Re: creating files to write data to?

2008-08-16 Thread Scott Anguish
On 17-Aug-08, at 1:52 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: On Aug 17, 2008, at 12:07 AM, FTB Accounts wrote: Here is the current code I am running: This code has many fundamental errors. I think you need to review the basics of the C language first, then of Objective-C. You have to walk before you

Re: creating files to write data to?

2008-08-16 Thread Ken Thomases
On Aug 17, 2008, at 12:07 AM, FTB Accounts wrote: Here is the current code I am running: This code has many fundamental errors. I think you need to review the basics of the C language first, then of Objective-C. You have to walk before you can run. You say that you're not getting any e

Re: creating files to write data to?

2008-08-16 Thread FTB Accounts
Thanks, all for the responses. First I changed the path to write to. The folder is writable. On GetInfo for the folder "MYTEST", I have set "Read & Write" permissions for: You can, Owner, Group, & Others. Is there anything else I need to do to make it write to that folder? As a side note, I am

How to debug "The Debugger has exited due to signal 10 (SIGBUS)."

2008-08-16 Thread Nathan Gilmore
Hello Everyone, I am a newbie to Cocoa and just started getting this error as my app starts up: The Debugger has exited due to signal 10 (SIGBUS).The Debugger has exited due to signal 10 (SIGBUS). I am having trouble debugging this because I do not know what this means. I also don't kn

Hiding NSTableColumn causes other columns to shrink

2008-08-16 Thread Markus Spoettl
Hi List, it appears it's time for a stupid question again. I'm experiencing some odd behavior of NSOutlineView (probably NSTableView as well) when hiding and showing table columns dynamically. I have an outline with a number of columns, the first and last column have "resize with table"

Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1470

2008-08-16 Thread John Joyce
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:53 PM, John Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right now, I'm toying with using Flex/Lex in a Cocoa project. Unfortunately, I don't see a reliable or easy way to handle NSStrings correctly all the time with Flex. Does anybody have any suggestions for such text handling an

Re: Window 'close' action fails

2008-08-16 Thread Chris Hanson
On Aug 16, 2008, at 11:48 AM, dct wrote: I'd still like to know why "[self close]" failed in this case--but I can live with the solution without knowing why it works in some cases and not in others. I suspect you were not closing the window you thought you were closing, due to the way you

Re: Window 'close' action fails

2008-08-16 Thread Chris Hanson
On Aug 15, 2008, at 3:28 PM, dct wrote: I don't believe that my 'close' problem is explained by an awkward init -- as I said before, all of the other U/I operations of the nib "SPlotWindow.nib" are working as expected (so somehow I've dodged a potential bullet, at least so far). Indeed; y

Re: Preferred Wrapper for TCP Sockets Over Local Network?

2008-08-16 Thread Devon Ferns
I've used AsyncSocket before but not too extensively. It seems to work just fine and I don't really have any complaints about it. Devon On 16-Aug-08, at 2:27 PM, Brad Gibbs wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a Cocoa class to establish a TCP socket with another machine on a local network (non-OS

Re: NSUInteger hash

2008-08-16 Thread Steve Wart
Thanks for the useful feedback. Nick I thought about creating an object for the number but I was apprehensive about the allocation overhead. It seems strange that NSRect and NSPoint are structs and not objects, but I'm rolling with it :) Mike thanks for suggesting I use integer value as its own h

Re: NSUInteger hash

2008-08-16 Thread Michael Ash
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Steve Wart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just getting started with Cocoa and I'm trying to implement hash and > isEqual: methods according to the recommendations in the coding guidelines. > > To implement a hash method I would normally just hash the r

Re: NSUInteger hash

2008-08-16 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Aug 16, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Steve Wart wrote: What's the standard way of hashing non-object values in Cocoa? Something like this ought to work: (warning - written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk) [[NSNumber numberWithUnsignedInteger:someNSUInteger] hash]; You can use NSValue to

Re: Preferred Wrapper for TCP Sockets Over Local Network?

2008-08-16 Thread Marco Masser
I would like to be able to use an SSL certificate, but, beyond that, my needs aren't exotic. Ease-of-use and reliability would be a big plus. I've also considered a Ruby class that would handle the TCP messaging and pass responses back to the Cocoa-based app. Any suggestions? Maybe the

NSUInteger hash

2008-08-16 Thread Steve Wart
Hi all, I'm just getting started with Cocoa and I'm trying to implement hash and isEqual: methods according to the recommendations in the coding guidelines. To implement a hash method I would normally just hash the receiver's instance variables together and xor the result, but this only works if

Re: Window 'close' action fails

2008-08-16 Thread dct
My 'close' problem is solved by changing - (IBAction)quit:(id)sender { [self close]; } to - (IBAction)quit:(id)sender { [splotWindow close]; } where splotWindow is a File's Owner outlet connected to the nib's (only) window. I'd still like to know why "[self close]" failed i

Preferred Wrapper for TCP Sockets Over Local Network?

2008-08-16 Thread Brad Gibbs
Hi, I'm looking for a Cocoa class to establish a TCP socket with another machine on a local network (non-OS X). I've found Omni Networking, AsyncSocket and NetSocket. I've read conflicting reports of the suitability of NSSocketPort for non-DO-related work. I would like to be able to us

Re: @property and @synthesize not working

2008-08-16 Thread Chris Hanson
On Aug 13, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Nathan Gilmore wrote: I am a newbie and I am having trouble getting my setter to work when I use @synthesize. Here is the code: @interface DayTaskController : NSArrayController { NSCalendarDate *searchDate; } @property(readwrite, assign) NSCalendarDat

Re: Using Flex/Lex in a Cocoa project

2008-08-16 Thread Michael Ash
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:53 PM, John Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now, I'm toying with using Flex/Lex in a Cocoa project. > Unfortunately, I don't see a reliable or easy way to handle NSStrings > correctly all the time with Flex. > Does anybody have any suggestions for such text handl

Re: Changing NSTextFieldCells' editing appearance?

2008-08-16 Thread Ross Carter
On Aug 15, 2008, at 1:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -setBackgroundColor: didn't work? Nope, it didn't. But even if it would've, the background would have been visible at all times. I'm sorry if I didn't write clearly enough, but it's only when the cell is being edited that the backgr

Re: Making a bound view re-read its value

2008-08-16 Thread Michael Ash
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Quincey Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lastly, before I shut up, in both Markus's question and the thread that Adam > referred to, the idea was to trigger a KVO update when the property value > was known to have *not* changed. In those circumstances, I still be

Re: Opening an external file in a external application

2008-08-16 Thread has
John Love wrote: Really though, what's best/practical/possible all depends on what you're trying to do, so if you want more advice then you'll need to provide more information. Very short info list is as follows (stuff I need to do from within my Cocoa app): 1) be able to save the Excel sprea

Re: Table column header not highlighted at first

2008-08-16 Thread Graham Cox
On 16 Aug 2008, at 1:36 am, Graham Cox wrote: I need to figure out why the second table works even though I'm not doing anything special (and none of the autosave stuff you mentioned either). OK, very simple: it was set in the nib. I didn't realise that presetting this in the nib was po

Re: Problem with NSImage and .PNG file

2008-08-16 Thread Rainer Brockerhoff
At 03:26 -0700 16/08/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:54:32 -0700 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Problem with NSImage and .PNG file >Message: 4 > >I have an image that is 7200x32 pixels, which is used to store a series of >32x32 til

Re: Core Data, xcdatamodel

2008-08-16 Thread Tim Isted
I'm assuming that you are using NSArrayControllers in your Interface Builder nib/xib file... Bind the Content Set for the rgb controller to the collection controller's 'selection' with a model key path of whatever your relationship is called (ie the to-many relationship in the collection

Re: what is radar:// supposed to open?

2008-08-16 Thread Wade Tregaskis
sorry not totally cocoa but this is the 2nd or 3rd time I've seen 'radar://' , clicked it, and I get an instant crash of something called mobilesafari. What's supposed to open radar:// links? I tried safari but it just does the same thing. I'd actually like to be able to track some of these

Re: creating files to write data to?

2008-08-16 Thread Jason Coco
On Aug 15, 2008, at 19:35 , Andy Lee wrote: On Aug 15, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Jason Coco wrote: Adding the @ just makes it an NSString constant... but writeData still requires (NSData *), not (NSString *). Argh! Or perhaps, given the nature of this error, which I missed, I should say "Arg!"

Core Data, xcdatamodel

2008-08-16 Thread R T
>From the xcdatamodel of a "Core Data Document-based Application", I have two >entities... 1st one entity is a set of rgb values. 2nd the other entity is a collection of these sets. ... so the add button of the 1st entity should not be available until an object of the 2