Re: Best solution for game loop on OSX?

2013-12-17 Thread Graham Cox
On 13 Dec 2013, at 10:57 pm, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: To do so smoothly, though, will require a loop, so I can update the position in small increments many times per second. You probably know this, but it’s a point worth repeating. Whatever method you use to make the game loop,

Re: _NSWarnForDrawingImageWithNoCurrentContext

2013-12-17 Thread Leonardo
I have found that if I use [mImage setCacheMode:NSImageCacheNever]; The trouble never occurs. It occurs when I use [mImage setCacheMode:NSImageCacheAlways]; I don¹t know whether that¹s a Cocoa¹s bug. Do you think I have to file a bug to Apple? Regards -- Leonardo Da: Stephen J.

NSDistributedNotificationCenter Strangeness

2013-12-17 Thread Pax
My apologies if this question has appeared once already - I'm resending it because I fear it may have been lost during the Cocoa Dev List outage. Here's a little oddity that might either be me being foolish (again) or relate to an open Radar. I'm inclined to the former because (according to my

Re: Best solution for game loop on OSX?

2013-12-17 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 17 Dec 2013, at 00:15, Dan Treiman dtrei...@mac.com wrote: The two best solutions (and by best I mean least time-wasting) are CVDisplayLink and NSTimer. CVDisplayLink synchronizes with the display refresh rate and gives you callbacks in a background thread. This somewhat like

AutoLayout constraint priorities

2013-12-17 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
I have a fairly deep NSView hierarchy which fails to satisfy its vertical constraints. The embedded views are generally just embedded within their containers. To me it seems that the constraints should be viable. However this is not the case and I have to reduce a bottom constraint from a

Re: Best solution for game loop on OSX?

2013-12-17 Thread Eric Wing
On 12/17/13, Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Dec 2013, at 00:15, Dan Treiman dtrei...@mac.com wrote: The two best solutions (and by best I mean least time-wasting) are CVDisplayLink and NSTimer. CVDisplayLink synchronizes with the display refresh rate and gives you

Re: UILabel HTML to attributed string conversion: odd font choice for em text

2013-12-17 Thread Jens Alfke
On Dec 17, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Steve Christensen puns...@mac.com wrote: This seems odd to me since there's a perfectly fine Avenir Next Medium Italic available. Is this an expected font choice for italic text given the setup above That seems wrong to me too. I just experimented in TextEdit

Re: UILabel HTML to attributed string conversion: odd font choice for em text

2013-12-17 Thread Steve Christensen
On Dec 17, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote: On Dec 17, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Steve Christensen puns...@mac.com wrote: This seems odd to me since there's a perfectly fine Avenir Next Medium Italic available. Is this an expected font choice for italic text given the setup

UILabel HTML to attributed string conversion: odd font choice for em text

2013-12-17 Thread Steve Christensen
I have formatted text delivered to the app as HTML that I am converting to a NSAttributedString and then assigning to a UILabel like this: NSDictionary* options = @{ NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: @(NSUTF8StringEncoding), NSDefaultAttributesDocumentAttribute:

Re: iPad keyboards

2013-12-17 Thread Luther Baker
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: That's good to know; I thought they were requiring iOS 7. https://developer.apple.com/news/index.php?id=12172013a#top Even so, does an iOS 6 SDK-based app not get all iOS 7 styling? I'd try the experiment myself, but