Re: Comparing results of @encode

2008-10-27 Thread Graham Cox
On 27 Oct 2008, at 3:47 pm, Michael Ash wrote: As far as I know the conversion happens upon request, not upon storage. In other words, the internal representation is of the type you initially used to create the NSNumber. If you then request the value through a method whose type doesn't match,

Re: Finding out that a volume is going away before it does

2008-10-27 Thread matt . gough
On 26 Oct 2008, at 17:37, Gregory Weston wrote: Specifically, I'm looking for the opportunity to call FSGetCatalogInfo on the mount point and then FSGetVolumeInfo on the volume reference number I got back from the first call. Greg It look to me like registering for kEventClassVolume /

Bind button title to Boolean

2008-10-27 Thread Trygve Inda
How can I bind a button title to a Boolean but have a custom title for each state? For example, I have a BOOL isRunning, if YES, my button should read Stop Running else Start Running. I can't really do this with an alternate title since when the button is pushed and temporarily held down, the

Re: Bind button title to Boolean

2008-10-27 Thread Trygve Inda
How can I bind a button title to a Boolean but have a custom title for each state? For example, I have a BOOL isRunning, if YES, my button should read Stop Running else Start Running. I can't really do this with an alternate title since when the button is pushed and temporarily held down,

[MEET] Amsterdam CocoaHeads Thursday 10/30 7:00pm

2008-10-27 Thread Cathy Shive
The first meeting of CocoaHeads Amsterdam chapter will be this Thursday - October 30th - from 7:00 - 9:00pm. The meeting will be at the Sofa (http://www.madebysofa.com) office: Hasebroekstraat 10-12 1053 CT, Amsterdam Map:

Re: Finding out that a volume is going away before it does

2008-10-27 Thread Gregory Weston
On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Oct 2008, at 17:37, Gregory Weston wrote: Specifically, I'm looking for the opportunity to call FSGetCatalogInfo on the mount point and then FSGetVolumeInfo on the volume reference number I got back from the first call. Greg

Re: Finding out that a volume is going away before it does

2008-10-27 Thread matt . gough
On 27 Oct 2008, at 12:30, Gregory Weston wrote: The documentation you attached included a caveat that the volume reference number I'd receive isn't useful for anything except comparison against cached data. Can't use FSGetVolumeInfo. The assumption being that you already have a cache of

How to check the number of pending events in the application event queue?

2008-10-27 Thread Oleg Krupnov
In my app I'd like to perform some background task without affecting the responsiveness of the UI. To avoid multi-threading, I just postpone the task to a moment when the user becomes and stays idle for a certain time. I call NSObject's performSelector: afterDelay: and then use

Re: How to check the number of pending events in the application event queue?

2008-10-27 Thread Tommy Nordgren
On 27 okt 2008, at 13.54, Oleg Krupnov wrote: In my app I'd like to perform some background task without affecting the responsiveness of the UI. To avoid multi-threading, I just postpone the task to a moment when the user becomes and stays idle for a certain time. I call NSObject's

IKImageBrowserView only horizontal scrolling

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Manns
Hello, is there a away to limit the number of rows to 1, so that IKImageBrowserView scrolls only horizontal ? Ralph ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the

Re: IKImageBrowserView only horizontal scrolling

2008-10-27 Thread Thomas Goossens
Hi Ralph, Use setContentResizingMask: with NSViewWidthSizable so that the IKImageBrowserView resizes its content horizontally when zooming/ resizing... -- Thomas On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Ralph Manns wrote: Hello, is there a away to limit the number of rows to 1, so that

Re: How to check the number of pending events in the application event queue?

2008-10-27 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 27 oct. 08 à 13:54, Oleg Krupnov a écrit : In my app I'd like to perform some background task without affecting the responsiveness of the UI. To avoid multi-threading, I just postpone the task to a moment when the user becomes and stays idle for a certain time. Have you a good reason to

Re: How to check the number of pending events in the application event queue?

2008-10-27 Thread Oleg Krupnov
Yes, I'd really like to avoid multi-threading. There would be an intense data exchange between the threads and the effort for synchronization would be simply not justified for such a tiny feature. Actually I did try multi-threading before I arrived to this solution, and I have spent very long and

Re: Finding out that a volume is going away before it does

2008-10-27 Thread Gregory Weston
On Oct 27, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Francis Devereux wrote: On 26 Oct 2008, at 16:37, Gregory Weston wrote: Amusingly, when you register an unmount or eject approval function with DiskArbitration, that function gets invoked *after* NSWorkspace sends its didUnmount notification. How's that for a

Re: Bind button title to Boolean

2008-10-27 Thread Steve Christensen
On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: How can I bind a button title to a Boolean but have a custom title for each state? For example, I have a BOOL isRunning, if YES, my button should read Stop Running else Start Running. I can't really do this with an alternate title since when

Re: IKImageBrowserView only horizontal scrolling

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Manns
Hello Thomas, thanks you, works great. The documentation says setContentResizingMask determines how the receiver resize its content when zooming... Thanks, Ralph. 2008/10/27 Thomas Goossens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Ralph, Use setContentResizingMask: with NSViewWidthSizable so that the

how to self-delete app

2008-10-27 Thread han
i try to implemnet a self-delete app. first start the app. a copy of the app is created in another direction.then,i start the copy of the app.the copy run and disppear. how i make the copy not disppear when start the copy. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: Finding out that a volume is going away before it does

2008-10-27 Thread Ken Thomases
On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Gregory Weston wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Francis Devereux wrote: On 26 Oct 2008, at 16:37, Gregory Weston wrote: Amusingly, when you register an unmount or eject approval function with DiskArbitration, that function gets invoked *after* NSWorkspace

CF equivalent of NSPortMessage?

2008-10-27 Thread James Trankelson
I've been running a multithreaded application that listens for messages from other threads within the same application. I've build a number of applications that work in this way, and they've worked well. However, I've recently been trying to write the CoreFoundation equivalent of my existing

how to run single instance?

2008-10-27 Thread han
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Re: how to run single instance?

2008-10-27 Thread Jonathan del Strother
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM, han [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to run single instance? Double click ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators

Re: how to run single instance?

2008-10-27 Thread Filip van der Meeren
Lol ! On 27 Oct 2008, at 16:57, Jonathan del Strother wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM, han [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to run single instance? Double click ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin

Re: Editing a dictionary using NSTableView

2008-10-27 Thread Corbin Dunn
On Oct 26, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Graham Cox wrote: Let's say I have a NS(Mutable)Dictionary and I'd like to make a very simple editor for its keys and values. So I have a NSTableView with two columns, key and value. The dictionary can contain any mix of strings and numbers, and the numbers

Re: Newbie: Referencing Objects (second try)

2008-10-27 Thread Andreas Mayer
Am 27.10.2008 um 03:20 Uhr schrieb john fogg: And how do I do this with my main application delegate? I want to call it from wherever I am. That one is already stored by your NSApplication object: [NSApp delegate] NSApp is a predeclared global variable that holds the current

Re: Not so long filenames

2008-10-27 Thread Shawn Erickson
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Re: NSImage/NSImageView opacity (solved)

2008-10-27 Thread Randall Meadows
On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Randall Meadows wrote: On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: Yes, -cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: is going to end up calling drawRect:. It's not meant to be invoked _from_ drawRect:. You can call that from another view, or from a controller,

Re: Leaking CGColor objects

2008-10-27 Thread David Duncan
On Oct 26, 2008, at 1:06 PM, DKJ wrote: In the documentation, the foregroundColor property is defined like this: @property CGColorRef foregroundColor There's no retain parameter. Correct, however the property is implemented as if it was retain. This is because the compiler will

Re: Cocoa and Printing (Advanced Q)

2008-10-27 Thread David Duncan
On Oct 26, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Tommy Nordgren wrote: A specific printer can be used ONLY by a special app. Any printer that can be seen by Print Center can be used by all applications by default. If you are a printer vendor, then you can do additional things, but you will need to write to

Overridding -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext]

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry Krinock
Documentation for -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext] states: If a managed object context for the receiver does not exist, one is created automatically. You override this method to customize the creation of the persistence stack. Well, the first sentence leaves me in a bit of

NSTableView Questions

2008-10-27 Thread Carmen Cerino Jr.
Howdy, My goal is to create an upload dialog. Like most upload/download dialogs, I am going to use a table view to display my information. Eventually I will need to create my own custom NSCell in order to represent an item being uploaded, so I can represent multiple pieces of information in one

Re: NSTableView Questions

2008-10-27 Thread Corbin Dunn
On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Carmen Cerino Jr. wrote: Howdy, My goal is to create an upload dialog. Like most upload/download dialogs, I am going to use a table view to display my information. Eventually I will need to create my own custom NSCell in order to represent an item being

Re: NSPredicateEditor - row size

2008-10-27 Thread Peter Ammon
On Oct 25, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Chris Idou wrote: Has anyone found a way to make a row in the NSPredicateEditor to have components taller than the standard height or a more complicated arrangement of components, or are you pretty much limited to one row of buttons, and text fields and

Re: NSPredicateEditor - row size

2008-10-27 Thread Peter Ammon
On Oct 27, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Peter Ammon wrote: On Oct 25, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Chris Idou wrote: Has anyone found a way to make a row in the NSPredicateEditor to have components taller than the standard height or a more complicated arrangement of components, or are you pretty much

Re: How to exit a thread help...

2008-10-27 Thread Tom Jones
I'm writing a Foundation tool and I need to run a NSTask in a separate thread. An NSTask is a different thing from a thread. Since NSTask provides asynchronous notification of its death (and NSFileHandle provides asynchronous methods for dealing with I/O), there should be no need to

Re: Overridding -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext]

2008-10-27 Thread Andy Lee
On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: - (NSManagedObjectContext*)managedObjectContext { if (![super managedObjectContext]) { // Create a new MOC... // Oops, sorry, this branch will never execute. } return [self managedObjectContext] ; } Won't this lead to

Re: Overridding -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext]

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2008 Oct, 27, at 11:44, Andy Lee wrote: - (NSManagedObjectContext*)managedObjectContext { NSManagedObjectContext* moc = /* ... create your own MOC ... */; [self setManagedObjectContext:moc]; return moc; } Or alternatively, if your intent is to use the inherited behavior but do

Re: Overridding -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext]

2008-10-27 Thread Ron Lue-Sang
Hi Jerry, Scroll down… On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: Documentation for -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext] states: If a managed object context for the receiver does not exist, one is created automatically. You override this method to customize the creation

Re: How to draw a Recessed Button Shadow

2008-10-27 Thread Dalzhim Dalzhim
It's been a while since I haven't had a chance to work on this but I've finally got back onto it and I still haven't found a solution to get the bezel border to be drawn properly. Subclassing any of the public methods doesn't work as the closest I can get to the result I want is by overriding

Re: how to self-delete app

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2008 Oct, 28, at 8:10, han wrote: i try to implemnet a self-delete app. first start the app. a copy of the app is created in another direction.then,i start the copy of the app.the copy run and disppear. how i make the copy not disppear when start the copy. You would write and launch

Re: Overridding -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext]

2008-10-27 Thread Andy Lee
On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: On 2008 Oct, 27, at 11:44, Andy Lee wrote: - (NSManagedObjectContext*)managedObjectContext { NSManagedObjectContext* moc = /* ... create your own MOC ... */; [self setManagedObjectContext:moc]; return moc; } Or alternatively, if your

Re: Overridding -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext]

2008-10-27 Thread Andy Lee
On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Ron Lue-Sang wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: So it seems like I need to instead use my own instance variable, myMOC. Something like this should work: - (NSManagedObjectContext*)managedObjectContext { if (![self myMOC]) {

NSPredicate exceptions with wrong level?

2008-10-27 Thread Gerd Knops
This code: NSPredicate *aPredicate=nil; @try { aPredicate=[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@invalid]; } @catch(NSExcption *e) { NSLog(@Handled); } causes my exception handler delegate to be

LSSharedFileList API bug(s) -- workaround?

2008-10-27 Thread Steven Degutis
I've been writing my own wrapper for the LSSharedFileList API to be able to stick it in my Cocoa app. However I've found a few bugs. One isn't that big of a deal, but I've filed a rdar for it anyway, and it's that you can't actually set the Hide property. It just fails in odd ways. The other one,

Re: Overridding -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext]

2008-10-27 Thread Ron Lue-Sang
On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Andy Lee wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Ron Lue-Sang wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: So it seems like I need to instead use my own instance variable, myMOC. Something like this should work: -

Re: how to self-delete app

2008-10-27 Thread Steven Degutis
The first thing to figure out here is why you even want to do this in the first place. It's possible you have a legitimate reason, though more likely is that you're using this as a solution for a problem that either may not actually exist, or requires an entirely different kind of hammer to fix.

Core Data Questions--Relationships, UUIDs, and Dirty States

2008-10-27 Thread Keary Suska
1. Confirmation clarification: do I understand correctly, considering typical RDBMS data integrity rules, that for most to-one relationships, I would set the delete rule to no action, since deletion of the many item should not effect the one item? 2. How do I best implement custom UUIDs

Re: Overridding -[NSPersistentDocument managedObjectContext]

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2008 Oct, 27, at 12:32, Andy Lee wrote: I don't see that instance variable. I only see a private _managedObjectContext instance variable in the header, which you wouldn't have access to anyway. Am I missing something? Well, there NSPersistentDocument has -managedObjectContext and -

Re: Problems when putting a window between desktop and desktop icons

2008-10-27 Thread Karl Goiser
Dear Markus and others, This is a problem that I have had with an application of mine, iCalViewer, which displays a window on the desktop. What happens is that you can find a window level which draws the window under the desktop icons and over the desktop itself. However, at that level,

Re: Sizing strangeness in the land of NSDrawer

2008-10-27 Thread Luke Evans
Hi Steve, Thanks for the reply. Ouch, yes, you're right, it works perfectly with GC turned off, and misbehaves with Required or Supported. This will be a major bummer if there's no workaround (I guess it will be bye-bye NSDrawer). So the obvious next question: is there a work around, or

Re: Core Data Questions--Relationships, UUIDs, and Dirty States

2008-10-27 Thread I. Savant
1. Confirmation clarification: do I understand correctly, considering typical RDBMS data integrity rules, that for most to-one relationships, I would set the delete rule to no action, since deletion of the many item should not effect the one item? Impossible to generalize, but generally -

Re: how to self-delete app

2008-10-27 Thread Steven Degutis
Han, You might find it beneficial to check out this website on how to get answers. It doesn't just apply to cocoa-dev either, it's universally an overall set of good ideas. http://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html Steven Degutis http://www.degutis.org/ http://www.thoughtfultree.com/ On Tue,

Looking for the big hammer

2008-10-27 Thread Chilton Webb
Hi, I have a particular problem that is buried deep in layers of logic. Worse, it only happens on some systems, and only after they've been running for a long time. I know it's extremely heavy handed, but I want to know every single function call in my app that happens from one point to

Re: LSSharedFileList API bug(s) -- workaround?

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2008 Oct, 27, at 13:24, Steven Degutis wrote: I've been writing my own wrapper for the LSSharedFileList API to be able to stick it in my Cocoa app. However I've found a few bugs. One isn't that big of a deal, but I've filed a rdar for it anyway, and it's that you can't actually set the

performSelectorOnMainThread and exceptions

2008-10-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if i call -[anObject performSelectorOnMainThread:aSelector withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO] and then later throw an exception (of my own), which i catch, the deferred execution of aSelector never happens. note that the performSelectonOnMainThread, and the throw and catch are all in the same

Re: Core Data Questions--Relationships, UUIDs, and Dirty States

2008-10-27 Thread Jim Correia
On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Keary Suska wrote: 1. Confirmation clarification: do I understand correctly, considering typical RDBMS data integrity rules, that for most to-one relationships, I would set the delete rule to no action, since deletion of the many item should not effect the one

Re: Security - Write to protected directory

2008-10-27 Thread Michael Nickerson
On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Michael Ash wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Michael Nickerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can always set things up to ignore child processes: signal( SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN ); It's bad to rely on this sort of global state, though. What if some other bit of

Re: LSSharedFileList API bug(s) -- workaround?

2008-10-27 Thread Steven Degutis
The three applications I've written which use my Cocoa wrapper are normal applications with the exception that they have LSUIElement set to YES, and means they live in the menu bar as NSStatusItems, not in the Dock. Therefore, as far as I understand from reading

Can we ask iPhone questions yet?

2008-10-27 Thread Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD)
Like the subject says, can we ask iPhone questions yet? I'm stumped and I need help. Thanks, Cem Karan ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators

Re: Core Data Questions--Relationships, UUIDs, and Dirty States

2008-10-27 Thread Keary Suska
On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:55 PM, I. Savant wrote: 1. Confirmation clarification: do I understand correctly, considering typical RDBMS data integrity rules, that for most to-one relationships, I would set the delete rule to no action, since deletion of the many item should not effect the one

Re: Editing a dictionary using NSTableView

2008-10-27 Thread Graham Cox
On 28 Oct 2008, at 3:27 am, Corbin Dunn wrote: You probably want to set an appropriate formatter on the cell in - willDisplayCell:. This sounds like the best approach to what you are wanting. You could always right a custom formatter if you need to. OK, thanks, I'll look into that

Re: Looking for the big hammer

2008-10-27 Thread Ken Thomases
On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Chilton Webb wrote: I have a particular problem that is buried deep in layers of logic. Worse, it only happens on some systems, and only after they've been running for a long time. I know it's extremely heavy handed, but I want to know every single function

Re: performSelectorOnMainThread and exceptions

2008-10-27 Thread Ken Thomases
On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i call -[anObject performSelectorOnMainThread:aSelector withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO] and then later throw an exception (of my own), which i catch, the deferred execution of aSelector never happens. note that the

Re: performSelectorOnMainThread and exceptions

2008-10-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 6:51 PM -0500 10/27/08, Ken Thomases wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i call -[anObject performSelectorOnMainThread:aSelector withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO] and then later throw an exception (of my own), which i catch, the deferred execution of aSelector

Re: Not so long filenames

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Pereira
On 26 Oct 2008, at 09:55, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: On 26 Oct 2008, at 00:30, Postmaster wrote: On 14 Oct 2008, at 21:00, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: On 14 Oct 2008, at 18:07, Jason Coco wrote: On Oct 14, 2008, at 11:28 , Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: HFS+ stores files in decomposed

CFPreferences and init: a possible reason?

2008-10-27 Thread Adam Penny
Forgive me if I'm sounding like a broken record, but after a day experimenting with different approaches based on ideas that came up yesterday, I'm pretty confident that everything is sound as far as my controller class is concerned. I've been mulling this problem over and wanted to put my

If the NIB instantiates everything how does the controller get a reference to the View and the Model?

2008-10-27 Thread Michael A. Crawford
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Re: CFPreferences and init: a possible reason?

2008-10-27 Thread Ken Thomases
On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Adam Penny wrote: I am able to write The contents of my one NSTextField to the plist with CFPreferencesSetAppValue, it's writing the two arrays that is the sticking point. When I try to do CFPreferencesSetAppValue for the array(s) I get an EXC_BAD_ACCESS raised

Re: If the NIB instantiates everything how does the controller get a reference to the View and the Model?

2008-10-27 Thread Ken Thomases
On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Michael A. Crawford wrote: If the NIB instantiates everything how does the controller get a reference to the View and the Model? There are a couple of possibilities: * The controller is in the nib. This is often the case with an application controller in

Re: Can we ask iPhone questions yet?

2008-10-27 Thread Brian Stern
Apple has made an iPhone forum for iPhone developers available here http://devforums.apple.com/ On Oct 27, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote: Like the subject says, can we ask iPhone questions yet? I'm stumped and I need help.

Re: Why self? (Was: Newbie: Referencing Objects)

2008-10-27 Thread john fogg
Hi again! I'm still plucking along and any help is still greatly appreciated! Here is the deal: I create a subobject called mySubObject inside my main object myMainObject. Now I want to access myMainObject from within mySubObject. I'm still not sure what the ideal way to do this would be but I

Re: Why self? (Was: Newbie: Referencing Objects)

2008-10-27 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:35 PM, john fogg wrote: Inside mySubObject I cannot access this by writing [pointerToMainObject doMethod]; but it works when I write [self.pointerToMainObject doMethod]; Why? What difference does self make here? Because the latter accesses the property of

Re: Why self? (Was: Newbie: Referencing Objects)

2008-10-27 Thread John Velman
I'm new to objective-C and cocoa also, I I don't know the answer to your specific question about self. However, seems that one way to do it would be to have the init of mySubObject have an initializer with argument, and you would then create it something like this: SubObject * mySubObject =

accessing menu crashes app

2008-10-27 Thread Nonnus™
hello i am having a hard time catching a bug in a small NSNetService based app i developed all works as expected except that it crashes if i try to accees the menu after a connection is made i though i had tracked the issue being related to retain / release issues more specifically to

Re: Finding out that a volume is going away before it does

2008-10-27 Thread Francis Devereux
On 26 Oct 2008, at 16:37, Gregory Weston wrote: Amusingly, when you register an unmount or eject approval function with DiskArbitration, that function gets invoked *after* NSWorkspace sends its didUnmount notification. How's that for a lead-in anecdote? So anyway, I'm looking to react to

Re: Finding out that a volume is going away before it does

2008-10-27 Thread Francis Devereux
On 27 Oct 2008, at 13:42, Gregory Weston wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Francis Devereux wrote: On 26 Oct 2008, at 16:37, Gregory Weston wrote: Amusingly, when you register an unmount or eject approval function with DiskArbitration, that function gets invoked *after* NSWorkspace

Documentation of NSArchiver streamtyped format

2008-10-27 Thread Gregor Jasny
Hi, I'm looking for documentation of the binary format that is written by NSArchiver. The file utility tells me that it's called NeXT/Apple typedstream data, little endian, version 4, system 1000. Thanks, Gregor ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Bindings and hierarchical menus

2008-10-27 Thread Jay Martin
I've been searching all over to see if this is possible and have yet to find an answer. There was a similar email years ago with no response, and I haven't found the right magic keyword combination to find the answer on cocoadev. So, please, is it possible to do hierarchical menus via

Tiger limits the number of concurrent downloads in WebKit?

2008-10-27 Thread Greg Harris
I'm using WebKit to download files from a web page. On Leopard (tested 10.5.5) everything works as expected, you can download as many files as you want concurrently. However, with the same app on Tiger (tested 10.4.10 and 10.4.11), if you have started 3 downloads, clicking on additional downloads

Re: Why self? (Was: Newbie: Referencing Objects)

2008-10-27 Thread Ken Thomases
On Oct 27, 2008, at 9:35 PM, john fogg wrote: Here is the deal: I create a subobject called mySubObject inside my main object myMainObject. Now I want to access myMainObject from within mySubObject. Your terminology is a bit hard to follow. Part of the problem is that object's don't have

Re: Why self? (Was: Newbie: Referencing Objects)

2008-10-27 Thread john fogg
Ken Thomases wrote me off-list. I don't know if this was deliberate (I guess not) but I'd rather not quote his mail here without his consent. Anyways the problem is fixed and I understand it all a whole lot better now. Big thanks to everybody and esp. Ken. You all are very nice people!!

Re: Why self? (Was: Newbie: Referencing Objects)

2008-10-27 Thread john fogg
Hi Ken! Thank you for your long answer! It cleared up a lot of things for me. I come from coding in Actionscript (Flash) and there things are apparently quite different. Is it true that all instances I create live in memory on the same level? That they are all somehow equal? And that all

Re: Why self? (Was: Newbie: Referencing Objects)

2008-10-27 Thread Graham Cox
On 28 Oct 2008, at 2:30 pm, john fogg wrote: I come from coding in Actionscript (Flash) and there things are apparently quite different. FWIW, I tried to do some coding in Actionscript a few years ago after being immersed in C++ for many years and then Objective-C/Cocoa for a few years.

Re: Why self? (Was: Newbie: Referencing Objects)

2008-10-27 Thread john fogg
Hi Graham! On 10/28/08, Graham Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I tried to do some coding in Actionscript a few years ago after being immersed in C++ for many years and then Objective-C/Cocoa for a few years. To say that it was an exercise in utter frustration is an understatement. [...]

NSPredicateEditor error

2008-10-27 Thread Chris Idou
I'm getting the following error: In NSPredicateEditor: 0x1096070, different number of items (3) than predicate template views (4) for template MyRowTemplate 0x12487e0: [move:] [] NSStringAttributeType From experimenting, the only difference between the NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate that is

Re: Finding out that a volume is going away before it does

2008-10-27 Thread Chris Suter
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Francis Devereux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My code works on 10.4 8A428 PPC (after I changed mainRunLoop to currentRunLoop), but this probably isn't much help to you because DiskArbitration.framework is private on 10.3. You can use it fine on 10.3. As far as I