Sandro Noël wrote:
Hello.
I'm reading COCOA Design Patterns from Eric M. Buck Donald A. Yacktman.
and i'm having a hard time applying the principle in my architecture.
for example, if i create a new document based application in XCode, the MyDocument xib file
binds the window outlet to the
Graham Cox wrote:
On 30/11/2009, at 12:04 PM, Jason Stephenson wrote:
NSDocument and the document-based architecture in Cocoa is a bad
example of MVC.
As a statement that doesn't really stand up to scrutiny. Sure, you
can abuse NSDocument and violate MVC, but as it comes it does
Oftenwrong Soong wrote:
Hi all,
In the MVC style, I want to avoid connecting directly between a view
and a model. However I have a custom NSView subclass that renders a
graphical view of the model and therefore it needs information from
the model. I think it is considered bad practice to put
Alexander Cohen wrote:
Does anyone know of any libraries that can read microsoft formats ( xls,
ppt, doc, etc, ... )? I'd rther not reinent the wheel if something is
already out there.
You could look at the source code for OpenOffice.org. It does a pretty
good job of handling MS Office
Uli Kusterer wrote:
On 16.05.2009, at 19:28, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
On May 16, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Sourabh Sahu wrote:
Can we call delegates explicitly, Please reply soon.
Yes. But it is a bad idea.
What exactly was the question, and why is it a bad idea? I'm unable to
follow the
:.
Thanks,
E.
On May 16, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Jason Stephenson ja...@sigio.com wrote:
Uli Kusterer wrote:
On 16.05.2009, at 19:28, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
On May 16, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Sourabh Sahu wrote:
Can we call delegates explicitly, Please reply soon.
Yes. But it is a bad idea
Hello, all.
I am stumped by the error message in the subject of this email. I have
spent several hours looking over my code, googling the list archives,
etc. Typically, it seems that the error in question occurs at runtime
when someone has a memory management issue in their application, and
Thanks, Bill.
I did read the documentation, and in the very documents you point out it
says:
To create a subclass of NSOutputStream you may have to implement
initializers for the type of stream data supported and suitably
reimplement existing initializers. You must also provide complete
Thanks to Bill and BJ.
Don't I feel silly. I have a new implementation of the output stream
class that works. (See attachement.)
Now, I have five other NSInputStream/NSOutputStream subclasses to modify
and test.
Y'know, when I first started coding these classes the other day, I heard
a
Bill Bumgarner wrote:
On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:12 AM, BJ Homer wrote:
Seems to be concrete to me. Nevertheless, calling it on super does
throw an
exception; you might just try calling [super init] and see what happens.
// NSOutputStream is an abstract class representing the base
functionality
Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote:
Hello,
I have a shared library and some client code. In the shared library I am
adopting the following method signature pattern :
- (int) someMethod: (aType*)someInParam anotherParam:
(aType**)someOutParam;
I use the return value to indicate success or
Try the following in Google:
site:developer.apple.com tcp client server
The first result should be a link to the TCP Server sample application.
Your three questions are really far too general to be answered in a
mailing list. You need to find some introductory material on network
programming
of asking for
help online is learning to help yourself. (Please don't take that
personally. It is a general rule for everyone.)
Cheers,
Jason
Thanks,
Ammar
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Jason Stephenson ja...@sigio.com
mailto:ja...@sigio.com wrote:
Try the following in Google
Ian H Stewart wrote:
I created a new project in xcode, I then got into IB
and created my layout - buttons,
text fields, etc. connected them all together with actions
and defined my outlets, then tried to get the details back
into xcode and found out you can no longer sync from IB to xcode,
but
Shayne Wissler wrote:
I've got an application that isn't specifically for the Mac, and I
want the same standard user-experience whether they are on the Mac or
on Windows or on Linux. I want them to be able to run this program
from the command line by directly using the binary (without calling
Andrew Farmer wrote:
I'm not sure, but I can tell you that mplayer does what you're talking
about and works fine. You may want to take a look at how they do it.
OpenOffice.org, too. It builds an app bundle, etc., using command line
tools. It may not be a good place to start, though. It is
sheen mac wrote:
In my app,I want to monitor the magic packet .
Where I will get more info about this. Could
give some link for this?.I found a command tcpdump,
Could I use this for wol packet monitoring?.
As Andrew Farmer pointed out, you don't typically monitor for the magic
packet, since
Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
What version of Xcode do you have installed? I have 3.1.1 and Safari
just says: No file exists at the address
Luke Hiesterman wrote:
So thinking gets in the way of understanding and not thinking is the
path to enlightenment?
Yes, Grasshopper. You must stop thinking about the rules. You must stop
thinking about the code. You must stop thinking about the computer. You
must instead *become* the rules,
Rakesh Singhal wrote:
I do not know about porting Windows code (MFC based) to Mac OS. The existing
code is written in C++. As suggested that it is possible then how to do it?
Do I need to change the existing code (Windows code) very much. I have not
used Qt before this. Does Qt support the MFC?
Jack Carbaugh wrote:
What is the best way to emulate, with cocoa, an AJAX persistent
connection to a web server.
There is no persistent connection to a web server. HTTP does not
preserve state between discrete requests. This is why cookies were
invented and session variables stored on the
Jack Carbaugh wrote:
the process is as follows ...
a request/command is sent to a URL which processes the request.
The result is then sent out of a responder at another URL.
So what i'm wanting to do, i suppose, is to continually poll the
responder URL and process it's results.
Jerry Krinock wrote:
If anyone has written any Xcode user scripts for inserting Doxygen
templates, to replace those useless HeaderDoc Insert templates, let me
know.
You might want to look at this:
http://brianray.chipy.org/doxygen/
(Although it does not appear to be working at the
DKJ wrote:
Since mutable arrays and dictionaries expand as required when new
objects are added, when should one use -initWithCapacity: methods?
I have used it when my program can figure out roughly how many items
will be in the mutable object to begin with.
Say my program is pulling some
Rob Keniger wrote:
On 04/10/2008, at 9:46 AM, mmalc crawford wrote:
Start with Programming in Objective-C by Stephen Kochan (depending on
how quickly you want to get underway, you may consider waiting for the
second edition):
Jamie Daniel wrote:
Anyone know where I can get the above book in eBook ?
If you have a Safari account (http://safari.oreilly.com/) and enough
download tokens, you could download each chapter as a PDF. Other than
that, I don't know how you could get a Mac-compatible copy of the book.
has wrote:
... and don't forget stuff like OpenOffice which contain
full-blown spreadsheet engines and Excel file importers/exporters.
I'll make a plug for OpenOffice.org here. The 3.0 release for Mac OS X
is going to be completely Aqua native with the interface done in Cocoa.
This work is
Apparao Mulpuri wrote:
Sorry, mentioned incorrect url for KBML. Working url for KBML is:
http://koala.ilog.fr/kbml/.
I was just about to point that out to you. I found the above also by
googling kbml.
Any pointers on this would greatly help.
My question is, what are you trying to do
Tommy Nordgren wrote:
...
Don't even think about storing the NSRects in an NSArray.
NSRect is a struct -- not a class
Instead store NSBezierPath instances, or create an oval class.
If you're feeling ambitious, you'd make your own class to hold the oval
information, such as its NSRect,
Gary Robertson wrote:
I'm very new to programming the mac looking for some help also
#1 I want to make the about my app window larger
I cant seem to figure out where to do this
I'm fairly new myself, and can't really help you with #2, though I.S.
gave you a good pointer in another
Chris Paveglio wrote:
My code is like this:
NSMutableString *theSettings;
theSettings = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
//myPrefs is an array of strings, each item is like Library/Safari
int i;
for (i = 0; i 8; i++
{
theSettings = [NSHomeDirectory()
Chris Paveglio wrote:
Thanks all for your help and insight! I believe Jason's solution will
work for me as I am changing the assignment of what theSetting is
each time through the loop. I have a list (array) of files that gets
copied from one place to the other, and I change the origin and the
I am writing a Cocoa application as a GUI for a command line utility,
and I decided to create a custom NSFormatter to ensure that the value
entered in a NSTextField matches what the command line program expects
for that parameter. (The format is actually rather complicated since it
will accept
Georg Seifert wrote:
I cannot reproduce this. If I close all documents in Textedit (or any
other Mac-App) the font panel stays there and I get a NSBeep on hitting
command-w.
According to what I read in the docs and what I've experienced in my own
applications, panels don't respond to
My question is:
Does it make a difference if I put static functions and variables inside
or outside of my Class' @interface?
I tend to treat them like C functions and variables and place them at
the top of my source (.m) file, before the @interface declaration.
When it comes to static
Whoops! Had a brain fart.
In my previous message where I say @interface, I meant to say
@implemenation. Sorry for any confusion.
Got too much going on today. I should have just stayed away from email.
--Jason
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Ilan Volow wrote:
Back in the
Jaguar-era when I had to write applications that made heavy use of XML
and regular expressions, Cocoa-Java saved the day--no 3rd-party nonsense
required.
This in not a knock on Ilan. His mail just happens to embody an attitude
that I see quite frequently on
Hi,
You've gotten a lot of decent answers so far.
As a long time UNIX programmer, I'll suggest looking into the regexp
library that already comes with OS X.
man regcomp on the command line to find out how to use.
I've used it for years in my C applications on UNIX and UNIX-like
operating
dream cat7 wrote:
I agree that to be able to use that syntax is highly desirable, and
indeed missing from all the cocoa libraries that I have looked at. One
way would be a category addition to NSString class, which would call
the perl -pe 's/\b(.*?)/\u\L$1/g' for you and return the result
glenn andreas wrote:
[wrote about how using regex is not a good idea, particularly with
NSString and unicode. Pretty much the same things that Jens wrote earlier.]
Yes, that's all very true. Regex is a poor choice if you're working on
non-ASCII text. I'm generally not doing so, but just
Hamish Allan wrote:
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ashley Perrien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should I create all the actions and outlets in IB and let it create the
class?
No. I'm not even sure that's possible in the latest version of IB.
What version are you using?
It is still possible,
Leslie Smith wrote:
Hi:
I found out what I was doing wrong: rather than
[SimParamnames initWithContentsOfFile: aFile];
I should have had
SimParamnames = [SimParamnames initWithContentsOfFile: aFile];
A more normal way of doing the above is
NSMutableDictionary *SimParamnames;
Jens Alfke wrote:
Anyone interested? (Or know of an existing site that I've overlooked?)
I don't guess we could convince Apple to open up Mac OS Forge?
In addition to the other sites listed, Source Forge
http://www.sourceforge.net/ has some Mac OS X related projects on it.
I would
Vijay Malhan wrote:
What exactly do you mean by initializing the *class*? what exactly
is initialized with +initialize() method?
When exactly this method gets called?
If you are at all familiar with Java, this is the same thing as a static
initializer.
It sets up data required
Regarding the arrangement of the docs:
I find it much easier to read the guides, and oftentimes also the
reference documentation, from a web browser rather than in Xcode's
documentation window. If I'm using Xcode, I will usually have the doc
window open. However, I'll very often have the
I was going to suggest Doxygen, also, but Uli beat me to it.
I will add this link, which explains how to create docsets with Doxygen:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/creatingdocsetswithdoxygen.html
Cheers,
Jason
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Julius,
You could change Apple for just about any other vendor, and Cocoa for
just about another GUI/system interface, and your argument will still hold.
(Have you ever tried programming X11 with just XLib C calls? Nasty stuff
that)
Also, please don't confuse the language, Objective-C
Johnny Lundy wrote:
Tutorials to me are pretty much useless, as I am not looking for a step
by step cookbook to just getting something working, but rather a
discussion of the why. How many times have we seen a tutorial say
something like control-drag from the textfield to the File's Owner
. That
is, I realize just how much more there is to learn.
So, I'd recommend anyone looking to learn Cocoa, who already has
programming experience in other languages/paradigms get the two books
listed above. I found them most helpful.
Cheers,
Jason Stephenson
Jens' description of the intent of the LGPL is pretty much the same as
my understanding.
However, another option exists. You can always contact the author of
the LGPL or GPL code and request a license agreement that allows you to
use their code in a closed product. Some are quite amenable to
Chris Suter wrote:
Furthermore, it doesn't follow the file which was the original design goal.
Going back to the original question, I personally think that the best
thing to do is to just create another file and educate the user.
Extended attributes and resource forks are all very nice but
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