Unsupported type encoding spec 'b' in NSGetSizeAndAlignment

2008-09-13 Thread Jérome Laurens
Hi list, I am on 10.5 and I often get exceptions like NSExceptionHandler has recorded the following exception: NSInvalidArgumentException -- NSGetSizeAndAlignment(): unsupported type encoding spec 'b' at 'b1b1b1b1^{PlatformKeyboardEvent} {String = {RefPtr < WebCore ::StringImpl>=^{String

Re: referencing XML Data

2008-09-13 Thread Nathan Kinsinger
On Sep 13, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Amy Heavey wrote: I've got an NSXMLDocument *custdoc but I can't work out how to actually access the data in the document, I've looked at NSXMLElement, NSXMLParser, NSXMLNode but I just can't work out the correct code. sample xml: − Willow Tree Crafts 99 L

Re: when should my NSWindowController be released?

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Ash
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Markus Spoettl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:42 PM, j o a r wrote: >> >> Like what? > > For instance if you have an app delegate object in MainMenu.nib it gets > deallocated only when the application terminates. Pretty much by definition, if an

Re: NSColorWell - What's in the corner?

2008-09-13 Thread Seth Willits
On Sep 13, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Matthew Schinckel wrote: Any idea what the gray tab in the corner signifies? If you click on the color well and set the value, it always disappears. http://www.sethwillits.com/temp/NSColorWellCorner.jpg It means the color it's displaying was created in the Devic

Re: NSColorWell - What's in the corner?

2008-09-13 Thread Ken Ferry
It means the color is in a device color space. Doesn't everybody know that? ;-) (Very much kidding..) The color panel allows you to choose the colorspace for the color. In the tab that gives you a slider for each color channel, there's a little popup with a colorwheel and a white popup arrow. T

Re: NSColorWell - What's in the corner?

2008-09-13 Thread Matthew Schinckel
On 14/09/2008, at 8:52 AM, Seth Willits wrote: Any idea what the gray tab in the corner signifies? If you click on the color well and set the value, it always disappears. http://www.sethwillits.com/temp/NSColorWellCorner.jpg Does anybody know what the little grey triangle that shows up i

NSColorWell - What's in the corner?

2008-09-13 Thread Seth Willits
Any idea what the gray tab in the corner signifies? If you click on the color well and set the value, it always disappears. http://www.sethwillits.com/temp/NSColorWellCorner.jpg -- Seth Willits ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.

Re: NSOperationQueue

2008-09-13 Thread John Love
> FROM : Quincey Morris Your code is crashing because you're doing it wrong: On Sep 13, 2008, at 05:05, John Love wrote: > - (void) calculateWorksheet:(id)data { >int row; >for (row=1; row < 500; row++) { >// long calculation here >} > } > > - (void) startQueue { >NS

Re: when should my NSWindowController be released?

2008-09-13 Thread Seth Willits
On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Markus Spoettl wrote: Like what? For instance if you have an app delegate object in MainMenu.nib it gets deallocated only when the application terminates. Sure you can (try to) test for it, but *what's the point*? Your time is better spent testing for and fix

Re: when should my NSWindowController be released?

2008-09-13 Thread Markus Spoettl
On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:42 PM, j o a r wrote: Like what? For instance if you have an app delegate object in MainMenu.nib it gets deallocated only when the application terminates. Seth is right in general, app termination is very much a special case. I didn't say it wasn't a special case.

Re: when should my NSWindowController be released?

2008-09-13 Thread j o a r
On Sep 13, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Markus Spoettl wrote: Not true, I can think of many scenarios where you have no other choice. Like what? Seth is right in general, app termination is very much a special case. j o a r ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list

Re: Distributed objects NSURL is always encoded as proxy? is this a bug?

2008-09-13 Thread Marc Van Olmen
Thanks for the thought Ken. It was causing an invocation. That's why I tested for Proxy didn't look at the class, in the debugger, because gdb couldn't resolve the class, when i was trying it. cheers, marc On Sep 13, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: On Sep 13, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Marc V

Re: Distributed objects NSURL is always encoded as proxy? is this a bug?

2008-09-13 Thread Ken Thomases
On Sep 13, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Marc Van Olmen wrote: It is always a proxy object... I'm wondering if there is some kind of exception with NSURL? Have you checked with a debugger what the real class (the isa pointer) of the object is? Just because it's a proxy doesn't mean it's an NSDistan

Re: when should my NSWindowController be released?

2008-09-13 Thread Markus Spoettl
On Sep 13, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Seth Willits wrote: You don't test for leaks by quitting your program. Not true, I can think of many scenarios where you have no other choice. Markus -- __ Markus Spoettl smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signatu

Re: referencing XML Data

2008-09-13 Thread Amy Heavey
Thats where i got most of the code from, and I have seen the post on his blog, but I still can't work it out! Many Thanks Amy Heavey On 13 Sep 2008, at 20:09, Hal Mueller wrote: The "Amazone" example in the new edition of the Hillegass book is a good place to start. He's also got a ve

referencing XML Data

2008-09-13 Thread Amy Heavey
I've got an NSXMLDocument *custdoc but I can't work out how to actually access the data in the document, I've looked at NSXMLElement, NSXMLParser, NSXMLNode but I just can't work out the correct code. sample xml: − Willow Tree Crafts 99 Leggatts Way Herts WD24 5NQ GBR [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do people typically implement dialog controllers?

2008-09-13 Thread Boyd Collier
I'm rather late coming into this discussion, but Graham's question addresses something that I puzzled over when, not too long ago, I started using Cocoa. As a newcomer wanting to avoid learning all about bindings, the approach I've taken is essentially the same as is summarized by Graham.

Re: NSOperationQueue

2008-09-13 Thread Quincey Morris
Your code is crashing because you're doing it wrong: On Sep 13, 2008, at 05:05, John Love wrote: - (void) calculateWorksheet:(id)data { int row; for (row=1; row < 500; row++) { // long calculation here } } - (void) startQueue { NSLog(@"start queue"); // I see this in the d

Re: NSOperationQueue

2008-09-13 Thread John Love
I found the source of my mess .. should have just passed nil to my selector = calculateWorksheet: John Love = On Sep 13, 08, at 11:46 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote: On Sep 13, 2008, at 8:34 AM, John Love wrote: > For clarification: It crashes after you call stopCalculation? Does it > cr

Re: App name from Bundle Identifier?

2008-09-13 Thread Dave DeLong
I think MobileMe mail is still being silly because I only got 2 replies, but I see on CocoaBuilder that there were actually more. Whomever it was that suggested using NSFileManager was spot on! I've got this in an NSValueTransformer subclass and it works great: - (id) transformedValue:(id)

Distributed objects NSURL is always encoded as proxy? is this a bug?

2008-09-13 Thread Marc Van Olmen
hi, I have an NSURL that is encoded by: [theCoder encodeBycopyObject:mFileURLSource]; but I notice that when i double check on the InitWithCoder that mFileURLSource = [[theCoder decodeObject] retain]; if ([mFileURLSource isProxy] == YES) { OS_DE

Re: NSOperationQueue

2008-09-13 Thread Shawn Erickson
On Sep 13, 2008, at 8:34 AM, John Love wrote: > For clarification: It crashes after you call stopCalculation? Does it > crash if you let the entire calculation complete? It crashes in the process of letting the entire calculation complete. Sounds like something is wrong in your calculation

Re: NSOperationQueue

2008-09-13 Thread John Love
> For clarification: It crashes after you call stopCalculation? Does it > crash if you let the entire calculation complete? It crashes in the process of letting the entire calculation complete. If I place NSLog(@"start queue") at the beginning of -startQueue, the Debugger shows "start queue".

Re: NSOperationQueue

2008-09-13 Thread Jaime Magiera
On Sep 13, 2008, at 8:07 AM, John Love wrote: // I also call this method from another Controller - (void) stopCalculation { [self stopQueue]; } For clarification: It crashes after you call stopCalculation? Does it crash if you let the entire calculation complete? Jaime Magiera Se

Re: Transparent Background for a Progress Indicator (NSView)

2008-09-13 Thread Simon Richardson
Thank-you all for your responses, this makes more sense... cheers On 13 Sep 2008, at 04:43, Michael Ash wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, This is a quick question I hope! What's the most efficient way to make the progress indicator background

Re: Mixing ObjC and C++ STL on same ObjC source file

2008-09-13 Thread Bill Royds
On 13-Sep-08, at 07:45 , Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote: That said, STL can be used only within a library's own code. Then when coding a shared library one must implement all kinds of data structures that can be used at the boundary. Isn't that like reinventing the wheel ? Yes. But that is

NSOperationQueue

2008-09-13 Thread John Love
I have tried to create a Queue in which I have placed a rather lengthy calculation. Without the Queue, my app is essentially “frozen” until the calculation is completed. I have attempted to put this long calculation in a Queue, but when I try, my app literally crashes. So, here are some cod

NSOperationQueue

2008-09-13 Thread John Love
I have tried to create a Queue in which I place a long calculation. Without the Queue, my app is “frozen” until the calculation is complete. However, my app literally crashes. So, here are some snippets where I obviously need your help: @interface MyCalcController:NSObject { NSString

Re: Mixing ObjC and C++ STL on same ObjC source file

2008-09-13 Thread Daniel Luis dos Santos
On Sep 12, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote: The problem was that in CVDisplayPipeline.h I was declaring the map as a return type of a method, but without specifying the template types (caused by my relative ignorance of C++). Now I have another problem, which I wonder if yo

Re: when should my NSWindowController be released?

2008-09-13 Thread Seth Willits
On Sep 13, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Markus Spoettl wrote: The process's entire memory space is freed when it terminates. Because of this, objects may not ever receive a dealloc message. The documentation for -[NSObject dealloc] discusses this. Yes, I know but it isn't exactly helpful in determini

Re: when should my NSWindowController be released?

2008-09-13 Thread Markus Spoettl
On Sep 13, 2008, at 12:08 AM, Charles Steinman wrote: The process's entire memory space is freed when it terminates. Because of this, objects may not ever receive a dealloc message. The documentation for -[NSObject dealloc] discusses this. Yes, I know but it isn't exactly helpful in determi

Re: when should my NSWindowController be released?

2008-09-13 Thread Charles Steinman
--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Markus Spoettl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have observed the following in my application: > > When the document is closed while the application keeps > running, my > document, window controller and dependent windows get > deallocated as > expected. > > However, when t