Re: NSPushAutoreleasePool NSPopAutoreleasePool?

2009-08-12 Thread Ken Thomases
On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:58 PM, DairyKnight wrote: I've been tracing an iPhone application, and found out the NSPush/PopAutoreleasePool pair being called every time before/after entering the event loop. I did some googling about these apis and they seem to be undocumented. They are not

Re: Intel Mac prefpane error

2009-08-12 Thread Trygve Inda
On Aug 11, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Trygve Inda wrote: My app has never done this for me, but how can the OS say it is not an Intel App when it is a 32/64 universal binary? You keep saying app, but that string you mentioned earlier appears in System Preferences if the preferences

Re: Intel Mac prefpane error

2009-08-12 Thread Trygve Inda
On 08/08/2009, at 7:47 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: Although my app is a universal binary (32/64), and was developed on an Intel Mac, a few people report when trying to install and error: You cannot open (my app) preferences because it doesn't work on an Intel-based Mac. I suspect the error

NSStatusItem refresh problem

2009-08-12 Thread Matt
I'm running into a refresh problem with an NSStatusItem. It began when I added a -setView call to one of the menu items. The refresh issue occurs when the following take place: 1- Command-tab to any other app 2- Click in the status item 3- Release the mouse and command-tab back to my app

Re: Undo's setActionName: and Core Data

2009-08-12 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2009 Aug 11, at 11:32, Squ Aire wrote: The question is: How can I set the name of the undo action to Modify Name using setActionName of the MOC's undo manager just before the user changes an employee's name in the table view (or by any other means)? Do I have to subclass the MO and

FSDetermineIfRefIsEnclosedByFolder(): No const for Cocoa's Temp Dir?

2009-08-12 Thread Jerry Krinock
Because my application deals with a small number of documents -- most users will have only one, and because these documents have agents associated with them and are often not edited, I want my app to warn the user immediately upon opening a document that is in the Trash, instead of the

[iPhone] CAKeyframeAnimation

2009-08-12 Thread Sven
Hello, I'm using this solution http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2008/8/3/214715 to animate a sequence of images in a flipbook style. It works fine on the simulator but on the device it's REALLY slow. If I set the duration to less than 5 seconds (for 25frames) the animation

Re: CATransition + NSView mask

2009-08-12 Thread Evan Moseman
Sean, Thanks very much for the link, the example project is fundamentally doing the same things that I'm trying to accomplish, without the linked-list functionality. I ran the app and noticed that the animating views were also being clipped by the window. After seeing this example it

Re: FSDetermineIfRefIsEnclosedByFolder(): No const for Cocoa's Temp Dir?

2009-08-12 Thread Bill Cheeseman
On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: Because my application deals with a small number of documents -- most users will have only one, and because these documents have agents associated with them and are often not edited, I want my app to warn the user immediately upon opening

Re: FSDetermineIfRefIsEnclosedByFolder(): No const for Cocoa's Temp Dir?

2009-08-12 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 12 août 09 à 16:10, Jerry Krinock a écrit : Because my application deals with a small number of documents -- most users will have only one, and because these documents have agents associated with them and are often not edited, I want my app to warn the user immediately upon opening a

Re: Adding more and more key/value observers is much too slow - workaround needed.

2009-08-12 Thread Christopher Kane
Don't pass the observer as the context: argument; pretty much anything else is better. Passing NULL (just, for example) flattens the curve quite a bit. If you have nothing better to pass in, put this in your code and pass the address of it: static char _xyzzy_ = 0; Chris Kane Cocoa

Re: Rescheduling an NSTimer from a completion method

2009-08-12 Thread Christopher Kane
On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: iPhone OS 3.0 Can an NSTimer be rescheduled after firing, and after another trip through the run loop? I'd like to reschedule a NON-repeating timer in my own code. I assume that in the simple case it would be something like: - (void)

Re: Maintaining an ordered array of attributes in an NSTextStorage subclass

2009-08-12 Thread Keith Blount
Hi, Many thanks for the detailed and thoughtful reply, and apologies for not replying sooner myself. Having taken all your (and Graham's) suggestions and thoughts on board, after a lot of head-scratching and working things out on paper first, I think I have - tentatively - cracked it. I stuck

Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale

2009-08-12 Thread Christopher Kane
You can call [[NSLocale currentLocale] localeIdentifier], to get the locale identifier of the user's preferred locale, and then create another NSLocale from it. This will be a locale that doesn't have any (not just formatting) user preference overrides in it but is still the user's

Re: Rescheduling an NSTimer from a completion method

2009-08-12 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 12 août 09 à 17:55, Christopher Kane a écrit : On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: iPhone OS 3.0 Can an NSTimer be rescheduled after firing, and after another trip through the run loop? I'd like to reschedule a NON-repeating timer in my own code. I assume that in

Re: Rescheduling an NSTimer from a completion method

2009-08-12 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 12 Aug 2009, at 10:55 AM, Christopher Kane wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: iPhone OS 3.0 Can an NSTimer be rescheduled after firing, and after another trip through the run loop? I'd like to reschedule a NON-repeating timer in my own code. I assume that in

Re: Intel Mac prefpane error

2009-08-12 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:36 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: It is not an app, but a .prefpane. It is built as a 32/64 ppc/intel, so that it runs native on all architectures including 10.6. On my systems it runs Intel 32 on 10.5 and Intel 64 on 10.6. It also has PPC 32 code in it. Sadly, we can't

NSOulineView scroll position

2009-08-12 Thread Russell Gray
I have an NSOutlineView bound to an NSTreeController, that when reloaded - always reloads to the scroll position declared in my awakeFromNib. I would like to reload it to the same scroll position before it was reloaded. How can I do this. thanks in advance.

Re: [iPhone] CAKeyframeAnimation

2009-08-12 Thread David Duncan
On Aug 12, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Sven wrote: It works fine on the simulator but on the device it's REALLY slow. If I set the duration to less than 5 seconds (for 25frames) the animation doesn't even play and I end up at the last frame after a pause on the previous screen. The skipped initial

Re: [iPhone] CAKeyframeAnimation

2009-08-12 Thread Sven
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, David Duncan wrote: Thanks for the quick reply On Aug 12, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Sven wrote: It works fine on the simulator but on the device it's REALLY slow. If I set the duration to less than 5 seconds (for 25frames) the animation doesn't even play and I end up

CGImageRef printing issue

2009-08-12 Thread Renzil D'Souza
Hi, I'm trying to print, given a CGImageRef (cgImage). In order to do this correctly, I need to get a couple of 'CGImageProperty' from my image, like kCGImagePropertyDPIHeight, kCGImagePropertyDPIWidth and kCGImagePropertyOrientation. I try to do this from a CGImageSourceRef, which I create in

Re: NSOulineView scroll position

2009-08-12 Thread Evan Moseman
I haven't tried this yet, but I just looked at IB and created a new NSOutlineView and clicked on the scrollbar and then looked at its bindings. There is a 'value' that can be bound to, I would assume that is its current position, but I haven't verified that. If so you can bind that to

Re: Adding more and more key/value observers is much too slow - workaround needed.

2009-08-12 Thread Andy Lee
On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Christopher Kane wrote: Don't pass the observer as the context: argument; pretty much anything else is better. Out of curiosity -- why would this affect performance and why is this a bad idea (other than performance)? Isn't the context: treated as an opaque

Re: FSDetermineIfRefIsEnclosedByFolder(): No const for Cocoa's Temp Dir?

2009-08-12 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2009 Aug 12, at 08:33, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: What did you used as domainOrVRefNum ? Well, I tried various values but eventually settled on zero (0) because, according to the FSDetermineIfRefIsEnclosedByFolder() documentation, this will check all domains and volumes. On 2009 Aug

Creating new managed object on 10.4 problem

2009-08-12 Thread Colin Cornaby
Hey, I have a CoreData project with a schema that I layout by hand in a class (because the schema has to be used in a command line tool.) On 10.5 my code is working perfectly, but on 10.4 whenever my code attempts to create a new object, I get an exception. According to the stack trace

Releasing ivars in -didTurnIntoFault. Should set to nil?

2009-08-12 Thread Jerry Krinock
I release a regular instance variable in my managed object's - didTurnIntoFault, and discovered that this was causing a crash sometime after an undo. In searching code on the internet I see that others have reported such crashes. I solved the problem by setting the instance variable to

Re: CATransition + NSView mask

2009-08-12 Thread Sean Kline
Evan, According to Cocoadev.com, Animator proxies can be used with or without layer-backed mode. Here is the page that mentions this: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CoreAnimation I hope that helps. Regards, Sean On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Evan Moseman evan.mose...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: CGImageRef printing issue

2009-08-12 Thread David Duncan
On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Renzil D'Souza wrote: Once I get the CGImageSourceRef, I make a call to CGImageSourceCopyProperties() passing it the imageSource . But this always returns a NULL. If I output this CGImageRef to a file, and then read it back as a CGImageSource, and then call

Re: Releasing ivars in -didTurnIntoFault. Should set to nil?

2009-08-12 Thread Sean McBride
On 8/12/09 11:41 AM, Jerry Krinock said: I release a regular instance variable in my managed object's - didTurnIntoFault, and discovered that this was causing a crash sometime after an undo. In searching code on the internet I see that others have reported such crashes. I solved the problem by

[iPhone 3.0] how to find an image leak using Instruments?

2009-08-12 Thread John Michael Zorko
Hello, all ... I've an an iPhone app that runs swimmingly on my devices, but shows display glitches on others testing it. I suspect it's an image leak of some sort (this code uses a _lot_ of images, animations, etc). When I run Instruments, though, the leaks tool doesn't seem to point

Cocoaheads Lake Forest (92630) meeting 8/12/2009 at 7 pm on Distilled NSCoder Night Experiences creating an iPhone app

2009-08-12 Thread Scott Ellsworth
CocoaHeads Lake Forest will be meeting on the second Wednesday of the month. We will be meeting at the Orange County Public Library (El Toro) community room, 24672 Raymond Way, Lake Forest, CA 92630 Please join us from 7pm to 9pm on Wednesday, 8/12. Joe Sickel and Dylan Beadle will be talking

Re: Releasing ivars in -didTurnIntoFault. Should set to nil?

2009-08-12 Thread Dave Keck
Now I understand that if nilling an instance variable after releasing it is done in -dealloc, it is papering over other memory management problems and is therefore bad programming practice. But I believe that this practice is OK in -didTurnIntoFault because, particularly when Undo is

Changing font color

2009-08-12 Thread Agha Khan
Hi: I have code something like this. CGContextSelectFont(ctx, Times New Roman, 26, kCGEncodingMacRoman); It works fine, but who can I change the color of the font? Thanks in advance. Best regards Agha ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: NSPredicate Editor questions

2009-08-12 Thread Peter Ammon
On Aug 11, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Dave DeLong wrote: Hey everyone, Hi Dave! I'm about to embark on understanding NSRule/PredicateEditors but before I get too deep into the code, I wanted to ask a couple questions. I'm hoping to create an interface whereby the user can create an

Re: NSPredicate Editor questions

2009-08-12 Thread Dave DeLong
Thanks for the info! I spent some time at NSCoder Night last night poking around with attempting to convert an NSPredicate into an NSCompoundPredicate using the TODParseKit and the BNF definition of NSPredicate grammar in the docs, then eventually gave up. =) (I figured there had to be

Re: Changing font color

2009-08-12 Thread Graham Cox
On 13/08/2009, at 7:09 AM, Agha Khan wrote: CGContextSelectFont(ctx, Times New Roman, 26, kCGEncodingMacRoman); It works fine, but who can I change the color of the font? set the context's fill and/or stroke colours as usual and use CGContextSetTextDrawingMode to set how the text uses

Re: Rotation and translation of an image

2009-08-12 Thread Kiel Gillard
Hi Agha, An appropriate answer depends entirely on what you want to do with the image. Do you want to draw the image into a view? Do you want to save the image to the hard disk? You'll have to give us more information to help you out. Kiel On 13/08/2009, at 11:22 AM, Agha Khan wrote:

Re: Rotation and translation of an image

2009-08-12 Thread Kiel Gillard
Hi Agha, I'm not too sure what's wrong with the picture so I'm not sure how much I can help you. But to rotate your image by the centre, first translate your image or context so the centre of the image/context is located at the origin: 1 Translate by negative half width, negative half

UITableView updating problem

2009-08-12 Thread DKJ
I've got a UITableView where the colour of the row text can change depending on its place in the table. For example, a row may change colour if it's moved from the bottom to the top of the table; and sometimes its colour may change if another row is deleted or inserted. The problem is that

Re: NSPredicate Editor questions

2009-08-12 Thread Dave DeLong
I figured out why it's not loading! Apparently, when doing this in a document-based application, readFromData:ofType:... is called *before* the nib is loaded, so obviously my message of [predicateEditor setObjectValue:unarchivedPredicate]; wasn't working, because predicateEditor hadn't

NSOutlineView vertical text alignment

2009-08-12 Thread Oftenwrong Soong
Hi all, I have a NSOutlineView. I want to use the small text size (by setting Text Field Cell Size to Small in Interface Builder). The disclosure triangle looks proper and is vertically centered in the row. However the text is too high in the cell. I would like it centered like the disclosure

Re: Two right buttons on UINavigationBar?

2009-08-12 Thread Steven Arnold
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:03:12 -0400, Hank Heijink wrote: If one of your buttons is always hidden, why do you need two buttons? You can just use one button and change the title, target, and action when you need to. If necessary you can even replace the whole button. On Aug 6, 2009, at 1:47

Re: Releasing ivars in -didTurnIntoFault. Should set to nil?

2009-08-12 Thread Georg C. Brückmann
On 12.08.2009, at 22:59, Dave Keck wrote: I've found that there's never any reason not to reset a variable after releasing it. IMO it's just good practice. I agree with that point. You may want to declare a macro like this: #define INVALIDATE_REFERENCE(obj) ([(obj) autorelease], (obj) = nil)

Re: NSOutlineView vertical text alignment

2009-08-12 Thread Graham Cox
On 13/08/2009, at 1:25 PM, Oftenwrong Soong wrote: Is there a similarly easy way to change the vertical alignment of the text? You need a custom text cell. It's a pity that vertical centring of text isn't a widely supported feature in all sorts of places, but there you are - file a

Re: Two right buttons on UINavigationBar?

2009-08-12 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Steven Arnold stev...@arnold- software.com wrote: I have a use case for needing two buttons. I need a button to add a new item and a button to edit (including delete and move around) existing items. It's a UINavigationBar, so I am using the

Intermittent Console Log Entries '.sdef error' - Where from? What does it mean?

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Cronin
Folks; I have a logging facility built into my application to assist in troubleshooting from the field. These 4 lines appear SOMETIMES in user submitted log files: 2009-08-12 10:57:55.383 MyApp[296:20b] .sdef error: (null) 2009-08-12 10:57:55.383 MyApp[296:20b] line number: 2 2009-08-12

Re: Releasing ivars in -didTurnIntoFault. Should set to nil?

2009-08-12 Thread Quincey Morris
On Aug 12, 2009, at 15:00, Georg C. Brückmann wrote: I agree with that point. You may want to declare a macro like this: #define INVALIDATE_REFERENCE(obj) ([(obj) autorelease], (obj) = nil) The reason I chose autorelease over release are situations like the following: You register as a

Re: NSArrayController access between nib files

2009-08-12 Thread Graham Cox
On 11/08/2009, at 4:20 AM, Brian Carmalt wrote: Let's say I want the combo box to provide the user with auto completion on the names of categories in the array controller, and if the user types in a category name that does not exist, then they will be automatically prompted to create the