Re: CIImage resize optimisation

2009-04-14 Thread Raphael Sebbe
Hi, well if you look at the entire pipeline, it may well be something like this: yuv->resize to 640x480->RGB->GL texture upload->lanczos filtering to 320->(either on screen, or bus reading for file writing) You may have 2 resize ops and a GPU upload (and download?) which are all expansive. I can

Re: KVC and "@" as key

2009-04-14 Thread Micha Fuhrmann
Thanks, that worked great. On 15 avr. 09, at 12:39, Jeremy W. Sherman wrote: Hi Micha, -[NSDictionary objectForKey:] has no such problems. You can use that to grab the values of keys beginning with an at sign instead of -valueForKey:. —Jeremy On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Micha Fuhrmann

Re: Struct Property Key Path

2009-04-14 Thread Kiel Gillard
Hi Richard, You can't bind to the individual members of your struct. You could create a pair of accessor methods for the object containing the struct. These methods could return the values of the struct. For example: @interface MyManagedObject : NSManagedObject { NSPoint origin; }

Struct Property Key Path

2009-04-14 Thread Richard Somers
I have a model object which is a subclass of NSManagedObject. This object has a transformable property similar to NSPoint. The frameworks automatically wrap and unwrap my NSPoint like struct in an NSValue instance. I would like to bind the individual struct members x and y to elements of th

Re: KVC and "@" as key

2009-04-14 Thread Jeremy W. Sherman
Hi Micha, -[NSDictionary objectForKey:] has no such problems. You can use that to grab the values of keys beginning with an at sign instead of -valueForKey:. —Jeremy On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm bumping against KVC, indirectly. I've got a dictionar

Re: KVC and "@" as key

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Correia
On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:19 AM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote: I'm bumping against KVC, indirectly. I've got a dictionary with first character keys, each object of the key is an Array with objects. So key "b" of my Dictionary is an array with file objects' name starting with the letter "b". The prob

Re: KVC and "@" as key

2009-04-14 Thread Micha Fuhrmann
Thanks for responding, no that does not cut it. Michael On 15 avr. 09, at 12:24, Jeffrey Oleander wrote: --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Micha Fuhrmann wrote: From: Micha Fuhrmann Subject: KVC and "@" as key To: "cocoa-dev Users" Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 11:19 PM Hi there, I'm bumping agai

KVC and "@" as key

2009-04-14 Thread Micha Fuhrmann
Hi there, I'm bumping against KVC, indirectly. I've got a dictionary with first character keys, each object of the key is an Array with objects. So key "b" of my Dictionary is an array with file objects' name starting with the letter "b". The problem comes up when users have file names st

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Michael Ash wrote: >> I should specify, it has no trouble reading a misaligned int pointer >> *in x86-64 mode*. I did actually test it that way, although the first >> time I ran the test I compiled it 32-bit an

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread WT
"All you need then is a search function, which essentially traverses the tree, concatenating keys and comparing them with the target word." Actually, I just realized that that's pretty stupid. The efficient way is to split the word into its characters and traverse the tree, testing each suc

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread WT
You know, Miles, I've been thinking about something else you asked earlier, about storing the trie on disk and loading it that way, rather than load the data first and build the trie afterwards. A trie is a tree structure, and so is a plist, so I think you could combine both and save time i

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Miles
Yep, I used your dictionaries, not mine. I'm on a core 2 2.8Ghz macbook pro. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:15 PM, WT wrote: > On Apr 15, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Miles wrote: > > Sorry, Wagner, I'm a little spaced -- I didn't realize your test included >> getting the contents into an array! This is great

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread WT
On Apr 15, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Miles wrote: Sorry, Wagner, I'm a little spaced -- I didn't realize your test included getting the contents into an array! This is great. No harm, no foul. :) Here are some VERY interesting results. The simulator seems to be faster with bin and text, while the

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Miles
Sorry, Wagner, I'm a little spaced -- I didn't realize your test included getting the contents into an array! This is great. Here are some VERY interesting results. The simulator seems to be faster with bin and text, while the device is quite a bit slower with text, and about even with bin and xml

C: treated as a path component

2009-04-14 Thread Dragan Milić
Hell all, Let's suppose I've got NSString @"C:omponent" , which represents the name of a file. Is there a way to instruct NSString class not to treat a leading single letter followed by a column as a path separator? Namely, I need this one treated as only one path component @"C:omponent",

Re: The efficiency of swapping endianness on an iPhone?

2009-04-14 Thread Dave Camp
On Apr 14, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Harry G wrote: Hi, I'm currently writing an app for iphone that downloads large tables of text and images , and my server outputs big endian. How significant would the extra processing be to convert to small endian on the iPhone? I'm sure most of you would rec

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Michael Ash wrote: > I should specify, it has no trouble reading a misaligned int pointer > *in x86-64 mode*. I did actually test it that way, although the first > time I ran the test I compiled it 32-bit and then felt kind of > stupid You're right, I haven't

The efficiency of swapping endianness on an iPhone?

2009-04-14 Thread Harry G
Hi, I'm currently writing an app for iphone that downloads large tables of text and images , and my server outputs big endian. How significant would the extra processing be to convert to small endian on the iPhone? I'm sure most of you would recommend doing the conversion on the server si

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread WT
On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Miles wrote: There are a handful of games out there that are small in size, have fast loading times, and quick dictionary checking. If only I knew how they did it! Have you considered contacting their authors directly and asking? You might get lucky and find

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread WT
On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Miles wrote: *2)* Wagner, thanks for that test, that's great to know! I'll check it out in a bit, right now I'm focusing on saving time getting the data into an array or some other format to suit my needs. Then you might want to look at what I did sooner rather

QTMovieDidEndNotification

2009-04-14 Thread Tilo Villwock
Hi, i have a list with QTMovie objects which are supposed to be played one after another. Now, to recognize when a movie has finished playing i registered for the QTMovieDidEndNotification. For some reason though this notification is sometimes posted several times leading to a somewhat ra

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Miles wrote: > *1) *I've been trying Kyle's suggestion for a few hours and I can't get it > working right. I broke it into this simple example, and it's not able to > convert it to the 'word' struct. At this point, better solutions that involve less hackery have b

CIImage resize optimisation

2009-04-14 Thread Dev
Hello, I use QTKit to grab an image from my webcam. Then i need to resize it into a smaller image. Going from My CIImage, i use two filter "CILanczosScaleTransform" and "CICrop" to get my image at the correct size. (640x480 to 320x240+crop). Doing only that, my CPU go up to 30% of usage while it

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Michael Ash wrote: >> That has to be the most confusing technical document I've ever seen. >> I'm not certain, but after reading it about three times, I'm pretty >> sure that it's discussing data alignment on I

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Michael Ash wrote: > That has to be the most confusing technical document I've ever seen. > I'm not certain, but after reading it about three times, I'm pretty > sure that it's discussing data alignment on IA-64 (Itanium), not > x86-64. Microsoft certainly thinks t

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Boyd Collier
Here's what I've been using for shuffling an array of ints. It appears to work quite well and is very simple and fast. /* * shuffle * * This function is from http://www.stanford.edu/~blp/writings/clc/shuffle.html * Copyright ¨© 2004 Ben Pfaff * * BDC made change to add argument to allow

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Michael Ash wrote: > And a quick test confirms that my Mac Pro, at least, has no trouble > reading a misaligned int pointer. I should specify, it has no trouble reading a misaligned int pointer *in x86-64 mode*. I did actually test it that way, although the first

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Michael Ash wrote: >> This is not so. It's extremely rare to find a platform which >> *requires* aligned access, and you certainly won't find one running OS >> X. What's more common is finding a platform which

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Miles
You guys are awesome! *1) *I've been trying Kyle's suggestion for a few hours and I can't get it working right. I broke it into this simple example, and it's not able to convert it to the 'word' struct. NSMutableData *data1; NSString *myString = @"\\x06hello\\x00"; const char *utfMyString = [mySt

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Michael Ash wrote: > This is not so. It's extremely rare to find a platform which > *requires* aligned access, and you certainly won't find one running OS > X. What's more common is finding a platform which *prefers* aligned > access, punishing misaligned access wi

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > 2) Pointer access needs to be 4-byte aligned (on PC, don't know about > iPhone); This is not so. It's extremely rare to find a platform which *requires* aligned access, and you certainly won't find one running OS X. What's more common is findi

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Miles wrote: > [This is sort of in continuation of the thread "Build Settings for Release: > App/Library is bloated", which gradually changed topics.] > I'm trying to find the best way to load in a 2MB text file of dictionary > words and be able to do quick searche

Issues with BAS sample on 10.4.11

2009-04-14 Thread Olivier Palliere
Hi everyone, I am using the Better Authorization Sample code from Apple in one of my projects, and I'm seeing a weird behavior on Tiger. I could only test so far on 10.4.11, so I can't say if it happens from 10.4.6 (minimum for BAS) all the way. After a reboot, if I start either my app or

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread WT
On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Graham Wheel wrote: then iterate completely through the array, swapping each element with a randomly chosen element. As pointed out earlier, this is biased. The randomly chosen element should be chosen from the "unexplored" section of the array to obtain an u

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Greg Parker
On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: My apologies - what I meant to type was that I AM doing this: int tmp = (arc4random()%10)+1; while (tmp == activeTarget) { tmp = (arc4random()%10)+1; } activeTarget = tmp; This is for a game, so it's not very critical or anything. Som

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Graham Wheel
Focusing just on the non-repeating aspect, Deitel & Deitel discuss an algorithm to achieve this in C How To Program. Lets assume we are talking about shuffling a deck of 52 cards. Assign each card to an array element, then iterate completely through the array, swapping each element with a

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread WT
Hi Miles, I wrote a little iPhone app to test loading the standard UNIX dictionary (/usr/share/dict/web2, 234,936 words). If you'd like, you can download the XCode 3.1.x project from here: http://www.restlessbrain.com/DictTest.zip I don't actually have an iPhone, so I only tested it on the

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Peter Duniho
On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: My apologies - what I meant to type was that I AM doing this: int tmp = (arc4random()%10)+1; while (tmp == activeTarget) { tmp = (arc4random()%10)+1; } activeTarget = tmp; So, you are generating a random number between 1 and 10, inclus

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Ricky Sharp
On Apr 13, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: For an example I might want to generate numbers from 1 to 10 over and over. All I want to do is when I generate a new number is not allow it to equal the previously held value. I can imagine a few approaches but I just wanted to make sur

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
My apologies - what I meant to type was that I AM doing this: int tmp = (arc4random()%10)+1; while (tmp == activeTarget) { tmp = (arc4random()%10)+1; } activeTarget = tmp; This is for a game, so it's not very critical or anything. Someone told me that I might want to avoid a while loop at

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 14 Apr 09, at 09:24, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: to get back to my original question I'm not just doing this: Then what are you doing? It'd really help to know what you're trying to accomplish here. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.appl

Re: Binding

2009-04-14 Thread Ken Thomases
On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Livio Isaia wrote: Is it possible to connect a variable of an object I created to an NSArrayController variable? To be clear: bindings deal with properties, not variables. I don't necessarily mean "declared properties" using @property, but properties in the

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Miles wrote: > I'm not super concerned about the 2MB of disk space the txt file takes up, > although I wouldn't be mad about decreasing it somehow. And once I get the > whole dictionary in an array, the searches are basically fast enough for my > purposes. I've sti

Re: Exit an Application

2009-04-14 Thread Ken Thomases
On Apr 13, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Luca C. wrote: 2009/4/13 Luca Ciciriello I've created an application with a button "Exit" and I've connected it with the method: - (IBAction)exitApp:(id)sender { // TODO } Now my question is: "Which call I have to do to quit my application instead of

Re: Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread WT
Have you tried splitting the full dictionary into sub-dictionaries (as an offline, pre-processing step) and then having your application load them in sequence, one at a time? It might be that creating separate arrays and then joining them is faster than creating one array for the entire dic

Reading in dictionary from txt file: options for speed

2009-04-14 Thread Miles
[This is sort of in continuation of the thread "Build Settings for Release: App/Library is bloated", which gradually changed topics.] I'm trying to find the best way to load in a 2MB text file of dictionary words and be able to do quick searches. Simply loading the uncompressed txt file takes abou

Re: NSPredicate Help

2009-04-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Apr 14, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Greg Robertson wrote: I am using Core Data and have a two entity setup that in a simple form could be modelled something like this: Entity: Persons - attribute: name - attribute: birth - relationship: cars (one to many with cars) Entiry: Cars - attribute: name I

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
to get back to my original question I'm not just doing this: int tmp = (arc4random()%10)+1; while (tmp == activeTarget) { tmp = (arc4random()%10)+1; } activeTarget = tmp; On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Michael Ash wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas > wrote:

NSPredicate Help

2009-04-14 Thread Greg Robertson
I am using Core Data and have a two entity setup that in a simple form could be modelled something like this: Entity: Persons - attribute: name - attribute: birth - relationship: cars (one to many with cars) Entiry: Cars - attribute: name I would like to search for all persons not born on th

Garbage collection C++ objects

2009-04-14 Thread Fabrice Feray
Hi, In objective C++, would it work to use Boehm's garbage collector for my C++ objects ? Has anyone used it? Fabrice ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.

Binding

2009-04-14 Thread Livio Isaia
Is it possible to connect a variable of an object I created to an NSArrayController variable? I mean: I have a NSWindowController "MyWindowController" which is also the nib file's owner type class. In the nib file I created an NSArrayController "MyArrayController" connected with a NSTableVie

Re: updating NSTextField with key validation?

2009-04-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: You want to make the text field "continuous". Be aware that this will also cause your changes to be committed, not just validated, continuously. Do you mean the checkbox in IB labelled "continuously updates value"? That's checked, and my va

Re: updating NSTextField with key validation?

2009-04-14 Thread Kyle Sluder
You want to make the text field "continuous". Be aware that this will also cause your changes to be committed, not just validated, continuously. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or

Re: Autosaving the selection in an NSTableView

2009-04-14 Thread Martin Stanley
Thanks. Your idea of storing this kind of meta-data in the database is interesting. Since I am a Cocoa and CD newbie, would you mind elaborating on your method please? For example, in which callback do you set the array controllers' selection? When do you save the current selection? How d

updating NSTextField with key validation?

2009-04-14 Thread David Scheidt
I have a sheet. It's got a number of NSTextFields on it. They're bound to an ObjectController, in entity mode, for the entity that the sheet allows the user to create or edit. I've got validation methods for the values. They work correctly. Except, if I coerce the value to a valid one,

Re: Best way to pass large objects between tasks?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote: >> >I haven't tried either of the methods I mentioned so far >> (because I'm >> >lazy, sorry:), but what I have tried is I created NSData >> from the large >> >object by using NSKeyedArchiver. It has taken forever, so >> that I had

Re: Autosaving the selection in an NSTableView

2009-04-14 Thread Sandy McGuffog
Not sure about NSTableViews, but with NSOutlineViews, which I'd think behave the same way, the secret sauce is to make sure that your items have all of persistentObjectForItem, initWithPersistentObject, isEqual and hash consistently implemented. Reason being that what is stored to your pref

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: > reading /dev/random is currently the best way to generate random number on > OS X. > > http://lists.apple.com/archives/apple-cdsa/2009/Mar/msg00077.html Careful with these blanket pronouncements. The best way depends on your goals, as is

Re: Does waitUntilExit really mean that?

2009-04-14 Thread Gwynne Raskind
On Apr 14, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote: FWIW, I was having some strange issues with NSTask and setuid child processes (...) My eventual solution was to roll my own version of NSTask which gave me full control over the way the child process was set up, (...) I was able to track down

Re: warning for unsigned parameter, signed argument with NSUInteger

2009-04-14 Thread Jesper Storm Bache
From NSObjCRuntime.h (10.5SDK) #if __LP64__ || NS_BUILD_32_LIKE_64 typedef long NSInteger; typedef unsigned long NSUInteger; #else typedef int NSInteger; typedef unsigned int NSUInteger; #endif It appears that the documentation is incorrect (the comment is correct: "... A 64-bit application tr

Re: warning for unsigned parameter, signed argument with NSUInteger

2009-04-14 Thread Drew Lawson
[again, sending to list] According to Roland King: > but not this. NSUInteger is just a typedef isn't it, so this is really > unsigned int / int and I was expecting a warning. Have I missed a > warning flag or is there some NSUInteger artifact I'm not aware of? I've been puzzled by this, but

warning for unsigned parameter, signed argument with NSUInteger

2009-04-14 Thread Roland King
I have this definition using NSUInteger -(id)initWithXExtent:(NSUInteger)xExtent yExtent:(NSUInteger)yExtent; and I was stupidly calling it like this GameBoard *gb = [ [ GameBoard alloc ] initWithXExtent:5 yExtent:-10 ]; and I didn't get a warning and spent 5 minutes trying to

Re: typeFromFileExtension in Leopard SDK

2009-04-14 Thread Jerry Krinock
When I did a little work in this area a few weeks ago, I found that just adding a UTI to a document type caused -[NSDocumentController defaultType] to return nil. I posted on this list but no one knew the answer. It might be relevant to your issue... http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/me

Re: Best way to pass large objects between tasks?

2009-04-14 Thread Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD)
> >I haven't tried either of the methods I mentioned so far > (because I'm > >lazy, sorry:), but what I have tried is I created NSData > from the large > >object by using NSKeyedArchiver. It has taken forever, so > that I had to > >force-quit the process. That's why I am asking if the same th

Re: typeFromFileExtension in Leopard SDK

2009-04-14 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Eric Slosser wrote: > Nope.   Since you seemed to be suggesting that was the problem, I added the > following to Info.plist.  But it didn't help.   Am I missing something? Why are you importing and exporting the same type? You should only be exporting in this cas

Re: typeFromFileExtension in Leopard SDK

2009-04-14 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Michael Ash wrote: > Of course there is always the opportunity for bugs. The reason I said "not necessarily" is because in this area there has been a lot of functionality change in this area due to UTI adoption. Some things that would previously ignore UTIs or as

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 14 avr. 09 à 13:08, WT a écrit : On Apr 14, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: reading /dev/random is currently the best way to generate random number on OS X. http://lists.apple.com/archives/apple-cdsa/2009/Mar/msg00077.html Yes, and those are *true* random numbers, since th

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread WT
On Apr 14, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: reading /dev/random is currently the best way to generate random number on OS X. http://lists.apple.com/archives/apple-cdsa/2009/Mar/msg00077.html Yes, and those are *true* random numbers, since their source is physical rather than al

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread WT
On Apr 14, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Luca C. wrote: Given a seed, rand() will create always the same sequences for that seed. The same sequence (singular), yes. Each seed generates only one sequence. But if the seeds changes all the time, you'll always get different sequences, as it's obvious.

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 14 avr. 09 à 12:26, Luca C. a écrit : 2009/4/14 Uli Kusterer On 14.04.2009, at 01:44, Luca C. wrote: You can put every (unsigned) value you want in there, though in general it's used passing (unsigned)time(NULL) as parameter. This way you'll always get a different int. No you wo

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Luca C.
2009/4/14 Uli Kusterer > On 14.04.2009, at 01:44, Luca C. wrote: > >> You can put every (unsigned) value you want in there, though in >> general it's used passing (unsigned)time(NULL) as parameter. This way >> you'll always get a different int. >> > > > No you won't. It's a *random* number gene

Re: Exit an Application

2009-04-14 Thread Benjamin Dobson
On 13 Apr 2009, at 22:52:15, Uli Kusterer wrote: or the slightly shorter and a thoretically a tad more dangerous similar call with NSApp in it are really the only option. (Well, theoretically you could send yourself a "quit" Apple Event, but that's only of academical interest...) Why is

Re: Does waitUntilExit really mean that?

2009-04-14 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 11.04.2009, at 20:50, Gwynne Raskind wrote: FWIW, I was having some strange issues with NSTask and setuid child processes (...) My eventual solution was to roll my own version of NSTask which gave me full control over the way the child process was set up, (...) I was able to track down th

Re: Best way to get a non-repeating random number?

2009-04-14 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 14.04.2009, at 03:02, Michael Ash wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote: On 14.04.2009, at 02:36, Michael Ash wrote: Note that writing a proper shuffling algorithm is harder than it sounds. More properly, it's easy, but figuring out whether you got the correct one or

Re: NSSliderCell, lockFocus question

2009-04-14 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 14.04.2009, at 08:42, Frederik Slijkerman wrote: I understand, but forking the code will hurt a lot, too. :-) I never said fork. I meant get it refactored in a way that the code that does the unneeded buffering is in a Windows-only class, while the rest stays available. OK, thanks, I