Displaying time

2008-08-21 Thread Ron Fleckner
Hi, I want to display the current time in a full screen window. I'm making my computer into a digital clock (for my own use). I've done it by using NSCalendarDate and extracting the hours, minutes, and seconds, formatting a string and displaying it. I use an NSTimer to update the displ

File Extensions Problem

2008-08-21 Thread Adil Saleem
Hi, I want to display in a tableview, list of all media files (audio, video files) present in a certain directory. Currently what i am doing is that i am getting the file names in an NSMutableArray using NSFileManager function directoryContentsAtPath I get the list, but the problem is that i

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Negm-Awad Amin
Am Do,21.08.2008 um 19:54 schrieb Michael Ash: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Negm-Awad Amin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Am Do,21.08.2008 um 16:15 schrieb Michael Ash: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Negm-Awad Amin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Am Do,21.08.2008 um 12:25 schrieb Thomas

Re: NSCalendarDate to be deprecated

2008-08-21 Thread Ryan McGann
As written, 70 microseconds. When I set the calendar's time zone to GMT, the time drops to 43 microseconds. Since my app will only work with dates in GMT, this is a plus. Even so, 40 microseconds is far slower than the 7 - 8 microseconds offered by -[NSCalendarDate dayOfYear]. Unless someone

Re: NSTableColumn not usable with binder of class NSTextValueBinder?

2008-08-21 Thread Dave Dribin
On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:45 AM, Ken Ferry wrote: The NSTextValueBinder error message is a bug? Or the fact that NSCell does not have a "value" binding? Or both? ;) Maybe both.. I meant the first. Well, more information. I found the code that was directly responsible for causing the error

Re: add dummy NSView subclass to framework?

2008-08-21 Thread Kieren Eaton
Thanks Graham So then I should have an nsobjectcontroller subclass which is then available as the interface to my framework and not as it currently is with just a nsobject subclass. the nsobject subclass would then become the "model" as such. is this right? Thanks On 22/08/2008, at 12:47

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Graham Cox
On 22 Aug 2008, at 2:22 pm, Phil wrote: Why use NSNotifications when there's already perfectly good notification mechanism? Indeed, but notifications have been around a lot longer than KVO, so there are still plenty of places in Cocoa that notifications are used for legacy reasons. Als

Re: add dummy NSView subclass to framework?

2008-08-21 Thread Graham Cox
On 22 Aug 2008, at 1:53 pm, Kieren Eaton wrote: With bindings I cant connect to the framework classes directly so should I add a dummy nsview subclass that will allow my interface bindings access to the frameworks ivars etc? A dummy NSView? No. A controller? Yes. This is what controllers

add dummy NSView subclass to framework?

2008-08-21 Thread Kieren Eaton
Hi I have lately been struggling with bindings A LOT. I have looked at a lot of tutorials but they have not seemed to be what I need. I have a framework which does all the grunt work for my application and the app controller is just a frontend to the framework. With bindings I cant connect

Re: Sharing text selection across views/cells

2008-08-21 Thread Matt Ball
My gut reaction is that an NSTableView would be the *wrong* way to do this -- the control simply wasn't designed for this kind of behavior. Subclassing NSTextView would be a much better plan. Another option, depending on how dynamic your content is, would be to use WebKit. You could generate an HT

[Moderator] List Guidelines and NDA Information

2008-08-21 Thread CocoaDev Admins
iPhone SDK -- Until an announcement is made otherwise, developers should be aware that the iPhone SDK is still under non-disclosure (section 5.3 of the iPhone Development Agreement). It can't be discussed here, or anywhere publicly. This includes other mailing lists, forums, service

[Moderator] List Guidelines and NDA Information

2008-08-21 Thread CocoaDev Admins
iPhone SDK -- Until an announcement is made otherwise, developers should be aware that the iPhone SDK is still under non-disclosure (section 5.3 of the iPhone Development Agreement). It can't be discussed here, or anywhere publicly. This includes other mailing lists, forums, service

[moderator] Re: reusing cookies set in UIWebView

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Anguish
the reason you can't find this information is that the iPhone SDK is still under non-disclosure. You can't talk about it here or anywhere publicly. scott [moderator] On 21-Aug-08, at 8:18 PM, John Greene wrote: Hi, I've done a little bit of searching and haven't found an answer to this

Re: Source List groups shifted down in NSOutlineView

2008-08-21 Thread Jeff Wilcox
Ah, ok I guess that is understandable even if it is somewhat inconvenient. Thanks for the info. Jeff On Aug 21, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Corbin Dunn wrote: On Aug 20, 2008, at 9:16 PM, Jeff Wilcox wrote: I generally am pretty good at web mining or hacking solutions to weird cocoa things, but t

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Phil
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Kyle Sluder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @implementation ToolBar > { >-(id) init >{ >[[[NSNotificationCenter] defaultCenter] addObserver:self > selector:@selector(splitViewResized:) object:mySplitView]; >} -(void)dealloc { [[NSNotificationCe

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Merenbach
Greetings, Mike, I'm not sure when I have told anyone that they were outright wrong -- heaven knows, I've been wrong enough about various things myself. I don't recall saying at any point that you were "wrong," and in fact (as you may clearly note) I said that you must have a good reason f

Re: User Defaults - tables and arrays

2008-08-21 Thread Hal Mueller
It's possible to save arrays using NSUserDefaults--technique is in the archives, but it looked pretty daunting to me with a lot of chances for me to screw things up. I chose to use a very simple CoreData model for my array instead. It might be a bit of overkill, but CoreData saved me a bu

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Graham Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But one thing that has been overlooked - common or garden notifications. If > all you want is to pick up a change in an object a notification is a simple > way to do it without writing your own messaging system. It's less pow

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Andy Lee
If you don't have the ability to figure out everything you need on your own, then please refrain from polluting the mailing list with attacks on people who want to help you. Andrew specifically did *not* say you were wrong, and he asked a polite question. Nobody has all the answers. If y

Re: NSWindowController, owner, "primary window"...

2008-08-21 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Gerd Knops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No problem with subclassing. It was just the presence of the > '-initWithWindowNibName:owner:' method that tripped me off a little, as it > seems near useless unless there is some undocumented magic behind it. I don't see wh

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Steve Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The great majority of Mac applications do not run in kiosk mode so for most > cases preventing window movement *is* wrong because you take control away > from the user. Hold on, I don't agree with that. Taking contro

User Defaults - tables and arrays

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Idou
Is the User Defaults Controller any use if you have a table or array of objects to store? It's not obvious what one would bind to, or how one could control the tableview just using a user defaults controller. Is the User Defaults controller purely for simple stuff? __

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Christensen
Kinda hair-trigger on the defensiveness, dontcha think, especially since Andrew didn't actually say you were wrong? The great majority of Mac applications do not run in kiosk mode so for most cases preventing window movement *is* wrong because you take control away from the user. Had you fi

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Ribe
> "1 When any scalar value is converted to_Bool, the result is 0 if the > value compares equal to 0; otherwise, the result is 1." Aaahhh... I looked and looked for the antecedent to that particular "except as otherwise specified" and couldn't find it. So C99 narrows the prior n

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Ben Trumbull
So, does everybody really always use KVC/KVO for implementing MVC, in all projects? Is this the recommended best practice? From code written after 10.2, yeah, pretty much. Coupled with the tools support in Interface Builder and the AppKit support with Cocoa Bindings, it's really not worth t

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Ricky Sharp
On Aug 21, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Mike wrote: Yeah, I've read that technote and am familiar with it. It doesn't have what I need. And there's no setting in IB to create a window without a titlebar (and I don't want to create one programatically). Then you're out-of-luck. Creating a non-movab

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Ken Thomases
On Aug 21, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Mike wrote: Is there any way to prevent a Cocoa window from being dragged while it is onscreen? I believe you can override -constrainFrameRect:toScreen: to achieve what you're looking for. Cheers, Ken ___ Cocoa-dev

Re: ObjC 2.0, properties, KVC, special _ hacks etc.

2008-08-21 Thread Thomas Engelmeier
Am 22.08.2008 um 00:59 schrieb Dave MacLachlan: Also, are the _ in front of member variables for Apple only (so we don't stomp on each other with member var names) or are they using them for the readability reason mentioned above? There is documentation where they have claimed _ at the beg

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Mike
Yeah, I've read that technote and am familiar with it. It doesn't have what I need. And there's no setting in IB to create a window without a titlebar (and I don't want to create one programatically). Jason Coco wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 22:37 , Mike wrote: For a Kiosk application. Ah,

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Jason Coco
On Aug 21, 2008, at 22:37 , Mike wrote: For a Kiosk application. Ah, that makes sense... well, I'm not really sure about Cocoa. I think you can override the drag method in Carbon, but not really sure about that either. In case you haven't seen it yet, there is a technote about kiosk stu

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Mike
What I am doing is definitely not "wrong". My application is a kiosk application, I put up shielding windows on all attached monitors, and I enter kiosk mode. I then have a totally black display with a single window - mine - which is the size of the main display but which I want to be immovable.

Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Bill Mutch
Ken, Thanks for your explanation of the development of KVC, KVO, and Bindings. As a geezer who spent most of his career coding in assembler on IBM mainframes beginning in the late 60's, it is still sometimes difficult not having total control over my code. KVC, KVO, and Bindings is one of th

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Mike
For a Kiosk application. Jason Coco wrote: Wow, I hope not :) Why would you want to do this? On Aug 21, 2008, at 21:10 , Mike wrote: Is there any way to prevent a Cocoa window from being dragged while it is onscreen? Thanks, Mike ___ Cocoa-dev m

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Graham Cox
On 22 Aug 2008, at 1:03 am, Oleg Krupnov wrote: 4) Anything else I may have overlooked? I've read through this thread and it's very interesting. But one thing that has been overlooked - common or garden notifications. If all you want is to pick up a change in an object a notification is

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Merenbach
Hi, Mike, Unfortunately, I'm not sure as to the exact answer to your question. Do bear in mind, however, that -- even if there is a way -- you'll have to take into account that the user might very well switch Spaces, rendering your window no longer visible. While I won't tell you right-

filter Predicate - NSArrayController

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Idou
I want a search field aka iTunes to filter my NSTableView. I have a list of objects with a "title" field. The filter predicate of NSArrayController sounds like something that might help. I got as far as writing this predicate: return [NSComparisonPredicate predicateWithLeftExpression:[NSExpres

Re: Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Jason Coco
Wow, I hope not :) Why would you want to do this? On Aug 21, 2008, at 21:10 , Mike wrote: Is there any way to prevent a Cocoa window from being dragged while it is onscreen? Thanks, Mike ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Ple

Re: Newbie question re Xcode on Leopard

2008-08-21 Thread Kiel Gillard
Hi Paul, Hope you're enjoying Cocoa ;-) As you probably noticed, the Classes tab has been removed in Interface Builder 3 (the Leopard Interface Builder). The projects header files are automagically synced with the xib. To instansiate your custom class; 1) Drag an Object (plain blue cube) from the

Preventing windows from being dragged

2008-08-21 Thread Mike
Is there any way to prevent a Cocoa window from being dragged while it is onscreen? Thanks, Mike ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at co

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Ken Thomases
On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Erik Buck wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Erik Buck wrote: KVC also provides support (hooks) for change management so that any change to a property can have application defined side effects like registering

reusing cookies set in UIWebView

2008-08-21 Thread John Greene
Hi, I've done a little bit of searching and haven't found an answer to this dilemma: I want to use a webservice in my app that returns XML, but the catch is the user has to be logged in to get valid results, and the log-in is quite distinct from the webservice. I could create a UIWebView to the l

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Erik Buck
On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: I have some quibbles... On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Erik Buck wrote: So, in summary, the whole point of KVC is to standardize the way an object’s properties are accessed regardless of how they are stored. Well, the real point, to my mind,

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Clark Cox
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Scott Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The "except as previously specified" in 6.3.2.3 5 refers back to >> 6.3.2.3 3. Without the "except as previously specified", 6.3.2.3 5 >> would directly contradict 6.3.2.3 3 (i.e. it would render the >> conversion from a null

Re: Cheap quality improvements (was Re: !foo vs foo == nil)

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Ribe
> Speaking as a battle-hardened QA manager, the one simple step of > turning on all warnings and removing them Absolutely. Which is why pointless warnings really annoy me! FYI, I'm not talking about Xcode/gcc here. I'm thinking of an old version of Watcom, in which a warning was generated for eve

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Ribe
> The "except as previously specified" in 6.3.2.3 5 refers back to > 6.3.2.3 3. Without the "except as previously specified", 6.3.2.3 5 > would directly contradict 6.3.2.3 3 (i.e. it would render the > conversion from a null pointer constant to a null pointer undefined). Right. But I'm talking abo

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Ken Thomases
Remember that NeXT and Apple didn't just invent KVC, KVO, and Bindings out of thin air for no better reason than they were enamored of the idea. There was a substantial history of NeXTStep/OpenStep/Cocoa programs written. The developers at NeXT and then Apple recognized that there was a

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Ken Thomases
I have some quibbles... On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Erik Buck wrote: So, in summary, the whole point of KVC is to standardize the way an object’s properties are accessed regardless of how they are stored. Well, the real point, to my mind, is to increase the dynamism of property access.

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Clark Cox
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Scott Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is an intentional omission (I have had this argument before on >> comp.lang.c, except I was arguing your side at the time, and was set >> straight). > > So, to be clear, there was at one time debate over whether null -> in

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Ribe
> It is an intentional omission (I have had this argument before on > comp.lang.c, except I was arguing your side at the time, and was set > straight). So, to be clear, there was at one time debate over whether null -> integer yields 0 should be in the standard, and in the end that was intentional

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Andy Lee
On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Jim Correia wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Jules Colding wrote: For that simple reason, I'd go for nil == foo every time. Yes, and in general you should always do "if (CONSTANT == foo)" to catch the potential "if (CONSTANT = foo)" error. If your name is Y

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Clark Cox
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Scott Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please show me where that is guaranteed. > > Well, you've really sent me on an archeological dig. It's not in the > standard! I think there's an error of omission--yeah I know, claiming "I'm > not wrong, the standard is" is q

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Ribe
> Please show me where that is guaranteed. Well, you've really sent me on an archeological dig. It's not in the standard! I think there's an error of omission--yeah I know, claiming "I'm not wrong, the standard is" is quite the claim indeed, but bear with me a second: 6.3.2.3.5 covers integer ->

[SOLVED]: Scaling an NSImage makes the edges disappear.

2008-08-21 Thread David Springer
Ken, I played around with this some more and I can get satisfactory results by setting the image interpolation to NSImageInterpolationHigh, along with making sure the dest size lies on integers. So it looks like I was being bit by the default resampling method. Thanks! - Dave.S On Thu, Aug 21,

Sharing text selection across views/cells

2008-08-21 Thread Rachel Blackman
Here's a random strange question. Given a highly customized NSTableView, where each row is a single cell and each cell contains one or more NSTextViews, each with a separate paragraph (potentially formatted with different justifications and so on), is there any reasonable way to make them

Vancouver - We Need A Mac Guru @ macProVideo

2008-08-21 Thread Martin Sitter
Vancouver - Senior Mac Developer With Multimedia Experience @ macProVideo.com Company: macProVideo.com Location: Vancouver, BC, CANADA Description: macProVideo.com, a leading global publisher of software tutorial- videos, requires a Senior Mac Developer with experience creating Multimedia

Re: Modifying TextEdit.app

2008-08-21 Thread R.L. Grigg
On Aug 21, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Andy Lee wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:55 PM, R.L. Grigg wrote: Yes, that's a cool feature. But if I have three versions of AppController.m up at once, it would be great to be reminded -- at a glance -- which one is which, especially since I get so many interr

Re: Scaling an NSImage makes the edges disappear.

2008-08-21 Thread David Springer
Hi Ken, I can build a test app - give me a couple hours to put it together. As for antialiasing, I thought that might be the problem, but I set the image interpolation on the graphics context to NSImageInterpolationNone and get the same results. I am on Leopard 10.5.4 (this all has to work on Ti

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Clark Cox
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Scott Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're forgetting that null pointers *must* convert to 0, Please show me where that is guaranteed. > this is why if(!foo) works. if(!foo) works because of: From 6.5.3.3: "The expression !E is equivalent to (0==E)." if(foo

Re: Scaling an NSImage makes the edges disappear.

2008-08-21 Thread Ken Ferry
Hi David, Could you post a complete test app? There's nothing in what you've posted that looks problematic[1]. Also, what OS are you working on? -Ken [1]: well, except maybe that you're likely to see antialiasing on the edges. Your problem looks more severe than antialiasing, though. On Thu,

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Ribe
You're forgetting that null pointers *must* convert to 0, this is why if(!foo) works. I think that would be the "Except as previously specified.." part of what you quoted ;-) -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice _

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Shawn Erickson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jim Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the sake of completeness (I know Marcel knows the rule), if you are > using the return value of a message send, the value will be undefined > depending on return type when sending a message to nil. See the runtime > doc

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Clark Cox
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Scott Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> as long as, when >> __builtin_special_null_keyword_that_is_specific_to_my_compiler is >> converted to a pointer type, it becomes a null pointer. > > And, if converted to integer type, it becomes 0. No, converting a pointer

Scaling an NSImage makes the edges disappear.

2008-08-21 Thread David Springer
Folks, For some reason, I am not able to figure this out. I want to draw a scaled NSImage, but the edges of the image are not drawn, it seems like the resizing actually clips the image. I have an NSBitmapImageRep created from some data. I then create the NSImage like this: NSImage *image = [[N

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Jim Correia
On Aug 20, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Marcel Weiher wrote: I was swayed by the "nil == foo" arguments for a while, but my gut kept tugging at me and now I have switched back to just if ( !foo), or better (I prefer positive ifs), if (foo). Of course, if all the if (foo) is protecting is a message-se

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Jim Correia
On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Jules Colding wrote: For that simple reason, I'd go for nil == foo every time. Yes, and in general you should always do "if (CONSTANT == foo)" to catch the potential "if (CONSTANT = foo)" error. If your name is Yoda, then perhaps if (3 != x) reads naturally to

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Ribe
> as long as, when > __builtin_special_null_keyword_that_is_specific_to_my_compiler is > converted to a pointer type, it becomes a null pointer. And, if converted to integer type, it becomes 0. Right; I was certainly talking about standard integer/pointer types, without compiler magic, which must

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Clark Cox
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Clark Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Scott Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could you tell me which part of the standard states that NULL is 0. >> >> >>> NULL *can* be 0, it isn't *necessarily* 0 >> >> >> It follows from the

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Clark Cox
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Scott Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Could you tell me which part of the standard states that NULL is 0. > > >> NULL *can* be 0, it isn't *necessarily* 0 > > > It follows from the rules re conversions that it must be either 0, or 0 cast > to a pointer type. O

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Ribe
>> Could you tell me which part of the standard states that NULL is 0. > NULL *can* be 0, it isn't *necessarily* 0 It follows from the rules re conversions that it must be either 0, or 0 cast to a pointer type. No value other than 0 is guaranteed to cast to the machine's actual null address (wh

Re: Converting NSString to valid HTML string

2008-08-21 Thread Nate Weaver
Those are for URL encoding; I think he wants HTML entities. I can't remember if there are Cocoa methods to do this, but you can use CFXMLCreateStringByEscapingEntities() (since NSString * and CFStringRef are toll-free bridged): NSString *input = @"2 < 4"; NSString *output = (NSString *)CF

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Clark Cox
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 21 août 08 à 19:06, Scott Ribe a écrit : > >> Wow, don't check the list for a few days and look what happens! >> >>> After all, that's why nil (and Nil) exist at all, >>> rather than just reusing NULL. >> >> Actua

Parsing any date/time format with NSDateFomatter

2008-08-21 Thread Joseph Kelly
Hello, I am creating NSDateFormatter programmatically, and I wish to parse any type of date string within the user's locale -- for instance "03/13/08" or "1:30PM March 13, 2008" would both be acceptable. Unfortunately, NSDateFormatter seems to parse only one specific format at a time. I w

Re: Converting NSString to valid HTML string

2008-08-21 Thread Randall Meadows
On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:16 PM, JanakiRam wrote: I'm developing an Cocoa client application.As part of application logic , i make the Webservice Call with XML data - which returns the XML file as response which contains the HTML code for the special characters. While sending the data i need t

Re: Modifying TextEdit.app

2008-08-21 Thread Andy Lee
On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:55 PM, R.L. Grigg wrote: Yes, that's a cool feature. But if I have three versions of AppController.m up at once, it would be great to be reminded -- at a glance -- which one is which, especially since I get so many interruptions. So if the path was on the title bar, tha

Converting NSString to valid HTML string

2008-08-21 Thread JanakiRam
Hi All, I'm developing an Cocoa client application.As part of application logic , i make the Webservice Call with XML data - which returns the XML file as response which contains the HTML code for the special characters. While sending the data i need to convert the special characters such as &,' e

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 21 août 08 à 19:06, Scott Ribe a écrit : Wow, don't check the list for a few days and look what happens! After all, that's why nil (and Nil) exist at all, rather than just reusing NULL. Actually nil exists at all because Objective-C was created *before* NULL was in such standard use! (

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Sean McBride
On 8/20/08 11:06 PM, Michael Ash said: >It is a little known fact that when passing NULL (and by extension nil >or Nil) as a parameter to a vararg function, you *must* cast it to the >appropriate pointer type to guarantee correct behavior. > >Interestingly, Apple's vararg methods which use nil as

Re: How to pause and resume an animation that uses a transform (CATransform3DMakeScale)?

2008-08-21 Thread Bill Dudney
Hi John, Try the layer's presentationLayer property. The presentationLayer is the thing that is actually moving around and you should be able to get 'current' values from it (give or take a bit). HTH, -bd- http://bill.dudney.net/roller/objc http://www.pragprog.com/titles/bdcora On Aug 21

Re: Modifying TextEdit.app

2008-08-21 Thread R.L. Grigg
On Aug 20, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 PM, R.L. Grigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now I want to modify TextEdit so I can display the filenames full path in the title bar of the document window instead of just the filename.ext (because sometimes I ha

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Erik Buck
I love answering questions that require an essay. So – here is my essay. I think my forthcoming “Cocoa Design Patterns” book does a good job of explaining the patterns used to implement Cocoa and reused to implement Cocoa applications. In particular, the book explains how techniques like Key

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Ash
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Negm-Awad Amin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Do,21.08.2008 um 16:15 schrieb Michael Ash: > >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Negm-Awad Amin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Am Do,21.08.2008 um 12:25 schrieb Thomas Engelmeier: >>> Am 21.08.2008

Re: [Q] SFPreferenceView and authorize as admin?

2008-08-21 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Most of the authorizations question on this list have the same answer. It's not and will never be possible to increase the rights of a running process (for obvious security reasons). System Preferences (your host process) run as the current user, so it cannot access protected locations. Ha

Re: NSWindowController, owner, "primary window"...

2008-08-21 Thread Negm-Awad Amin
Am Do,21.08.2008 um 19:24 schrieb j o a r: On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Negm-Awad Amin wrote: Probably because the GoF prefers combination over (?) subclassing. Subclassing always discloses parts of the implementation of a class. ("white-boxing") So generally it is a good idea, to look f

Re: NSWindowController, owner, "primary window"...

2008-08-21 Thread j o a r
On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Negm-Awad Amin wrote: Probably because the GoF prefers combination over (?) subclassing. Subclassing always discloses parts of the implementation of a class. ("white-boxing") So generally it is a good idea, to look for alternatives for subclassing, esp. delega

Re: NSWindowController, owner, "primary window"...

2008-08-21 Thread Negm-Awad Amin
Am Do,21.08.2008 um 06:10 schrieb Graham Cox: On 21 Aug 2008, at 5:13 am, Gerd Knops wrote: That'd work, but I'd have to subclass NSWindowController for that so I can add that property. Seemed to me that the above would not be an uncommon pattern and there ought to be a more elegant way

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Scott Ribe
Wow, don't check the list for a few days and look what happens! > After all, that's why nil (and Nil) exist at all, > rather than just reusing NULL. Actually nil exists at all because Objective-C was created *before* NULL was in such standard use! (It may have always been part of stdio.h, don't r

Re: How to enumerate directory contents?

2008-08-21 Thread Paul Archibald
You make a valid point. I think I will make that change. This is not really what we actually do. I cut out most of the real code to keep the example simple. The actual files we are looking for are machine generated, and the user is not really involved in the process at this point. Paul

Re: NSWindowController, owner, "primary window"...

2008-08-21 Thread Gerd Knops
On Aug 20, 2008, at 11:10 PM, Graham Cox wrote: On 21 Aug 2008, at 5:13 am, Gerd Knops wrote: That'd work, but I'd have to subclass NSWindowController for that so I can add that property. Seemed to me that the above would not be an uncommon pattern and there ought to be a more elegant way

Re: How to enumerate directory contents?

2008-08-21 Thread Sean McBride
On 8/21/08 7:46 AM, Paul Archibald said: > NSString *file; > // Get all of the files in the source directory, loop thru them. > NSEnumerator *files = [[myFileMgr >directoryContentsAtPath:srcDirectory] objectEnumerator]; > while(file = [files nextObject] ) { >

[Q] SFPreferenceView and authorize as admin?

2008-08-21 Thread JongAm Park
I don't think it is not possible.. but.. does anyone know how to? Thank you. Original Message Subject:[Q] SFPreferenceView and authorize as admin? Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:53:34 -0700 From: JongAm Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cocoa-dev Hello, all. Does any

Re: Sending a message to super's super (tab keyDown in NSTextView)

2008-08-21 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: When the 'tab' or 'backTab' key is pressed, NSTextView accepts it as a character to be typewritten. But sometimes I want NSTextView to behave like an NSTextField, with 'tab' or 'backTab' selecting the next or previous key view. So, in my

Re: Obtaining rotation from CTM

2008-08-21 Thread Nathan Vander Wilt
On Aug 21, 2008, at 6:56 AM, Tilman Bender wrote: Hi there, Is it possible to obtain the angle of rotation from a tranformation- matrix created with CGAffineTransfrom? If you haven't applied any other transforms to your CGAffineTransform, you could determine the rotation (in radians) via

How to pause and resume an animation that uses a transform (CATransform3DMakeScale)?

2008-08-21 Thread John Fox
Hello: I'm trying to pause, and then resume an animation that uses a CATransform3D to set animate the zoom level of a layer. I want to be able to pause the animation, but I can't figure out how to determine the current scale factor of the layer at the time when the animation is paused (us

Re: Obtaining rotation from CTM

2008-08-21 Thread David Duncan
On Aug 21, 2008, at 6:56 AM, Tilman Bender wrote: Is it possible to obtain the angle of rotation from a tranformation- matrix created with CGAffineTransfrom? If the CTM consists of only rotation and transform (or if it is scaled and you know the scale values) then it should be possible to re

Re: Source List groups shifted down in NSOutlineView

2008-08-21 Thread Corbin Dunn
On Aug 20, 2008, at 9:16 PM, Jeff Wilcox wrote: I generally am pretty good at web mining or hacking solutions to weird cocoa things, but this one has me a bit puzzled. I want to use groups in an NSOutlineView that is set up with Source List highlighting. However, I am also using horizonta

Re: !foo vs foo == nil

2008-08-21 Thread Sean McBride
On 8/21/08 10:15 AM, Michael Ash said: >BOOL var = 2; >if(var == YES) > >That if statement will evaluate to false, even though the value of >"var" is conceptually true. If only BOOL was bool we would not have this problem. :) To the best of my knowledge, there is no compiler flag to catch compar

Re: CALayer retain count

2008-08-21 Thread Shaun Larkin
thanks for the answer! --- On Thu, 8/21/08, Shawn Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Shawn Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: CALayer retain count > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com > Received: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 11:27 AM > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7

10.4+ NSNumberFormatter in IB3 question

2008-08-21 Thread Sam Krishna
Hi, I'm trying to get the 10.4+ NSNumberFormatter to properly format a basic decimal input in a table view. For whatever reason, I keep getting either (1) an invalid format (which causes the formatter to refuse the input) or (2) a formatted input, but without the 3-digit grouping separato

Re: CALayer retain count

2008-08-21 Thread Shawn Erickson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Shaun Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is it that when you set a CALayer property it's retain count increases > +1 ? > > eg. > > CALayer * testLayer = [[CALayer alloc] init]; > NSLog(@"test layer retain count:: %i", [testLayer retainCount]); > testLayer.fra

Re: Design Question: Pro & Cons of KVC/KVO

2008-08-21 Thread Negm-Awad Amin
Am Do,21.08.2008 um 17:03 schrieb Oleg Krupnov: Amin, It is true that I am new to Cocoa, and although I find the documentation really great and engaging, I have sort of difficulty figuring out what technology is newer/more powerful/built on top of/ other technology. In particular, would you e

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