Create App both for Tiger and Leopard

Hello list, I need to use NSPredicateEditor class in my app that should work both on Tiger and Leopard. But Tiger doesn't have such control, so I created two different NIBs and load one of them depending on current platform. Each NIB has it's own owner-class that implements some logic. Owner of NI

Re: After Hillegass

On Jan 17, 2009, at 22:18, Brian Bruinewoud wrote: Secondly: I've read the 3rd edition of Hillegass and it has gotten me a fair way. What book should I move to next? I searched the archives and the latest dated e-mails I could find were from 2006 and mentioned a "Cheeseman" book, is this th

Re: Controlling the position of windows system-wide

Matt (bravo...@gmail.com) on 2009-01-17 1:35 AM said: >Apologies if this isn't directly cocoa-related, I have had trouble >researching this because I'm not quite sure where to start my search. You can start your search with the word "Accessibility", for example here:

Re: Equivalent ?

Technically, they are not equivalent. The BOOL type is not a native boolean type in C. If you command double click on it in XCode, you can see that it is a signed char, meaning it can store any value from -128 to +127. This differs from a native boolean type, such as the (lowercase) bool i

Controlling the position of windows system-wide

Apologies if this isn't directly cocoa-related, I have had trouble researching this because I'm not quite sure where to start my search. I'm working on a possible utility that would help me align the position of windows across several cocoa apps (which I did not build), and am trying to find out ho

After Hillegass

Firstly: is there a FAQ for this list? I was able to find a FAQ for the mailing lists in general but none for this list in particular. Secondly: I've read the 3rd edition of Hillegass and it has gotten me a fair way. What book should I move to next? I searched the archives and the latest da

NSTableColumn not usable with binder of class NSTextValueBinder

Hi Everyone.. I need to revive this thread. http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2008/8/19/216148 I have a NSTextColumn, with a custom NSCell containing a custom view. I am getting the same exception has mentioned in this email thread. The part that isn't clear, is how to fix t

Re: real noob question

On 18/01/2009, at 11:18 AM, Darren Stuart wrote: Hi there, sorry for the real noobish question but I can't figure this out or find an answer. I have a variable called myMoney and its a NSDecimalNumber and I want to set init it with the value of 23.30. NSDecimalNumber *myMoney = [[NSDeci

Re: Find bindings

On 18/01/2009, at 8:13 AM, Alejandro Rodriguez wrote: Is it possible to programmatically/dynamically find the binding keypath for a NSTableviewColumn that is binded to a NSArrayController. I've been looking and thinking for while but so far I don't have much. Yes, have a look at the -in

Re: Setting Custom View as First Responder

On 18/01/2009, at 2:13 PM, Walker Argendeli wrote: I've created a custom view with 2 instances in the nib. We'll call them view1 and view2. I have a controller class that has the outlets for both views. I'd like to have a certain function in my controller class test to see if view1 is th

Re: Setting Custom View as First Responder

On Jan 17, 2009, at 20:13, Walker Argendeli wrote: I've created a custom view with 2 instances in the nib. We'll call them view1 and view2. I have a controller class that has the outlets for both views. I'd like to have a certain function in my controller class test to see if view1 is th

real noob question

Hi there, sorry for the real noobish question but I can't figure this out or find an answer. I have a variable called myMoney and its a NSDecimalNumber and I want to set init it with the value of 23.30. NSDecimalNumber *myMoney = [[NSDecimalNumber alloc] init]; If this is the wrong place

CALayer unwanted blurring

I am sub-classing CALayer and experiencing some strange behaviour. Sometimes the content of one of my sub-classes is blurred. I can't figure out why. The content for the sub-classed layers is being provided by drawInContext:(CGContextRef)ctx. I am using the NS APIs rather than Core Graphi

Find bindings

Hello, Is it possible to programmatically/dynamically find the binding keypath for a NSTableviewColumn that is binded to a NSArrayController. I've been looking and thinking for while but so far I don't have much. Thanks. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing lis

Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Scott Ribe wrote: >> TBH (and more to the point) I strongly suspect it's true of everyone >> who's expressed an opinion in this thread that it's not so much about >> the suitability of the language to optimizations, but more about the >> skill set of the individual

Setting Custom View as First Responder

I've created a custom view with 2 instances in the nib. We'll call them view1 and view2. I have a controller class that has the outlets for both views. I'd like to have a certain function in my controller class test to see if view1 is the first responder, and if not, to make it the first

Re: Yo

On Jan 17, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Rob Keniger wrote: On 18/01/2009, at 12:45 PM, I. Savant wrote: On Jan 17, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Parker Logan wrote: What program do I download to write code Hasn't this list thoroughly answered your more general "how do I write code" question just recently?

Re: Yo

On 18/01/2009, at 1:05 PM, Rob Keniger wrote: I don't think it will make any difference, I suspect this guy is just a spammer using the list for email address harvesting. It's the typical modus operandi. Hmm, seems like I might have hit the nail on the head, I just received a delightful

Re: Yo

On 18/01/2009, at 12:45 PM, I. Savant wrote: On Jan 17, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Parker Logan wrote: What program do I download to write code Hasn't this list thoroughly answered your more general "how do I write code" question just recently? I don't think it will make any difference, I suspe

Cocoa and the need for a dynamic language

In this forum, Scott Ribe recently wrote "...but just as you can't "rewrite Cocoa in C++" as we've seen demanded by people who don't really understand Objective-C..." I claim that a relatively dynamic language is necessary to effectively use Cocoa. I also claim to have very deep and thorou

Re: Yo

On Jan 17, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Parker Logan wrote: What program do I download to write code Hasn't this list thoroughly answered your more general "how do I write code" question just recently? http://www.cocoabuilder.com/search/archive/cocoa?words=LIL+PLO READ THE RESOURCES WE'VE SENT Y

Re: NSDocument: messages sent to closed document

On 2009 Jan 17, at 6:09, Cate Tony wrote: 1. Open one document. 2. Open a second document. 3. Close the second document 4. Click on the File or Help menu Crash: message sent to dealloc instance of NSDocument. Here's an interesting twist. 1. Open one document. 2. ... Everything is fine. Don't

Re: Yo

Xcode, yo: http://tinyurl.com/73ojc7 Dave On 17 Jan, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Parker Logan wrote: What program do I download to write code From: LIL PLO ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or modera

Yo

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Control via applicationDidFinishLaunching?

Ok, sorry for the generic subject line, but this is a hard one to describe. Bear with me. I'm using an external framework (the Ogre graphics engine) that is very Carbon-centric. Support for Cocoa is new in this framework, and unfortunately, poorly integrated. Here's my problem: Ogre is distribute

Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code

> Yikes! I hope you realize that for some of us of a certain computing > era, this statement looks quite strange. As if you said, perhaps, that > you were prone to reducing your fuel consumption by going back to > driving a Hummer. Yes, I realize that. Particularly for those who are only familiar

Re: ImageAndTextCell rendering weirdness

Thanks, Sandy. I found a later version (in the Source View example code), and alas, even with the size set, the same thing is happening. I confess that I don't know as much about view/cell drawing as I might. Has anyone seen this kind of rendering before, if not in this situation? Thank

Re: string bounding rect methods

On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Aki Inoue wrote: Yes, rendering and measuring methods behave the same. Please file a doc enhancement request. Thanks for confirming my guess. I used the documentation feedback form. On 2009/01/16, at 19:11, James Walker wrote: The documentation for -[NSStrin

Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code

On Jan 17, 2009, at 15:49, Scott Ribe wrote: it's just that I'm more prone than many to optimize by throwing in some strategic C++ Yikes! I hope you realize that for some of us of a certain computing era, this statement looks quite strange. As if you said, perhaps, that you were prone to r

Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code

> The point here is that there's no reason to be afraid that > using ObjC will get you stuck in some performance hole that you can't > dig out of without a rewrite. Just to be clear re my earlier posts: I completely agree with that assessment; it's just that I'm more prone than many to optimize by

Re: Sample Code from WWDC 2008?

I've checked there, but I didn't see the Core Data samples I was looking for. In fact, there are only two sample code entries in the Cocoa section that are dated the week of WWDC 2008 ( one is on subpixel antialiasing and the other deals with layer-backed views) and no files dated after th

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Markus Spoettl wrote: > Totally agreed, scripting the entire process would be wonderful. But: How > does one go about scripting a template DMG creation that should open in a > certain view mode in Finder (e.g. icon) using a defined icon size and > defined icon loca

Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Justin Carlson wrote: > > Michael Ash wrote: >> >> Note that dispatch is not mandatory in ObjC either. It is possible >> (you get little help from the compiler, but it's not hard) to use >> either a vtable approach or a straight function call for method >> invocati

Re: What does this SystemFlippers message mean

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:33 AM, wrote: > My app is a service provider, and its NSSendTypes consists of a single > NSStringPboardType. > When some other apps request the service, I occasionally see following log > messages in the Console: > SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (p

Re: Sample Code from WWDC 2008?

If you check out the WWDC attendee site (https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/attendee/index.php ) you can pick a track-specific reference library. The sample code will be available there. -rob. On Jan 17, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Brad Gibbs wrote: I attended a couple of great sessions on Core Data at

Re: .DMG Keeps Getting Bigger After Converting?

On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Michael Ash wrote: I highly recommend scripting the entire process. This is the kind of thing you want to be able to do by typing a single easy command, not have to slog through the whole process twice just because you forgot something the first time. (This won't be

Re: Sample Code from WWDC 2008?

I believe it's available through the Attendee's site. On 17-Jan-09, at 12:22 PM, Brad Gibbs wrote: I attended a couple of great sessions on Core Data at WWDC 2008. I believe I remember the presenters saying that the code developed in those sessions was going to be made available to attende

Re: ImageAndTextCell rendering weirdness

Well, I haven't seen this specific behavior. But one thought is to check that your images have their size set - as initialized from a [NSImage imageNamed:], size is not set(!). This can cause all sort of havoc. Second comment: there are actually several different versions of ImageandTextCel

ImageAndTextCell rendering weirdness

Greetings Cocoa-Dev! I am having the hardest time with a persistent and strange error with Apple's ImageAndTextCell in my NSOutlineView. I have the ImageAndTextCell set to be the outline's data cell via NSTableColumn's -setDataCell: method, and I set the image of the cell in the outlineVi

Sample Code from WWDC 2008?

I attended a couple of great sessions on Core Data at WWDC 2008. I believe I remember the presenters saying that the code developed in those sessions was going to be made available to attendees (I believe it was going to be made available in two versions -- one emphasizing the use of bindi

Re: modifier-flags with no key pressed and mouseDown 256, why?

Good to know! Thanks for the info. =) Dave On 16 Jan, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Dave DeLong wrote: My understanding is that the modifierFlag "256" means that no other modifiers are pre

Re: runModalForWindow, best solution to modal session

On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Alexander Reichstadt wrote: @implementation KSingleItemSelectorController #pragma mark - #pragma mark Init+Dealloc + (id)selectItemUsingFenstertyp:(NSString *)aFenstertyp withComposition:(NSString *)aKomposition { KSingleItemSelectorController *newXelector = [[s

Re: Displaying multiple core data relationships in NSOutlineView

Steve, Quincy: Thank you for the replies! At the moment I'm working with a non-Core-Data class to achieve the outline view, using code adapted from the SourceView example. I am realizing that to be able to archive this and correctly maintain object graphs, I'll likely have to link the ou

Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code

> Furthermore, vtables are not mandatory in all cases/calls. A > good optimizer (or properly written class) can overcome such > dependencies in several cases - optimization is far easier to > accomplish outside the constraints of the ObjC runtime. So you get > faster messaging, and more optimizatio

Re: clip cursor in NSView

Gami Ravi (ravi.g...@einfochips.com) on 2009-01-17 12:37 AM said: >NSTrackingArea class is only for Mac OS 10.5 and later. >What if i want to achieve same functionality in Mac OS 10.4? >Please suggest. In addition to what Scott said, you can open Xcode, go to the Help menu, choose Documentation,

Re: NSDocument: messages sent to closed document

Cate Tony (tonyc...@mac.com) on 2009-01-17 9:09 AM said: >1. Open one document. >2. Open a second document. >3. Close the second document >4. Click on the File or Help menu >Crash: message sent to dealloc instance of NSDocument. It's hard for anyone to help specifically without at least a backtra

NSDocument: messages sent to closed document

1. Open one document. 2. Open a second document. 3. Close the second document 4. Click on the File or Help menu Crash: message sent to dealloc instance of NSDocument. Here's an interesting twist. 1. Open one document. 2. Open a second document. 3. Close the first document 4. Click on the File or

Layer-hosted and layed-backed animate at different speeds

I apologise, The message below was sent by accident. Please disregard. Travis >> I am trying to animate a layer hosted view and and a layer backed view, both separate instances within a ³container view². The animation moves both layers from >> one point to another via a nested CATRANSACTION. ___

Re: Service request fails if provider has not yet launched

At last, I found the cause - something very silly of Safari, and I don't know why that happened yet. It turned out that if my app is not running, the service request from Safari will launch my app as expected; however, it is the debug version(which is not so up-to-date) of my app that is laun