Does anyone know where this is documented, so I can
see exactly which events get forwarded to the document and under which
circumstances?
No, nobody's discovered how this works yet. It's a deep,
impenetrable mystery, a black art the depths of which not even Apple
fully grasps. Of course I'm
How do I draw NSBezierPaths to my pdf representation?
Give this a thorough read.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaDrawingGuide/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html
It answers your question completely, though you'll need to read most
of (if not all) of this
I've tried with a animated gif, unfortunately when pressed it doesn't
start the animation.
That's because NSButtonCell really doesn't have the ability to
animate an image on its own. The simplest setup is to use NSTimer to
periodically 'advance' the frame of your animation by setting a new
The Core Animation Programming guide has some sample code that might
be of value:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreAnimation_guide/Articles/AnimatingLayers.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006085-SW1
It's a great example, Douglas, but I think the OP needs to
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM, I. Savant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
similarly, typing cocoa-dev archives produces relevant links.
Sorry, that was unclear: I meant typing ... into google.
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But setAction expectes just a selector as parameter, so it seams to me
that a lot of information about the method to be called is missing.
AFAIK a selector just identifies the name of the method, but the class
to which it bellongs to is missing and also the pointer to it's
instance and the
I'm using Cocoa from Pascal using PasCocoa (
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/PasCocoa ), so I can't use
objective-c language constructions and need to get this working with
just objective-c runtime headers. I tryed to see the assembly for
@selector(something:); but it isn't promissing. It
I didn't see anything easy documented to override or control this
behavior, although perhaps I just overlooked them. What techniques
have people used to improve this behavior in cocoa based code-editors?
-smartInsertDeleteEnabled: / -setSmartInsertDeleteEnabled:
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I don't know the answer; but it probably doesn't vacuum at every save.
Vacuuming can be quite slow if the database is at all large,
especially if there's already a lot of disk I/O going on. (The vacuum
algorithm has to read and write every page of the database.)
That certainly makes
If you have any performance data showing problems with internal db
fragmentation (i.e. sqlite3 dbname 'vacuum' fixes it, but cp
doesn't), we'd love to hear about it.
Thanks, Ben, for this informative response. So what you're saying,
in summary is:
1 - Vacuuming on every save is
Mail [which does not use CoreData, btw] might not have enabled
auto_vacuum. IIRC, there were bugs in auto_vacuum in the version of
sqlite that shipped in Tiger.
I thought I remembered reading that Mail does not use Core Data. It
does, however, use SQLite and auto_vacuum is a problem
- (void)awakeFromInsert
{
static int tempID = 1;
[super awakeFromInsert];
self.employeeID = [NSNumber numberWithInt:tempID++];
}
What do you think will happen when the application is quit, then run
the next time? How will it remember the last tempID?
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Where would be the ideal spot to place this fetch request?
-applicationDidFinishLaunching: ...?
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While I was told to allow discussion here, I've now been told that
discussion should not be allowed here.
Oh, that's just MEAN!
Somewhere in Cupertino, somebody's standing next to the big NDA
switch in the iPhone room, giggling maniacally as they flip it on-off-
on-off-... :-D
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Hi everyone, does somebody know,
what i have to do to control the system Aduio Volume (mute, increase,
decrease).
I searched a lot, but without result
A quick Google search revealed this AppleScript:
set
On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
Uh, yeah. We consider using AppleScript from an otherwise Objective-
C app for anything other than user-supplied scripts to be bad form,
because it's wildly inefficient. In particular, you shouldn't use
it just because you can't find
is there a way to make an array with objects such as text-12. txt,
text-3.txt, text6.txt, text654.txt be sorted like text-3.txt,
text-12.txt, text6.txt, text654.txt
If you understand what I mean.
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2004/qa1159.html
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The course Programming with Cocoa frameworks on Mac OS X and for
iPhone starts on March 25 at 6:30pm.
I'm curious about your iPhone content. Do you cover the iPhone SDK
or are you merely referring to the fact that learning XCode / IB /
Objective-C 2.0 / Cocoa in general prepares you for
The answer is in the requirement to have ADC online membership and
to download iPhone SDK, which will automatically promote you to
iPhone developer too.
That's not necessarily the case.
Again, I'm not trying to be difficult, but you haven't addressed
Apple's permission. The typical
Honestly I think most people don't appreciate how much stuff you get
for free in Cocoa, but you learn pretty fast when you get to
reimplement it yourself! :)
True, but there are many legitimate reasons not to use a standard
UI. FrontRow is a prime example of this. A kiosk application
Just think of something along the lines of
@interface MyObject : NSObject
{
NSString *name;
NSString *color;
}
In this case, as I said, just do it the easier way first so you
understand what's involved. Then if you want a 'subview as a cell in a
table',
I'll give that a go, thanks. May I ask why NSImageCell?
Actually, that was an incomplete thought. Using an NSImageCell would
negate the need to subclass anything. You could just drag one into the
appropriate column in Interface Builder, then bind the column to your
color property. You can
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Torsten Curdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK ...so predicate filter I got working - sort of. I've bound the predicate
in the AppDelegate to the NSArrayController. When I start up the application
it filters just fine.
I've also got the add and remove actions bound
I already have implemented KVC according to
... you didn't include the actual implementation in your code
listing, so we're forced to take your word for it. Therefore, I
conclude that your assertion is false. ;-)
Post your code so list members can verify. The day's over for me and
I face a
Is there a way to place one NSView into another NSView? This is what
I have.
Read the documentation:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaViewsGuide/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html
Pay particular attention to the Working with the View Hierarchy
section.
Of course my response was incomplete, sorry. I meant to add this:
Pay particular attention to the Working with the View Hierarchy
section.
// Set viewB's frame to the desired rect, then ...
[viewA addSubview:viewB];
ADDING:
Think also about what coordinate system you're using when
And I'll add to your addition that [secondView display] isn't likely
to be the correct way to get the view to draw. In that context, it
should be [secondView setNeedsDisplay:YES]. Or, rather, since it's
going to display anyway (just having being added to a view
hierarchy), the call can be
On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:52 AM, Bryan Henry wrote:
Also, according to your code at the bottom here, you want to return
a value from a METHOD not a function.
That's splitting hairs just a little.
No, it's precisely accurate. While the meaning is clear in this
case, failure to use proper
Adding a cell, in addition to creating a new Cell entity, also has to do
some custom tasks on initialization. Each cell has a one-to-one
relationship with another managed object (Scene), so the scene object needs
to be created and inserted in to the MOM when the cell is created.
This is
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Michael Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My only question with that is that I will need to fetch all existing cells,
and I as I understood it this was something that was not to be done in
awakeFromInsert. Is that something I dreamed up?
If that's a rule
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Michael Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interestingly enough, I started looking back to figure out where I had read
that and realized it had come up in a thread I started back in September
(http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2007/9/21/189533). The
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Jeff LaMarche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm assuming that these will change, but should not be changed by the user,
correct?
It seems to me that you'd want to avoid compiling them into your classes
using #define, I think a property list included as bundle
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Jeff LaMarche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I agree... if this is a configuration parameter that he wants the
user to be able to set. Since he was talking about using preprocessor
directives, I made the assumption that this was not supposed to be
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Lorenzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have defined an NSView info view on IB.
This view contains several NSTextFields.
Now I want to programmatically create copies of this view and attach them to
the objects on my window. So if on my window I have 10 objects, I
When a Core Data document is opened initialization adds an entity for the
basic 'All' smart group. This object is assigned to an in memory store
(rather than to the persistent document) - I have checked and the 'All' item
doesn't appear in the saved data.
... but a context has changed.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone may correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds a lot like something
that has been very very deliberately left out of any API...
See the many discussions regarding input managers.
I want to write an app that I'd
I want to write an app that I'd like to have hook into a text box in
Safari and log your IDs, passwords, and bank account status.
Well, password fields are special and are 'resistant' to key
logging, but you don't have to 'hook into' any apps to log the rest.
You don't even need an
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Don Arnel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No...no...NO!
Alright. Now how about we take a few deep breaths, switch to decaf,
and try our social interaction again. This time without the attitude,
please.
Re-read my message. If it was unclear, what I want to do is be
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Don Arnel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if that came across as having attitude, but I was a little miffed at
being accused of having intentions to steal passwords or account information
by writing a key logger.
I see no 'accusation' in this thread. Chill
They are in the process of doing just that, I think you'll find. It's just
that, rather than removing them instantly, they've been deprecated and
replaced with an alternative and more secure mechanism (Input Servers, if I
remember rightly). In some future version of Mac OS X, I think you
On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Matt Burnett wrote:
The OS is all ready wide open to this sort of attack. Criticizing
the OP for asking for this feature illustrates the false sense of
security Mac users have simply because there isnt a spyware
problem... yet. Apple allows you to hook
Though the link was funny, I'll ignore the flamebait and answer the
technical aspect of this post:
You yourself said that the OS is resistant against this sort of
attack in the following quotes:
Well, password fields are special and are 'resistant' to key
logging, but you don't have
I'm not going to argue with you because I think you've given some pretty
good advice here. I'm a fan of white space in my code as well, and though
there are some stylistic differences between us, I concur with the basic
concepts you laid out. I just thought a caveat might be in order on #4
Mr. IS:
*Mister* Idiot Savant? I like that. ;-)
My apologies. I have no desire to divert the list to some off-topic
subject.
I'm not a moderator. Scott (Anguish) may have a different opinion
and his is what counts. It pains me, because I think it is a good
debate but one that will
Idiot is fine. ;-)
I hope that minor, gentle banter of this sort is never considered
off-topic. It's what glues a community together...
For the record, I think banter is safe, so long as it's accompanied
by relevance. Agreed 100% on the 'community glue' sentiment. Most of
us really
I have a nasty leak problem when i realloc several methods of the main class
of my app.
Without seeing your code, all I can suggest is making sure you've
followed these rules:
http://devworld.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Tasks/MemoryManagementRules.html#
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Stuart:
[sorry to post here, but I don't know what other list might be better/more
appropriate]
This list is for Cocoa developers to talk about software
development. Not only do we know nothing about your computer's
configuration or your network environment, but it has positively
nothing to
I have build cocoa application. I am finding out as many ways as possible of
application installation which can be done either locally or remotely.
Can you please list all those ways?
Have a look at this document:
Remotely means pushing software packages to clients on a network. Not
understood meaning of An installer that pulls its payload from a remote
server.
That's considerably more complicated than a simple client-side
install by dragging an application to a folder. :-)
I wonder if you realize
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:56 AM, parag vibhute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know much about Mac OS X Server, but does it have this type of
remote installation without requiring ARD?
This is definitely off-topic for this list. You'll want to take
these types of questions to a more
In my case I want to save my chat session in an html file which when
double clicked will open the file in the browser and will show all the chat
messages with their respective images of the people who are sending the
messages. How can I do this? One more thing my application is not
First issue I see is how you can know what transaction objects occur prior
to any given object. I don't think you can rely on objects being retrieved
in any specific order that your data model doesn't enforce.
You're correct - you can't rely on the order in which instances are
fetched.
... of course, even if you use a predicate to specify a date range,
the transaction order still doesn't matter. I digress.
Sorry - this is confusing. I meant to delete this paragraph after I
realized that the OP is talking about a running balance after each
transaction, rather than the
I've studied the pasteboard docs, and wonder if there is a simple way to
copy the contents of an NSString to the general clipboard. In AS or AS
Studio it's just set the clipboard to variable. Is there such a
convenience method in Cocoa?
Study the docs again, the answers are there if you've
What I currently have is a core data store that holds information I
want to display in an NSCollectionView. What I'm wondering is
whether there is a way to get this accomplished and if so how?
Yes, as described in the NSCollectionView documentation and the
Leopard release notes. Hint:
Having set the 'content' binding to the arrangedObjects key in IB didn't
produce a result though doing it programmatically has. Not sure why this
would be.
It depends. Since you have provided neither the exact bindings
settings you're using nor the code you used to establish the binding
* Because the user then has to unmount the disk image after copying the
app; and because way too many naive users don't understand what a disk
image is, and run the app right from the DMG, which works fine until the
next time they reboot or log in ... and then suddenly OMG all the apps I
I'm running into an odd crasher on PowerPC machines. I have a custom
NSView called TYCurrentDayView that draws an nsmutableattributedstring
on top of a gradient. On a few instances, I will receive the
following crash:
I haven't looked at this in detail and don't know if this has
I´m a new developer in iphone´s world, develop in actionScript (flash OOP)
and build adGames and python too.
The iPhone SDK is under non-disclosure agreement as you should know
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is there a list in apple somewhere which is restricted to people who are
registered developers where this SDK can be discussed?
Nope. Apple still has not provided any forum in which NDA-covered
material / technologies can
I cannot find out how to refer to the window of my single window program in
the method: beginSheetModalForWindow
Some help would be appreciated!
Where (in what object) is this code located? That'd probably be a
good place to add an IBOutlet to your window (and connect it in
Interface
Once again, the iPhone SDK is under a non-disclosure agreement,
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On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Mark Manes wrote:
Greetings,
I do not know if others have come up with a reasonable solution for
On Apr 25, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Yann Disser wrote:
Are you binding via an NSObjectController?
No, should I?
Yes (or one of its subclasses). You have to make sure everyone is
on the same page as mindless corporate and government automatons are
wont to say. In Cocoa, this is done easiest
How exactly would I go about replacing the DefaultDesktop.jpg image
in core services with a objective c cocoa app. I'm just starting
with cocoa, so any help is greatly appreciated.
You'd want to write an application that uses AuthServices to obtain
permission to use NSFileManager to back
and I'm trying to display all last names in the table.
- I created NSArrayController ABPeople and set content to my delagate, key
path: peeps
This is imprecise - if there is a problem with this, we won't know
to tell you about it without the specifics of how this works in your
I did drop content binding for table and checked that lastName was a typo.
I created a textfield and did set it up to:
binding: ABPeople
controller key: arrangedObjects
model:@count
and got correct 388 count of ppl in AB.
So is it the same result as last time (you get the right
You know what? I don't think you've ever said that you know that
view.drawing != nil. Check that.
Though NSArchiver says this scenario would produce an exception,
NSKeyedArchiver does not seem to do the same (the documentation
doesn't say what will happen and a quick test with an
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Mohsan Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to run the code in my main method which worked well, but not in my
AppController.m - does it matter?
What Jean-Daniel was asking is what is the specific signal that was
sent when the app crashed? EXC_BAD_ACCESS or
Actually, I know it was not optional on 10.4, and I think it might not have
been optional on 10.3. Anybody here remember for sure???
It was still optional on 10.3; I had a 10.3 app that relied on the
BSD subsystem and at first did not realize it was an optional part of
the install (or that
it's not getting called at all. Is it because my method is defined in
category? As I wrote already, I'm able to call my methods from gdb so my
category is up and running
NSLog(@%@, [[[ppl arrangedObjects] objectAtIndex:0] lastName]);
as opposed to
Value
I'm working in xcode3.0 in leopard machine in cocoa application and
using objective c.How can i connect to database in my cocoa
application?And how can i make final exe of my project?
If you're at the stage where you're still learning how to create a
final build of your application or
Execute a fetch for the entity in which you're interested, and count the
returned array.
My question is: what is the most efficient fetch to pose given that every
fetch is IO.
Yes.
A given entity might have a lot of records so an array COULD be an
unnecessarily
I would appreciate some guidance in getting a popup button to use its
selectedIndex to set an integer in my model.
Am I correct in assuming you want your popup to represent the
-gameType of the selected item in the array controller?
If so, the best thing to do is to create an
My question is: what is the most efficient fetch to pose given that every
fetch is IO.
Yes.
Sorry, I thought this was is this the most efficient ... Meaning:
mmalc's response of Execute a fetch for the entity in which you're
interested, and count the returned array. is the most
What is the correct way to programmatically creates these things?
I believe you've gotten it all right, but the document says of the
'automatically prepares content' flag:
If flag is YES and a managed object context is set, the initial
content is fetched from the managed object context using
In Tiger that was the best means available, but if you're targeting Leopard
there is a better option available:
Create your fetch request to fetch all instances of a given entity and
execute the fetch with countForFetchRequest:error: which will simply return
the number of instances/rows
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how do I post my queries and see them published?
You just did.
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Any info about the box or code that emulates this would be useful,
There's no public API, but there's this:
http://growl.info/documentation/developer/
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I assume this should be possible with Core Data ...but there are
different types of accounts in the list of accounts. So the UI needs
to change depending on what type of account has been selected. Any
pointers on how to accomplish this?
This could be solved with Cocoa Bindings and one
With help from Stéphane Sudre, I found that calling
-registerForDraggedTypes: somewhere outside the destination's -init: method
solves the issue. Can anyone shed light on why this would be?
I've never personally experienced the problem you're describing, but
if you're literally calling this
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Michael Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My actual init method has a different signature, and calls -initWithFrame:
on its superclass. I was trying to abstract away extra details, but I
shouldn't have made it look like an actual method signature. Sorry about
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Michael Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Upon further investigation, I've found that if I call
-registerForDraggedTypes: before adding the view to its parent window with
-setContentView:, I never get the -draggingEntered: messages. If I do so
afterwards,
My question is: what is the proper method for the user to specify measure
this disk and append to the current graph? I've thought of double clicking,
or drag and drop. Both cases feel a little strange to me so I'm wondering
what others think.
First, I think other forums/lists have been
If I have two items in my NSCollectionView and I remove the first item, the
animation causes the second item to slide underneath the first item which
then pops out of existence revealing the second item underneath. It would
look better if the animation caused the second item to slide over the
I have a self registering NSValueTransformer that requires a binding.
Did you mean it's required for use in a binding?
@interface MyValueTransformer : NSValueTransformer {
IBOutlet NSTabView *tabView;
}
That's probably not going to work out ... (see below)
// from
Well, maybe it's language barrier as a non-native speaker ...but in
order for the transformer to do its job it requires a reference to
the NSTabView to be set. And I was trying to inject that reference
through a binding. That's what I wanted to say.
Perhaps, but for clarity, in the
A few observations about Chris's advice: Points 1 2 are a bit
pedantic. In no way is that meant disrespectfully (in fact I respect
Chris), but style is a matter of opinion. That opinion is dictated by
whatever lead developer of whatever job you hold says it is. If you're
lucky, you're
Does anyone know how to watch for the dirty state of an
NSManagedObjectContext (if that's where it is applicable)? I imagine
the
same way that NSPersistentDocument can do it, if that is feasible.
NSManagedObjectContextObjectsDidChangeNotification
I would also expect that you can observe your
NSManagedObjectContext's hasChanges property using KVO.
No, you can not:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/CoreDataFramework/Classes/NSManagedObjectContext_Class/Reference/Reference.html#/
I am reading my cocoa book and online tutorials atm. But one ting that
totally irks me atm is using interface builder to create objects and
instantiate them.
Why? This is the way it's done in the Cocoa world unless you have
a very good reason not to. You can either get used to it or you
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:35 AM, colo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm. The letting it create the files in the nib file sounds fine for
me. But what about the linking and configuring? It's just all
reflected in code correct? The dragging a pipe to one object to the
other that just all shows
The issue could also be addressed from the other direction. How far behind
the scenes do you want to go? Should one program only with structs and C
functions because polymorphism and dynamic binding do things for you behind
the scenes?
I had started to say much the sam thing (only was
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:53 AM, colo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess it's just all of the Ruby and Rails and CSS that gets in
my way of thinking.
Yes. ;-)
Common apps that use tables and shelves like Mail or other todo apps
are not on my target and frankly may never be, so the
Hmmm. The letting it create the files in the nib file sounds fine for
me. But what about the linking and configuring? It's just all
reflected in code correct? The dragging a pipe to one object to the
other that just all shows up in the .m right? So that part can just be
bypassed and
Graham, your responses were very well-put. I had to step away from
this thread to meet some deadlines today and I'm glad to see where
it's gone for the most part. I rushed to the defense of IB because,
for what it is intended, it really is a powerful and useful tool.
Unnecessary
On this topic, when I drag an object out of the Library and set its
class, IB sets the label of the object to the Class Name. Since this
is an instance of the class, and not the Class Object itself, why is
the name capitalized?
It's just a convenient label. If you have two
On May 14, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
It depends. It's the file's (nib's) owner. If you are talking about
MainMenu.nib, its owner is the application instance. For typical
document nibs, it's the NSDocument instance. For others, it's
whatever you pass as owner in the NSBundle class
On May 14, 2008, at 8:51 PM, I. Savant wrote:
And if I want to refer by name to that instance in my code, what is
the name of the instance?
Nothing. That is, not until you add an IBOutlet in whatever class
you want to connect to that instance.
Let me clarify this a bit further
On May 14, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
It can be a little tricky to find, though.
That's only if you're searching myopically for that one answer. If,
on the other hand, you read the conceptual documentation all the way
through as you're meant to, you should definitely come across
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