Distributed object vending problem

2010-09-20 Thread Ken Tozier
Hi I'm writing two apps: A server and client and am having some trouble figuring exactly what to link to in the client program. The server application has a main class that has dozens of dependencies. I don't want to have to import all the server app dependencies into the client application as

iPhone 4 debugger error repeating everytime

2010-09-20 Thread Sivakumar Kandappan Singaravadivelu
Hello everyone I`m getting this strange warning when i start my program in debugging mode and repeats for every step. * * *Asertion failed: (cls), function getName, file /SourceCache/objc4_Sim/objc4-427.1.1/runtime/objc-runtime-new.m, * * * * * *I created my program in xcode 3.2.2 but i`m

Re: What's the point of @properties?

2010-09-20 Thread Stefan Nobis
Bill Bumgarner b...@mac.com writes: Thus, with the latest bleeding edge compiler, all you need is the @property() (and cleanup in -dealloc) to declare a fully KVO compliant attribute of your class. Is this also supported by the debugger? In XCode 3.x I once tried to omit the iVars but that's

Re: What's the point of @properties?

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Hanson
On Sep 20, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Stefan Nobis wrote: Bill Bumgarner b...@mac.com writes: Thus, with the latest bleeding edge compiler, all you need is the @property() (and cleanup in -dealloc) to declare a fully KVO compliant attribute of your class. Is this also supported by the debugger?

Re: What's the point of @properties?

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Hanson
On Sep 19, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Jim Thomason wrote: I'm refactoring and updating a lot of my older code, and one of the things I'm finally looking into is declaring things as properties. But...what's the point? I've been trying to read up on the subject and have found a lot of posts and

NSView resizing problems.

2010-09-20 Thread Geoffrey Holden
I've set up a view in it's own separate NIB. I've done this because the same view will be loaded multiple times into an NSTabView (where each tab is a conversation with a different person). The NIB contains the following elements: NSTextField (*) (top of the screen, anchored top, left and

Re: What's the point of @properties?

2010-09-20 Thread Antonio Nunes
On 20 Sep 2010, at 11:47, Chris Hanson wrote: GDB doesn’t support dot syntax for invoking property getters, so you just need to use bracket syntax when doing it: Maybe Stefan meant rather that the ivars do not show up in the debugger window. It's a real pain to have to go to the console

re; Distributed object vending problem

2010-09-20 Thread Kirk Kerekes
How do I send messages to a server's vended object without having to include the server's entire dependency tree? Incorporate the methods that you actually need for remote interaction into a protocol that is defined in a separate .h file, and #import it at both ends of the connection. You

Re: Programmatic View Question

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Somers
On Sep 18, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Raleigh Ledet wrote: Then you were not aware that if you can load a nib multiple times to create multiple instances of the same view hierarchy. Correct. I did not know that you could load a nib multiple times. Thanks for the info. --Richard

Re: Programmatic View Question

2010-09-20 Thread Uli Kusterer
On Sep 20, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Richard Somers wrote: On Sep 18, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Raleigh Ledet wrote: Then you were not aware that if you can load a nib multiple times to create multiple instances of the same view hierarchy. Correct. I did not know that you could load a nib multiple

Re: NSImage

2010-09-20 Thread Uli Kusterer
On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:36 PM, k...@highrolls.net wrote: So I thought I would draw the images as subclasses of NSImage in the tool box. Use mouseDown and mouseMoved to move them around the tool box. Did you perhaps mean NSImageView? Use drag and drop to go from the tool box to the layout and

Re: NSView resizing problems.

2010-09-20 Thread Keary Suska
On Sep 20, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Geoffrey Holden wrote: My problem is that when I load this view into a tab (using the attached code), the textview doesn't fit on the screen. It covers up the top textfield and seems to have it's top edge somewhere above the tabview (as follows) The most common

Re: Distributed object vending problem

2010-09-20 Thread Ken Thomases
On Sep 18, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Ken Tozier wrote: I'm writing two apps: A server and client and am having some trouble figuring exactly what to link to in the client program. The server application has a main class that has dozens of dependencies. I don't want to have to import all the

Re: NSView resizing problems.

2010-09-20 Thread Geoffrey Holden
You make an excellent point. But you raise two questions. 1. If '' isn't the correct way to initialize, what is? 2. Should I just create an arbitrary placeholder framesize and use that during initialization? Or is it acceptable to set no framesize at all at this stage? Thanks for your help. On

Accessing NSDistantObject from different threads concurrently

2010-09-20 Thread Oleg Krupnov
Hi, I have a main process and an auxiliary process that vends NSDistantObject to do some job for the main process upon request. In other words, the main process is a client, and the auxiliary process is a server. I have been able to implement this when there is only one thread in the client

NSInvocationOperation problem with a signal exc_bad_access

2010-09-20 Thread ico
Hi All, I have a test program which is command line tool type when I created the project. I also have added a class into this project, called DemoPoint. My main function showed as follow: int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) { NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

Re: NSInvocationOperation problem with a signal exc_bad_access

2010-09-20 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:06 AM, ico wrote: can someone tell me what problem is, NSInvocationOperation allocation is even failed, I guess it maybe a simple problem Not without a crash report. You didn't release the target before creating the invocation operation, did you? Also, if you're using

Re: What's the point of @properties?

2010-09-20 Thread Stefan Nobis
Antonio Nunes devli...@sintraworks.com writes: Maybe Stefan meant rather that the ivars do not show up in the debugger window. Yes, that was the point of the question. -- Until the next mail..., Stefan. pgpasS7cYk4A8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NSInvocationOperation problem with a signal exc_bad_access

2010-09-20 Thread Ken Thomases
On Sep 20, 2010, at 11:06 AM, ico wrote: NSInvocationOperation *theOp = [[[NSInvocationOperation alloc] initWithTarget:dp selector:@selector(massiveWork:) object:nil] autorelease]; The selector here is massiveWork: with a colon. - (void) massiveWork { The selector for this method is

Re: NSView resizing problems.

2010-09-20 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sep 20, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Geoffrey Holden 45rpmli...@googlemail.com wrote: You make an excellent point. But you raise two questions. 1. If '' isn't the correct way to initialize, what is? Read the docs. NSView has two dedicated initializers, neither of which is -init. 2. Should I just

Re: Accessing NSDistantObject from different threads concurrently

2010-09-20 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sep 20, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Oleg Krupnov oleg.krup...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a main process and an auxiliary process that vends NSDistantObject to do some job for the main process upon request. In other words, the main process is a client, and the auxiliary process is a server. I

Re: Accessing NSDistantObject from different threads concurrently

2010-09-20 Thread Oleg Krupnov
Thanks, Kyle Multithreading is not a prerequisite for serving multiple clients. Depending on what your server's doing, sticking with NSRunLoop-based multiplexing might be a lot easier. The server's job is associated with slow devices, such as disk, but are quite lengthy in time. In your

Re: What's the point of @properties?

2010-09-20 Thread Seth Willits
On Sep 20, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Stefan Nobis wrote: Antonio Nunes devli...@sintraworks.com writes: Maybe Stefan meant rather that the ivars do not show up in the debugger window. Yes, that was the point of the question. And Chris explained that properties don't necessarily *have* ivars for

Re: What's the point of @properties?

2010-09-20 Thread Antonio Nunes
On 20 Sep 2010, at 19:27, Seth Willits wrote: And Chris explained that properties don't necessarily *have* ivars for you to look at anyway. If you want to see its value, then you need to run the print/po command on the gdb command line. Fair enough. And what I would like to see, is the

One last try: how do you make a bookmark bar like Safari?

2010-09-20 Thread Brad Stone
I sent this out last week and go no replies. Please excuse me for sending it out again but I want to try one more time in case someone has an answer. I've been spending some time searching and thinking about how I can make a bookmark bar like in Safari or Firefox. It has some of the

Re: One last try: how do you make a bookmark bar like Safari?

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Ridd
On 20 Sep 2010, at 19:42, Brad Stone wrote: I sent this out last week and go no replies. Please excuse me for sending it out again but I want to try one more time in case someone has an answer. I've been spending some time searching and thinking about how I can make a bookmark bar like

Re: What's the point of @properties?

2010-09-20 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Antonio Nunes devli...@sintraworks.com wrote: On 20 Sep 2010, at 19:27, Seth Willits wrote: And Chris explained that properties don't necessarily *have* ivars for you to look at anyway. If you want to see its value, then you need to run the print/po command

Re: One last try: how do you make a bookmark bar like Safari?

2010-09-20 Thread Mike Abdullah
There is also http://mattgemmell.com/2008/10/28/mgscopebar On 20 Sep 2010, at 19:42, Brad Stone wrote: I sent this out last week and go no replies. Please excuse me for sending it out again but I want to try one more time in case someone has an answer. I've been spending some time

Re: What's the point of @properties?

2010-09-20 Thread Antonio Nunes
On 20 Sep 2010, at 20:00, Kyle Sluder wrote: Did you mean synthesized ivars? It is important you be precise. Yes that is what I meant. Automatically showing synthesized properties—or any properties at all—would be a bad idea, because methods have side effects, and even calling simple

creating docx file

2010-09-20 Thread Philip White
Hello, I've tried using the following code to save an attributed string as a docx file. //the attributed string is 'contents' NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: NSOfficeOpenXMLTextDocumentType, NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute, nil]; NSRange range =

Re: NSView resizing problems.

2010-09-20 Thread Ken Ferry
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Keary Suska cocoa-...@esoteritech.comwrote: On Sep 20, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Geoffrey Holden wrote: My problem is that when I load this view into a tab (using the attached code), the textview doesn't fit on the screen. It covers up the top textfield and seems

NSSavePanel

2010-09-20 Thread koko
Is it not possible to set the file name text field before displaying an NSSavePanel? I see no setters in the docs for filename. -koko ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to

Re: NSSavePanel

2010-09-20 Thread Sean McBride
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:11:21 -0600, k...@highrolls.net said: Is it not possible to set the file name text field before displaying an NSSavePanel? I see no setters in the docs for filename. Incredibly, this was only added in 10.6. Are you on an older OS? See setNameFieldStringValue: --

Re: NSSavePanel

2010-09-20 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Sep 20, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Sean McBride wrote: Is it not possible to set the file name text field before displaying an NSSavePanel? I see no setters in the docs for filename. Incredibly, this was only added in 10.6. Are you on an older OS? See setNameFieldStringValue: Well, sort of.

Re: creating docx file

2010-09-20 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Philip White wrote: Hello, I've tried using the following code to save an attributed string as a docx file. //the attributed string is 'contents' NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: NSOfficeOpenXMLTextDocumentType,

Re: NSSavePanel

2010-09-20 Thread koko
Thanks Sean and Nick. Yeah I am on 10.5.8 for specific reasons. -koko On Sep 20, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Sep 20, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Sean McBride wrote: Is it not possible to set the file name text field before displaying an NSSavePanel? I see no setters in the docs for

Re: One last try: how do you make a bookmark bar like Safari?

2010-09-20 Thread John Nairn
On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:02 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: I sent this out last week and go no replies. Please excuse me for sending it out again but I want to try one more time in case someone has an answer. I've been spending some time searching and thinking about how I can

CFSockets callbacks not firing when menus are being tracked in cocoa app

2010-09-20 Thread Alexander Cohen
Hi, I have a cocoa app that uses a library which uses CFSockets. Those sockets run loop sources are added to all known run loop modes ( common, default, event tracking and modal ). I would expect that the socket callbacks would fire during menu tracking but they dont. Is this a know issues, by

Animating a non-standard layer property

2010-09-20 Thread Kenneth Baxter
Hi, I have a layer where I want to animate a point, testPoint. For the moment, I want to animate the y value of the point. I have testPoint as a property of the layer. I want to get it to redisplay (and preferably also call the setTestPoint) on every frame of the animation, so I implement: +

Re: Animating a non-standard layer property

2010-09-20 Thread David Duncan
On Sep 20, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Kenneth Baxter wrote: To see the changes as they are made, in addition to the normal synthesize of the testPoint, I have implemented the setter as follows: There's your problem. Your not supposed to @synthesize these properties. Unless you let Core Animation

Re: Animating a non-standard layer property

2010-09-20 Thread Kenneth Baxter
Brilliant! Works now, thanks David.  Is there somewhere I can find out more about this? It is not mentioned in the Core Animation Programming Guide (2010-08-12), and I have got two e-books on core animation, and it is not mentioned in either of them. Thanks Ken On 21 Sep, 2010,at 09:07 AM,

Re: Animating a non-standard layer property

2010-09-20 Thread David Duncan
I believe this is talked about in one of the WWDC2010 Core Animation in Practice sessions. Lots of good information in both, so I highly recommend watching. On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Kenneth Baxter wrote: Brilliant! Works now, thanks David. Is there somewhere I can find out more about

Toolbar Item -Menu Form Representation - Key Equivalent

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Somers
The key equivalent will not work for a toolbar item, menu form representation. The relevant code is NSToolbarItem *item = [[NSToolbarItem alloc] initWithItemIdentifier:identifier]; [item setLabel:label]; [item setPaletteLabel:paletteLabel]; [item setToolTip:toolTip];

Text item delimiters

2010-09-20 Thread Evan Coleman
In applescript I was able to do this: *set* TID *to* AppleScript's text item delimiters *set* AppleScript's text item delimiters *to* space *set* theString *to* *text** items* *of* theString *set* AppleScript's text item delimiters *to* %20 *set* theString *to* theString *as* *string* *set*

Re: Distributed object vending problem

2010-09-20 Thread Ken Tozier
Thanks Laurent. I followed the DO instructions here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1438422seqNum=3 but can't seem to get a connection to the server from my client app. Here's how I'm setting up the listener connection for the server server = [NSConnection new]; [server

php and cocoa

2010-09-20 Thread douglas chanco
For those on the xcode mailing list I am not spamming or anything but on one of these lists xcode or cocoa, someone posted a link with an example of getting data from a php web page into objective-c The responses I got on the xcode list while useful is not what I am looking for. What I am

Re: Text item delimiters

2010-09-20 Thread Ron Fleckner
On 21/09/2010, at 8:34 AM, Evan Coleman wrote: In applescript I was able to do this: *set* TID *to* AppleScript's text item delimiters *set* AppleScript's text item delimiters *to* space *set* theString *to* *text** items* *of* theString *set* AppleScript's text item delimiters *to*

Re: Distributed object vending problem

2010-09-20 Thread Ken Thomases
On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Ken Tozier wrote: server: (** NSConnection 0x114720 receivePort NSMachPort: 0x114850 sendPort NSMachPort: 0x114850 refCount 1 **) Ultimately, the client and server will need to work on different machines on a network, thus the call to [NSSocketPortNameServer