Re: Argh never-ending troubles with bindings

If you are trying to bind to an arrayController via representedObject, I've never had any luck with that. I've always used representedObject to get a local reference to the arrayController and bind to that. On 2/8/17 8:26 PM, "cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com"

Re: Refreshing Cocoa Bindings

Just don't try binding to an arrayController via representedObject. I've resorted to using representedObject to establish a local iVar to reference such an arrayController. That works. On 1/12/17 1:42 PM, "cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com" wrote: > On Jan

Re: Display USB Video Camera output : AVFoundation?

It¹s a bug. I filed it a couple of days ago. 22666722 AVCaptureSession commitConfiguration calls deprecated code. On 9/13/15 2:00 PM, "cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com" wrote: > Well, AVCaptureView is not very malleable. I needed to use an >

Display USB Video Camera output : AVFoundation?

First, yes, AVFoundation is the way to go. Second, you can use AVCaptureView or AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer. II recommend that you don¹t subclass AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer, but rather embed it in your own custom CALayer. That gives you more freedom of control, and if you want to do things like

Re: NSNumberFormatter Issues

Jul 2015, at 6:53 am, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: However, if user changes the displayed value, leaving the degree symbol intact, it says it is invalid and throws an exception, essentially ending the program run. This is totally unacceptable. What is going on here

NSNumberFormatter Issues

I¹m having a new problem, in code that¹s been around for awhile, that I¹d swear was never there before. Text field had a NSNumberFormatter and is bound to a CGFloat. It is for angle entry and the format is set to show the degree symbol suffix. A Circular slider is bound to the same value. Text

Re: Another NSTreeController/NSOutlineView/NSIndexPath Question

Ok, I admit to being confused. Seems like what we are missing is the data model. Your containers must be or at least have an array for storage. Normally, the NSTreeController reflects this model and has the info provided to traverse it. In my case, elements are CoreData objects with parent

Re: Another NSTreeController/NSOutlineView/NSIndexPath Question

If you are going to use a data hierarchy, then use a data hierarchy. Look like you are attempting to use a linear array, which won¹t work. You need arrays of arrays and you bind the tree controller to the root array. On 6/10/15 10:45 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com

Re: Does the NSView Drag Protocol has any issues with non-key windows?

Apparently so. I have had difficulty dragging things into an open (non-transient) popover. It just doesn¹t work. On 5/7/15 1:00 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: I am trying to drag a NSTableView row on to a NSView on the same window. But the window

Re: What's the right way to use UIActivityIndicatorView? After it's stopped

You can stack views and controls however you like. I do it all the time. You need to pay attention to the list of views, not just the visuals in iB. Just use an outlet or binding to hide the ones you don¹t want showing. Set the activity indicator to hide when not active. When you stop animation,

Re: Testing selection with NSArrayController?

I totally disagree with that assessment. Selection should NOT be a property of the object model. I tried that years ago. Bad move. Selection is part of the ³control² layer of MVC. The Œview² part displays to the user. The array of objects is part of the model. You should be iterating the array for

Re: Request for guidance re. CALayer

We have a Mac application that uses CALayers (subclassed) for layered drawing. Our drawing view uses a drawing delegate for drawing (rendering) and a Edit delegate for interaction. The latter is in a view controller that is also inserted into the view¹s responder chain. (Edit Delegate methods are

Re: NSView nextResponder always the viewController?

Thanks, I¹ll look into that. It would have been nice if the docs has more explanation of how they are handling the responder chain for viewControllers. Also, it appears that the view is now holding a reference to the viewController (when used). However, it is not public. I wish that would make

NSView nextResponder always the viewController?

In Yosemite, any included viewController is automatically inserted into the view¹s responder chain. Something is not working right. In many of our views, we insert controllers (derived from NSResponder) A and B into the view¹s responder chain. A must come first, then B, so B is inserted first as

Re: What changed in 10.10 scrollView / scrollPoint?

I hope they haven¹t gone to layer backed views for text. If you have a choice turn that off. We have a teleprompter app which scales formatted text nicely on Mac, but was found to be unusable on iOS due to layer backing. On 11/17/14 3:00 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com

Re: NSBezierPath with Transparent color stroke

Reminds me when I racked my brain trying to figure out how OmniGraffle drew parallel border lines on Beziers. I tried inset/outset, etc, then slapped my forehead when I realized that they just stroked it with a wide line, then again with a narrow line using the background color. Duh! On

WWDC App

What has happened to the WWDC app? I even deleted it from my iPad and re-downloaded it. It doesn¹t work. Crashes and quits when you select anything. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator

Re: Compressing glyphs programmatically

One of my big gripes with the Mac or iOS text system is the lack of a real super/subscript attribute. I haven¹t tried doing custom attributes. Is it possible to define and use custom super/subscript attributes which combine the normal baseline shift attributes with NSExpansionAttributeName to get

RE: Compressing glyphs programmatically

I tried using NSExpansionAttributeName when sending a NSAttributedString to CoreText, but it didn’t work. Docs say it should be a NSNumber of the log of the expansion factor. This is confusing because log normally means base 10, except that in C it is actually ln() (Naperian). Either way, it had

Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 11, Issue 339

I¹m not clear as to what your view/nib structure is. If you are using a view nib, I recommend using a custom viewController and, in awakeFromNib, setting a local property (maybe from an IBOutlet) to the array controller. Trying to bind anything to an array controller through a view controller¹s

Re: Bindings setup with NSCollectionViews

Sorry, forgot to update the Subject on previous post On 6/18/14 8:28 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: Bindings setup with NSCollectionViews ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)

Re: Bindings setup with NSCollectionViews

for NSCollectionView. I.e. the ones that are added automatically when dragging an NSCollectionView in IB.  On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: I¹m not clear as to what your view/nib structure is. If you are using a view nib, I recommend using a custom viewController

Drop on a NSCollectionView

Can¹t seem to get this to work. I have a collection view in a popover (dismissed with a ³close² button) launched from a sheet. Delegate is set to controller which declares NSCollectionViewDelegate, implements the validate and accept drop protocols. Collection view (not the enclosing scroll view)

Re: Unwanted Animations

: On May 24, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: Two separate issues: 1. CALayer Animation. I have a movie sublayer which has an observer to track an underlying draw object¹s bounds. When dragging the object, the movie layer position lags. I¹ve tried

Re: Unwanted Animations

Kyle, if you read my first post, I want the user to be able to show the toolbar if corrections or changes are needed in real-time. This only applies to one window, and only when capturing from the content area of that window. I would prefer that the captured video did not show toolbar animation

Unwanted Animations

Two separate issues: 1. CALayer Animation. I have a movie sublayer which has an observer to track an underlying draw object¹s bounds. When dragging the object, the movie layer position lags. I¹ve tried ³removeAnimationForKey:@²position², and ³removeAllAnimations² when creating the layer. I¹ve

Re: Help with Help

, but does offer the ability to handle custom HTML for things like tables, that don’t translate easily as styled text. I would agree that it can be a complex application if you want to get beyond the basics. On May 7, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: I then tried the $150

Re: Help with Help

Wow! That¹s quite an indictment of one of Apple, Inc¹s supposed developer tools. You¹d think that with $190B cash, they could fix this. One of the problems I ran into is that I couldn¹t find the indexing tool without going back to old versions. When I tried to use it, it choked, spewing a litany

Help with Help

We would like to get a recommendation on the best way to generate a help system for a fairly complex application. We started by using a simple web view and created about 120 screens in BBEdit, mostly drill-down outlines. Unfortunately, this has been proven to be difficult to maintain. We¹ve looked

NSTextView Text Length

Is there any way to get a notification or set an observer on NSTextView¹s used text length? After much research, I have not found a way other than to pole the layout manager for usedRectForTextContainer. This must exist internally because the textView has to communicate with the containing

Re: NSTextView Text Length

Ah. Somehow, I totally missed the fact that NSText has its own delegate protocol. That did it. Thanks. On 4/15/14 7:20 PM, Graham Cox graham@bigpond.com wrote: On 16 Apr 2014, at 9:57 am, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: Is there any way to get a notification or set an observer

Re: Ordered to-many relationship CoreDataGeneratedAccessors

One thing you are missing, is that, as far as I know, the generated accessors are still broken. You have to write your own. I did find a set of macros someone wrote for this, but haven¹t tried them yet because I had already written many of my own sets of accessors. Two more things to watch out

Re: Issues with CIFilters and CALayers

to generate an image and not a bitmap representation of the image which I think is where your problem lies. Kevin Sent from my iPhone On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:28, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: Apparently, my comment about not understanding this construct for setValueForKeyPath was correct

Re: Issues with CIFilters and CALayers

that it does not work. Any reason, besides what I postulated, why this shouldn¹t work? On 2/23/14 3:06 PM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: We have run into a number is issues trying to use CIFilters with CALayers: 1. When a layer is hidden, its filters, especially background filters, should

Forcing a CIFilter to Output

We are applying a custom background filter to a CALayer. It works ‹ once, at installation. However we have been unable to do live control of the filter parameter. Yes, we are using valueForKey to change parameters, and have verified that the filter parameters are getting updated. However,

Issues with CIFilters and CALayers

We have run into a number is issues trying to use CIFilters with CALayers: 1. When a layer is hidden, its filters, especially background filters, should be temporarily removed, or at least bypassed. Hiding the layer should make if effectively non-existent in the displayed layer stack. 2. The

Re: UIPopoverController and UIToolbar interactions

If you can spare the real estate, I would suggest adding your own subview-bar and put the popover buttons there. That¹s what I did. Or just overlay the buttons on your main view. I have an iPad app with a UIToolbar across the top, and a couple of UIPopoverControllers that come out of buttons

Letting an instance know its own index within a container

If all you are trying to do is display row numbers, the only reasonable way I know is to use the table¹s delegates, then find and insert the row number for your table¹s number column. Doing it the way you stated would preclude display elsewhere if you needed that later. IMHO, it¹s preferable to

Re: NSShadow with [bezierPath addClip]

David, Now, if someone could just tell me why AVPlayerLayer won¹t produce a shadow, when there is no such problem with QTMovieLayer in the same environment... === Message: 1 Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 17:44:01 -0800 From: David Duncan

Re: NSShadow with [bezierPath addClip]

The default of masksToBounds in CALayer is NO. I had my subclass of AVPlayerLayer log it, and it does show it is still NO. On 1/3/14 3:18 PM, David Duncan david.dun...@apple.com wrote: On Jan 3, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: David, Now, if someone could just tell

Re: NSShadow with [bezierPath addClip]

, which kills the shadow. If I remember correctly, I did not have this problem with QTCapturePreviewLayer using the same code. But at least now, I have something to look into. Thanks. On 1/3/14 4:29 PM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: The default of masksToBounds in CALayer is NO. I had my

Re: NSArray firstObject?

That¹s also a problem with re-declared methods not labeled as IBAction, such as a few contained in NSTextView. (e.g., superscript, subscript.) Another point with firstObject. I assumed this was the same as array[0] or objectAtIndex:0, but apparently not so. If I remember correctly, these result

Re: Fast hash of NSData?

The total of all images ever seen by humans on the planet is less that 2^^60. So, theoretically, in an information-theory sense, every image ever seen by humans could be specified by a unique 64-bit word. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Sandbox and CIKernel

I¹m a little confused as to whether or not one can use a CIKernel in a samdboxed app. Custom filters often require this and WWDC is full of examples using such. Sandbox guides say no kernel extensions. Is CIKernel a special case? What¹s the story on this?

Re: Sandbox and CIKernel

...@ksluder.com wrote: On Nov 22, 2013, at 7:56 AM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: I¹m a little confused as to whether or not one can use a CIKernel in a samdboxed app. Custom filters often require this and WWDC is full of examples using such. Sandbox guides say no kernel

Insane Spaces

Having a few issues here with the new screens/spaces feature. I use second monitor as presentation screen and do video capture from there. All the Mission Control prefs are checked, except for dashboard as a space. I use two spaces on main screen. First, the terminology is confusing. Mission

Toolbar Error Message

With 10.9, targeted at 10.8, when I show a toolbar for a window, I get the console message: ³Misuse of NSImage and CALayer. contentsGravity is top. It should be one of resize, resizeAspect, or resizeAspectFill. Stack trace is useless. What the heck is this? I only have NSToolbarItems and a

Data Detectors in iOS7

Are DataDetectors broken in iOS7? I have seen other posts with the same issues I am seeing. I have a Twitter Timeline with a UITextView and link detector in a TableViewCell. Works, maybe once, then highlights the entire text and doesn¹t link right. Worked in iOS6.

iOS7 Controls

I really don¹t like to do posts like this, but I think it is warranted. My motivation is to find out how others are coping with this. Admittedly, I¹m late to the party, only upgrading after the release. There were only a few features I thought I might add in my iPad apps for iOS7, so I just let

Deficiencies in UIKeyCommand

UIKeyCommand is a welcomed addition to iOS when using an external keyboard. However, there seems to be a few deficiencies in its functionality: 1. F-keys. Is there any way to snag an F-key command with UIKeyCommand? You have to specify a string. Is there a way to do this? 2. Repeat keys.

Need calls for MathType Edit Interface

Ok, Apple, inc. guys. I¹m not having a lot of success with the MathType people on doing this on a Mac. What I have is the ability to paste/drop MathType pdfs into objects and text, the latter proportioning the baseline properly (even when resizing it), plus my text code now works properly will

Doc bug for NSAttributedString pasteboard read/write

The docs for NSPasteboardReading/Writing still claim that NSAttributedString conforms. However, I can find no evidence of such in the refs, headers, or additions for NSAttributedString . Is it is, or is it ain¹t. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: Issues with NSTextView Attachments

...@ksluder.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013, at 04:40 PM, Gordon Apple wrote: I guess the operative word here is ³custom². So how does NSTextView handle attachments which are not custom, because it does? Why not RTFD? I thought RTF didn¹t handle attachments. It uses RTFD, but it might

Re: Lack of IBAction in Some Classes

Sorry for the delay. Got waylaid by my own issues. I guess that¹s the case. Without re-declaring the header, it just doesn¹t show up in IB. On 8/12/13 4:05 PM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013, at 01:44 PM, Gordon Apple wrote: Is there some reason why some classes

Re: Issues with NSTextView Attachments

. That didn¹t help. On 8/10/13 12:31 PM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: Using NSTextView¹s native ability to embed image attachments, we have successfully implemented resizing of the image by using a resizable frame with a drag handle, and using setSize on the NSImage. Works great. Only one

Re: Issues with NSTextView Attachments

I guess the operative word here is ³custom². So how does NSTextView handle attachments which are not custom, because it does? Why not RTFD? I thought RTF didn¹t handle attachments. So, it looks like I need to archive the attributed string segment as a custom pboard type, in addition to the

Lack of IBAction in Some Classes

Is there some reason why some classes, such as NSTextView, don¹t declare IBAction in their actions? I¹ve taken to re-declaring such in subclasses, which works, but results in compiler warnings about unimplemented methods. Without that, you can¹t connect, say, a menu, in IB. You can use a

Issues with NSTextView Attachments

Using NSTextView¹s native ability to embed image attachments, we have successfully implemented resizing of the image by using a resizable frame with a drag handle, and using setSize on the NSImage. Works great. Only one problem, re-archiving the NSAttributableString loses the image size change.

Single Click not Called on NSTextAttachment

I¹ve added resize capability for image attachments in my subclass of NSTextView. Currently, this gets triggered by a double-click on the attachment. I would prefer to do this with a single-click so I can reserve double-click for launching an editor for some types of attachments. (I suppose I

Re: Storing an NSImage File

Nunes devli...@sintraworks.com wrote: On 5 Aug, 2013, at 01:02 , Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: I can¹t find any access to ³pieceInfo² via PDFKit. ³PieceInfo² is a standard pdf component, which many companies use for storage of private date. In this case, the main info I need

Re: Storing an NSImage File

program, and can be sent back to that program for editing, then reinserted. On 8/4/13 6:39 PM, Uli Kusterer witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net wrote: On Aug 2, 2013, at 21:44, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: Next question. Does anyone know how to get a PieceInfo Dictionary (if it exists) out

Re: Storing an NSImage File

: On 02/08/2013, at 6:23 PM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: As a last resort, I just archive the NSImage as a private type, Never do this! Not only is it inefficient, it isn't guaranteed to actually work - images that come from the picture taker for example, cannot be archived

Storing an NSImage File

I have a need to store an NSImage (possibly from a pasteboard) as standard file type. As a last resort, I just archive the NSImage as a private type, I have figured out how to recognize a NSPDFImageRep and store as a .pdf, which I need because of certain metadata which needs to be preserved. But

Re: Storing an NSImage File

That¹s a good point. The main thing is to use a format that is lossless and easily converted. Next question. Does anyone know how to get a PieceInfo Dictionary (if it exists) out of a PDFDocument or PDFPage? Do I have to go outside of Cocoa to get this? On 8/2/13 12:28 PM, Jens Alfke

Re: NSTextView's MarkedText

for selection highlighting or if there is a standard background (or markedText) attribute. I¹m not sure how to get it called for drawing using my custom attribute. On 7/24/13 5:08 PM, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Jul 24, 2013, at 14:53 , Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote

Re: NSTextView's MarkedText

I have now added my own custom attribute, similar to markedText, and it seems to work as intended. However, I have run into a new problem. I need to know when selection if finished, but for some reason, my subclass of NSTextView can not intercept mouseUp. The plan was at that point to change my

Re: NSTextView's MarkedText

. On 7/24/13 3:46 PM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Gordon Apple wrote: I have now added my own custom attribute, similar to markedText, and it seems to work as intended. However, I have run into a new problem. I need to know when selection

Re: NSTextView's MarkedText

mouseUp never gets called. Never hits breakpoint on first line. That¹s what I don¹t understand. This is a floating textView over a text draw object. There is an overlay view in front, which is inert, except for rare conditions. I checked to make sure it was not intercepting it. After all,

Re: NSTextView's MarkedText

...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Jul 24, 2013, at 14:53 , Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: I need the mouseUp (selection ended) Why not use the delegate method for detecting a selection change (textViewDidChangeSelection) and, using state you save when a pen swipe starts, change the attributes

Re: NSTextView's MarkedText

Ok, so that¹s out. I could create a custom attribute which would work as I described, but I¹m not clear on what NSLayoutManager background method(s) I would need to override to implement this. On 7/22/13 7:30 PM, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: I don't think you should attempt to use

Re: NSTextView's MarkedText

attributes to see if my custom attribute background is applicable, or else call inherited. On 7/23/13 10:05 AM, Fritz Anderson anderson.fr...@gmail.com wrote: If I understand your need, -[NSLayoutManager drawBackgroundForGlyphRange:atPoint:]? ― F On 23 Jul 2013, at 9:55 AM, Gordon Apple g

NSTextView's MarkedText

Extensive Googling has not produced an answer. What is a MarkedText attribute? Is setting a background with markedText the same as just setting the (selected) text background? Or does markedText take precedence over (or overlay) text background? Is this permanent or temporary, i.e., does the

Re: NSTextView's MarkedText

highlighting, and also allow all markings to be easily cleared for the entire text view, if desired. Thus, my other questions. On 7/22/13 6:45 PM, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: Sent from my iPhone On 2013/07/23, at 7:38, Gordon Apple g

Re: developer.apple.com under maintenance for a few days now?

Everything was down here for about two days. Now, these forums are available and I can get reference access from Xcode, neither of which were available, but the developer sites are still inaccessible. On 7/21/13 9:29 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:

Re: AVAudioMix volume/gain curve seems nonlinear

I don¹t have the definitive answer to your question of how the AV volume level is actually defined, but it would make sense for it to be linear in dB (i.e, logarithmic in power). dB is always a power measurement. Growing up, I was always told that a dB was the smallest volume change a person

Re: Why is it wrong to have relationships without an inverse

I try to minimize my dependency on CoreData by using generic and app-specific categories on the MOC. I also mostly use root entities, rather than doing independent fetches. I had looked at other options, but pragmatism won out, and I went with CoreData. You mentioned MacApp. I was heavily

Rules for IBOutlet Strong/Weak References

Re: Confused by memory issue with UIDatePicker I¹ve had a lot of experience with this and would like to share my basic rules for IBOutlets when using ARC. This should be fairly obvious, but I think it needs saying. 1. All top level objects in a nib should be strongly-referenced from the file¹s

Re: Multiple Observations

, such as the above, to forewarn users of this issue. Ideally, they should fix the problem. As such, I have filed this as a bug report, referring to this discussion: 14168920. On 6/16/13 7:23 AM, sli...@araelium.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Gordon Apple wrote: I still think the compiler should

Re: Multiple Observations

, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Jun 14, 2013, at 13:06 , Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: ³currentPath² property in doc gets set once. Observation gets dinged about 200 times. Removing the ³reloadData² didn¹t affect this. Same observer in another file gets dinged

Re: Multiple Observations

awakeFromNib. On 6/15/13 10:19 AM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: I shouldn¹t need to look at the context. You must ALWAYS check the context. OMG! I thought for sure I had checked awakeFromNib. That is the problem. My

Re: Multiple Observations

BTW, I’ve just reproduced the problem in TableViewPlayground. On 6/15/13 10:19 AM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: I shouldn¹t need to look at the context. You must ALWAYS check the context. OMG! I thought

Re: Multiple Observations

...@ksluder.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: Re: Multiple Observations Kyle, One of us is missing the point. Yes, awakeFromNib gets called for these objects. The question is why does the viewController¹s awakeFromNib get called every time a cell view

Re: Multiple Observations

interface object. Doing otherwise would not make any sense. I guess you are saying that this statement applies for each mini-nib defining the cell view. I still consider this to be a bug. On 6/15/13 12:52 PM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013, at 09:51 AM, Gordon Apple wrote

Re: Multiple Observations

. On 6/15/13 1:27 PM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: Re: Multiple Observations Well, I have to say that this statement is highly ambiguous. It is not ambiguous. It is clear as night and day. -awakeFromNib is sent

Multiple Observations

- (void)awakeFromNib { [self.doc addObserver:self forKeyPath:@currentPath options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew | NSKeyValueObservingOptionOld context:nil]; } - (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath

Re: Jiggling Shadow Offset

How are you forcing the redraw? If you are using setNeedsDisplayInRect:, are you expanding the rect enough to cover the shadow? On 5/22/13 4:34 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: What bit of obviousness am I missing here?

NSOutlineView View-based Layout issue

Outline View on right has a text field followed by a button near the right edge. Button strut is set on right. Initial layout is ok. Once any row is expanded, buttons get pushed to the right by row indentation. The only way to get it right is to expand width of containing window, then resize

Re: NSOutlineView Travails

appropriate, subject to any applicable patents or copyrights.² On 5/2/13 4:55 PM, Corbin Dunn corb...@apple.com wrote: On Apr 21, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: Our view-based NSOutlineView still has a few annomalies, but mostly works. Now, we are attempting to install

NSOutlineView Storing/Restoring Disclosure Paths

We have a hierarchy, displayed in an NSOutlineView. We also allow the user to specify the root at any of the top two levels. When moving the root down the tree, if there is no selection, the new root is the first element of the top-level tree. If rows are selected, we use the first index path to

Re: NSOutlineView Travails

Our view-based NSOutlineView still has a few annomalies, but mostly works. Now, we are attempting to install a hoverView in our outline column to launch a popover (display only) when mousing over a row. This works just fine with NSTableViews, but so far does not work at all with NSOutlineView. We

NSOutlineView Travails

We are converting tables and outlines to view-based. So far, so good, on tables. But NSOutlineView has been a pain. First of all, there is no documentation on this, zero, zip, nada, zilch, in the NSOutlineView Reference. You have to rely on sample code and NSOutlineView.h. Our outline view

Re: NSOutlineView Travails

We had assumed that outlineView:objectValueForTableColumn:item was not called if the table was bound to a NSTreeController. Wrong assumption. If we returned the correct value, or just eliminated this method, it mostly works correctly. However, there a few anomalies. The outline text indents

Re: NSOutlineView Travails

need the basics working predictably first. On 4/17/13 4:09 PM, Quincey Morris quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com wrote: On Apr 17, 2013, at 10:50 , Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: We are converting tables and outlines to view-based. So far, so good, on tables. But NSOutlineView has been

Can Deactivation be Prevented When Launching Popover?

We have a view-based tableView, each row containing a few controls and a text field. Using a hover-view, mousing over a row launches a popover to the side of the applicable row, containing information only (no interaction). We subclassed NSPopover to set acceptsFirstResponder to NO to prevent

Short Tutorial on Collection Views

In your nib, drag in a collection view. This will also get you a collection view item and a prototype view, already connected together. Ser the number of rows/columns for the collection view. Bind your collection view to an array controller. Bind the latter to your array of objects, each

Re: Custom control with 4 vertical sliders

Ah! A Boilermaker. Did my MS and PhD there in EE may years ago, before I went to Bell Labs. I just suggested a collection view because they are so easy to use when you need an array of identical views bound to an array of objects via the represented object. You just create the prototype and let

Re: Custom control with 4 vertical sliders

Don¹t use NSMatrix. Use NSCollectionView. I have a popover containing a collection view with sliders and all kinds of other stuff. Depending on what you are doing, you may need to make the thing create a new view for every collection class element instead of just replicating the prototype. (I

Re: OS X Collection Views videos?

See my response on ³Custom control with 4 vertical sliders². Like many things, NSCollectionView is very simple to use, once you understand it. Your xib file with handle most of it for you. You just have to supply the prototype view and get your bindings hooked up properly and make sure you know

Re: Could somebody please fix NSTimer?

In case anybody is interested, the following wrapper for NSTimer solves the problem. (You can add the other methods yourself, if needed.) #import Foundation/Foundation.h @interface RTPTimer : NSObject @property(nonatomic, weak) id target; @property(nonatomic) SEL sel; + (RTPTimer

Re: Could somebody please fix NSTimer?

³shutDown² calls so I can finalize and release contained controllers in a prescribed order. I might even add a protocol with those two methods. On 1/12/13 2:33 PM, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Jan 12, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Gordon Apple g...@ed4u.com wrote: Re: Could somebody please fix

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