Re: Folder has limited permissions.

2008-07-24 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
I think Apple has one, but to find it, you may have to try to search… http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/BetterAuthorizationSample/index.html Le 24 juil. 08 à 15:37, Macarov Anatoli a écrit : Someone has an example with authorization services.Le 24 juil. 08 à 14:24, Macarov Anatoli a

Re: Daemon Advice?

2008-07-24 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Once through your run loop is also a good place to hint to the collector that it should collect if necessary. A non-GC app would probably bracket the run of the run loop in an autorelease pool. A decent technique for this is to get the underlying CFRunLoop from the NSRunLoop (they're

Re: NSLog on releasebuild

2008-07-23 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
By carefull with the basename function. Theoricaly, it require a mutable string (char * and not const char *), so this logging function may crash (even it for now it works). Le 23 juil. 08 à 20:01, Nate Weaver a écrit : This is the route I follow. I use normal NSLog() statements for

Re: property name-to-accessor munging? (was: Dot Syntax docs missing?)

2008-07-20 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 20 juil. 08 à 10:33, Ken Thomases a écrit : On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Rick Mann wrote: I realize after all this, it's not really the Dot Syntax I need. I need to know how a property name (starts with lower-case letter) is transliterated into the getter/setter names. The dot

Re: property name-to-accessor munging? (was: Dot Syntax docs missing?)

2008-07-20 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 20 juil. 08 à 16:31, Clark Cox a écrit : On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 20 juil. 08 à 10:33, Ken Thomases a écrit : On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Rick Mann wrote: I realize after all this, it's not really the Dot Syntax I need. I need

Re: How to get a table column header with an image instead of text?

2008-07-20 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 20 juil. 08 à 19:54, Marc Respass a écrit : Hi again, I hate answering my own question but I did figure it out. I sub- classed NSTableHeaderCell then created an instance using initImageCell. Then it occurred to me that it seemed a bit silly. If I can init an image cell, maybe I can

Re: looking for help with http post example

2008-07-20 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 20 juil. 08 à 19:55, Richard Nichols a écrit : Hi I'm looking for a simple example that will show me how to do an http POST with user and password in cocoa. All I want to do is send some text to a php script but it expects the see the user and password and I'm not sure what classes

Re: how to clear the whole render tree of CALayer fast and safely?

2008-07-19 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 19 juil. 08 à 07:20, Cloud Strife a écrit : Hi, everyone.Assuming there is a Core Animation render tree with many calayers and complex levels, should I use the iteration function to remove one layer from one layer or there just is some useful function to delete the whole render tree

Re: substitute class at runtime?

2008-07-19 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 19 juil. 08 à 08:12, Kyle Sluder a écrit : On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Andy Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I misunderstanding? No, I assure you that I'm the one who misunderstood. Although now the question is why would one use an array of strings when one could use an array of

Re: How to get cursor text from a Mac window

2008-07-19 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 19 juil. 08 à 14:00, Gang Chen a écrit : Hi, I am new to Cocoa and Mac dev, and I want to make a simple dictionary program with Cocoa on MacOSX. Can anybody help and tell me how to get any words on screen where cursor points in Cocoa? Regards, -Mike Could you not simply use the

Re: How to customize View to combine UITextView and UITextField?

2008-07-19 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
iPhone SDK -- Until an announcement is made otherwise, developers should be aware that the iPhone SDK is still under non-disclosure (section 5.3 of the iPhone Development Agreement). It can't be discussed here, or anywhere publicly. This includes other mailing lists, forums, and

Re: Xcode style divider with embedded popup and pulldown menus

2008-07-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 18 juil. 08 à 17:39, Rick Hoge a écrit : I would like to include a view divider similar to the one used in Xcode at the top of the editor window (contains forward and back buttons, popups for selection of source file and function, as well as pulldowns for a number of functions). I

Re: Dispatch NSEvent to everyone

2008-07-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 18 juil. 08 à 17:55, Matthew Williamson a écrit : Hello list, Ok, I'm completely new to Cocoa programming, but I've been programming for 10 years, so I think I can figure this out. I'm trying to do something remotely similar to a VNC server (pun intended :-) ), but I need to be able

Re: Did I reinvent the wheel?

2008-07-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
I don't think there is built-in support for this specific feature. If archiving, serialization and CoreData do not fit your needs, I bet you have to use your own method. That said, you should avoid to use an uninitialized variable in your code ;-) (outCount is used in array initializer

Re: the alert sheet without the application icon

2008-07-17 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 17 juil. 08 à 10:33, 李国良 a écrit : You know, most alerts are standard alerts, they display the application icon of the current application. My question is that how to display the alert sheet without the application icon, just with some characters. Do i need to custom a sheet in

Re: NSMessagePort Invalidation

2008-07-17 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 17 juil. 08 à 16:48, Keary Suska a écrit : 7/15/08 8:48 AM, also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: NSMessagePort doesn't seem to post the NSPortDidBecomeInvalidNotification notification when the remote port dies. It doesn't seem to matter if the remote port is closed via the invalidate method or

Re: notification when app is moved

2008-07-17 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 17 juil. 08 à 23:03, Uli Kusterer a écrit : On 17.07.2008, at 12:50, Mitchell Livingston wrote: I need to pass the location to a c library and reset the location in this library when the application is moved, so I need a way to know when the app is moved. How can I call it again if I

Re: notification when app is moved

2008-07-17 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 17 juil. 08 à 23:13, Jean-Daniel Dupas a écrit : Le 17 juil. 08 à 23:03, Uli Kusterer a écrit : On 17.07.2008, at 12:50, Mitchell Livingston wrote: I need to pass the location to a c library and reset the location in this library when the application is moved, so I need a way to know

Re: Move window to second display

2008-07-16 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 16 juil. 08 à 13:01, Fabian a écrit : Hi, I only have one monitor, so I'm having a bit of a problem figuring this out. I have a (borderless) window that should be displayed on any display chosen by the user. I figured the code below would do the trick, but apparently it's a no go (I

Re: Move window to second display

2008-07-16 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 16 juil. 08 à 18:15, Scott Ribe a écrit : The window frame origin is a position relative to the screen origin. Try this: screenRect.origin = NSZeroPoint; [win setFrame:screenRect display:YES]; No, that will just position the window on the main screen. If the window frame origin were

Re: Why can't I name a property `tag'?

2008-07-10 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 10 juil. 08 à 16:10, I. Savant a écrit : On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:49 AM, an0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. But isn't it annoying for XCode to pretend to know something for sure while in fact it is just a wrong guess? At least the warning is very misleading. How is this XCode's

Re: Why can't I name a property `tag'?

2008-07-10 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
You don't say you my pet, you said one of my family member's pet I'm not wrong if I assume that it's your brother pet. Just tell the compiler it is your pet and not your brother's on and it will be happy (see the cast in the following line): filteredPosts = [[self filterPosts:postNodes

Re: Why can't I name a property `tag'?

2008-07-10 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 10 juil. 08 à 17:52, Graham Cox a écrit : Actually it doesn't emit a warning. If you recall my problem a few weeks ago with: - (float) position; vs. - (int) position; the compiler sailed blithely on without a mention, generating code that smashed the stack to pieces. This is

Re: Why can't I name a property `tag'?

2008-07-10 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
? G. On 11 Jul 2008, at 2:21 am, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: The compiler will not try to search any -position method in headers you do not include in your file. If you include more than one interface with different declaration it will tell you like this: warning: multiple methods named

Re: Receive notifications about frontmost application change

2008-07-09 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Yes, so the bad new is that you have to go Carbon to listen front switched events, the good new is that this part of Carbon is available for 64 bits apps (probably because this is the only public way to do this for now). Le 9 juil. 08 à 17:49, Matt Gough a écrit : You can do this (and

Re: Quick look preview multipage rich text

2008-07-09 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 9 juil. 08 à 23:54, Julien Jalon a écrit : If I understand correctly your point, it seems that in the first case, you use the direct to data print operation and in the second case, you use the direct to file print operation then read back the file in memory and send it to Quick Look.

Re: Quick look preview multipage rich text

2008-07-09 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 10 juil. 08 à 00:20, Jean-Daniel Dupas a écrit : Le 9 juil. 08 à 23:54, Julien Jalon a écrit : If I understand correctly your point, it seems that in the first case, you use the direct to data print operation and in the second case, you use the direct to file print operation then read

Re: Removing folder from /Applications

2008-07-08 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 8 juil. 08 à 21:59, Chris Hanson a écrit : On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Jul 8, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Glover,David wrote: myStatus = AuthorizationCopyRights (myAuthorizationRef, myRights, kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment, myFlags, NULL);

Re: [NSTextStorage/NSAttributedString] How can we know the height of a rendered string?

2008-07-07 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 7 juil. 08 à 23:54, Stéphane Sudre a écrit : On Jul 6, 2008, at 11:26 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: Le 6 juil. 08 à 21:25, Stéphane Sudre a écrit : Problem: I would like/need to know the height that would be required to render a string inside a fixed width box. Solution

Re: Capture Window/View created through NSTask

2008-07-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
the fully functional NSView displayed - so I can interact with it, etc. For example, imagine taking an OpenGL game and embedding the game in a custom nib within a custom application. On Jul 5, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: Le 6 juil. 08 à 00:43, Michael Moore a écrit : I'm

Re: Method Sees Populated Array As Empty

2008-07-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Try NSLog(@%@, self) and make sure your are working with the same document instance and not with two distincs documents objects (one with a full array and one with an empty array). Le 6 juil. 08 à 12:26, Mark Wales a écrit : Do you actually have an accessor method for arrayOfReferences?

Re: Method Sees Populated Array As Empty

2008-07-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 6 juil. 08 à 13:47, Mark Wales a écrit : So the document instance changes I guess. Why would that happen and how can I stop it? Only your code could tell us why. The MyDocument.m file is pretty long so I don't want to post it on here, and it links to other files too. So here's the

Re: Guidelines for Cocoa frameworks supporting garbage collection?

2008-07-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 6 juil. 08 à 14:45, Bill Cheeseman a écrit : on 2008-07-06 2:45 AM, Quincey Morris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It also occurs to me that the OP is going to have to be careful to document the behavior of methods in *his* framework that return new CF objects (if there are any). He'll

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

2008-07-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Not only his commenters disagree. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/07/01/spolsky-menu-items http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/515/disabled-menus-are-usable And I disagree too. Le 6 juil. 08 à 15:41, Peter Zegelin a écrit : I agree with you but here is JoelOnSoftware saying virtually the

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

2008-07-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
I haven't test but -[NSMenuItem setToolTip:] look fine to do this. Now, just chek if this methods works even when the item is disabled. Le 6 juil. 08 à 16:31, Peter Zegelin a écrit : Some of the commenters suggest a tool tip over the disabled menu explaining why it is disabled, which sounds

Re: Guidelines for Cocoa frameworks supporting garbage collection?

2008-07-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 6 juil. 08 à 17:35, Michael Ash a écrit : On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Bill Cheeseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 2008-07-06 9:49 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If __strong is so dangerous, why is it used in Cocoa (see NSDrawer, NSDateFormatter

Re: plist parsing in c

2008-07-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 6 juil. 08 à 20:44, Keith Duncan a écrit : How can you read a plist file from C? Unless you're looking for a pure C solution which isn't dependent on any Mac OS libraries, you could always use CFXMLParser and it's SAX based callbacks. If you can use CFXMLParser, you can use

Re: [NSTextStorage/NSAttributedString] How can we know the height of a rendered string?

2008-07-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 6 juil. 08 à 21:25, Stéphane Sudre a écrit : Problem: I would like/need to know the height that would be required to render a string inside a fixed width box. Solution that does not work: So far, I've been using a solution found from a google

Re: Using deprecated methods

2008-07-05 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 5 juil. 08 à 14:08, Keith Blount a écrit : Hi, Something that has bothered me for ages in Cocoa, but which I've always put to one side, is how to handle certain deprecated methods when supporting more than one OS. In some instances it's as simple as checking at runtime which OS is

Re: Using deprecated methods

2008-07-05 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 5 juil. 08 à 15:46, Keith Blount a écrit : Many thanks for your reply, much appreciated. Where can I find information on creating bundles and linking them only against a certain OS? I'm obviously using the wrong search terms in both the docs and in Cocoa-dev... Under the NSBundle

Re: Using deprecated methods

2008-07-05 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 5 juil. 08 à 15:56, Jean-Daniel Dupas a écrit : Le 5 juil. 08 à 15:46, Keith Blount a écrit : Many thanks for your reply, much appreciated. Where can I find information on creating bundles and linking them only against a certain OS? I'm obviously using the wrong search terms in both

Re: Focus Ring in NSBrowser Column

2008-07-05 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 5 juil. 08 à 21:48, James Murdza a écrit : - (BOOL)needsDisplay; { NSResponder* resp = nil; Note that there's an extra semicolon on the first line. This is a valid syntax in Obj-C. You can let the semicolon for method implementation. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: Capture Window/View created through NSTask

2008-07-05 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 6 juil. 08 à 00:43, Michael Moore a écrit : I'm hoping someone might be able to assist me with this question. I have a Cocoa application, with an embedded command-line tool in the Resources folder. This tool is from an outside source, and I have no source code available for it. When

Re: How to converting a Carbon nib to Cocoa?

2008-07-03 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Anyway, it does note make sense, as upgrading the view without rewriting all the logic using Cocoa paradigms is probably not a good idea. Unlike Carbon nib, Cocoa nib are not just a set of interface object with some property and flags, they also contains lots of information about action,

Re: Process app.

2008-07-01 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 1 juil. 08 à 10:28, Толя Макаров a écrit : dreamcat7 The process loginwindow is not shown In the list that is given by the function sysctl. May be this process has another name. Do you know anything about it? Makarov Anatolii Just curious about it. Why do you need to listen

Re: Process app.

2008-07-01 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 1 juil. 08 à 11:24, Толя Макаров a écrit : Jean-Daniel Dupas. I want to know if loginwindow.app is started up at the moment, after this my program enters a password. Sometimes I enter password myself and my program should know that loginwindow.app has finished its work. Makarov

Re: Process app.

2008-07-01 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Макаров a écrit : Thanks for the example. But GetBSDProcessList shows in the list loginwindow, when it's on and doesn't work. The same works ps -ef. - Исходное сообщение От: Jean-Daniel Dupas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Кому: Толя Макаров [EMAIL PROTECTED] Копия: Apple cocoa cocoa-dev

Re: class keeps track of object

2008-07-01 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
search for singleton pattern (in the archives and in Apple doc too). The simplest way to do it is (not thread safe): @implementation Foo + (Bar *)sharedFoo { static Foo *shardInstance = nil; if (!sharedInstance) sharedInstance = [[Foo alloc] init]; return sharedInstance; } @end Le 2

Re: Creating AppControllers in InterfaceBuilder 3.1

2008-06-30 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 30 juin 08 à 16:20, Tommy Nordgren a écrit : On 30 jun 2008, at 16.14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm writing my first project in Leopard and can't figure out how to accomplish the old Subclass NSObject/Generate Files/Instantiate series of steps in Interface Builder 3.1. I'm sure

Re: Process app.

2008-06-30 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 30 juin 08 à 17:27, Jens Alfke a écrit : On 30 Jun '08, at 6:23 AM, Толя Макаров wrote: Yes, that's clear, but how to get this list? I have found 2 ways: ps -ef and [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchedApplications]. There are underlying APIs that tools like ps and top use; you can

Re: garbage collection and NSConnection

2008-06-30 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 30 juin 08 à 22:10, eblu a écrit : Hi Chris, I'm not terribly sure what you are asking for here. From my experience (limited experience admittedly) theres really only one way to use NSConnection. its a pretty elegant class, which is simple, and works as expected, except for when

Re: garbage collection and NSConnection

2008-06-30 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 30 juin 08 à 22:19, Jean-Daniel Dupas a écrit : Le 30 juin 08 à 22:10, eblu a écrit : Hi Chris, I'm not terribly sure what you are asking for here. From my experience (limited experience admittedly) theres really only one way to use NSConnection. its a pretty elegant class, which

Re: Linking against /Dev/L/PrivateFrameworks/

2008-06-30 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 30 juin 08 à 23:10, Owen Yamauchi a écrit : Yes, I know, I shouldn't be linking against an Apple private framework, but trust me, there's a reason for it. Anyway, I'm having trouble building the project. I dragged my private framework (DevToolsCore.framework) into Xcode and left all the

Re: What does 'thread safe' mean?

2008-06-27 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 27 juin 08 à 10:02, Uli Kusterer a écrit : Am 27.06.2008 um 09:27 schrieb Omar Qazi: On Jun 26, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Kevin Ferguson wrote: I am not entirely sure as to what exactly a thread is, but seeing as anything I've ever programmed is light weight, I've never needed to worry before

Re: NSWindow setIgnoresMouseEvents and Spaces

2008-06-26 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 26 juin 08 à 11:26, Stefano Pigozzi a écrit : Hello, I'm modding Apple's RoundTransparentWindow sample in order to draw a gradient overlay on all the screen (to fix the non uniform lighting on my iMac's screen). The applicazion works quite nicely but when I'm switching to another

Re: __CGEvent structure

2008-06-26 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 26 juin 08 à 14:53, Stefan Hafeneger a écrit : Hi, I would like to know how the __CGEvent (CGEventRef) struct is defined, so if there is any possibility to attach some more data to an low level event than through the functions defined CGEvent.h. Any ideas? With best wishes,

Re: Get the UUID of the current user

2008-06-25 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
#include membership.h uuid_t uuid; mbr_uid_to_uuid(getuid(), uuid); See man mbr_uid_to_uuid for details. Or if you target 10.5 only, that maybe possible using the new Identity API ( http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Reference/IdentityServices_RefCollection/index.html )

Re: Get the UUID of the current user

2008-06-25 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Probably a private function. Anyway, not really hard to implement: #include pwd.h mbr_user_name_to_uuid(const char *username, uuid_t uuid) { struct passwd *info = getpwnam(username); if (info) mbr_uid_to_uuid(info-pw_uid, uuid); } Le 25 juin 08 à 13:38, Yoann GINI a écrit : A friend

Re: Where can I get some examples of if() conditionals being used with string variables in Objective-C

2008-06-25 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 25 juin 08 à 14:24, Papa-Raboon a écrit : Hi All, Anybody know where can I get some examples of if() conditionals being used with string variables in Objective-C? To be specific, I am trying to use an if conditional to check the value of a string being a certain value and then

Re: Seconds since system startup

2008-06-24 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Wow, that one of the more complexe way i see to retreive it. The former equivalent of GetCurrentEventTime() is -[NSEvent timestamp]. But if you need the uptime without using an event, you can use mach_absolute_time() or UpTime() (from the CoreServices framework). Le 24 juin 08 à 15:00,

Re: Seconds since system startup

2008-06-24 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Sorry, it look easy with sysctl too. That just that I had some bad experiences with sysctl to retreive some poorely documented values and structs. Le 24 juin 08 à 15:07, Jean-Daniel Dupas a écrit : Wow, that one of the more complexe way i see to retreive it. The former equivalent

Re: iCal server Cocoa API?

2008-06-23 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 23 juin 08 à 13:37, Devraj Mukherjee a écrit : Hi everyone, I wondering if OSX Server components like iCal server or Address Book server (which I assume is LDAP based) have Cocoa libraries to populate/query data. I am trying to construct a Cocoa application but wish to re-use as much of

Re: Interesting Problem Code worked in 10.4 but not in 10.5

2008-06-22 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Launch it with the debugger and check the stack when it crash. Without any hint about the stack, we cannot really help you, but just give you some guess. Le 22 juin 08 à 23:26, Clayton Leitch a écrit : See code below. Get a error of “EXC_BAD_ACCESS” when I make entries in the GUI. Code

Re: install_name_tool

2008-06-20 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
You don't want to change the path, you want to change the id of your library. -change is intended to be used to change the path of a dependent library in an other binary. install_name_tool -id @executable_path../../Frameworks/Foo.framework/ Versions/A/Foo Foo.framework/Foo But as I

Re: Cocoa can be used to execute arbitrary (privileged) code !

2008-06-20 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 20 juin 08 à 06:09, Ken Thomases a écrit : On Jun 19, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: It might not be a bad idea to proactively disarm this vulnerability on your own machine(s), as I just did: sudo chmod -s System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ ARDAgent.app/ARDAgent

Re: Converting HID keyboards usages to characters ?

2008-06-19 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 19 juin 08 à 10:32, Fred Leboucher a écrit : Hi, I'm trying to do something that was discussed before in the Carbon lists : convert a HID keyboard usage to a unicode character, with the current modifier keys applied, and using the system-wide selected keyboard layout. This technical

Re: Cocoa can be used to execute arbitrary (privileged) code !

2008-06-19 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
That's why you should basically never link on high-level framework with a setuid tools. Le 19 juin 08 à 20:48, Charles Steinman a écrit : This is in fact a Cocoa vulnerability, so it seems relevant to this list. All Cocoa applications automagically come with rudimentary AppleScript

Re: install_name_tool

2008-06-19 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 19 juin 08 à 23:02, Kyle Sluder a écrit : On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And as you can see, nothing has changed and the first line has certainly not been replaced by bla. What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't you be using the -id flag, not -change?

Re: Grand Central Details

2008-06-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 18 juin 08 à 03:40, Bill Bumgarner a écrit : On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Michael Gardner wrote: Too bad you can't avoid blocking at least occasionally with the event-driven APIs, meaning you still have to use threads to avoid it completely. I don't really see in what situation you

Re: File System Notifications

2008-06-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 18 juin 08 à 04:04, Omar Qazi a écrit : I'm a little confused about file system notifications in Cocoa. In NSWorkspace, it says that the method for subscribing to file system notifications will always return NO, which seems useless to me. I know Carbon has the FNSubscribe() and

Re: disable manual resizing of NSWindow

2008-06-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 18 juin 08 à 15:15, Angelo Chen a écrit : Hi, Is there a way to do following: In a NSWindow, I'd like to disable manual resizing(don't allow user to drag the lower right corner to resize the window), only by clicking 'max' and 'restore' icons, possible? the reason is, I put a

Re: Getting all subclasses

2008-06-18 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
IIRC, +initialize call the super implementation if the child class does not override it, but not the +load method that is called exactly once per class and per categorie. So +load will not be called automatically. Le 18 juin 08 à 18:57, Mike Abdullah a écrit : Another option would be to

Re: Trying to install kEventAppSystemUIModeChanged using NSAppleEventManager.

2008-06-15 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 15 juin 08 à 13:25, Mohsan Khan a écrit : Hi I'm trying to to install kEventAppSystemUIModeChanged using NSAppleEventManager, so that my app will know when the menubar dock is hidden i.e. some other app enters fullscreen mode. I've tried entering fullscreen mode using VLC and

Re: Static Functions and Variables

2008-06-15 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 15 juin 08 à 17:38, Jason Stephenson a écrit : 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 In Obj-C, the concept of

Re: Could kEventAppSystemUIModeChanged arrive too early to my handler

2008-06-15 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 15 juin 08 à 18:15, Mohsan Khan a écrit : Hi I'm trying to handle when some other app changes to fullscreen by handling the kEventAppSystemUIModeChanged event. The event handler is called but then when I check if the menu bar is visibe I get TRUE! So I figured, either the apps I'm

Re: Converting string to encoding

2008-06-14 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 14 juin 08 à 16:43, Dex Morgan a écrit : Hello, I need to encode a quoted-printable text and convert it to given encoding according to the headers of a message. I've used some code but the result is wrong. For example =C3=A8 should be 'è' but the result is two symbols (the sqrt symbol

Re: Newbie: applescript call method to obj-c method (booleans image data)

2008-06-14 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 14 juin 08 à 18:40, Loren Ryter a écrit : On 06/14/08 12:17 PM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BOOL* means pointer to BOOL not BOOL itself. So you need to remove the *. This worked brilliantly thanks a lot! I literally spent 3 hours on that ;-) iconData:[NSImage

Re: Transparent Window

2008-06-13 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 13 juin 08 à 20:47, Philip Lee Bridson a écrit : Hi Guys, I have a window that displays an image, I want the window to be transparent so that only the image is displayed and not have the white background that is present due to the window. I have tried sub- classing NSWindow and making

Re: Accessors Question

2008-06-12 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 12 juin 08 à 19:21, Jeff LaMarche a écrit : Lately, I've started to see accessors of the following sort: - (NSString *)foo { return [[foo retain] autorelease]; } rather than just - (NSString *)foo { return foo; } What is the purpose or benefit of doing this? It seems to

Re: Garbage collector vs variable lifetime

2008-06-11 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 11 juin 08 à 09:01, John Engelhart a écrit : On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Charles Srstka wrote: I think the problem is that if NSArray has +[NSArray array] returning an NSArray, then NSMutableArray has to return an NSArray also, since it can't have a different method signature for

Re: Garbage collector vs variable lifetime

2008-06-09 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 9 juin 08 à 09:56, John Engelhart a écrit : On Jun 8, 2008, at 11:48 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: On Jun 8, 2008, at 5:39 PM, John Engelhart wrote: On Jun 7, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Chris Hanson wrote: This won't happen because each message expression -- just as with function-call expressions

Re: Java and Objective-C

2008-06-08 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 8 juin 08 à 12:43, Michael Ash a écrit : On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Peter Duniho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, when you write true proxying of method invocations, what does that mean, exactly? Distributed Objects is probably the best example in terms of real-world use of a

Re: Is there a way to efficiently access NSArray element contents?

2008-06-08 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 8 juin 08 à 20:13, Brent Fulgham a écrit : I've been enjoying the NSArray/NSMutableArray classes as I work with various user interface features for a program I'm working on that interacts with a legacy C++ library. I've recently begun considering how to efficiently display the

Re: Is there a way to efficiently access NSArray element contents?

2008-06-08 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 8 juin 08 à 20:51, Joan Lluch (casa) a écrit : El 08/06/2008, a las 20:13, Brent Fulgham escribió: I've been enjoying the NSArray/NSMutableArray classes as I work with various user interface features for a program I'm working on that interacts with a legacy C++ library. I've

Re: how to build c++ file and create its instance in another objective-c class

2008-06-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
my viewcontroller to viewcontroller.mm, it didn't work. I searched google, ADC, and cocoadev.com, and really couldn't find an answer. Cheers, Tang 2008/6/6 Jean-Daniel Dupas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le 6 juin 08 à 16:53, Tang Ke a écrit : Hi, I'm new to iphone os programming and my project

Re: Apple Remote and exclusivity

2008-06-04 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 4 juin 08 à 01:00, Scott Anguish a écrit : On Jun 3, 2008, at 5:02 AM, Hamish Allan wrote: I don't even know what the Cocoa interface to the Apple Remote is, let alone having used it, let alone being able to troubleshoot it, and I don't imagine everyone here is an expert either...

Re: [SOLVED] Code to convert NSDictionary to binary plist file?

2008-06-04 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 4 juin 08 à 04:13, Ken Thomases a écrit : On Jun 3, 2008, at 8:49 PM, David Hoerl wrote: ret = [manager createFileAtPath:@/tmp/binary.plist contents:plist attributes:nil]; You can also do [plist writeToFile:...] to write the data object out. There's nothing wrong with what you

Re: How to implement window fade-in fade-out effects

2008-06-04 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 4 juin 08 à 16:10, colo a écrit : Just curious if some frameworks have been thought of for Animation. In the likes of Jquery or others. For example window.show(fade_in, slow); That way animations can be very clean and simple to write and test. Isn't what CoreAnimation does ?

Re: Keyboard Layout Services

2008-06-03 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Why the replacement should be Cocoa ? Actualy, the successor of KL Services are Text Input Source Services. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/TextFonts/Reference/TextInputSourcesReference/Reference/reference.html Le 3 juin 08 à 05:49, Charles Jenkins a écrit : Hi! I'm looking to

Re: how to run my app in privileged mode

2008-06-03 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Note that you should never run a GUI application with elevated provilege, particulary an application that uses AppKit, this is EVIL. See man authopen(1). This is built-in an helper tool design to read and write file using auth services. It handle all the authorization part for you. And

Re: Get and set Auto adjust brightness when ambient light changes preferences

2008-06-03 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
BezelServices is not used to control ALS but to display visual notification like the one you see when you change the audio volume, or when you press the eject key. Le 3 juin 08 à 20:58, Gabriel ROUSSEAU a écrit : Hi, There is one thing that should be accessible from UserDefaults or by

Re: Code to convert NSDictionary to binary plist file?

2008-06-03 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 3 juin 08 à 21:24, David Hoerl a écrit : I'm using [NSDictionary writeToFile:...] to save a fairly large dictionary as a text plist file. I found a quick and dirty hack to convert it into a binary formatted file: strcpy(command, /usr/bin/plutil -convert binary1 ); strcat(command,

Re: runloops and NSURLConnection

2008-05-31 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 31 mai 08 à 19:14, Torsten Curdt a écrit : On May 31, 2008, at 18:55, Jens Alfke wrote: On 31 May '08, at 8:07 AM, Torsten Curdt wrote: I think you want to schedule the connection for the NSModalPanelRunLoopMode runloop mode. This is the mode that is used for modal windows. You

Re: 10.5.3 Release Notes?

2008-05-29 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 29 mai 08 à 06:58, Scott Anguish a écrit : On May 28, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: Hi, This is more a question for Tech Pubs or DTS than anyone, I guess, but are there/will there be developer release notes for 10.5.3? Can anyone confirm any previous show-stoppers are fixed

Re: newbie question: menu item appears when app runs, but is not visible in NIB

2008-05-29 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 29 mai 08 à 20:25, Paul Archibald a écrit : Comrades, -- Newbie Alert -- This is my first posting to this list, and has to do with my first foray into Cocoa + ObjC + Interface Builder. I am trying to understand the relationships between resource elements in the NIB and the ObjC code

Re: Setting action: with a variable

2008-05-27 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 27 mai 08 à 20:17, Gorazd Krosl a écrit : Greetings, I am having trouble with something that should be pretty basic.. What I would like to do is set the action for NSButton programmatically where the selector is a variable. I can't seem to find an example. [aButton addTarget:self

Re: File integrity

2008-05-22 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 22 mai 08 à 12:57, Keith Duncan a écrit : is there a way to tell if my executable was launched by/attached to some other process? You can use ptrace(2) with the PT_DENY_ATTACH request to prevent anyone from attaching and will kill the process if it is already being traced. See

Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-21 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
I think face-to-face is an important part to overcome the obstacles. And this will become easier the more popular it gets. Amen. I can't tell you how much I sometimes hate having moved away from the SF Bay Area where there are many Cocoa Programmers, and there are NSCoder nights, and

Re: Writing Cocoa framework's for iPhone

2008-05-21 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Be patient, the official discutable iPhone SDK is annonced for the next month (probably a couple of weeks now). The time your letter reaches Apple, it will no longer be under NDA. Le 21 mai 08 à 18:18, Ilan Volow a écrit : I keep thinking that all the energy spent on the list discussing the

Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-19 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
It's an inline fonction, so code compiled using this function will properly work on pre 10.5 versions of the OS. Le 19 mai 08 à 08:34, Graham Cox a écrit : Yes, it's not available pre 10.5 G. On 19 May 2008, at 4:31 pm, Andrew Merenbach wrote: Is there any reason to use the cast on

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