code that seemed to be working fine
doesn't do so under all circumstances.
I have a to-many relationship (called 'elements') in a managed object
('parent').
In one spot in my code, there is a need to obtain and present all of
the elements of the parent managed
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Luke Evans l...@eversosoft.com wrote:
The parent MO is defined with an 'elements' property (nominally an NSSet).
How? What does this declaration look like in your classes? I assume
you have at least one custom subclass of NSManagedObject specified
(for your
A follow-up for posterity.
I use [NSImage -addRepresentation:] instead of -TIFFRepresentation and
made the object life cycle local. The result in Instruments was that
the object allocation graph(all objects still living), drew like how
the stock market has been recently(up and down, indicating
On 11-Feb-09, at 12:16 PM, I. Savant wrote:
How? What does this declaration look like in your classes? I assume
you have at least one custom subclass of NSManagedObject specified
(for your Element entity), based on the code example you gave, but
it's important to let us know *how* this is
Is it possible to put a custom view, in this case an NSPopupButton, in
a specific column header of an NSTableView?
I have a table with 3 columns, one of which displays a status for one
of several user-selectable things that correspond to the rest of the
data in that row. I currently have
Please file a bug and request this functionality.
OK - that would not have occurred to me at all. That works in the Mac world
? Awesome !! I've found plenty of Microsoft bugs, and I was even an MVP at
the time, they always ignored me, or told me they were features ( and I
found some MAJOR bugs
And OF COURSE I find the answer not 10 seconds after pressing
Send...NSTableColumn -setHeaderCell:.
Silly me, I was looking in NSTableHeaderView. What was I thinking?! ;)
On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Randall Meadows wrote:
Is it possible to put a custom view, in this case an NSPopupButton,
On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Keith Blount wrote:
The subject line says it all, really, I need to save a PDFSelection
between sessions in my program, but there seems no way of doing
this. A similar question came up on these last year but there was no
solution:
To save a selection sapnning
On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
The behavior of non-one shot windows is obviously not clear.
Forgive me for saying this, but this sounds a lot like the common
newbie complaints about Cocoa memory management.
It's more than memory management.
For example, why does a
The documentation (Core Data Programming Guide -- Managed Object
Accessor Methods -- Custom To-Many Relationship Accessor Methods)
spells out all the stipulations for custom to-many accessors and the
code example is:
@property NSSet *employees;
... without the readonly flag. I would not
On Feb 11, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Luke Evans wrote:
Anyway, like you, I can't see how having a read-only flag on the
wrapping property in my NSManagedObject subclass is going to affect
how a to-many relationship is internally represented within
NSManagedObject. Moreover, I reset the declaration
Hmmm ... I do not have an answer for this. If nobody else can offer
any insight, I'd file a bug. In fact, I'd file it anyway because
this random substitution should not happen.
Yeah, I guess someone with deep knowledge of the states that a Core
Data to-many relationship can be in
Don't get your hopes up too much, plenty of issues remain unsolved for
looong periods of time. You want http://bugreport.apple.com
On 11 Feb 2009, at 20:41, Christian Graus wrote:
Please file a bug and request this functionality.
OK - that would not have occurred to me at all. That works in
Thank you. The number is
*6578276.*https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/85/wo/n3gbesxSHOpLghGqW9p2I0/8.34
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com wrote:
http://bugreport.apple.com
Then make sure to post the bug number here.
--Kyle Sluder
Yeah, I'm sure this is not going to come in time to solve the issue for my
project, but still, it's nice to think that it may get addressed at some
point.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Mike Abdullah
cocoa...@mikeabdullah.netwrote:
Don't get your hopes up too much, plenty of issues remain
On 12 Feb 2009, at 1:42 am, Jason Wiggins wrote:
How do I access the ivars of modelObject1 from modelObject2 and vice
versa?
Others have had plenty of useful advice to give on the general
question, but in your original, this stood out for me.
The answer here is: YOU DON'T. ivar stands
On Feb 11, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Luke Evans wrote:
Clearly, you wouldn't even notice the switcheroo if you were driving
the relationship via a more generic collection-like interface (e.g.
like using -count, using fast enumeration or other things that apply
equally well to a range of concrete
On Feb 11, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
It's important to understand this difference, which is why I'm
harping on about it - terminology matters.
I usually do harp on such things, but today I didn't have the
heart. I'm busy, stressed, and hoping to avoid a flame-war from
[[self valueForKeyPath:@parent.elements] allObjects]
... this should do the same thing with the expected result. If it
does not, there is another problem with your code.
... and it's cold comfort to find that the behaviour is exactly the
same. So, at least there isn't 'another' problem
On Feb 11, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Luke Evans wrote:
... and it's cold comfort to find that the behaviour is exactly the
same. So, at least there isn't 'another' problem :-)
Well, actually, I realize now that my statement was ambiguous. I
meant that asking via -valueForKey: and providing the
Hi,
I currently have an application that talks to a single device over TCP/
IP. My user interface has lots of parameters and status variables. I
use bindings all over the place. The device is represented a custom
NSObject instantiated in my MainMenu.xib. The various GUI elements are
using
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Louis Demers louisdem...@mac.com wrote:
Now, I need to rewrite the app so that it can talk to multiple devices. I
want to use bindings and write as little code as possible 8-) I'm
considering an NSDocument based Applications and using panels/palettes to
On 11-Feb-09, at 20:20 , Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Louis Demers louisdem...@mac.com
wrote:
Now, I need to rewrite the app so that it can talk to multiple
devices. I
want to use bindings and write as little code as possible 8-) I'm
considering an NSDocument based
Hi all
I am porting most of my C++ code into Objective C and at the moment I
have this problem:
In C++ to force a constructor to call a overriding method of a
subclass I used pure virtual functions defined in an abstract (super)
class.
An example:
class Foo
{
Foo();
Nothing about this requires you to use the NSDocument architecture.
You would implement the palettes the same way as you would for a
document-based app. I'm just wondering if it is appropriate for what
you're trying to do.
--Kyle Sluder
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:31 PM, João Varela j.var...@clix.pt wrote:
Hi all
I am porting most of my C++ code into Objective C and at the moment I have
this problem:
In C++ to force a constructor to call a overriding method of a subclass I
used pure virtual functions defined in an abstract
On 12 Feb 2009, at 12:31 pm, João Varela wrote:
Hi all
I am porting most of my C++ code into Objective C and at the moment
I have this problem:
In C++ to force a constructor to call a overriding method of a
subclass I used pure virtual functions defined in an abstract
(super) class.
Calling a subclass's overridden implementation of a superclass member
function from within the super class constructor is very very
dangerous in C++. I don't believe if is even supported by the ANSI/
ISO standard, and to the extent it works at all, it is probably
compiler and linker
On 12 Feb 2009, at 12:27 pm, Louis Demers wrote:
I Had not thought about plugins because all the devices are
identical in capabilities. The devices are complex cameras. I wanted
to have each cameras have it document window to display the specific
video feed, but a single palette to
Hi everyone,
From what I've read about [NSResponder keyDown], if the responder
doesn't handle the event it should pass the event to [self
nextResponder] or NSBeep() if it doesn't have a next responder.
However, I've found that when an NSTextView receives a keyDown event
that doesn't
On 12 Feb 2009, at 1:59 pm, Tom wrote:
Is this a bug in NSTextView or am I missing something?
Have you actually set the next responder of the field editor/text
view? I think you have to actually do that explcitly (-
setNextResponder:)
--Graham
On 12/02/2009, at 1:06 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
On 12 Feb 2009, at 1:59 pm, Tom wrote:
Is this a bug in NSTextView or am I missing something?
Have you actually set the next responder of the field editor/text
view? I think you have to actually do that explcitly (-
setNextResponder:)
On 11-Feb-09, at 21:16 , Kyle Sluder wrote:
Nothing about this requires you to use the NSDocument architecture.
You would implement the palettes the same way as you would for a
document-based app.
and fundamentally, that is the part I do not know how and asked in a
clumsy way 8-(
I'm
On 11-Feb-09, at 21:30 , Graham Cox wrote:
On 12 Feb 2009, at 12:27 pm, Louis Demers wrote:
I Had not thought about plugins because all the devices are
identical in capabilities. The devices are complex cameras. I
wanted to have each cameras have it document window to display the
On 12 Feb 2009, at 3:04 pm, Louis Demers wrote:
I do not care about sticking with that paradigm of one window per
camera, but I'm conformable with that approach. But how to I get all
the sliders and gui elements of my palettes to now bind to the
object/camera that is selected.
In my
On 11-Feb-09, at 23:11 , Graham Cox wrote:
On 12 Feb 2009, at 3:04 pm, Louis Demers wrote:
I do not care about sticking with that paradigm of one window per
camera, but I'm conformable with that approach. But how to I get
all the sliders and gui elements of my palettes to now bind to the
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Christian Graus
christian.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
Please file a bug and request this functionality.
OK - that would not have occurred to me at all. That works in the Mac world
? Awesome !! I've found plenty of Microsoft bugs, and I was even an MVP at
the time,
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Louis Demers louisdem...@mac.com wrote:
So the controller manages to reconnect the bindings to the selected objects.
! That would make sense. All that's left if to figure out the implementation
details and coerce IB to do what I want. I'll try building a small
On 11-Feb-09, at 23:39 , Michael Ash wrote:
Your window controller for the palette
should then observe NSWindowDidBecomeMainNotification and update the
NSObjectController's content pointer to point to the document
corresponding to whatever window is currently the main window. Change
that one
You want to subclass NSWindow and override -sendEvent:, which will let
you get at the keyboard events before the rest of the standard event
handling stuff gets at it. You will use your subclass of NSWindow for
your windows.
Alternately you could subclass NSApp and override -sendEvent:
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