Re: Layer Backed Views and CoreAnimation neither animate nor stay in place

Hi Chilton You better do the addition of subviews and setting up the core animation stuff in the view's awakeFromNib rather than its initWithFrame: method. Since the view is getting loaded from the nib, chances are that your settings within initWithFrame get overridden by the settings in t

Re: Output of NSHTTPCookieStorage to NSTableView

On 29 Jun '08, at 9:47 PM, Chris Purcell wrote: Thank you for the reply. I am a bit of a Cocoa newbie and I'm having trouble using the objectValueForTableColumn:. My NSTableView is only one column, but I would like to display all attributes of each key. You should have one column per a

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Re: NSPopUpButton setPreferredEdge

Thanks Peter, that makes sense, although if that is the case they should really just deprecate the method. Francisco On Jun 26, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Peter Ammon wrote: On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Francisco Tolmasky wrote: I'm attempting to make a pop up button that pops its menu to the lef

Re: CALayer and View Scaling

On Jun 29, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Gordon Apple wrote: BTW, I tried unsuccessfully to observe the clip view's bounds to trigger code to resize the CALayers. Why can't I observe it? I finally set an observer on the scale factor in SKTZoomingScrollView. because the bounds value of views ar

Re: viewing method calls

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Re: Output of NSHTTPCookieStorage to NSTableView

Thank you for the reply. I am a bit of a Cocoa newbie and I'm having trouble using the objectValueForTableColumn:. My NSTableView is only one column, but I would like to display all attributes of each key. This is an example of what is outputting when I display a entry of the NSArray: e

Re: Why aren't my bindings firing?

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Charles Srstka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wait, what? Okay, that contradicts the understanding that I had come to... > so the built-in views establish two-way bindings *without* overriding > bind:toObject:withKeyPath:options:? Great, that puts us back to square o

Re: Why aren't my bindings firing?

On Jun 29, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Hamish Allan wrote: Perhaps NSControls have their own bind:toObject:withKeyPath:options: implementation which simply checks for "value" and effectively binds to "objectValue"? No, classdump confirms that the only bind:toObject:withKeyPath:options: implementation is

Re: Why aren't my bindings firing?

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Charles Srstka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wouldn't worry about that too much - everything you said seems to jibe > perfectly with what views do - the text field's binding *is* called "value" > and not "stringValue" (that was my bad), and there's no correspondin

Re: CALayer and View Scaling

I'm not familiar with SKTZoomingScrollView but I do wonder why its author wrote it that way, when to get zooming you can simply use the actual view's -scaleUnitSquareToSize: method (plus frame computation), and any enclosing clipview/scrollview does the right thing without any work at all.

Anybody here credited in Wall-E?

In the past I've seen well known Cocoa programmers like Michael B Johnson and Mike Ferris in the Pixar credits. I caught Michael B Johnson's name in the credits but by the time they get to the software developers the list is just too large to follow.

Re: Is this still true?

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Scott Anguish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the controller classes don't return old and new values, that's the part that > isn't implemented. > > your own classes (provided they're written in a KVO compliant manner) will > return both. Unless their properties are

CALayer and View Scaling

Apparently, there is a disconnect between the view's coordinate system context and that of the contained CALayers. I'm using Sketch's SKTZoomingScrollView to set the scale factor of my main drawing view. It works great without CALayers. What is does is it scales the bounds of the containing

Re: Thread safe reference counting

Awesome, thanks. I remember reading that page, just completely missed the "Object allocation and retain count functions" note in the list. Loren On Jun 29, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Michael Ash wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Chris Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 30/06/2008, at 9:06

Re: Thread safe reference counting

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Chris Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30/06/2008, at 9:06 AM, atebits wrote: > >> Perhaps I'm blind, but after pouring over every scrap of information I >> could find, I could not find the answer to this question. >> >> Are -retain and -release thread-safe?

Re: Scrolling during zoom

Search the docs for -scrollRectToVisible: and -scrollToPoint: G. p.s. since I know you're doing this in DK, also look at DKDrawing's - scrollToRect: method, which you should use. On 30 Jun 2008, at 9:17 am, James Maxwell wrote: Hello All, I've implemented a sort of "time zoom" for a musi

Re: Is this still true?

sorry. I didn't see the part in the writeup where it mentiosn NSArrayControler. Still wasn't a bad exercise for me though. On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Alex Wait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ah. I see. > > I would still love to know why the apple devs haven't gotten around to do > this yet. :

Re: Is this still true?

ah. I see. I would still love to know why the apple devs haven't gotten around to do this yet. :) On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Scott Anguish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the controller classes don't return old and new values, that's the part > that isn't implemented. > > your own classes (pr

Re: Is this still true?

the controller classes don't return old and new values, that's the part that isn't implemented. your own classes (provided they're written in a KVO compliant manner) will return both. On Jun 29, 2008, at 7:32 PM, Alex Wait wrote: weird. I tried this: [newPerson addObserver:observe forKe

Re: Is this still true?

weird. I tried this: [newPerson addObserver:observe forKeyPath:@"lastName" options:( NSKeyValueObservingOptionOld| NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew) context:NULL]; and below is my method NSLog(@"observing"); //int oldLastName = [change o]; id oldName = [change objectForKey:NSKeyValueCha

Scrolling during zoom

Hello All, I've implemented a sort of "time zoom" for a music app I'm working on. Basically, it's just re-positioning objects along a musical staff when I click and drag up/down the screen (like in Live, or Logic... Soundtrack too, I think). However, if I'm in the middle of a score, the c

Re: Thread safe reference counting

On 30/06/2008, at 9:06 AM, atebits wrote: Perhaps I'm blind, but after pouring over every scrap of information I could find, I could not find the answer to this question. Are -retain and -release thread-safe? (Perhaps as atomic increments/ decrements internally?) Yes, -retain and -release

Thread safe reference counting

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Re: NSTextView to replace NSTextList confused

On Jun 29, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Papa-Raboon wrote: This is great, I changed the line that said: myNotes = [theNotes stringValue]; to: myNotes = [theNotes string]; And it worked. I am not sure where abouts in the class reference for NSTextView it states that you should pass it a -string rather tha

Re: NSTextView to replace NSTextList confused

This is great, I changed the line that said: myNotes = [theNotes stringValue]; to: myNotes = [theNotes string]; And it worked. I am not sure where abouts in the class reference for NSTextView it states that you should pass it a -string rather than a -stringValue but it worked all the same. Brilli

Re: Is this still true?

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Alex Wait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But does the bug it talks about still exist? I'm afraid so. But what I really want to know is, *why* won't it be fixed any time soon? I presume there *is* a reason, otherwise why would mmalc make such a claim? Hamish ___

Re: description and proxy objects

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Re: NSTextView to replace NSTextList confused

On Jun 29, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Papa-Raboon wrote: Hi Kyle and thanks for responding. I am not sure what part of the documentation you refer to when you say cocoa text system but I started reading about NSTextView and NSText and to be honest until I get more familiar with cocoa and everything clic

Re: Unicode in URLs (was "Handling framework exceptions/errors?")

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, David Troy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was sort of under the impression that NSURL URLWithString: would deal with > escaping/translating the Kanji characters, but I could see how it might not. > > Is there some method I can use to break the Kanji back out into es

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Re: Handling framework exceptions/errors?

2008/6/29 Jim Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jun 29, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Jens Alfke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> URLs can only contain ASCII >> >> Not true. Have a look at: > > NSURL's initWithString:relativeTo

Is this still true?

this page has been frequently linked to as helpful and it is! :) http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/CocoaExamples/controllers.html But does the bug it talks about still exist? - (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)cont

Re: Handling framework exceptions/errors?

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM, David Troy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a situation where I am loading arbitray data from network-supplied > URLs. Sometimes the URLs contain Kanji unicode characters. When they do, > my HTTP loading mechanism (which is built around NSURL* frameworks) di

Re: Handling framework exceptions/errors?

On Jun 29, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Jens Alfke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, what do you mean by a URL containing Kanji characters? I suppose he means one like this: - which works correctly in Safari, btw. Safari is enco

Re: Handling framework exceptions/errors?

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Jens Alfke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, what do you mean by a URL containing Kanji characters? I suppose he means one like this: - which works correctly in Safari, btw. > URLs can only contain ASCII Not true. Have a look at:

Unicode in URLs (was "Handling framework exceptions/errors?")

Jens, Thanks for the help. I am being handed a URL as an NSString and am simply forwarding it to the frameworks for processing. A example URL which causes a crash is: http://foo.com/56033713/アイコン用ハング音_normal.jpg (where foo.com is something else) I didn't check to see if [NSURL URLWithStrin

Re: Handling framework exceptions/errors?

On 29 Jun '08, at 9:56 AM, David Troy wrote: I have a situation where I am loading arbitray data from network- supplied URLs. Sometimes the URLs contain Kanji unicode characters. When they do, my HTTP loading mechanism (which is built around NSURL* frameworks) dies with an exception deep

Re: NSTextView to replace NSTextList confused

Hi Kyle and thanks for responding. I am not sure what part of the documentation you refer to when you say cocoa text system but I started reading about NSTextView and NSText and to be honest until I get more familiar with cocoa and everything clicks into place the documentation seems very confusing

Re: Output of NSHTTPCookieStorage to NSTableView

On 29 Jun '08, at 9:39 AM, Chris Purcell wrote: Thank you for the reply. I think right now the simplest would be to convert the cookies array to an array of NSStrings. What would be the easiest way to do this? Keep the array as an array of NSHTTPCookies. But your - objectValueForTableCo

Re: How to converting a Carbon nib to Cocoa?

Hi: There is no way to automatically convert a Carbon Interface Builder Document into a Cocoa Interface Builder Document. You are going to need to recreate all of your Carbon dialogues in Cocoa. By hand. --Chris On Jun 29, 2008, at 1:59 AM, Fosse wrote: My Carbon nib contains a lot

objc_exception_throw

By setting a Breakpoint at objc_exception_throw or [NSException raise] I am able to stop my program when (for example) an out of range exception is thrown. However the call stack trace on the debugger window or the 'bt' command only shows a single line. For example: #0 0x9500d0d7 in objc_e

Re: noob questions regarding KVC accessors for a mutable array property

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Stuart Malin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do have the indexed accessors implemented. I also have an accessor that > returns an array of the objects -- not sure why I did that... force of habit > from other accessors (having a setter -set and a getter -). I > cert

Re: Handling framework exceptions/errors?

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:56 AM, David Troy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a situation where I am loading arbitray data from network-supplied > URLs. Sometimes the URLs contain Kanji unicode characters. When they do, > my HTTP loading mechanism (which is built around NSURL* frameworks) dies

Re: Clock-like looping

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Daniel Richman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I just realized that won't work for floating point numbers. But you > can check if the number is an integer first, then use the % operand if so. For floating-point modulus, one can use fmod(), fmodl(), or fmodf(),

Re: mutableArrayForKeyValue Question (ignore other email)

On Jun 29, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Scot t Anguish wrote: From: Scott Anguish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mutableArrayForKeyValue Question (ignore other email) To: "Alex Wait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: cocoa-dev Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flo

Re: Clock-like looping

the '%' operator cannot be used with floating point values, but it works well with integer: => (11 + 2) % 12 = 1 Le 29 juin 08 à 19:34, Daniel Richman a écrit : Use double newNumber = oldNumber % 13; This will return your number's remainder when dividing between 13, which could be 0 - 1

Re: Clock-like looping

Sorry, I just realized that won't work for floating point numbers. But you can check if the number is an integer first, then use the % operand if so. Daniel Daniel Richman wrote: Use double newNumber = oldNumber % 13; This will return your number's remainder when dividing between 13, whic

Re: Clock-like looping

Use double newNumber = oldNumber % 13; This will return your number's remainder when dividing between 13, which could be 0 - 12. Daniel Ashley Perrien wrote: Is there a fairly simple way of setting up a clock style looping of numbers? Where 1-12 act normally but 11 + 2 would return 1 and s

Clock-like looping

Is there a fairly simple way of setting up a clock style looping of numbers? Where 1-12 act normally but 11 + 2 would return 1 and so on. I'm not doing time and would be dealing with ranges from 1 to 96, 77, 120, that type of range. Would also need to be able to handle partial numbers (4.12

Re: Cocoa Text System: How to determine the caret position?

I know that text along a path was done by someone in the past. Basically the strategy was: - let the text system lay out the text on a straight baseline (one long line) - do the glyph drawing on your own along your path Of course, spacing needs to be tightened/loosened depending o

DnD in NSMatrix

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Handling framework exceptions/errors?

Hey folks, I am fairly new to Cocoa development, so bear with me. I have a situation where I am loading arbitray data from network- supplied URLs. Sometimes the URLs contain Kanji unicode characters. When they do, my HTTP loading mechanism (which is built around NSURL* frameworks) dies wi

Re: Methods that return autoreleased objects?

On Jun 29, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Mike Ferris wrote: Best thing to do about the top-level nib "exception" to the rule is to use NSWindowController or NSViewController to do your nib loading. These classes properly take responsibility for top-level objects of the nibs they load and then all you

Re: Methods that return autoreleased objects?

Best thing to do about the top-level nib "exception" to the rule is to use NSWindowController or NSViewController to do your nib loading. These classes properly take responsibility for top-level objects of the nibs they load and then all you have to do is manage the lifetime of the control

Re: Output of NSHTTPCookieStorage to NSTableView

Thank you for the reply. I think right now the simplest would be to convert the cookies array to an array of NSStrings. What would be the easiest way to do this? Thank you! On Jun 28, 2008, at 9:56 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Chris Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Widgets for HUD

On 27/06/2008, at 16:48, Erik Verbruggen wrote: I know this has been asked before on this list (somewhere earlier this year), but I couldn't find the posting back. So sorry for repeating the question, but I'd like to use the HUD of Leopard and with "fitting" widgets. Somebody mentioned som

Re: noob question regarding proxy object returned by -selection method of NSArrayController

On Jun 29, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Stuart Malin wrote: On Jun 28, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Owen Yamauchi wrote: How about [[controller selection] valueForKey:@"self"]? NSObject has a -self method which just returns the receiver, and since the proxy object must respond to the KVC query as if it were the

Re: noob question regarding proxy object returned by -selection method of NSArrayController

On Jun 29, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: On Jun 28, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Stuart Malin wrote: I have a button in the GUI that should cause various changes to the person selected in the table. In the method that is the target of the button's action, I need to get the selected Person o

Re: noob questions regarding KVC accessors for a mutable array property

I do have the indexed accessors implemented. I also have an accessor that returns an array of the objects -- not sure why I did that... force of habit from other accessors (having a setter -set and a getter -). I certainly can understand one reason why this wouldn't be good, because should

Re: Methods that return autoreleased objects?

On Jun 29, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Charles Srstka wrote: Yes, but it's not obvious, which is why I thought to point it out since we're discussing the times when you should and shouldn't release objects. The alloc, init, and retain methods are also documented, but that doesn't mean we can't help

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Re: Methods that return autoreleased objects?

On Jun 29, 2008, at 1:58 AM, mmalc crawford wrote: On Jun 28, 2008, at 9:59 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: Methods that begin with "alloc" or "new" or contain "copy" will return objects you are responsible for. All other objects returned from methods are taken care of. Well, there is the notab

Re: Widgets for HUD

On 27 Jun 2008, at 20:48, Erik Verbruggen wrote: I know this has been asked before on this list (somewhere earlier this year), but I couldn't find the posting back. So sorry for repeating the question, but I'd like to use the HUD of Leopard and with "fitting" widgets. Somebody mentioned so

Widgets for HUD

I know this has been asked before on this list (somewhere earlier this year), but I couldn't find the posting back. So sorry for repeating the question, but I'd like to use the HUD of Leopard and with "fitting" widgets. Somebody mentioned something on tweaking the look/ colours and somebody

Re: Using isMemberOfClass with a tree of subclass of NSManagedObject

Okey, I've solve the problem ! It's very simple, I've only load the in NSManagedObjectModel the mom file represent the modification base, not the main model... Now I load all mom file and it's work ! Thanks all Le 29 juin 08 à 01:27, Bill Bumgarner a écrit : On Jun 28, 2008, at 1:08 PM,

Re: NSURLConnection vs CF and other ideas

Now that's very very nice as well. I actually did read the CFNetwork programming guide and CFHTTP request, but it seemed to me a lot more work for just the progress, but I was going to go that route when I decided to look it up in the mailing list archives. That's what made me ask because i

Re: NSURLConnection vs CF and other ideas

Perfect. I was reading about things like subclassing NSInputStream and having to implement methods for which no docs were available on what to implement and things like that. It sounds like its a lot simpler and so that's good. Will do! On Jun 29, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: On 2

Re: NSURLConnection vs CF and other ideas

On 28 Jun '08, at 6:11 PM, Alex Kac wrote: I've got a working HTTP Post with file upload using NSURLConnection, but I don't seem to see any ways to get progress on the upload beyond the connectionDidFinishLoading: delegate. Is there a better way to be able to get progress info so we can di

Re: XML-RPC Cocoa Parsing

On 28 Jun '08, at 10:24 PM, Rick Langschultz wrote: I am trying to use XML-RPC for my data access on a web server (HTTPS). I wanted to know if parsing the XML-RPC data can be handled using NSXMLDocument and parsing the , , , XML-RPC tags. Sure. It'll parse any sort of valid XML. Also,

Re: Style Question

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Alex Wait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was meaning to imply that if it was called "FirstName" would setFirstName > still be called? See the first word of Jens' reply. But more importantly, just as Jens says, unask the question :) Hamish

Re: How to deal with a MenuItem with both a binded state property and an action method

El 28/06/2008, a las 18:44, Keary Suska escribió: 6/28/08 8:54 AM, also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To sumarize, the problem is that I am not able to change the menuItem state programatically (ie. in myAction) without avoiding the second call to setMenuState. However if the call to myAction com

How to converting a Carbon nib to Cocoa?

My Carbon nib contains a lot of dialogs. I want to make it be used by another cocoa application and don't want to create all those dialogs and econstruct the entire control hierarchy manually in the Interface Builder. I don't care about connections, I'll wire them up myself. I'm just hoping to avo

Re: NSExpression

On Jun 28, 2008, at 11:35 PM, Chris wrote: If anyone has a clue how to use it, I'd be grateful. This was my unsuccessful attempt: NSExpression * ex = [NSExpression expressionForFunction: [NSExpression expressionForConstantValue:@"BAR"] selectorName:@"length" arguments:nil]; NSPredicat

Re: NSExpression

On Jun 28, 2008, at 10:35 PM, Chris wrote: NSExpression * ex = [NSExpression expressionForFunction: [NSExpression expressionForConstantValue:@"BAR"] selectorName:@"length" arguments:nil]; NSPredicate * predicate = [NSCompoundPredicate andPredicateWithSubpredicates:[NSArray arrayWithObject:

Re: NSURLConnection vs CF and other ideas

On Jun 29, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Alex Kac wrote: I've got a working HTTP Post with file upload using NSURLConnection, but I don't seem to see any ways to get progress on the upload beyond the connectionDidFinishLoading: delegate. Is there a better way to be able to get progress info so we can disp

Re: mutableArrayForKeyValue Question (ignore other email)

On Jun 28, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Alex Wait wrote: I am trying to modify the array controller programmatically and I'm running into problems using mutableArrayForKeyValue I am using this line id proxy = [controller mutableArrayValueForKey:@"Person"]; -mutableArrayValueForKey: is for modifyin

Re: Garbage Collection woes...

On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:31 PM, John Engelhart wrote: Lesson #1: If you have any interest in performance, you must avoid, at all costs, "writing" to a __strong pointer. That's almost like saying: "If you have any interest in performance, you must avoid, at all costs, using a high level l

Re: noob question regarding proxy object returned by -selection method of NSArrayController

On Jun 28, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Stuart Malin wrote: I have a button in the GUI that should cause various changes to the person selected in the table. In the method that is the target of the button's action, I need to get the selected Person object so I can operate on it. I know I could use

Re: Garbage Collection woes...

On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:31 PM, John Engelhart wrote: -(BOOL)doSomething:(id)obj error:(NSError **)error { if(error != NULL) { *error = NULL; } // Make sure we clear the error object } Why are you doing this? It's sort of ambiguous as to what should be returned by the indirect error poin

Re: Why aren't my bindings firing?

On Jun 28, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Charles Srstka wrote: I think what we can all take home from this is that the documentation for bindings needs to be clearer and less self- contradictory on the very basic concept of exactly what Cocoa Bindings *is*. For what it's worth, after sending my previ

Re: mutableArrayForKeyValue Question (ignore other email)

I think there is still some clarification necessary. what exactly are you trying to accomplish, rather than how you are trying to do it? would I be correct to guess that you want to create a new Person object and add it to the array? if so you need to create the object and add it to the a