Re: Opening a document from stationery

2008-10-11 Thread Ashley Clark
I want to implement opening a document from stationery. This opens a new 'untitled' document but preloaded with the content from the template file. It's pretty much working using the following code: NSDocument* newDoc = [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController]

Re: NSTableView and drag and drop

2008-10-11 Thread chaitanya pandit
Have a look at /Developer/Examples/Appkit/DragaNDropOutlineView On 11-Oct-08, at 9:06 AM, Chris Idou wrote: I want to be able to drag strings out of a table into another field, but I must be missing something major because drags never get initiated. I've added the delegate, registered drag

Re: NSNull and @

2008-10-11 Thread Chris Idou
--- On Fri, 10/10/08, Ian Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll have to think more about this. I'm not sure that KVO can't be done in a type-safe manner. I guess KVO can be done in a type safe manner, but not with the interesting way that objective-c does it. i.e. it can synthesize all the

Re: inconsistent float behaviour

2008-10-11 Thread Steven Hamilton
On 11/10/2008, at 11:59 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Kyle Sluder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This article It would help if I provided the link. http://www.setfiremedia.com/blog/7-top-tips-for-coding-with-currency Thanks Kyle. I didn't realise floating point were so

NSSet primitive methods

2008-10-11 Thread Glen Low
Hi All I want to subclass the class cluster of NSSet. The documentation for the class clusters NSArray/NSMutableArray and NSDictionary/NSMutableDictionary clearly shows what the primitive methods are, so you only need to reimplement these for the subclass to work e.g. NSArray's

Re: NSNull and @

2008-10-11 Thread Michael Ash
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Oct 08, at 19:28, Ian Joyner wrote: So it's really a workaround for this situation. I think therefore there are several constructs to represent the same concept of lack of presence – nil, Nil, Null, and NSNull.

Re: NSSet primitive methods

2008-10-11 Thread Michael Ash
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Glen Low [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I want to subclass the class cluster of NSSet. The documentation for the class clusters NSArray/NSMutableArray and NSDictionary/NSMutableDictionary clearly shows what the primitive methods are, so you only need to

Re: NSSet primitive methods

2008-10-11 Thread Mike Abdullah
Can I enquire as to why you wish to subclass it? On 11 Oct 2008, at 15:15, Glen Low wrote: Hi All I want to subclass the class cluster of NSSet. The documentation for the class clusters NSArray/NSMutableArray and NSDictionary/NSMutableDictionary clearly shows what the primitive methods

Re: inconsistent float behaviour

2008-10-11 Thread Steven Hamilton
Thanks guys, I'm still unsure why I'm getting 4 decimal places as I know for fact that the data is 2 decimal places. However, it seems my approach is wrong. I'll convert to int's and NSDecimalNumbers instead and remove all floats. On 11/10/2008, at 4:14 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote: On

Re: NSTableView and drag and drop

2008-10-11 Thread chaitanya pandit
Well, for table view there is a similar method that you need to implement in your delegate: - (BOOL)tableView:(NSTableView *)aTableView writeRowsWithIndexes: (NSIndexSet *)rowIndexes toPasteboard:(NSPasteboard *)pboard To allow dragging in a table view, you need to provide information as to

creating a printer

2008-10-11 Thread Torsten Curdt
Hey! I would like install/setup a new CUPS printer from Cocoa. Looking at http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Printing/Tasks/CreatingPrinters.html#/ /apple_ref/doc/uid/2870-120579

Re: Strategy for naming support folder

2008-10-11 Thread Paul Bruneau
On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is anyone poking around in there? (Not a rhetorical question, I'm interested in knowing what people do visit that folder for) Since you ask, in my one-user, non-document-based scheduling app, I keep the data file in there

drawing centered text in a box

2008-10-11 Thread James W. Walker
When using the NSString or NSAttributedString methods for drawing text in a box, such as -[NSAttributedString drawWithRect:options:], is there any way to make the lines of text horizontally centered? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Can I use tool tips with images?

2008-10-11 Thread Ulf Dunkel
I would like to show tool tips for an image which is used in a text ruler representation, like shown here: http://man.icalamus.net/en/img/doc/sample_frame_convertedToText.gif I talk about the image in the upper right corner of the text ruler which shows tabulator options. Users miss tool tips

Re: drawing centered text in a box

2008-10-11 Thread Ricky Sharp
On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:27 AM, James W. Walker wrote: When using the NSString or NSAttributedString methods for drawing text in a box, such as -[NSAttributedString drawWithRect:options:], is there any way to make the lines of text horizontally centered? Yes. Create a dictionary with a key

File icons shown upside down in the Open Recent menu

2008-10-11 Thread Ulf Dunkel
I wonder what I could have done wrong that all document and folder icons which are automatically remembered and shown in our app's Open Recent menu are shown upside down. As we didn't change anything related with openDocument: and don't manipulate the Open Recent menu ourselves, I have no

Matrix of Controls

2008-10-11 Thread Richard Somers
I need to implement a matrix of toolbar item like controls. Each control has an image with a text label below it. .-- .|| .| Image | .|| .-- . Label I am trying to figure out the best way to do this. NSMatrix

Re: Matrix of Controls

2008-10-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Richard Somers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NSMatrix only works with single cell objects. Is it possible to display text and an image inside a single cell? NSButtonCell. --Kyle sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: NSNull and @

2008-10-11 Thread Seth Willits
On Oct 11, 2008, at 4:51 AM, Stelian Iancu wrote: Hmm, that's weird. In some official iPhone examples from Apple, they do exactly that: they put nil as the last element in an array. So what's up with that? If it's what I think you're talking about then: No, nil is used as a marker for

Re: NSNull and @

2008-10-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Seth Willits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's what I think you're talking about then: No, nil is used as a marker for the variable argument list to say this is the end of the list. It's not actually inserted into the dictionary at all. Why it's required is

Re: NSCoding protocol

2008-10-11 Thread Michael Ash
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Negm-Awad Amin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, you are complelty right. The correct code: if( [BaseClass [EMAIL PROTECTED]( initIWithCoder: )] ) { … If you want to get really fun, you can check it thus: if([super.class instancesRespondToSelector:...]) This

Re: NSNull and @

2008-10-11 Thread Michael Ash
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Seth Willits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's what I think you're talking about then: No, nil is used as a marker for the variable argument list to say this is the end of the list. It's not actually inserted into the dictionary at all. Why it's required is

Re: Can I use tool tips with images?

2008-10-11 Thread Charles Steinman
--- On Sat, 10/11/08, Ulf Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to show tool tips for an image which is used in a text ruler representation, like shown here: http://man.icalamus.net/en/img/doc/sample_frame_convertedToText.gif NSViews handle tooltips. See the documentation for info

Searching a CoreData bound NSArrayController

2008-10-11 Thread Paul Thomas
Hi All, I need a little advice on the right way to do something: I have an array controller bound to a core data store and the objects are presented in a table view. When it comes to inserting, I need to check that one of the properties specified by the user is unique before doing

Re: NSNull and @

2008-10-11 Thread Stelian Iancu
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Seth Willits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 10, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Ian Joyner wrote: I'm just trying to work out what NSNull really is in the Cocoa context. Is it an object in Cocoa? As I said, yes. It's truly an object. (A singleton, as well.) Since

Re: Invoking 'a Paste' Programmatically

2008-10-11 Thread Peter Maurer
I have global HotKey registered using Carbon, and this HotKey invokes a method in which I'm replacing the contents of the general Pasteboard. [...] I'm wondering if there is a way to programmatically call 'Paste', or if there are any facilities in Cocoa for simulating key presses?

Re: Searching a CoreData bound NSArrayController

2008-10-11 Thread chaitanya pandit
I had a similar problem actually, I read on the list somewhere that creating a NSFetchRequest for finding something in the MOC can get slower if you have a lot of objects in your MOC(few thousand), and in such case using an array controller 's array and using predicate to filter it's

CATextLayers text alignment?

2008-10-11 Thread David Hoerl
I'm using a CATextLayer to display some text which the user can change the font size of. When the user changes the font size, I still want my text to be centered, both vertically and horizontally. As far as I know you can only set the the CATextLayers alignmentMode to kCAAlignmentCenter to

Re: CATextLayers text alignment? [SOLVED]

2008-10-11 Thread Tim Andersson
11 okt 2008 kl. 22.34 skrev David Hoerl: I'm using a CATextLayer to display some text which the user can change the font size of. When the user changes the font size, I still want my text to be centered, both vertically and horizontally. As far as I know you can only set the the

Re: Matrix of Controls

2008-10-11 Thread Richard Somers
On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:53AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: NSButtonCell Bingo, that's it! Right there under my nose. Thank you. Richard ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the

Re: drawing centered text in a box

2008-10-11 Thread James W. Walker
On Oct 11, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Ricky Sharp wrote: On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:27 AM, James W. Walker wrote: When using the NSString or NSAttributedString methods for drawing text in a box, such as -[NSAttributedString drawWithRect:options:], is there any way to make the lines of text

Re: NSNull and @

2008-10-11 Thread Seth Willits
On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Michael Ash wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Seth Willits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's what I think you're talking about then: No, nil is used as a marker for the variable argument list to say this is the end of the list. It's not actually inserted

NSURLConnection question

2008-10-11 Thread John Zorko
Hello, all ... I want to alter how often NSURLConnection calls receivedData -- or rather, I want it to call it more often (even with fewer bytes) vs less often (with loads and loads of bytes). Can I do this with NSURLConnection or some other CF class, rather than have to go down to

CIAnnotation Sample

2008-10-11 Thread M Pulis
Folks, Working with the CIAnnotation Sample code. It wants to open a file of my choice, except the only files it seems to want are png files and then crashes on any png file I try. Looking at the code, it appears to accept any image file, but, I am so new to cocoa that I am likely not

Instruments leaks.

2008-10-11 Thread Sandro Noel
Greetings. I'm in the optimizing phase of my little project and I'm trying to understand instruments to get most of the leeks out of my software. but instruments throws tons of leaked blocks for objects that should be auto-released, and objects that are still in use. how do I determine

Re: Add animation layer and then remove animation layer

2008-10-11 Thread Matt Long
Hey Steve, Your call to setWantsLayer won't take effect until the next run loop. So here is what happens (I think). - First call to changeRightView: - turns on layer backing for next run loop - adds the animation (transition) for next run loop - sets the delegate for

Re: Instruments leaks.

2008-10-11 Thread j o a r
On Oct 11, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Sandro Noel wrote: I'm in the optimizing phase of my little project and I'm trying to understand instruments to get most of the leeks out of my software. but instruments throws tons of leaked blocks for objects that should be auto-released, and objects that

Re: NSNull and @

2008-10-11 Thread Sean McBride
On 10/10/08 5:58 PM, Seth Willits said: You can't stick nil into dictionaries and arrays. So either you stick an empty string, an NSNumber with 0, etc if those are OK, or you can use NSNull. Or you can use NSPointerArray (on 10.5+). --

Re: Instruments leaks.

2008-10-11 Thread Sandro Noel
most of the leeks are created by NSString's from functions i gathered off the net. assignations like var1 = [var1 message]; This created a leek because the string being replaced is never released. or am I wrong. On 11-Oct-08, at 11:12 PM, j o a r wrote: On Oct 11, 2008, at 7:58 PM,

Re: Instruments leaks.

2008-10-11 Thread j o a r
On Oct 11, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Sandro Noel wrote: most of the leeks are created by NSString's from functions i gathered off the net. assignations like var1 = [var1 message]; This created a leek because the string being replaced is never released. or am I wrong. You need to provide a

Re: NSURLConnection question

2008-10-11 Thread Michael Ash
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:07 PM, John Zorko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all ... I want to alter how often NSURLConnection calls receivedData -- or rather, I want it to call it more often (even with fewer bytes) vs less often (with loads and loads of bytes). Can I do this with

Re: Instruments leaks.

2008-10-11 Thread Sandro Noel
for instance, the leek tells me that i have a leek here in this functions. it is a NSString categorie. - (NSString *) trimWhiteSpace { NSMutableString *s = [[self mutableCopy] autorelease]; CFStringTrimWhitespace ((CFMutableStringRef) s); return

Re: NSTableView and drag and drop

2008-10-11 Thread Chris Idou
The thing is, I've done all that and no drags are initiated when I drag on the items. I have this in my tableview delegate: But tableView:writeRowsWithIndexes:toPasteboard: is never even called. It seems to me that the examples have this code in the datasource or something rather than the

Re: NSNull and @

2008-10-11 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Oct 11, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Seth Willits wrote: Note that nowhere in there is there anything related to how many arguments there are, or what type they are. Ahh. I guess I mis-remembered varargs. I thought they did have a count. I'm You can tell how often I've had to use it ;-) Nope

Re: NSTableView and drag and drop

2008-10-11 Thread Graham Cox
On 12 Oct 2008, at 3:33 pm, Chris Idou wrote: The thing is, I've done all that and no drags are initiated when I drag on the items. I have this in my tableview delegate: But tableView:writeRowsWithIndexes:toPasteboard: is never even called. It seems to me that the examples have this

Re: Instruments leaks.

2008-10-11 Thread j o a r
On Oct 11, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Sandro Noel wrote: for instance, the leek tells me that i have a leek here in this functions. So this is actually not really true. What leaks will initially tell you is where the leaked object was created. That's not the same thing as where that object was