Re: VoiceOver detection

2009-08-11 Thread colors
Mac. On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:18 PM, colors wrote: Is there a way to determine if VoiceOver is enabled or not? Mac or iPhone? --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)

Re: VoiceOver detection

2009-08-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:18 PM, colors wrote: Is there a way to determine if VoiceOver is enabled or not? Mac or iPhone? --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments

VoiceOver detection

2009-08-11 Thread colors
Is there a way to determine if VoiceOver is enabled or not? I have some strings to have the system speak based on text input, but only when VoiceOver is enabled. Rich Collyer ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not p

RE: Forcing a cell's field editor to send control:textShouldEndEditing: when leaving a cell

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Arnaiz
Hi Alastair, I already created a sub-class for NSFormatter to help control input. For instance, the ID value must be only numeric characters and up to 8 digits. My current problem is the case where the user doesn't type anything and leaves the current cell. Regarding point 1: The ID numbers will

Re: NSPushAutoreleasePool & NSPopAutoreleasePool?

2009-08-11 Thread Dave Carrigan
Read up on the NSAutoreleasePool class. Presumably, this class calls those functions in init and dealloc, respectively. On Aug 11, 2009, at 6:58 PM, DairyKnight wrote: Hi, I've been tracing an iPhone application, and found out the NSPush/PopAutoreleasePool pair being called every time be

NSPushAutoreleasePool & NSPopAutoreleasePool?

2009-08-11 Thread DairyKnight
Hi, I've been tracing an iPhone application, and found out the NSPush/PopAutoreleasePool pair being called every time before/after entering the event loop. I did some googling about these apis and they seem to be undocumented. Anyone knows what they do? I'm not trying to use them, just wa

Re: Undo's setActionName: and Core Data

2009-08-11 Thread Graham Cox
On 12/08/2009, at 4:32 AM, Squ Aire wrote: The question is: How can I set the name of the undo action to "Modify Name" using setActionName of the MOC's undo manager just before the user changes an employee's name in the table view (or by any other means)? Do I have to subclass the MO an

NSPredicate & Editor questions

2009-08-11 Thread Dave DeLong
Hey everyone, I'm about to embark on understanding NSRule/PredicateEditors but before I get too deep into the code, I wanted to ask a couple questions. I'm hoping to create an interface whereby the user can create an NSPredicate and then come back and edit it later. From what I've unders

Re: Intel Mac prefpane error

2009-08-11 Thread Greg Guerin
Nick Zitzmann wrote: You keep saying "app", but that string you mentioned earlier appears in System Preferences if the preferences application failed to open a preference pane bundle for some reason, so I'm assuming you meant "preference pane" where you said "app". Are you sure you're bui

Re: Intel Mac prefpane error

2009-08-11 Thread Andy Lee
>> On 08/08/2009, at 7:47 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: >> >>> Although my app is a universal binary (32/64), and was developed on >>> an Intel >>> Mac, a few people report when trying to install and error: >>> >>> "You cannot open (my app) preferences because it doesn't work on an >>> Intel-based Mac."

Re: Intel Mac prefpane error

2009-08-11 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Aug 11, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Trygve Inda wrote: My app has never done this for me, but how can the OS say it is not an Intel App when it is a 32/64 universal binary? You keep saying "app", but that string you mentioned earlier appears in System Preferences if the preferences application

Re: Intel Mac prefpane error

2009-08-11 Thread Trygve Inda
> What OS are those few people running? > > Kiel :-) > "If video games affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in > darkened rooms, munching on magic pills and listening to repetitive > electronic music." > > On 08/08/2009, at 7:47 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: > >> Although my app is a univers

RE: NSNumberFormatter & Currency Symbol

2009-08-11 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
This is from a while back... http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2008/11/18/223010 quote: Is it possible to have a text field with a currency symbol that appears automatically? For instance, if the user types 400, $400.00 appears in the text field. I've been using IB's formatter w

Re: "unlockFocus called too many time" console message

2009-08-11 Thread James Walker
I wrote: When a modeless Cocoa window is closed by clicking the close widget, I see a console message saying "unlockFocus called too many time." (sic). It doesn't happen if the window is closed using the File:Close menu item. I set a breakpoint on NSLog, and saw a stack starting like this:

Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale

2009-08-11 Thread Greg Guerin
Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard wrote: NSMutableString *dateFormat = [NSMutableString stringWithString: [dateFormatter dateFormat]]; [dateFormat replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"d" withString:@"dd" options: 0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [dateFormat length])]; Unrestricted replacement of meta-characters

Re: Forcing a cell's field editor to send control:textShouldEndEditing: when leaving a cell

2009-08-11 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 11 Aug 2009, at 19:53, Chris Arnaiz wrote: I've been struggling to control the behavior of a NSTableView while editing cells. [snip] My goal is to prevent the user from leaving a cell (mouse click, tab key, enter key, etc) before they provide a valid value for that entry. Hi Chris, Rat

Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale

2009-08-11 Thread Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard
Figured out one way to get the desired result. But really don't like it. I'd much rather have NSLocal tell me if day or months value should go first. Anyway, here it goes: NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; [dateFormatter setFo

Forcing a cell's field editor to send control:textShouldEndEditing: when leaving a cell

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Arnaiz
Hi, I've been struggling to control the behavior of a NSTableView while editing cells. The table is a simple ID number / description list. Editing an existing entry is okay, but my problem is dealing with new entries. My goal is to prevent the user from leaving a cell (mouse click, tab ke

[MEET]: LA Cocoa Heads Thursday 8/13 7:30pm

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Ross
Greetings LA CocoaHeads. This Thursday 8/13, Niilo Tippler will be showing some graphic experiments that he built in Flash - stuff that demonstrates some physics, springing, gravity, etc. - and ported over to the iPhone, explaining how they work and the differences he found between the tw

Re: UITabBarController Confusion

2009-08-11 Thread Bob Barnes
Luke, Thanks, you've gotten me 98% of the way there! I created a UITabBarController subclass and it works great with one little hiccup. When I rotate to landscape to show the coverflow view from either of my table views the 3rd (and last) tab bar item from my portrait view remains at t

Re: converting unicode text representation to unichar

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Child
SOLVED! My stupid error: passing address of value instead of just value. Thanks very much for your help. Character displays correctly. On Aug 11, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Daniel Child wrote: Thank you. I think I'm almost there, though I'm getting incorrect values. I tried both %c and %C. These yi

Undo's setActionName: and Core Data

2009-08-11 Thread Squ Aire
Take the usual example of an Employee entity. The employees are shown in a one column table view through an NSArrayController. Employee has one 'name' attribute. The question is: How can I set the name of the undo action to "Modify Name" using setActionName of the MOC's undo manager just befor

Re: converting unicode text representation to unichar

2009-08-11 Thread Greg Guerin
Daniel Child wrote: NSString *strc = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%c", &value]; ... NSString *strC = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%C", &value]; These are both wrong. Remove the & before value. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Strings/ Articles/formatSpecifiers.html

Possible to work around 10.4 LaunchAgent bugs?

2009-08-11 Thread Sidney San Martín
My current project needs an agent to run whenever a user is logged in. A LaunchAgent would be perfect for this, and in 10.5, it is. If I can't use a LaunchAgent on 10.4, the alternative isn't so appealing: * I'd need to use barely-supported procedures to install a global login item. * The

Re: NSUserDefault and Negative numerical arguments (Was: Posting mouse clicks with multiple displays)

2009-08-11 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:31 AM, DeNigris Sean wrote: What Alastar said; you have free reign over argv/argc prior to calling NSApplicationMain(). Duh! You're right, I will just process them myself! I don't know why I was so attached to making NSUserDefaults do what I wanted it too - probabl

Re: NSUserDefault and Negative numerical arguments (Was: Posting mouse clicks with multiple displays)

2009-08-11 Thread DeNigris Sean
What Alastar said; you have free reign over argv/argc prior to calling NSApplicationMain(). Duh! You're right, I will just process them myself! I don't know why I was so attached to making NSUserDefaults do what I wanted it too - probably lack of sleep and frustration with the documentati

Re: converting unicode text representation to unichar

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Child
Thank you. I think I'm almost there, though I'm getting incorrect values. I tried both %c and %C. These yield, respectively, î and  , which are incorrect. 2009-08-11 13:24:58.879 ParseTest[566:10b] The num is U+4E01 2009-08-11 13:24:58.889 ParseTest[566:10b] codeItself is 4E01 2009-08-11 13:

Rescheduling an NSTimer from a completion method

2009-08-11 Thread Fritz Anderson
iPhone OS 3.0 Can an NSTimer be rescheduled after firing, and after another trip through the run loop? I'd like to "reschedule" a NON-repeating timer in my own code. I assume that in the simple case it would be something like: - (void) handleTimer: (NSTimer *) aTimer { // ...

Re: NSUserDefault and Negative numerical arguments (Was: Posting mouse clicks with multiple displays)

2009-08-11 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: If you want to process the command line arguments, you can either do so from your main() function, before calling NSApplicationMain(), or you can use NSProcessInfo to examine them once

Re: UITabBarController Confusion

2009-08-11 Thread Luke the Hiesterman
The default UITabBarController only does autorotation if all of its child view controllers support autorotation to the relevant orientation. If you're interested in changing this behavior, you'll want to subclass UITabBarController. Luke On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Bob Barnes wrote: Hi

Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale

2009-08-11 Thread Rick Mann
Can you use separate formatters, one for the date, another for the time, and just concatenate the resulting strings? On Aug 11, 2009, at 09:51:59, Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard wrote: Hi Sean, I want to respect the user's locale, yet ignore his/her preferences as to formatting. I thought ab

Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Kac
There are cases where that's totally appropriate. Maybe in a report it requires a leading zero. You still want to respect the user's settings in all other areas. On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Sean McBride wrote: On 8/11/09 6:39 PM, Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard said: I am trying to format dat

Re: Trouble with event taps...

2009-08-11 Thread Nat Burke
Hey all, Ok, I have figured it out. Running as root did the trick. After this worked, I wondered if I had left the enable assistive devices checkbox off from a prior experiment, and behold it was off! My bad on that (and I even said it was on in my original post). I went back and read the

Re: NSUserDefault and Negative numerical arguments (Was: Posting mouse clicks with multiple displays)

2009-08-11 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: > If you want to process the command line arguments, you can either do so from > your main() function, before calling NSApplicationMain(), or you can use > NSProcessInfo to examine them once your app is running. I believe I suggested that a

Re: NSUserDefault and Negative numerical arguments (Was: Posting mouse clicks with multiple displays)

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Parker
On 11 Aug 2009, at 9:47 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote: On 11 Aug 2009, at 17:14, DeNigris Sean wrote: If the command line is "MyApp -x -100 -y 100", NSUserDefaults does not recognize the -100 as the value of the x argument - it sets x to 0. If the '-' is removed, everything is fine. Is t

Re: NSUserDefault and Negative numerical arguments (Was: Posting mouse clicks with multiple displays)

2009-08-11 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:14 AM, DeNigris Sean wrote: NSUserDefaults *args = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]; int x = [args integerForKey:@"x"]; int y = [args integerForKey:@"y"]; If the command line is "MyApp -x -100 -y 100", NSUserDefaults does not recognize the -100 as the

UITabBarController Confusion

2009-08-11 Thread Bob Barnes
Hi all, I have an app with 3 primary views, 2 of which are table views when in portrait mode, but display as full screen coverflow style in landscape mode. I originally created a 3rd table view to serve as the initial view as a way to get to the 3 main views with the intent I would mig

Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale

2009-08-11 Thread Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard
Hi Sean, I want to respect the user's locale, yet ignore his/her preferences as to formatting. I thought about modifying the format I get from the standard styles. I would however expect NSLocale to know the correct order of elements in the date format. Pierre So you want to use the us

Re: NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale

2009-08-11 Thread Sean McBride
On 8/11/09 6:39 PM, Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard said: >I am trying to format dates for display. So far I have been using this >formatter: > > NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] >autorelease]; > > [dateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBeh

Re: NSUserDefault and Negative numerical arguments (Was: Posting mouse clicks with multiple displays)

2009-08-11 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 11 Aug 2009, at 17:14, DeNigris Sean wrote: If the command line is "MyApp -x -100 -y 100", NSUserDefaults does not recognize the -100 as the value of the x argument - it sets x to 0. If the '-' is removed, everything is fine. Is this a bug? Is there a way around? Yes-- -100 is parse

NSDateFormatter formats from NSLocale

2009-08-11 Thread Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard
Hi! I am trying to format dates for display. So far I have been using this formatter: NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; [dateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4]; [dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDat

Re: NSUserDefault and Negative numerical arguments (Was: Posting mouse clicks with multiple displays)

2009-08-11 Thread DeNigris Sean
In main.m: NSUserDefaults *args = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]; int x = [args integerForKey:@"x"]; int y = [args integerForKey:@"y"]; If the command line is "MyApp -x -100 -y 100", NSUserDefaults does not recognize the -100 as the value of the x argument - it sets x t

Re: Color with pattern image

2009-08-11 Thread Mirko Viviani
On 11/ago/09, at 09:03, Uli Kusterer wrote: You probably want to do the pattern phase thing Rob suggested, but just for completeness' sake, there's a flipped property on NSImage that you could use to fix the upside-down part of this new problem. Yes I know but I need to use the pattern pha

Re: Disabled controls don't update their visual appearance

2009-08-11 Thread Christopher Campbell Jensen
On 11 Aug 2009, at 08:00, Uli Kusterer wrote: On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Christopher Campbell Jensen wrote: I am sure I am just missing a single line of code, but I can't understand the following behavior: This code is where the issue occours: - (void)refreshButtonsEnabledState { NSLog(@"%

Re: converting unicode text representation to unichar

2009-08-11 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Aug 11, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Daniel Child wrote: Unihan.txt provides text files showing characters in the format U +. If I scan these in, naturally I can obtain the NSString representation . But I need to convert this text to genuine unichars OR NSStrings (the actual characters repr

Re: converting unicode text representation to unichar

2009-08-11 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 11 Aug 2009, at 15:40, Daniel Child wrote: Unihan.txt provides text files showing characters in the format U +. If I scan these in, naturally I can obtain the NSString representation . But I need to convert this text to genuine unichars OR NSStrings (the actual characters represen

Re: [iPhone] seeking advise on complex view design

2009-08-11 Thread Luke the Hiesterman
I'm a fan of IB for layout as well. Luke On Aug 11, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Sean Kline wrote: I personally like starting with Interface Builder and supplementing with code if you want to do non-standard things, but it comes down to what makes you comfortable. Interface Builder can save a lot of

Re: [iPhone] seeking advise on complex view design

2009-08-11 Thread Sean Kline
I personally like starting with Interface Builder and supplementing with code if you want to do non-standard things, but it comes down to what makes you comfortable. Interface Builder can save a lot of time, I think. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Ronnie B wrote: > Thanks Sean and Luke. > >

Re: [iPhone] seeking advise on complex view design

2009-08-11 Thread Ronnie B
Thanks Sean and Luke. What is a better approach: IB or in code in this case? On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Luke Hiesterman wrote: > Sounds like you know the percentages you want. Just get the superview's > bounds and calculate your frames using percentages of those bounds. Update > when ori

Re: [iPhone] seeking advise on complex view design

2009-08-11 Thread Luke Hiesterman
Sounds like you know the percentages you want. Just get the superview's bounds and calculate your frames using percentages of those bounds. Update when orientation changes. Or have subviews auto resize. Luke Sent from my iPhone. On Aug 11, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Sean Kline wrote: Are you hav

Re: CATransition + NSView mask

2009-08-11 Thread Sean Kline
I am experiencing some strange subview appearance issues, but it may be unrelated. You may want to take a look at this post by Marcus Zarra, which may be useful: http://www.cimgf.com/2008/03/03/core-animation-tutorial-wizard-dialog-with-transitions/ Regards, Sean On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:54 AM,

converting unicode text representation to unichar

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Child
Unihan.txt provides text files showing characters in the format U+. If I scan these in, naturally I can obtain the NSString representation . But I need to convert this text to genuine unichars OR NSStrings (the actual characters represented). Two questions: 1. I didn't see any relev

Re: [iPhone] seeking advise on complex view design

2009-08-11 Thread Sean Kline
Are you having difficulty laying this out in Interface Builder? It seems rather straight forward from what you describe. Regards, Sean On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Ronnie B wrote: > Hi list. > > I need to create a rather complex view containing the following from top to > bottom: > > A sub

[iPhone] seeking advise on complex view design

2009-08-11 Thread Ronnie B
Hi list. I need to create a rather complex view containing the following from top to bottom: A subview about 20p in height; Two rows of buttons three in each row (both taking a third of a space) A table view taking about a third of a space An add banner I am wondering how this is done. I need t

Looking for Lead Engineer, iPhone Applications

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Frost
Lead Engineer, iPhone Applications Standard Nine Inc. San Francisco, CA We're a small startup looking to augment our founding team with passionate, talented engineers who will help us build the world's first end-to-end platform for digital learning content distribution. Our founding team is ex-Har

Re: To get system sounds for Move or Copy operations

2009-08-11 Thread Sean McBride
On 8/11/09 8:09 AM, Uli Kusterer said: >> NSSound initWithContentsOfFile:byReference: should do it. > > There's also a PlayThemeSound() API in Carbon.framework's >Appearance.h. There's a comment in that header indicating that it >wasn't implemented for a while, and I haven't tried whether it work

[MEET] CocoaHeads-NYC meeting Thu 08/13

2009-08-11 Thread Andy Lee
The next meeting of CocoaHeads-NYC will be this Thursday, 8/13, from 6:00PM to 8:00PM at Tekserve. Alex McAuley will talk about Bonjour. As usual, please bring Cocoa programming questions and see if any among us can help. We can put your code up on the big screen if you like. If you're w

Re: Core Data - attribute to hold an array of strings

2009-08-11 Thread parag vibhute
Kyle, please note that question was "Can I use the same method for *UIImage*or NSImage also? " John, you are right. Regards, Parag On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:13 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > I took this to mean that NSImage conforms to NSCoding and therefore can be > archived, whereas UIImage does no

Re: To get system sounds for Move or Copy operations

2009-08-11 Thread Uli Kusterer
On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Shashanka L wrote: Ex: I can get the Trash sound at the location : "/System/Library/ components/coreaudio.component/contents/Resources/SystemSounds/ finder/" And I can use it as : NSSound *deleteSound; deleteSound = [NSSound soundNamed: @"drag to t

Re: Color with pattern image

2009-08-11 Thread Uli Kusterer
On Aug 10, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Mirko Viviani wrote: I've tried to vertically flip the drawing context but the pattern is always drawn upside-down from the bottom-left corner. You probably want to do the pattern phase thing Rob suggested, but just for completeness' sake, there's a flipped pr

Re: Cmd+key shortcuts not being sent to NSWindow on Tiger

2009-08-11 Thread Uli Kusterer
On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Kirk Swenson wrote: As the comment suggests, myTextFieldEditor is an instance variable. It's released in the dealloc method. It's worth pointing out that according to the documentation, "This method may be called multiple times while a control is first responder.