Re: UI Panel With Pointer On One Side

2011-03-29 Thread Andy Lee
Check out Matt Gemmell's MAAttachedWindow: http://mattgemmell.com/2007/10/03/maattachedwindow-nswindow-subclass --Andy On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Brian Froisy wrote: I want to duplicate UI functionality that appears in several Apple products. I have not been able to determine if there is

Distribution via DMG fails

2011-03-29 Thread Gabriel Zachmann
I don't know if this is the correct forum, so please advise if there is a more suitable one. I have developed a little program (a screensaver, actually). When I send it (just the .saver bundle as-is) to some beta testers via email, everything seems to be fine. But when I put it in a DMG, some

Re: Redeclaring property types in mutable subclasses

2011-03-29 Thread Quincey Morris
On Mar 28, 2011, at 22:54, Ken Thomases wrote: Do either of you really mean for that property to be read-write? I can see making a property read-write with an immutable type, and I can see (although I don't particularly like) making a read-only property return a mutable type. (Having

Re: Distribution via DMG fails

2011-03-29 Thread Stephane Sudre
Do you know what the testers reporting the issue have all in common? Have you asked them to check the Console logs? On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Gabriel Zachmann z...@tu-clausthal.de wrote: I don't know if this is the correct forum, so please advise if there is a more suitable one. I

Re: Distribution via DMG fails

2011-03-29 Thread Gabriel Zachmann
Do you know what the testers reporting the issue have all in common? I am afraid, no. One of them is running 10.5, one is on 10.6.7. G. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: Distribution via DMG fails

2011-03-29 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 29.03.2011, at 09:22, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: But when I put it in a DMG, some testers (not all) can't install it! They get the error message You cannot use the screen saver on this computer. Contact the developer ... If you didn't say it works when you distribute as a ZIP, I'd expect

Re: UI Panel With Pointer On One Side

2011-03-29 Thread Graham Cox
There isn't right now, but there could be within a couple of months ;-) --Graham On 29/03/2011, at 12:24 PM, Brian Froisy wrote: I want to duplicate UI functionality that appears in several Apple products. I have not been able to determine if there is a standard view (window, panel, etc.)

Re: Distribution via DMG fails

2011-03-29 Thread Andy Lee
On Mar 29, 2011, at 05:49 AM, Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net wrote: On 29.03.2011, at 09:22, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: But when I put it in a DMG, some testers (not all) can't install it! They get the error message You cannot use the screen saver on this computer. Contact the

Re: Weird NSSearchField text layout bug

2011-03-29 Thread Indragie Karunaratne
Will do, thanks. On 2011-03-28, at 1:15 PM, Aki Inoue wrote: Looks like an issue with us. Please file a bug with the reproducing steps. Thanks, Aki On 2011/03/25, at 21:50, Indragie Karunaratne wrote: I'm having a really weird issue with NSSearchField at the moment. Whenever

OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Todd Heberlein
I'm working my way through Apple's Validating App Store Receipts, and I can extract all the data, compute the digest and compare it against the hash. But now I am stuck converting the OCTET_STRING_t for the bundle_id in the Receipt to an NSString so I can compare it against my applications

Re: Distribution via DMG fails

2011-03-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:15, Andy Lee wrote: On Mar 29, 2011, at 05:49 AM, Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net wrote: On 29.03.2011, at 09:22, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: But when I put it in a DMG, some testers (not all) can't install it! They get the error message You cannot use the

Re: OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Todd Heberlein
In particular, the beginning of the OCTET_STRING_t's buffer begins with two bytes (decimal values 12 and 21). Am I supposed to skip these? For example, the following code where I skip these first two bytes seems to work, but it seems like a big hack: OK, it seems that the second byte (21

Re: OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Stephen J. Butler
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Todd Heberlein todd_heberl...@mac.com wrote: In particular, the beginning of the OCTET_STRING_t's buffer begins with two bytes (decimal values 12 and 21). Am I supposed to skip these? For example, the following code where I skip these first two bytes seems to

Re: OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Todd Heberlein
Ka ching! Yes, this answer is what I am looking for. Thanks!!! Todd On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Stephen J. Butler wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Todd Heberlein todd_heberl...@mac.com wrote: In particular, the beginning of the OCTET_STRING_t's buffer begins with two bytes

Re: OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Stephen J. Butler
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Todd Heberlein todd_heberl...@mac.com wrote: In particular, the beginning of the OCTET_STRING_t's buffer begins with two bytes (decimal values 12 and 21). Am I supposed to skip these? For example, the following code where I skip these first two bytes seems to

Cocoa alternative for method aliasing?

2011-03-29 Thread Lou Zell
Mornin' Devs, Is there a recommended pattern for passing events up the responder chain without subclassing a class and overriding the methods I'm interested in? Here is an explanation of what I'm trying to do: I have a subclass of UIButton, call it MyButton, that I would like to function as a

Re: Cocoa alternative for method aliasing?

2011-03-29 Thread David Duncan
On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Lou Zell wrote: Mornin' Devs, Is there a recommended pattern for passing events up the responder chain without subclassing a class and overriding the methods I'm interested in? Here is an explanation of what I'm trying to do: There is a certain question of

Re: Font Height and -[NSString sizeWithAttributes:]

2011-03-29 Thread Thomas Clement
Right I think NSLayoutManager will solve my problem. Lots of things in that class. Thanks all! Thomas On 28 mars 2011, at 21:17, Aki Inoue wrote: The default line height used by the Cocoa Text System is based on various layout time configurations. So, the differences you're seeing is coming

Re: OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Chris Ridd
On 29 Mar 2011, at 19:00, Stephen J. Butler wrote: Again, I think using lber is the best way to handle this data :) I can't remember why, but once upon a time I wrote an encoder/decoder and had to learn all the subtitles. liblber can only decode the restricted BER defined for use with LDAP.

Re: OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Wim Lewis
On 29 Mar 2011, at 12:26 PM, Chris Ridd wrote: liblber can only decode the restricted BER defined for use with LDAP. In particular, no indefinite length encoding, strings can't be constructed, etc. The lber-decode man page mentions this at the top. Given this is all likely to be part of

Re: OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Todd Heberlein
On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Wim Lewis wrote: If the security data is in DER, then lber's restricted subset of BER might still suffice. (I haven't looked.) But yes, linking openssl and using d2i_ASN1_type_bytes() and either ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8() or mapping the ASN.1 string types to

Re: Hash Values in Custom Classes

2011-03-29 Thread Peter Lübke
Am 28.03.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Sean McBride: Are you aware that starting in 10.6, the OS provides 'file reference URLs' which are much like FSRefs. See: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Cocoa/ Foundation.html Good to know. I'm very interested in your experience

Re: OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Quincey Morris
On Mar 29, 2011, at 13:03, Todd Heberlein wrote: I thought my Mac Cocoa program was pretty much done, and that all I needed to do was check off a box in Xcode's packaging or Apple's iTunes Connect web site saying I want copy protection. FWIW, my understanding of the reason it doesn't work

Re: OCTET_STRING_t - NSString?

2011-03-29 Thread Todd Heberlein
On Mar 29, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: FWIW, my understanding of the reason it doesn't work that way is this: ... That is pretty much what the Apple documentation says. I felt that they were saying, This is left as an exercise for the reader. :) The hacker community has had

Re: Weird NSSearchField text layout bug

2011-03-29 Thread Indragie Karunaratne
Filed as rdar://9202933. On 2011-03-29, at 11:21 AM, Indragie Karunaratne wrote: Will do, thanks. On 2011-03-28, at 1:15 PM, Aki Inoue wrote: Looks like an issue with us. Please file a bug with the reproducing steps. Thanks, Aki On 2011/03/25, at 21:50, Indragie Karunaratne

Re: Cocoa alternative for method aliasing?

2011-03-29 Thread Lou Zell
David, Matt, Thanks for the responses and pointing me towards UIControlEvents. -(void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event { [[self nextResponder] touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event]; } Don't do that. The way to pass touches up the responder chain is by calling

Automatic graphics switching...

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Harris
Hi All, Some users are complaining that my application (MacHg) is causing their MacBooks to switch from using the integrated Intel (lower power) card to the NVIDIA (higher power) graphics card. Eg some related articles I dug up:

Re: Hash Values in Custom Classes

2011-03-29 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 29 mars 2011 à 22:04, Peter Lübke a écrit : Am 28.03.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Sean McBride: Are you aware that starting in 10.6, the OS provides 'file reference URLs' which are much like FSRefs. See: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Cocoa/Foundation.html Good

Re: UI Panel With Pointer On One Side

2011-03-29 Thread Sean McBride
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:24:59 -0500, Brian Froisy said: I want to duplicate UI functionality that appears in several Apple products. I have not been able to determine if there is a standard view (window, panel, etc.) to do this. It is a panel with a side arrow such as the list seen when

Re: Automatic graphics switching...

2011-03-29 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Mar 29, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Jason Harris wrote: Hi All, Some users are complaining that my application (MacHg) is causing their MacBooks to switch from using the integrated Intel (lower power) card to the NVIDIA (higher power) graphics card. Eg some related articles I dug up:

Binding tablecolumn to attribute of specific object in to-many relationship?

2011-03-29 Thread Sean McBride
Hi all, Consider a Core Data app, with Employee and Department entities. The Employee entity has 'name' and 'number' attributes. Department has a to- many relationship to Employees. I need a tableview of departments, where one column should show the 'name' of the employee who's 'number' is 0.

Re: Hash Values in Custom Classes

2011-03-29 Thread Peter Lübke
Am 29.03.2011 um 23:26 schrieb Jean-Daniel Dupas: Am 28.03.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Sean McBride: Are you aware that starting in 10.6, the OS provides 'file reference URLs' which are much like FSRefs. See: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Cocoa/ Foundation.html Good

Re: Automatic graphics switching...

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Harris
On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Mar 29, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Jason Harris wrote: Hi All, Some users are complaining that my application (MacHg) is causing their MacBooks to switch from using the integrated Intel (lower power) card to the NVIDIA (higher power)

Re: Distribution via DMG fails

2011-03-29 Thread Gabriel Zachmann
Are you sure you're building the application the same way for both cases? If one's a debug build and the other is a release build, then that could explain that you're not getting all architectures in one case. Yes, I am sure about that. I built the screensaver, then put this very screensaver

why I got wrong arguments from command-line

2011-03-29 Thread Haibin Liu
1.double click to start my application (no additional command-line arguments). 2.and start application from command-line with additional arguments. 3.i got wrong arguments NSArray * argvs = [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] arguments]; argvs = (

Customize Views Created Within Interface Builder

2011-03-29 Thread Dominic Dauer
Hi, in IB I placed a horizontal line (NSBox) into my window. Now I want to change the appearance of this line in my code. In my delegate class I defined an IBOutlet NSBox *line and linked it in IB with the correspondending horizontal line. In the applicationDidFinishLaunching: method I change

Big Core Data, countForFetchRequest, and GCD

2011-03-29 Thread Steve Mykytyn
countForFetchRequest seems to bog down on really big collections of entities. For approx 170K entities it takes around 10 seconds on an iPhone 3GS to count them, which is a problem in a UITableView where you are trying to display a list of entities and associated counts. A GCD based solution,

NSObject Category Issue on iOS

2011-03-29 Thread Nik Heger
I am new to Objective-C so please forgive me if this is obvious. I come from Ruby, where extending built in classes is straight forward - you do it, and it works. I expected the same in Obj-C but got a confusing result: It works sometimes, but not others. Here is what I did: 1 - Created a

Re: why I got wrong arguments from command-line

2011-03-29 Thread Stephen J. Butler
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Haibin Liu lhb...@gmail.com wrote: NSArray * argvs = [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] arguments];    argvs = (    /Users/sara/studio/client/bin/Debug/Test.app/Contents/MacOS/Test,    -psn_0_2392648 ) The -psn_* argument is added by launch services. You'll have to

Re: Automatic graphics switching...

2011-03-29 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Jason Harris ja...@jasonfharris.com wrote: Ahhh... yes I use core animation, but just very very lightly... some simple static stuff like: You might want to consider eschewing Core Animation. DVCSes are particularly well-suited to use cases such as a laptop on a

Re: Customize Views Created Within Interface Builder

2011-03-29 Thread Quincey Morris
On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:37, Dominic Dauer wrote: in IB I placed a horizontal line (NSBox) into my window. Now I want to change the appearance of this line in my code. In my delegate class I defined an IBOutlet NSBox *line and linked it in IB with the correspondending horizontal line. In

Re: Cocoa alternative for method aliasing?

2011-03-29 Thread Lou Zell
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:16 PM, WT jrca...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 29, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:20:31 -0700, Lou Zell lzel...@gmail.com said: I have a subclass of UIButton, call it MyButton, that I would like to function as a vanilla UIButton but also

Re: Big Core Data, countForFetchRequest, and GCD

2011-03-29 Thread Heath Borders
For thread-safety's sake why don't you just create a separate NSManagedObjectContext for your asyncTask? They are cheap. -Heath Borders heath.bord...@gmail.com Twitter: heathborders http://heath-tech.blogspot.com On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Steve Mykytyn smyky...@gmail.com wrote: