Re: Core Animation animations stop prematurely at random

2011-05-17 Thread Bill Cheeseman
On May 16, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: When I quit and relaunch the application, the animations sometimes don't run for the full specified duration when I hit the hot key. During any given run of the application, the animations either work correctly every time I hit the hot

Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread JAMES ROGERS
I understand this is not the way to close an application, but once someone does use the red dot, is there a way to get the program out of the background and back on the screen? JIM ROGERS jimrogers_w4...@me.com http://web.me.com/jimrogers_w4atk ___

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread Joanna Carter
Jim Do you realise that this is a mailing list for software developers? Nonetheless, assuming you don't mean programatically, simply click on the application in the Dock. Joanna -- Joanna Carter Carter Consulting ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread JAMES ROGERS
I am a cocoa developer, albeit a new one. So I have every right to post this question on this site. Thank you very much, but clicking on the application in the dock does not work in my case. That would be a rather obvious answer and one of the many things I tried. Based on some of the web guru

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread Nick
when you 'close' the window - by default the application is not being terminated - you can get your window back programmatically by calling [myWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront]. This is what some apps call, when you click their icon on dock to get the closed window back. You can legally terminate

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
JAMES ROGERS jimrogers_w4...@me.com writes: I am a cocoa developer, albeit a new one. So I have every right to post this question on this site. Thank you very much, but clicking on the application in the dock does not work in my case. That would be a rather obvious answer and one of the many

RE:closing app with the red dot

2011-05-17 Thread JAMES ROGERS
Thanks to Nick and Pascal the issue is closed, successfully. Jim JIM ROGERS, W4ATK w4...@bellsouth.net http://web.me.com/jimrogers_w4atk K3/100 P3 K2/10 JIM ROGERS jimrogers_w4...@me.com http://web.me.com/jimrogers_w4atk ___ Cocoa-dev mailing

Thumbnail view like iPhone Photos app

2011-05-17 Thread Leon Qiao
Dear all, I used to ask one question about NSCache. Actually, I need to build a view like the 'Photos' application. Now it works, but need to be improved: the speed of dragging, loading images is not good enough. Please give me some general ideas on how to load images on time and manage the

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread Andy Lee
On May 17, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: JAMES ROGERS jimrogers_w4...@me.com writes: I am a cocoa developer, albeit a new one. So I have every right to post this question on this site. I think Joanna can be forgiven for an honest misunderstanding. Thank you very much, but

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread Andy Lee
On May 17, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Andy Lee wrote: Also you can implement the applicationShouldHandleReopen:hasVisibleWindows: method mentioned above to automatically reopen the window, if you prefer. Though I'm not sure as a user I'd like that. Maybe that is what people meant when they said that

2 Quick questions about my iOS App and the Apple Developer program

2011-05-17 Thread John Love
I'm just beginning to learn about Cocoa-Touch programming, so it will be awhile. Eventually, I would like to upload the intermediate stages of my iOS App to my iPad just for testing. I am very familiar with the iOS software simulator, but I would like to use my iPad as a test platform, the

Re: 2 Quick questions about my iOS App and the Apple Developer program

2011-05-17 Thread Andy Lee
On May 17, 2011, at 9:35 AM, John Love wrote: Do I have to formally be a Apple Developer ($99 per year) to get my pre-release iOS App onto my iPad? Yes. Finally, for every year I have my final iOS App in the App Store, do I have to shell out $99. Yes. I don't know if this influences

Re: Thumbnail view like iPhone Photos app

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Abdullah
Well give us something to go on at least! What did you use to build it? What have tried so far in profiling/improving the performance? On 17 May 2011, at 13:35, Leon Qiao wrote: Dear all, I used to ask one question about NSCache. Actually, I need to build a view like the 'Photos'

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread Joanna Carter
I am a cocoa developer, albeit a new one. So I have every right to post this question on this site. I think Joanna can be forgiven for an honest misunderstanding. My apologies; I also moderate other technical newsgroups and it is sometimes easy to jump to the wrong conclusion, especially

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread JAMES ROGERS
Joanna, No problem. I should have phrased it better. After many exchanges the simplest and best solution for this particular application came from Andy, just disable the button. I am a retired Senior Systems Analyst and certainly can be guilty of tossing a few stones at glass houses. Picking

Re: Core Animation animations stop prematurely at random

2011-05-17 Thread David Duncan
On May 17, 2011, at 1:26 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: Answering my own question: Although it's hard to be sure that a random problem is really fixed, it appears that the solution was to stop creating Core Animation layers in the view's -initWithFrame: method and instead create them in the

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 17.05.2011, at 14:54, Andy Lee wrote: On May 17, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Andy Lee wrote: Also you can implement the applicationShouldHandleReopen:hasVisibleWindows: method mentioned above to automatically reopen the window, if you prefer. Though I'm not sure as a user I'd like that. Maybe that

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread Andy 'Dru' Satori
This is a classic instance of having to look at the nature or the application to decide if it is an appropriate action. I use both models depending upon the application. The general approach I take is to look at the app in question determine if there is any legitimate reason it should stay

Re: Core Animation animations stop prematurely at random

2011-05-17 Thread Bill Cheeseman
On May 17, 2011, at 11:33 AM, David Duncan wrote: There should be no actual restriction like that however. That said, as you point out, if you have view that supports layers and come from a nib, you often have to duplicate work to allow it to work in both situations. I'm not sure I follow

Re: Why RunLoop?

2011-05-17 Thread Bing Li
Dear Bill, You are right. Polling is not good. But I noticed that Cocoa threading provides wait/pulse-like synchronization techniques, such as Condition. I believe these techniques can be used to control a thread which has a while-true loop. So I think RunLoop can be replaced. Do you think so?

Re: Core Animation animations stop prematurely at random

2011-05-17 Thread David Duncan
On May 17, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: On May 17, 2011, at 11:33 AM, David Duncan wrote: There should be no actual restriction like that however. That said, as you point out, if you have view that supports layers and come from a nib, you often have to duplicate work to allow

Re: Why RunLoop?

2011-05-17 Thread David Duncan
On May 17, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Bing Li wrote: Dear Bill, You are right. Polling is not good. But I noticed that Cocoa threading provides wait/pulse-like synchronization techniques, such as Condition. I believe these techniques can be used to control a thread which has a while-true loop. So

Re: Core Animation animations stop prematurely at random

2011-05-17 Thread Keith Duncan
The basic problem comes about when a view in the nib has wantsLayer=NO, but the view itself always wants to be layer backed. If you setWantsLayer:YES inside of -initWithFrame:, then by the time you get to -awakeFromNib wantsLayer=NO again Would there be any issue with overriding

Re: Core Animation animations stop prematurely at random

2011-05-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Keith Duncan ke...@33software.com wrote: The basic problem comes about when a view in the nib has wantsLayer=NO, but the view itself always wants to be layer backed. If you setWantsLayer:YES inside of -initWithFrame:, then by the time you get to

Re: Closing an app with the red dot.

2011-05-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Andy 'Dru' Satori d...@druware.com wrote: This is a classic instance of having to look at the nature or the application to decide if it is an appropriate action. I use both models depending upon the application.  The general approach I take is to look at the

Creating an iPad-specific xib in IB

2011-05-17 Thread Nathan Sims
I'm making an iPad-only view-based app. The large screen size of the iPad will be split into 4 views, each operating independently, so the iPad is a perfect fit. However, in Interface Builder, the default xibs that are created with the project appear to be iPhone-sized. How do I get IB to

Re: Creating an iPad-specific xib in IB

2011-05-17 Thread Nathan Sims
Okay, fishing through the menus, I found Create iPad Version. Cool. On May 17, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Nathan Sims wrote: I'm making an iPad-only view-based app. The large screen size of the iPad will be split into 4 views, each operating independently, so the iPad is a perfect fit. However,

Re: Core Animation animations stop prematurely at random

2011-05-17 Thread Bill Cheeseman
On May 17, 2011, at 12:58 PM, David Duncan wrote: The basic problem comes about when a view in the nib has wantsLayer=NO, but the view itself always wants to be layer backed. If you setWantsLayer:YES inside of -initWithFrame:, then by the time you get to -awakeFromNib wantsLayer=NO again.

Re: Core Animation animations stop prematurely at random

2011-05-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Bill Cheeseman wjcheese...@gmail.com wrote: I agree that the explanation doesn't logically lead to a prohibition on creating layers in -initWithFrame:. That's why I initially created them there, deferring only the construction of the layer tree to

Re: Why RunLoop?

2011-05-17 Thread Wim Lewis
On 17 May 2011, at 9:54 AM, Bing Li wrote: But I noticed that Cocoa threading provides wait/pulse-like synchronization techniques, such as Condition. I believe these techniques can be used to control a thread which has a while-true loop. So I think RunLoop can be replaced. Do you think so?

Unrecognized document type

2011-05-17 Thread McLaughlin, Michael P.
With Xcode 3.2.6, I am getting the (well-discussed) error The OutType type doesn't map to any NSDocumentClass. after theOutDoc = [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController] makeUntitledDocumentOfType:@OutType error:outError]; I cannot see where I went wrong. My AppDelegate plist

Re: Unrecognized document type

2011-05-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM, McLaughlin, Michael P. mp...@mitre.org wrote: With Xcode 3.2.6, I am getting the (well-discussed) error The OutType type doesn't map to any NSDocumentClass. after theOutDoc = [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController]    

Re: Core Animation animations stop prematurely at random

2011-05-17 Thread Bill Cheeseman
On May 17, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: You could also try using -makeBackingLayer. That's useful if your view can be used both programmatically and in a nib. I wonder if that method works for a layer-hosting view, which is what my view is -- not a layer-backed view. But even if it

Memory growing and growing when using UIImageView's image

2011-05-17 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Hello. UI have 2 UUIImageView which Im sliding in/out to display some images, but each time the new image slides in the memory keeps growing and growing and growing even I set to nil the image of the outgoing UIImageview. This is what Im doing. Please any help will be very appreciate it.

Has anyone used the VOIP background mode for a non-VOIP app?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Markle
The App Store Review Guidelines state (2.16) that Multitasking apps may only use background services for their intended purposes: VoIP, audio playback, location, task completion, local notifications, etc. There is a background mode plist key (UIBackgroundModes=voip) for apps that provide VOIP

Problems linking json-framework with ios application

2011-05-17 Thread Damien Cooke
All, I am building a library to be used by other apps. I have included the json-framework in the library project and used the -ljson flag as directed. Now this all works fine, until my app uses one of the JSON categories that the library implements. if I add the json-framework to the app it

Re: Memory growing and growing when using UIImageView's image

2011-05-17 Thread David Duncan
On May 17, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Gustavo Pizano wrote: self.nextImageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:[[images objectAtIndex:indexActualImage]bigImageName]]; Images loaded with +imageNamed: are cached by your application. This cache should respond to memory warnings, but until

Re: Problems linking json-framework with ios application

2011-05-17 Thread Greg Parker
On May 17, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Damien Cooke wrote: I am building a library to be used by other apps. I have included the json-framework in the library project and used the -ljson flag as directed. Now this all works fine, until my app uses one of the JSON categories that the library

Re: Problems linking json-framework with ios application

2011-05-17 Thread Wim Lewis
On 17 May 2011, at 2:03 PM, Damien Cooke wrote: I am building a library to be used by other apps. I have included the json-framework in the library project and used the -ljson flag as directed. Now this all works fine, until my app uses one of the JSON categories that the library

Re: Has anyone used the VOIP background mode for a non-VOIP app?

2011-05-17 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 17 May 2011, at 3:50 PM, Chris Markle wrote: The App Store Review Guidelines state (2.16) that Multitasking apps may only use background services for their intended purposes: VoIP, audio playback, location, task completion, local notifications, etc. There is a background mode plist key

Re: Has anyone used the VOIP background mode for a non-VOIP app?

2011-05-17 Thread Alex Kac
All of this - and please file a bug report requesting a way for a background app to have network keep alives (would be good for any app that needs to poll or keep a connection). I've filed a bug report. You should too. That's how Apple determines what's needed. On May 17, 2011, at 5:07 PM,

Re: Has anyone used the VOIP background mode for a non-VOIP app?

2011-05-17 Thread Steve Bird
On May 17, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Chris Markle wrote: The App Store Review Guidelines state (2.16) that Multitasking apps may only use background services for their intended purposes: VoIP, audio playback, location, task completion, local notifications, etc. Is anyone using this form of

Re: Has anyone used the VOIP background mode for a non-VOIP app?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Markle
Steve, This is a psychological quiz, right? Let's see if someone, who managed to violate the guidelines and GET AWAY with it, will come on a public list and admit to it. Yeah I wondered about that... They could always reply directly to me - I don't work for Apple. For a small fee I could

[MapKit] Question regarding a workaround of one of its shortcomings?

2011-05-17 Thread Stephane Sudre
As far as I can tell, OverlayViews are not clickable. So, I'm subclassing MKMapView and overloading the GestureRecognizers actions handlers to deal with that. Considering that these actions handlers are not documented (well, they are through a quick NSLog output), would doing that be considered

-[NSWindow orderOut:] vs. -[NSWindow performClose:]

2011-05-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
This seems like it should be such a fundamentally obvious difference, but I've been quite puzzled about it ever since I first started working with Cocoa: when is it more appropriate to call -[NSWindow orderOut:] than -[NSWindow performClose:] (or just plain -close)? At first glance, it appears

Re: -[NSWindow orderOut:] vs. -[NSWindow performClose:]

2011-05-17 Thread Jeff Johnson
Hi Kyle. I don't believe there's a distinction here between high level and low level API. Iit's just a simple distinction between being done with the window and not being done with the window. When your app is permanently done with a window and will never display it again, you call -close,

Re: -[NSWindow orderOut:] vs. -[NSWindow performClose:]

2011-05-17 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Jeff Johnson publicpost...@lapcatsoftware.com wrote: I believe that the main purpose not only of -isReleasedWhenClosed but also NSWindowWillCloseNotification is to handle memory management and/or clean up when you're permanently done with a window. Indeed, the

Temporarily enabling layer backing for NSView

2011-05-17 Thread Indragie Karunaratne
Hi all, I'm trying to use CATransition in my app to provide an animated slide transition when swapping views. I don't want to permanently layer back my views because they cause various glitches (no subpixel antialiasing, resize issues when backed with a CATiledLayer, etc.) To get around this,

Application never becomes frontmost. How?

2011-05-17 Thread banned_account
So I'm trying to develop an app that runs as an NSStatusItem, but it keeps bringing itself to the foreground whenever a window belonging to it is left-clicked on. And that's no good. I want it to stay in the background at all times -no matter what-(which has to be possible because Accessibility

Reducing AVCaptureVideoDataOutput framerate

2011-05-17 Thread Luke Scott
I'm developing a barcode scanner application, specifically for the iPhone/iPod Touch. I'm using the ZXing open source library in conjunction with AVCaptureVideoDataOutput and sampleBufferDelegate to decode QRCodes from the video camera. I'm trying to reduce the frame rate to the

Re: Application never becomes frontmost. How?

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Ribe
On May 17, 2011, at 10:15 AM, banned_acco...@lavabit.com wrote: There's probably a simple solution to all of this. But I can't find it. Help? NSNonactivatingPanelMask? -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice

Re: [MapKit] Question regarding a workaround of one of its shortcomings?

2011-05-17 Thread Stephane Sudre
Solved. Saving the original gesture recognizers and replacing them with other ones works well. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Stephane Sudre dev.iceb...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I can tell, OverlayViews are not clickable. So, I'm subclassing MKMapView and overloading the