Re: Unicode filenames with Apple File System and UIManagedDocument

2017-03-23 Thread Ed Wynne
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: > >> On Mar 23, 2017, at 3:50 AM, Alastair Houghton >> wrote: >> >> On 22 Mar 2017, at 19:13, Chris Ridd > > wrote: >>> On 22 Mar

Re: Beep ( duration, frequency )

2015-09-23 Thread Ed Wynne
On Sep 23, 2015, at 7:41 PM, Raglan T. Tiger wrote: > > >> On Sep 23, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: >> >> What is it you’re trying to do? > > I want code that is this simple on Windows: > > DWORD freq = 587; > if(!something) freq = 659; >

Re: API to determine status of System Integrity Protection?

2015-09-14 Thread Ed Wynne
On Sep 14, 2015, at 7:05 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <mail...@xenonium.com> wrote: >> Le 14 sept. 2015 à 01:33, Ed Wynne <ar...@phasic.com> a écrit : >> On Sep 13, 2015, at 5:47 PM, Stephane Sudre <dev.iceb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> That doc

Re: API to determine status of System Integrity Protection?

2015-09-13 Thread Ed Wynne
On Sep 13, 2015, at 5:47 PM, Stephane Sudre wrote: That document doesn't mention an API… >>> Hence, since that is the current documentation, my conclusion : “Don’t >>> think so”. >> There is an API. Much like with sandboxing it just may not be public, which >> means

Re: API to determine status of System Integrity Protection?

2015-09-12 Thread Ed Wynne
On Sep 12, 2015, at 1:45 PM, sqwarqDev wrote: > >> On 13 Sep 2015, at 00:43, SevenBits wrote: >> >> That document doesn't mention an API… >> > Hence, since that is the current documentation, my conclusion : “Don’t think > so”. There is an

Re: To find if a file is fragmented

2014-04-08 Thread Ed Wynne
The information may be irrelevant and/or useless, but it is available for file systems that support it (HFS+ does). Although, I think it may require super-user privileges to query. $ man fcntl … F_LOG2PHYS Get disk device information. Currently this only

Re: CGImageRef as a property of a cocoa object

2013-09-22 Thread Ed Wynne
On Sep 22, 2013, at 5:07 AM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: Not if there is a specific retain/release function such as CGImageRetain, CGImageRelease. These ignore nil. You should always use these instead of a generic CFRelease because they may do additional work for all we know.

Re: Does anyone else dislike Xcode 4?

2011-07-24 Thread Ed Wynne
On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Gary L. Wade wrote: As I mentioned before, everyone should go to bugreporter.apple.com and enter bugs against this horrible MS Windows method of UI that prevents usable viewing of multiple files that has been added to Xcode. How do you stop the cycle if that

Re: question on speed and memory display on 10.6.

2010-09-12 Thread Ed Wynne
On Sep 12, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Seth Willits wrote: On Sep 12, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Mitchell Livingston wrote: In 10.6 the display of disk space was changed from base-2 to base-10, as discussed in http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419. For download rates (KB/sec), is that also in base-10 on

Re: short question but I don't know how to describe it

2010-03-08 Thread Ed Wynne
On Mar 8, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Mar 7, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Marx Bievor wrote: I can substitute a String with %@ and an int with %d... like in return @Hi I am %@ and %d years old, name, age; what is the right command to substitute a bool and a float? I cannot find any

Re: why use pow(x, 2)?

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Wynne
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote: why use this: float dist = pow(red - r, 2) + pow(green - g, 2) + pow(blue - b, 2); instead of: float dist = ((red - r) * 2) + ((green - g) * 2) + ((blue - b) * 2); Um, * is

Re: why use pow(x, 2)?

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Wynne
On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Ed Wynne ar...@phasic.com wrote: That said, the original question is a good one. Using x*x instead of pow(x,2) would be quite a bit faster Are you certain of that? With loop unrolling and inlined functions

Re: How to do what Finder does programmatically

2009-09-23 Thread Ed Wynne
On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:25 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: If the document is a file, Finder will add a 'usro' resource which contains the absolute path to the application to be used. Thanks to Alistair who pointed me to:

Re: How to do what Finder does programmatically

2009-09-23 Thread Ed Wynne
On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:38 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Ed Wynne ar...@phasic.com wrote: A pity, sounds like the perfect use for an extended attribute. Resource forks are extended attributes: http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/the_new_resource_fork Not really

Re: Making failed NSAsserts crash an app

2009-08-27 Thread Ed Wynne
On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Squ Airesqu...@live.com wrote: However, do you have any idea how to accomplish what I actually want to do? Is my original idea of forcing asserts to crash maybe bad, which is why noone even thought of

Re: Listening to Eject command

2009-07-29 Thread Ed Wynne
On Jul 29, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Farooq zaman wrote: For some reasons, I need to customize (or listen to) Eject command. I want this to happen before system actually do something with the device i.e eject disc or shows up some error. I want to perform some operation on disc before system

Re: Referring to file by Alias ^or^ path

2009-06-02 Thread Ed Wynne
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:43 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: On Jun 2, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: Is -fileSystemRepresentation smart enough to deal with filenames that point to volumes on which the canonicalization is different than that used on HFS+? Its purpose isn't to match the

Re: NSXMLParser frees itself on error?

2009-05-04 Thread Ed Wynne
On May 3, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: Initializers must call -[self release] in case of an error. This means that in response to an error that occurs as part of initialization, you must not release that object. Initializers that call -[self release], for any reason, had also

Re: Get the name of the method that called a method

2009-04-21 Thread Ed Wynne
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: On 21 Apr 2009, at 15:59, Michael Ash wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Alex Kac a...@webis.net wrote: I am trying to log some specific error conditions in a fairly dynamic environment (of course Obj-C's forté), and would like to

Re: BOOL value in Dictionary

2008-11-21 Thread Ed Wynne
On Nov 21, 2008, at 10:54 AM, David Blanton wrote: Why is : if ( boolVar == YES) or if ( boolVar == NO) bad form? if (boolVar == YES) is bad form, but if (boolVar == NO) and if (boolVar != NO) is not. In C the concept of false has one and only one value, 0, which is #defined to be NO

Re: Disc write speed options

2008-08-12 Thread Ed Wynne
On Aug 12, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Matthew Mashyna wrote: I'm trying to figure out how I can ask a DRDevice what burn speeds it's capable of so I can offer a choice to the user. When I call the status and info messages I don't see anything that looks useful. How can I get and set the burn