Re: REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, ...?

2012-11-05 Thread Andreas Grosam
On 05.11.2012, at 01:12, Todd Heberlein wrote: Is there currently a standard, Apple-recommended way of doing interoperable client-server architectures? That's not something Apple should recommend. However, new Apple technologies use a RESTful web service with JSON (e.g. Passcode). I

Re: iOS kiosk mode?

2012-11-05 Thread Sixten Otto
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: Ah, interesting! Still doesn't go quite as far as I want Apple to go: I want a power-cycled device to skip Springboard and launch my app. I want the watchdog to kill and restart my app. Check out the Lock to App feature

Re: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Jerry Krinock
Continuing. In here… http://opensource.apple.com/source/libdispatch/libdispatch-228.18/os/object.h I find a maze of #define compiler directives which affect OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE, and also there is a comment which implies that maybe I should add compiler flag

Sorting NSTableView using Bindings

2012-11-05 Thread Paul Johnson
I have an NSTableView in a drawer. I'm using Core Data and I'm trying to have the drawer opening and showing the table rows sorted by the first column.. but have been unsuccessful. I can sort the table by clicking on column headers, but when the drawer is opened the data is unsorted. Obviously I

Re: This board is slow. Was: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Jerry Krinock
First of all, thanks, in advance, *literally*, to Greg Parker for answering my question, and my apologies for the additional post. I say *literally* because although I still don't have his reply in my email, I see it on cocoabuilder.com. Lately I've been seeing other people respond to messages

Re: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Quincey Morris
On Nov 3, 2012, at 12:55 , Jerry Krinock je...@ieee.org wrote: I want to absorb it into a big old project that contains a couple dozen targets. So I added a target for it, with ARC. But building the big project fails because the macro OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE is defined, and in

Re: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 5 nov. 2012 à 18:56, Jerry Krinock je...@ieee.org a écrit : Continuing. In here… http://opensource.apple.com/source/libdispatch/libdispatch-228.18/os/object.h I find a maze of #define compiler directives which affect OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE, and also there is a comment

Re: Sorting NSTableView using Bindings

2012-11-05 Thread Quincey Morris
On Nov 5, 2012, at 10:03 , Paul Johnson p...@askerko.net wrote: I've selected the Table View and clicked on tab to select the Bindings inspector. Under the Table Content heading I found Sort Descriptors, and it is there that I'm focusing. (For example, I've checked the Bind to box and

Re: This board is slow. Was: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread John Tsombakos
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Jerry Krinock je...@ieee.org wrote: Lately I've been seeing other people respond to messages on these boards, apparently out of order. I have seen messages appear on cocaobuilder.com*hours* before they appear in my email. I may also have seen it happen

a way to clear inactive RAM

2012-11-05 Thread Nick Rogers
Hi, I am assigned this small utility which should clear inactive RAM. I know Mac OS X manages memory quite efficiently and inactive RAM also has a purpose. But I have to make this. Prior to Mountain Lion I was allocating memory in my app that was roughly equivalent to free + inactive RAM. And

Harnessing Perl Scripts within a Project

2012-11-05 Thread John Delacour
I am a rank beginner in Xcode and Objective-C, very slowly getting to grips with things using Xcode 4.5.1 in 10.8. My only significant experience is with AppleScript and Perl and, so far as AppleScript is concerned, it looks to me as though I’d be wiser to set it aside and work in straight

Re: This board is slow. Was: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Greg Parker
On Nov 5, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Jerry Krinock je...@ieee.org wrote: First of all, thanks, in advance, *literally*, to Greg Parker for answering my question, and my apologies for the additional post. I say *literally* because although I still don't have his reply in my email, I see it on

Re: MKMapView compositing

2012-11-05 Thread Vincent Habchi
Hi Eve, Use overlays. Look into ClassicMap: https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/ClassicMap which is doing about the same thing using likely illegally obtained Google tiles. I’ll have a look. It is actually displaying maps *over* a cartographic background (and not some cartographic layer

Re: This board is slow. Was: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Sean McBride
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:16:13 -0800, Jerry Krinock said: Lately I've been seeing other people respond to messages on these boards, apparently out of order. Likewise, on and off for months now. P.S. If Apple would shut down this board so everyone would use the new dev forums instead, that would

Fwd: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-05 Thread Andrea3000
There is (or was) a QuartzDebug option to show which parts of a window are actually transparent; on the standard windows only the corners are transparent, so for most of the window area the system can use the faster opaque calculations. I never filed a bug requesting a way for non-Apple

Re: a way to clear inactive RAM

2012-11-05 Thread Jens Alfke
On Nov 5, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Nick Rogers roger...@mac.com wrote: I am assigned this small utility which should clear inactive RAM. I know Mac OS X manages memory quite efficiently and inactive RAM also has a purpose. But I have to make this. What on earth does “clear inactive RAM” mean? No

Re: a way to clear inactive RAM

2012-11-05 Thread Wim Lewis
On 5 Nov 2012, at 10:54 AM, Nick Rogers wrote: I am assigned this small utility which should clear inactive RAM. I know Mac OS X manages memory quite efficiently and inactive RAM also has a purpose. But I have to make this. What are you trying to achieve? What exactly do you mean by

Re: MKMapView compositing

2012-11-05 Thread Evadne Wu
When you have alpha transparency you can either blend the aerial tiles into the map view or blend the entire map view into the aerial tiles. Either way, I think, you can get something that looks good. Semitransparent overlays consisted of aerial tiles might actually work, and it is in the

Re: This board is slow. Was: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Alex Kac
The problem with the Apple Forums is that you get people who are on a power trip there more often than you have here. The really nice part of the Apple Forums is sometimes you actually get engineers who answer questions there. I also sense that this list is far more technically minded whereas

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-05 Thread Andrea3000
There is (or was) a QuartzDebug option to show which parts of a window are actually transparent; on the standard windows only the corners are transparent, so for most of the window area the system can use the faster opaque calculations. I never filed a bug requesting a way for non-Apple

Re: MKMapView compositing

2012-11-05 Thread Vincent Habchi
Eve, When you have alpha transparency you can either blend the aerial tiles into the map view or blend the entire map view into the aerial tiles. Either way, I think, you can get something that looks good. Semitransparent overlays consisted of aerial tiles might actually work, and it is

Re: Harnessing Perl Scripts within a Project

2012-11-05 Thread Wim Lewis
On 4 Nov 2012, at 1:03 AM, John Delacour wrote: Perl is another matter altogether. While I am getting up to speed with Obj-C I would like to be able to include Perl routines within projects, and I can find very little on the WWW to be guided by. So far I have experimented simply with

Re: Harnessing Perl Scripts within a Project

2012-11-05 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 4 Nov 2012, at 3:03 AM, John Delacour j...@bd8.com wrote: I am a rank beginner in Xcode and Objective-C, very slowly getting to grips with things using Xcode 4.5.1 in 10.8. My only significant experience is with AppleScript and Perl and, so far as AppleScript is concerned, it looks to

Re: This board is slow. Was: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Laurent Daudelin
Same here. Been on this list for a very long time and hope it will continue. Just don't have the time to regularly hop in the browser, go through multiple logins to finally get to *one* of the forum and check what is new. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin

Re: a way to clear inactive RAM

2012-11-05 Thread Alex Zavatone
Not sure what RAM clearing means but if you want to purge the disk cache, check out man purge in the terminal. On Nov 5, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Nick Rogers wrote: Hi, I am assigned this small utility which should clear inactive RAM. I know Mac OS X manages memory quite efficiently and inactive

Re: This board is slow. Was: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Fritz Anderson
Also: I recently went on a marathon watching Troll 2, Birdemic, Manos: The Hands of Fate, and Plan 9 from Outer Space. It reminded me of the search facility in the Apple Developer Forums. Jaw-dropping. Comically unqualified to be what it claims it is. The search context is discarded when you

Re: This board is slow. Was: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Greg Parker
On Nov 5, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Laurent Daudelin laur...@nemesys-soft.com wrote: Same here. Been on this list for a very long time and hope it will continue. Just don't have the time to regularly hop in the browser, go through multiple logins to finally get to *one* of the forum and check what

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-05 Thread Andrea3000
There is (or was) a QuartzDebug option to show which parts of a window are actually transparent; on the standard windows only the corners are transparent, so for most of the window area the system can use the faster opaque calculations. I never filed a bug requesting a way for non-Apple

Re: Harnessing Perl Scripts within a Project

2012-11-05 Thread John Delacour
On 05/11/2012 20:44, Fritz Anderson wrote: On 4 Nov 2012, at 3:03 AM, John Delacour j...@bd8.com wrote: ... While I am getting up to speed with Obj-C I would like to be able to include Perl routines within projects... So long as you understand that this isn't usually a productive thing to

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-05 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012, at 02:20 PM, Andrea3000 wrote: Since I still have a Snow Leopard partition I have access to QuartDebug 4.1 and the hidden setting you suggested works as expected. The strange thing is that while regular windows like Safari, Mail, ecc, are all opaque except for the corners

Re: Harnessing Perl Scripts within a Project

2012-11-05 Thread Wim Lewis
On 5 Nov 2012, at 2:59 PM, John Delacour wrote: [] hearing all the whoops and applause as the most elementary new things were unveiled and it was announced that a dictionary object could now finally be built in something approaching the sane way it would be done in ancient languages

Re: Harnessing Perl Scripts within a Project

2012-11-05 Thread Jens Alfke
On Nov 5, 2012, at 2:59 PM, John Delacour j...@bd8.com wrote: I am interested in your comment that “this isn't usually a productive thing to do”, because I very soon have to decide whether to devote all my time to getting to grips with ObjC or continue dreaming that I can do most of the

Re: Sorting NSTableView using Bindings

2012-11-05 Thread Ken Thomases
On Nov 5, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: On Nov 5, 2012, at 10:03 , Paul Johnson p...@askerko.net wrote: I can sort the table by clicking on column headers, but when the drawer is opened the data is unsorted. Yes, because clicking on column headers causes the table view to

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-05 Thread Ken Thomases
On Nov 5, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012, at 02:20 PM, Andrea3000 wrote: Since I still have a Snow Leopard partition I have access to QuartDebug 4.1 and the hidden setting you suggested works as expected. The strange thing is that while regular windows like Safari,

Re: Sorting NSTableView using Bindings

2012-11-05 Thread Ken Thomases
On Nov 5, 2012, at 9:01 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Thanks, Ken. You're welcome. I WOULD like to know if this code can be removed and instead of this code I can make some changes in the Bindings Inspector. It just seems to nice to be able to avoid writing code when I can specify things in

Re: This board is slow. Was: OS_OBJECT_USE_OBJC_RETAIN_RELEASE and xpc_release()

2012-11-05 Thread Dix Lorenz
On 05.11.2012, at 23:20, Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com wrote: The devforums have an Email Updates feature for each sub-forum. If you enable that for the topics you're interested in then you can read as if it were a mailing list. You'll only need to visit the web site when you want to