On 6 Sep 2009, at 21:30, Quincey Morris wrote:
On Sep 6, 2009, at 18:41, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote:
OK, do you mean the origin of [self bounds] isn't always (0, 0)?
That could explain a few things..
The origin of the bounds coordinate system is always (0, 0) by
definition, but what I mean
On Sep 6, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Dave Keck wrote:
Or, if the user is more technically apt, #3 can be 'gdb ',
'run', and when it crashes, 'bt' to get a backtrace.
You'll need to make sure you have the unstripped release binary (not a
debug version) of the same app version for this backtrace to b
Hi All,
In my doc-based app, I need to initially display a startup window instead of a
new empty document. Its function would be somewhat akin to that of the Template
Chooser that comes up when you launch Pages.
I've scoured the texts about the document architecture but cannot find pointers
on
To enable zombies and run your app:
1. Open terminal
2. export NSZombieEnabled=YES
3. /path/to/program.app/Contents/MacOS/program
... and stdout will of course go to the terminal window.
Or, if the user is more technically apt, #3 can be 'gdb ',
'run', and when it crashes, 'bt' to get a backtrac
On 07/09/2009, at 9:40 AM, Bryan Zarnett wrote:
I would like to set the text color of the cell in an NSTableView
based on a particular set of data in the table of in the associated
array controller. I currently have the basic code for the coloring
changing working right now in "willDisplay
When working with a serial NSOperationQueue (i.e.
setMaxConcurrentOperationCount==1), are the operations added to the
queue guaranteed to run in FIFO order if all operations have the same
priority and no operation dependencies are involved? My guess is that
the NSOperationQueue will run th
I would like to set the text color of the cell in an NSTableView based
on a particular set of data in the table of in the associated array
controller. I currently have the basic code for the coloring changing
working right now in "willDisplayCell". What I am not sure about is
how to (1) ret
Place a breakpoint on objc_exception_throw and eliminate the guesswork.
Cheers,
Joshua
On Sep 5, 2009, at 9:55 AM, "Rick C." wrote:
hello,
i'm just looking for a confirmation here. if i'm getting this crash:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception
'NSInvalidArgumentException', reas
Is it possible to enable zombie mode for a shipped app?
I have a user reporting a crash which is clearly messaging a released
object, but I can't see what. It's not reproducible locally, and
appears to be affecting this one user only. Can I get him somehow to
turn on zombie mode and get a m
On Sep 6, 2009, at 18:41, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote:
OK, do you mean the origin of [self bounds] isn't always (0, 0)?
That could explain a few things..
The origin of the bounds coordinate system is always (0, 0) by
definition, but what I meant to say was that the bottom left corner of
the
Thanks Brent for your input:
You will probably want to use KVO to observe changes to the array
holding the list of column names to show.
I'm not sure how to do that. It's probably enough in my case to
intercept setContent calls to the NSArrayController, changing the
table columns during t
On Sep 6, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
The OP said stringByResolvingSymlinksInPath does the same thing,
which seems incorrect to me, if the pathname is initially valid and
contains symlinks. However, if the pathname is invalid (doesn't
exist, as determined by some function like st
Thanks. Sounds like a really weird bug, though.
I also figured out a way to solve this, by calling [NSBitmapImageRep
drawAtPoint:] instead of
the [NSImage drawAtPoint:] one, which has the correct behaviour. So it might
be a good idea to
maintain compatibility of your code between leopard and SL.
On 7 Sep 2009, at 06:53, Greg Guerin wrote:
Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
This is the directory used (/Volumes/à’•à¸¡à’√à¸˙/
Users/gerriet/
Downloads):
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gerriet staff 36 6 Sep 19:30 abc
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gerriet staff 47908 6 Sep 19:37 abc alias
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gerriet staff 3 4 Sep 21:3
This code:
NSString *patx = @"/Volumes/เม่น/Users/gerriet/Downloads/abc
alias"; <--- this really is an alias, created in Finder.
NSURL *u2a = [ NSURL fileURLWithPath: patx ];
NSLog(@"%s will call bookmarkDataWithContentsOfURL",__FUNCTION__);
// the next line will create "malloc: *** error for
OK, it turns out that my first lemma didn't hold. My connection
object was not a good one (having an incorrect remote port).
This (thankfully) had nothing to do with run loops or other flora and
fauna.
On 2009-09-06, at 5:28 PM, Luke Evans wrote:
Mmm... I can see a run loop running on the
On 6 Sep 2009, at 18:37, Quincey Morris wrote:
There are several things wrong with this:
-- You're not accounting for the bounds origin, so it only works if
the origin happens to be (0, 0).
OK, do you mean the origin of [self bounds] isn't always (0, 0)? That
could explain a few things.
On Sep 6, 2009, at 17:36, John Engelhart wrote:
So, since the Mac OS X documentation uses the term "interior
pointer" in a totally non-standard way, and I can't find anything
wrt/ to what I'm looking for, my question is:
Does the Mac OS X garbage collector support interior pointers (as
de
On 05/09/2009, at 10:42 PM, Brad Gibbs wrote:
If I create the NSWindowController programmatically with a custom
initializer:
NSWindowController *myWindowController = [[NSWindowController
alloc] initWithWindowNibName:@"MyWindow"
moc:self.managedObjectContext];
everything works fine. I
On Sep 6, 2009, at 17:11, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote:
I would have thought that the code below will center text
horizontally and vertically within a NSRect. Sometimes it does but
it depends on the font I am using. So the below may work for
Verdana but if I change to Helvetica then the vertic
Mmm... I can see a run loop running on the stack of the main thread of
my frozen app when it is trying to obtain the proxy.
So, I'm guessing that I don't have to do anything special to get the
right run loop apparatus on the thread - it looks like the call to -
[NSConnection rootProxy] knows h
On 6 sep 2009, at 14.26, Jens Alfke wrote:
NSLog(@"path = %@", [@"/etc" stringByStandardizingPath]);
results in
path = /etc
when the result ought to be "/private/etc".
This is the documented behavior:
"Remove an initial component of “/private” from the path if the
result
Hi all,
I would have thought that the code below will center text horizontally
and vertically within a NSRect. Sometimes it does but it depends on
the font I am using. So the below may work for Verdana but if I
change to Helvetica then the vertical centering is off.
Is there a better wa
Jens Alfke wrote:
NSLog(@"path = %@", [@"/etc" stringByStandardizingPath]);
results in
path = /etc
when the result ought to be "/private/etc".
The same thing happens with a custom symlink I created, like "/
Code", which links to "/Volumes/snoog/Code":
NSLog(@"path = %
Thanks, that did the trick.
Austin
On Sep 6, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Kevin Cathey wrote:
You cannot update a single constraint, but you can replace the
entire constraints array:
@property(copy) NSArray *constraints;
Kevin
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On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Peter Hudson wrote:
> I notice that when I sign code ( the whole app ) I land up with 2
> additional items in my /Contents directory in the app bundle.
> These items are a folder called _CodeSignature and an alias called
> CodeResources.
>
> If I delete
Somebody may be able to provide clue here and save me a deal of time...
I'm intending using DO between a Foundation Tool and what is currently
a normal Cocoa app. I have used DO before between 2 normal Cocoa apps
(i.e. where NSApplication starts the run loop etc.) - that just worked
first
On Sep 6, 2009, at 14:37, Charles Srstka
wrote:
Why are you wanting to go around deleting files from the insides of
app bundles?
Maybe to see what happens if the bad guys try the same trick.
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On Sep 6, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On Sep 6, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
Try using a pathname that contains only Latin alphabet characters
(for reference, the original chars of the volume-name are Thai:
\u0e40\u0e21\u0e48\u0e19). If necessary, create and mount a disk-
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
It seems that the way I previously used an NSSavePanel has been
deprecated. :(
By the way, it's only deprecated if you want to write 10.6-only apps.
If you want to remain 10.5-compatible, you can't use any of the cool
block-based APIs, s
On Sep 6, 2009, at 6:00 AM, Peter Hudson wrote:
I notice that when I sign code ( the whole app ) I land up with 2
additional items in my /Contents directory in the app bundle.
These items are a folder called _CodeSignature and an alias called
CodeResources.
If I delete these two items, t
On Sep 6, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
OK, now a scoping rule question, in the sample code below, does
"self" refer to my object (i.e., the "self" when the block is
declared) or the NSSavePanel (i.e., the "self" when the code is
executed)?
Your object. Even though the save pan
On Sep 6, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
Try using a pathname that contains only Latin alphabet characters
(for reference, the original chars of the volume-name are Thai:
\u0e40\u0e21\u0e48\u0e19). If necessary, create and mount a disk-
image in order to get only Latin chars.
I don
On Sep 6, 2009, at 2:18 PM, aaron smith wrote:
that stinks. because I've noticed an alignment problem in snow
leopard. If the menu font size is smaller, and the key shortcut size
is bigger. They don't line up middle aligned. The smaller text is a
couple pixels off. Which looks bad. In leopard t
that stinks. because I've noticed an alignment problem in snow
leopard. If the menu font size is smaller, and the key shortcut size
is bigger. They don't line up middle aligned. The smaller text is a
couple pixels off. Which looks bad. In leopard the alignment was ok.
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 7:59
On Sep 6, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Seth Willits wrote:
I'm updating some rally old code, and I'm getting a bunch of:
Collection was mutated while being enumerated.
I'm wondering if there's a handy method I can break on to drop right
into the location of these errors?
Ok, nevermind… Xcode jus
I'm updating some rally old code, and I'm getting a bunch of:
Collection was mutated while being enumerated.
I'm wondering if there's a handy method I can break on to drop right
into the location of these errors?
--
Seth Willits
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Thanks for the information.
OK, now a scoping rule question, in the sample code below, does "self"
refer to my object (i.e., the "self" when the block is declared) or
the NSSavePanel (i.e., the "self" when the code is executed)?
Todd
[savePanel beginSheetModalForWindow:window completionHan
On Sep 6, 2009, at 22:25, has wrote:
Marco Cassinerio wrote:
I tried a lot of AS and the error is related to the AS request.
For example, this to get the current playing track in iTunes:
tell application "iTunes"
set curr_path to get location of current track
return POSIX pat
Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
This is the directory used (/Volumes/เม่น/Users/gerriet/
Downloads):
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gerriet staff 36 6 Sep 19:30 abc
-rw-r--r--@ 1 gerriet staff 47908 6 Sep 19:37 abc alias
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gerriet staff 3 4 Sep 21:31 abcSymlink -> abc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gerriet staff 49 6 Sep
Marco Cassinerio wrote:
I tried a lot of AS and the error is related to the AS request.
For example, this to get the current playing track in iTunes:
tell application "iTunes"
set curr_path to get location of current track
return POSIX path of curr_path
end tell
The error:
As mentioned before, the new feature is called Blocks, and is available only
for Snow Leopard for the moment (probably being ported to the iPhone too).
I've written an introductory guide on what they are and how they work,
specifically intended for people who have experience with Objective-C and/or
> -[NSString boundingRectWithSize:...] might do this, especially with the
> NSStringDrawingUsesDeviceMetrics flag ("Uses image glyph bounds instead of
> typographic bounds").
Indeed. When I tried that method in the past, I got it working
half-way with italicized text (the width was correct, but th
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Todd Heberlein
wrote:
The new approach seems to use an approach (a function definition
embedded in the message) that I am not familiar with (I hear ghosts
of lambda notation whispering into my ear). I assume this is an
Objective C 2.0 feature, but I am not ev
It seems that the way I previously used an NSSavePanel has been
deprecated. :(
The new approach seems to use an approach (a function definition
embedded in the message) that I am not familiar with (I hear ghosts of
lambda notation whispering into my ear). I assume this is an Objective
C 2
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:37 PM, "James W. Walker" wrote:
True. If you look in NSGeometry.h, you find that the constants are
still there, but they are #defines instead of enumerated constants
in 64 bits.
Definitely file a bug about that. They have special tools to deal with
all the enums-t
thanks for the replys, that helped alot, (now i've got to figure
out why the sample code that comes with xcode "MiniBrowser" does not
load flash at all (if garbage collection is turned on, no other
changes)...
it must be something related... i've already tried unchecking for
that
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:30 PM, jon wrote:
so there is something in flash that is checked that shouldn't be
checked?or just sort of normal and i always have to uncheck
that when ever using the webkit?
If you're debugging an app that uses WebKit, and it loads a page that
uses the Flash
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Mitchell Livingston wrote:
Under NSRectEdge in the documentation.
For example:
"NSMinXEdge
Specifies the left edge of the input rectangle.
The input rectangle is divided vertically, and the leftmost
rectangle with the width of amount is placed in slice.
Avail
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Mitchell Livingston wrote:
Under NSRectEdge in the documentation.
For example:
"NSMinXEdge
Specifies the left edge of the input rectangle.
The input rectangle is divided vertically, and the leftmost
rectangle with the width of amount is placed in slice.
Available
You need to share you applescript and this error with us. :)
--Kyle Sluder
I tried a lot of AS and the error is related to the AS request.
For example, this to get the current playing track in iTunes:
tell application "iTunes"
set curr_path to get location of current track
re
I just unchecked it, now it runs through without the crash.
so there is something in flash that is checked that shouldn't be
checked?or just sort of normal and i always have to uncheck that
when ever using the webkit?
Jon.
On Sep 6, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
Flash is cal
Under NSRectEdge in the documentation.
For example:
"NSMinXEdge
Specifies the left edge of the input rectangle.
The input rectangle is divided vertically, and the leftmost rectangle with the
width of amount is placed in slice.
Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.
Not available to 64-bit app
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:18 PM, jon wrote:
#0 0x940cb402 in __pthread_kill ()
#1 0x940cb24f in pthread_kill ()
#2 0x93d59190 in Debugger ()
#3 0x17ad6e05 in dyld_stub_syslog ()
#4 0x17ad70bf in NP_Initialize ()
#5 0x95d365ef in -[WebNetscapePluginPackage _tryLoad] ()
Flash is calling Debug
On Sep 6, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
Run your app with 'breakpoints enabled', to make sure the gdb
debugger loads. Then when it crashes you'll be in the debugger and
can look at the stack and such. (Type "bt" into the gdb command area
to get a textual bactkrace you can easily copy
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Mitchell Livingston wrote:
I want to use NSDivideRect in my app, but the documentation for
NSRectEdge (one of the parameter types) says "Not available to 64-
bit applications.". Can I not use this function anymore? Is there an
appropriate replacement for the fun
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:10:26 -0700 (PDT), "Rick C." said:
>hello again,
>
>i have revised my help book and the problem i'm having is with the AppleIcon
meta tag and getting my icon to show in the help book. i never had a problem
with the previous version of my help book and now all the paths are i
On Sep 6, 2009, at 6:15 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
The problem is: neither stringByStandardizingPath (which is
documented to remove symlinks) nor stringByResolvingSymlinksInPath
does anything.
I also ran into this problem with -stringByStandardizingPath, right
after upgrading to 10.6
On Sep 6, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Dave Keck wrote:
I've noticed this too. If you need the absolute precise pixel-size of
some text, then the only way I know of (that works with all different
styles of text) is manually drawing the text into some temporary
context, and analyzing its pixels.
-[NSStri
Hey,
I want to use NSDivideRect in my app, but the documentation for
NSRectEdge (one of the parameter types) says "Not available to 64-bit
applications.". Can I not use this function anymore? Is there an
appropriate replacement for the function?
Thanks,
Mitch
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On Sep 6, 2009, at 08:41, Gregory Holden wrote:
NSArrayController seems great if you want to point it at repeating
objects, but I can't find any clear way to add that one-off column
that isn't part of the actual model objects (i.e. The "Now Playing"
speaker in itunes, or a column with row n
I am using the croppingImageView example to allow me to place a
picture of the desktop in to a window (about 400X300). I then want to
be able to select an area of that picture and translate it to pick up
that part of the desktop however what I get is completely
unpredictable. It almost look
On Sep 6, 2009, at 05:46, Roland King wrote:
The note however says that in order to reduce the amount of
finalizer methods written just to do KVO registration removal, the
runtime now does it for you automatically in 10.6. So if you're
observing something and are collected, the observations
On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:11 AM, jon wrote:
Are you saying that a version of this type of app is not crashing
the Application when you do this type of thing? are you on snow
leopard? this simple app makes it through without exiting? (using
ebay.com?)
I have not tried it yet. It does not
after installing flash again from Adobe, to make sure it was the
latest..(didn't help). I realized that maybe the app needs to know
about a "flash" type of framework or something like that?
is that type of thing needed? possible?
Jon.
On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
Ha
Are you saying that a version of this type of app is not crashing the
Application when you do this type of thing? are you on snow
leopard? this simple app makes it through without exiting? (using
ebay.com?)
nothing too interesting about the console log, here it is: more
like an ab
On Sep 6, 2009, at 10:38 AM, jon wrote:
I believe that the flash content of ebay is crashing the app?can
someone confirm? is this a known bug? something wrong with
flash? my system?
Have you enabled developer crash logs and checked the backtrace? Have
you updated to the latest v
You need to share you applescript and this error with us. :)
--Kyle Sluder
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can someone else confirm this on 10.5, and then 10.6 system..
if you create a simple cocoa Application (not document based,
although that will exhibit same problem)
then in Interface builder put in a webView, and then a textfield into
the Window of the simple application project, use te
Greg,
Generally these would be called "derived properties" from my experience, and
it's possible to add them on the classes that your Entities use, using KVO
methods. For instance, if you have 2 genuine properties on your "Person"
entity called firstName and lastName then you can create a fullName
hello again,
i have revised my help book and the problem i'm having is with the AppleIcon
meta tag and getting my icon to show in the help book. i never had a problem
with the previous version of my help book and now all the paths are identical
i've made sure of it, yet no icon. my guess is w
On Sep 6, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Mark Munz wrote:
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
Yeah, that's just FUD. It supports creator codes, but not in the
same *way*
that Leopard did. And since this is a major undocumented change,
which has
broken the way apps like BBEdit and Nisus
NSArrayController seems great if you want to point it at repeating
objects, but I can't find any clear way to add that one-off column
that isn't part of the actual model objects (i.e. The "Now Playing"
speaker in itunes, or a column with row numbers - independent of
sorting).
I've tried
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:13 AM, DairyKnight wrote:
> I'm working on a program which does lots of switching between CGImage,
> CIIMage and NSImage. One thing I found out is
> that it seems if you get a CGImage from NSBitmapImageRep:
>
> CGImage *cgImg = [NSBitmapImageRep CGImage];
Nothing about the
I'm not clear on which method is giving you issues, -drawInRect: or
-drawAtPoint:? If it's -drawAtPoint: then it sounds like you may be
hitting a bug in the frameworks on Leopard:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/releasenotes/Cocoa/AppKit.html,
search for "NSImage: Breaking change to drawAtPo
It seems to me that it should stay the same size for a good reason
(consistency, etc) and that only universal access should be able to change
it (if anything). I've seen some apps use custom shortcuts but generally
it's always looked the same as the rest of them. In conclusion, I wouldn't
bother tr
Hi all,
I'm trying to clip an NSImage, not so sure if this is the right thing to do,
but my solution is
to create a smaller NSImage, and draw the original at point(0,0) with the
user-defined clipping rectangle.
It sounds straight forward, but every time I get a messed up image. Then I
tried:
[myN
I am trying to replace the deprecated fileSystemAttributesAtPath:
1. Although Kyle Sluder stated:
The header file describes the correct behavior.
The current behavior is the only one that makes sense.
I am a bit troubled by the documentation stating that "This behavior
may change in a future
On 06-Sep-2009, at 2:22 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
I haven't tried to evaluate the GC side of this under 10.6, but I
can't imagine that the basic rule has (or could be changed) under
GC: that cleanup relating to the relationships between objects needs
to be done prior to entry to 'final
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Richard Somers
wrote:
> I have a simple Core Data model with two entities, A and B. Each entity has
> several attributes but no relationships.
>
> I need a single array controller which contains all A and B objects in the
> model.
>
> In Interface Builder this works
These files are certainly meant to be there. (If you happen to look in the
bundles of any number of the standard Mac apps, these two resources are
present.) Signing your code should happen at the very last stage of
development; deleting something from your bundle after it's been signed is
wrong.
Y
>From the docs on -CGImage
"Returns an autoreleased CGImage object (an opaque type) from the
receiver’s current bitmap data."
... if you expect it to stick around, you need to retain it.
Otherwise, you needn't do anything: you shouldn't CGImageRelease() it,
because you don't own it.
_
I'm working on a program which does lots of switching between CGImage,
CIIMage and NSImage. One thing I found out is
that it seems if you get a CGImage from NSBitmapImageRep:
CGImage *cgImg = [NSBitmapImageRep CGImage];
And later you release it, by:
CGImageRelease(cgImg);
It would cause a BAD_A
I'm writing a System Service under 10.6 that launchs an apple script
with NSAppleScript. When the apple script target app is not running,
the script works, but when the app is already running, the
executeAndReturnError: will return nil and an error in the dictionary.
Launching the same apple
I notice that when I sign code ( the whole app ) I land up with 2
additional items in my /Contents directory in the app bundle.
These items are a folder called _CodeSignature and an alias called
CodeResources.
If I delete these two items, the code still identifies itself as
signed ( when
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Joshua Garnham
wrote:
Ok, I understand what you mean.
So how would I implement it in the Controller?
That's a question only you can answer. Break down the problem.
You also never answered the question of whether this is a behavior of
your model objects or jus
> Also, keep in mind that character shapes may stick out of either edge by a
> few pixels, especially with italics or script fonts. It's usually safest to
> pad your bounding box by some fraction of the point-size.
I've noticed this too. If you need the absolute precise pixel-size of
some text, th
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
> While I'm honored by the loyalty, you really do get most of the
> functionality from Finder now.
Feature wise, you are probably right. But the fact that OpenUp kept
all the expanded files into a separate folder and was able to clean
everything
I would like the Data to be deleted permanently.
Cheers,
Josh.
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