Re: odd behavior with NSError?

(response is pedantic for the purposes of the archive :) even more better flaming pedanticism! On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote: Ouch. So the following pattern is incorrect? Yes; it is incorrect. NSError* internalError = nil; (void)[foo somethingReturningBool:bar e

Re: odd behavior with NSError?

Bill Bumgarner wrote: On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote: ... You're saying that some methods go out of their way to trample my (potentially unavailable) error storage even on success? If the error storage is not available, as indicated by passing an NSError** of nil,

Re: How to detect and disable/delay sleep event in cocoa for some critical threads to complete

Hi Parimal, See NSWorkspace. NSWorkspaceWillSleepNotification Posted before the machine goes to sleep. An observer of this message can delay sleep for up to 30 seconds while handling this notification. -Ken On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Parimal Das wrote: > Hi All > > When my app is doing

Re: odd behavior with NSError?

On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:41 pm, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote: > Ouch. So the following pattern is incorrect? > > NSError* internalError = nil; > (void)[foo somethingReturningBool:bar error:&internalError]; > if (internalError) { >// ... > } >

Re: odd behavior with NSError?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote: > Ouch. So the following pattern is incorrect? > > NSError* internalError = nil; > (void)[foo somethingReturningBool:bar error:&internalError]; > if (internalError) { Indeed, this is very incorrect. If the existence of the NSError objec

Re: odd behavior with NSError?

(response is pedantic for the purposes of the archive :) On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote: Ouch. So the following pattern is incorrect? Yes; it is incorrect. NSError* internalError = nil; (void)[foo somethingReturningBool:bar error:&internalError]; if (internalError)

Re: odd behavior with NSError?

On Oct 2, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: In either case, assuming the undefined reference is nil would be a bug. Initializing the variables to nil prior to the call isn't going to change anything in that regard. (And, yes, there are methods that modify their error parameter on suc

How to detect and disable/delay sleep event in cocoa for some critical threads to complete

Hi All When my app is doing some critical I/O transactions with OpenSsl, And the user is sleeping the machine (just by folding the laptop). Some of the app threads are hanging Is there any way in cocoa to do following steps? Also is this logic correct? 1. Detect when a sleep (soft or hard) is is

Toolbar with capsule style items (Similiar to Mail)

Hi All, I am new at programming with Cocoa - so I had a basic question. Is it possible to create a capsule style toolbar with a search field in it (like how Mail's toolbar is) just using interface building to create the UI? And if so - how would it be done? I am trying to create by first dr

Simultaneous Recording and Playback

Hi, Can anyone help me how to achieve playback immediately the recorded voice and shall be able to stop them simultaneously. I am following the AQRecord/Play of the AudioQueueTools of CoreAudio Samples. But unable to reach to the target. I am putting more effort on it to converge what exactly I can

Re: A good Obc-C framework for sending email?

On 15 Oct 2009, at 13:34, Ben Haller wrote: Hi all. I need a good Obj-C framework for sending email. I used to use the Message.framework associated with Apple's Mail, but they killed that a long time ago, sadly. Then I used Pantomime; but it seems to also be abandoned, now, and it is cra

Re: Custom NSComboBox

On 16/10/2009, at 1:42 PM, Symadept wrote: Can anybody put some light on this. Well, it might help if you format your email so it's readable to some extent. I took one look at it and passed it over because I'm not going to bother unravelling the unformatted mess to find out what it is

Re: Background image of CustomTableView Cells

Hi,Can anybody please help me regarding this. Regards Symadept On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Symadept wrote: > > Hi, > Can you help me to fix this problem. > > I am customizing my table view to show various images in the background of > the cells accordingly as > > Selected : Font Changed to

Re: Custom NSComboBox

Hi, Can anybody put some light on this. Regards Mustafa On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Symadept wrote: > Hi, I am designing a custom NSComboBox to display the rect image as some > ComboboxBg.png and set foreground (text) color to Red. To render image I am > doing the following things. @interf

Re: Record and Playback immediately

Hi Jean, Thank you very much for your response. Similarly Cocoa dev do we have any Macos Dev forums where I can ask this kind of questions. And I am working on AQRecord/Play. But still I haven't figured it out how to make it immediately. Regards Mustafa On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jean-Danie

Re: Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

Ric 1) I've seen an alternative way of defining a method, with the semicolon after the declaration, before the body: - (NSArray *)sortedIncredients; <-- notice the semicolon { ... } 2) ... versus the standard declaration + body of the definition (without the semicolon):

Re: Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

Hi Rols, The same happened to me once. Accidently part of copy paste from header to .m, it happened that structure. But why Objective C compiler won't give any error for this. Really frustrating. Regards Mustafa On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Robert Tillyard wrote: > I keep meaning to file a

Re: Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

I keep meaning to file an enhancement request for the space before ()'s, I have to go back and manually change every occurrence and then add spaces after the commas in the function arguments. I also prefer - (void)foo { } over - (void)foo { } Regards, Rob. On 16 Oct 2009, at 02:30, Rolan

Re: Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

> Agree 2000%! Same here. A side note: in (Objective-)C you can also type jibberish after the trailing quote of an #include and it gets ignored (at least with GCC, not sure about Clang.) Not as useful as the semicolon bug, but I think it helps illuminate "just because you can, doesn't mean you sh

Re: Automatic language detection - a bug (again) or what. Snow Foundation NSSpellServer.

Dear Mr. Davidson / to whom it may concern: Just had a little time to work on the project/problem (hope I'm not the only one) and found out that: Steps to reproduce pt. 16 and Actual Results pt. 4 should sound now: 4) If the "new" method introduced in 10.6 – spellServer:checkString:offset:ty

Re: Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

On 16/10/2009, at 12:30 PM, Roland King wrote: I'm ploughing it with you, I hate it too and spend 30 seconds every time I let XCode stub out a function for me moving the brace onto the correct line, andputtingspacesbackbetweenparanetheses,bracketsandarguments so I have a hope in hell of

Re: Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

Graham Cox wrote: On 16/10/2009, at 11:54 AM, Frederick C. Lee wrote: Both seem to work the same. Is there any benefit of (1) over (2) or is it merely style of programming? (1) isn't really an alternative way of implementing a method, it's just that the trailing semicolon is ignored.

Re: Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

On 16/10/2009, at 11:54 AM, Frederick C. Lee wrote: Both seem to work the same. Is there any benefit of (1) over (2) or is it merely style of programming? (1) isn't really an alternative way of implementing a method, it's just that the trailing semicolon is ignored. I'm not even sure if i

Re: Serial comm in Cocoa?

Thanks Louis... I'm studying the code right now. -Soong - Original Message From: Louis Demers To: Oftenwrong Soong Sent: Thu, October 15, 2009 5:58:02 PM Subject: Re: Serial comm in Cocoa? I use 2 C routines I found on the net and adapted. Here is some code I use, quickly ripped ou

Re: Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

On Oct 15, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Frederick C. Lee wrote: Is there any benefit of (1) over (2) or is it merely style of programming? IMHO (1) should not be allowed, because you can't write C functions that way (the compiler throws a parsing error if you do that), so it's odd that you can writ

Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

1) I've seen an alternative way of defining a method, with the semicolon after the declaration, before the body: - (NSArray *)sortedIncredients; <-- notice the semicolon { ... } 2) ... versus the standard declaration + body of the definition (without the semicolon): - (NSA

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

That is simply not true. That code is perfectly well defined. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 15, 2009, at 17:10, Oftenwrong Soong wrote: Hi Ben, You say the crash occurs in this line: individuals[individualCount++] = individualsForPop[i]; The problem may be in the post-increment (individ

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

On 15-Oct-09, at 8:26 PM, Greg Parker wrote: I don't see any global pointer variables involved. My guess is that `individuals` is uninitialized or NULL or `individuals[individualCount]` is out of bounds. The write barrier objc_assign_strongCast() does range checks on the destination addre

Re: Serial comm in Cocoa?

Look for AMSerialPort on this page: Kiel On 16/10/2009, at 11:12 AM, Oftenwrong Soong wrote: Hi All, What is the Cocoa-fied way to communicate via a serial port? Using a kext to support the Prolific PL2303 chip and a shell utility like cu, it is po

Re: Serial comm in Cocoa?

Oftenwrong Soong wrote: What is the Cocoa-fied way to communicate via a serial port? http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2009/Jun/msg00976.html -- GG ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin request

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

On Oct 15, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Ben Haller wrote: On 15-Oct-09, at 7:30 PM, Greg Parker wrote: A pointer value stored in an ordinary malloc block is neither a "strong" nor a "weak" reference. It is a dangling pointer. It can be used safely, but requires great care because the garbage collector

Re: How to switch the default printer?

Yes, I guess I could do that. And then go after every application developer that doesn't support the Apple Event print properties. That probably means I would never finish the application I'm working on. Unfortunately, that's the bottom line, I have to find a way to convert any document that can

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

On 15-Oct-09, at 8:10 PM, Oftenwrong Soong wrote: Hi Ben, You say the crash occurs in this line: individuals[individualCount++] = individualsForPop[i]; The problem may be in the post-increment (individualCount++). IIRC, there is no agreed-upon compiler standard as to whether the post- i

Serial comm in Cocoa?

Hi All, What is the Cocoa-fied way to communicate via a serial port? Using a kext to support the Prolific PL2303 chip and a shell utility like cu, it is possible to communicate via many USB-based serial ports. (For those who need it, the kext is at sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303.) I am wri

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

Hi Ben, You say the crash occurs in this line: individuals[individualCount++] = individualsForPop[i]; The problem may be in the post-increment (individualCount++). IIRC, there is no agreed-upon compiler standard as to whether the post-increment will occur before or after the assignment. It

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

I'd start by taking a look at the CHDataStructures framework: http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/wiki/chdatastructures It's a framework hosted by our local CocoaHeads group that includes most of the data structures that Apple forgot. =) An interesting framework, looks useful. Looking at the CH

Re: How to switch the default printer?

On 16/10/2009, at 6:05 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Any other suggestion? Log a bug with Microsoft? As usual, they have a tendency to do things their way rather than the right way. --Graham ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.co

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

I'd start by taking a look at the CHDataStructures framework: http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/wiki/chdatastructures It's a framework hosted by our local CocoaHeads group that includes most of the data structures that Apple forgot. =) Cheers, Dave On Oct 15, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Ben Haller wrote:

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

On 15-Oct-09, at 7:30 PM, Greg Parker wrote: A pointer value stored in an ordinary malloc block is neither a "strong" nor a "weak" reference. It is a dangling pointer. It can be used safely, but requires great care because the garbage collector has no knowledge of what you're doing. The a

Re: A good Obc-C framework for sending email?

The ED code looks like interesting and I will give it a try as well. Does anybody know of a good primer on creating / sending email ( possibly in a Cocoa / Objective-C environment ) Peter ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Ple

Re: Subclassing a view class from an external framework

Turns out the issue I was having was caused by the fact that I did not have the headers in the framework bundle, once I figured out how to add the header files to the framework - which was not easy to figure out - and did the 'reload all class files' menu item in IB for each xib the problem went aw

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Ben Haller wrote: Hi all. I'm getting a crash in auto_zone_root_write_barrier() that I don't understand. I suspect it has to do with this little blurb in the Garbage Collection Programming Guide: Limitations on Mac OS X v10.5: You may pass addresses of strong

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

That looks like it is more a matter of decreasing memory usage than decreasing alloc/dealloc/containment overhead. "A flyweight is an object that minimizes memory use by sharing as much data as possible with other similar objects; it is a way to use objects in large numbers when a simple

Status Bar Search Field Can't Get Focus w/ LSUIElement PList Setting

I'm having a problem getting a NSSearchField to work properly in an NSStatusItem a la the Apple Help menu or the Apple Spotlight menu. Here's what's happening. I create my custom NSStatusItem / menu / custom view/ search field, and insert into into the status bar in -awakeFromNib. Setting th

Re: Subclassing a view class from an external framework

> Although Interface Builder 3 is supposed to automatically sync with header > files in your project, it seems to have trouble with headers in frameworks. Which version of Interface Builder were you seeing this on? IB 3.2.x will parse the headers for all frameworks you've linked against in your X

Re: GC crash due to being naughty

Hi Ben, Have you considered the so-called Flyweight design pattern? It is designed to solve the problem of having a zillion objects to allocate. It sounds like this pattern might prevent your having to play the dirty tricks that are causing you problems. In the frameworks, Flyweight is used, A

GC crash due to being naughty

Hi all. I'm getting a crash in auto_zone_root_write_barrier() that I don't understand. I suspect it has to do with this little blurb in the Garbage Collection Programming Guide: Limitations on Mac OS X v10.5: You may pass addresses of strong globals or statics into routines expecting p

iSync: getting events attachments?

Hi. Am I missing something or is it not possible to retrieve events' attachments when using iSync? I don't see any property in the default event schema. Anyone? -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels N

Re: How to switch the default printer?

Any more suggestion on this problem? After I reported that the little script I tried was not working, everybody suddenly went mute. I'm still having to find a solution to this nagging and, quite stupid problem. Thanks in advance. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin

Re: language based scaning,

On Oct 15, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: NSString, mostly. Call -characters and loop over the UniChar[] array it returns. It's possible there are APIs for language/script detection at a lower level, like CoreText, but this may be the wrong list to find experts on that. Another po

Re: A good Obc-C framework for sending email?

On 15-Oct-09, at 4:57 PM, Bryan Matteson wrote: Perhaps EDMessage? http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/software/EDFrameworks/ EDMessage looks good, thanks! Ben Haller Stick Software ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do

Re: A good Obc-C framework for sending email?

Perhaps EDMessage? http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/software/EDFrameworks/ -B ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lis

A good Obc-C framework for sending email?

Hi all. I need a good Obj-C framework for sending email. I used to use the Message.framework associated with Apple's Mail, but they killed that a long time ago, sadly. Then I used Pantomime; but it seems to also be abandoned, now, and it is crashing on 10.5 (and it was never terribly r

Re: Malloc leak from ImageIO library

Thank you On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: > Hi Karolis, > That one's a false positive. The JPEG2000 library allocates memory at > pointer p, but holds onto a pointer q and constant k such that q + k is p. > > Leaks cannot tell that the app can still get at the pointer, so it t

Re: Malloc leak from ImageIO library

Hi Karolis, That one's a false positive. The JPEG2000 library allocates memory at pointer p, but holds onto a pointer q and constant k such that q + k is p. Leaks cannot tell that the app can still get at the pointer, so it thinks the memory has been leaked. Of course, one never wants to see fal

Re: language based scaning,

On Oct 15, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Nasser Al Zahrani wrote: so what classes should i be looking at ? NSString, mostly. Call -characters and loop over the UniChar[] array it returns. It's possible there are APIs for language/script detection at a lower level, like CoreText, but this may be th

Re: NSURLConnection timeout -- what happens?

On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Stuart Malin wrote: I have looked through the NSURLConnection class reference, the NSURLRequest class reference, the URL Loading System guide, queried Google, searched mailing list archives, and even looked through NSURLConnection.h, but can not find documenta

Re: Opening a NSSavePanel as a Sheet, and blocking like in [panel runModal]

I had written this NSOpenPanel category to work in a plugin environment, and I think it should do the right thing. Just set up the NSOpenPanel as you like then call - runModalForDirectory:file:types:relativeToWindow: and it will return when the user has selected (or not) a file. steve //

Re: language based scaning,

thanks Ricky, so what classes should i be looking at ? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsu

Re: How to switch the default printer?

On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:42, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Laurent Daudelin > wrote: >> A "print" Apple Event? Can you elaborate a bit? > > Apple Events are the IPC mechanism underlying AppleScript and > Automator. I won't go into a detailed explanation, but open up > App

Malloc leak from ImageIO library

Good day, I was running my app with Instruments -> Leaks. This is a document-based-application. Whenever I save or open a file I get this leak: Category: Malloc 4.50 KB Event Type: Malloc RefCt: 1 Address: 0x103108000 Size: 4608 Responsible Library: ImageIO Responsible Caller: du_block::set_max_b

NSURLConnection timeout -- what happens?

I have looked through the NSURLConnection class reference, the NSURLRequest class reference, the URL Loading System guide, queried Google, searched mailing list archives, and even looked through NSURLConnection.h, but can not find documentation about what happens when an NSURLConnection tim

Re: language based scaning

On Oct 15, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Nz Gmail wrote: what I'm trying to do is sort of Twitter client, in which the tweets can be English or Arabic so in case of Arabic the alignment should be from right to left, i hope I made it clear this time cheers In that case, you can probably scan the te

Re: How to switch the default printer?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > A "print" Apple Event? Can you elaborate a bit? Apple Events are the IPC mechanism underlying AppleScript and Automator. I won't go into a detailed explanation, but open up AppleScript Editor and take a look at TextEdit's scripting dict

Re: How to switch the default printer?

A "print" Apple Event? Can you elaborate a bit? -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software laurent.daude...@verizon.net Photo Gallery Store: http

Re: How to switch the default printer?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > Well... suppose from my application, I want to convert a Word document to > PDF. How would I do that? I did quite a bit of research and the only way I > found was to use CUPS-PDF and have Word print to that printer. Then, I can > retrieve

Re: How to switch the default printer?

Well... suppose from my application, I want to convert a Word document to PDF. How would I do that? I did quite a bit of research and the only way I found was to use CUPS-PDF and have Word print to that printer. Then, I can retrieve the converted PDF document. Is there any other way? I don't do

Re: language based scaning

what I'm trying to do is sort of Twitter client, in which the tweets can be English or Arabic so in case of Arabic the alignment should be from right to left, i hope I made it clear this time cheers On Oct 13, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Ricky Sharp wrote: You probably do not want to approach

Re: How to switch the default printer?

On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Yes, I know, it's terrible, but it's part of being able to convert any document to PDF and so far, I haven't found any other way then using a virtual printer driver. So, I have to temporarily switch to that printer to convert a document,

Re: How to switch the default printer?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > Yes, I know, it's terrible, but it's part of being able to convert any > document to PDF and so far, I haven't found any other way then using a > virtual printer driver. So, I have to temporarily switch to that printer to > convert a docu

Re: NSSplitView and NSScrollView

I need it to be dynamic, as I am trying to build something similar to a report designer with multiple user-defined bands. My problem is that the split view just tries to "autofit" itself in the scroll view, and the size of the views changes as I resize the scroll view I'm doing the foll

Re: How to switch the default printer?

Yes, I know, it's terrible, but it's part of being able to convert any document to PDF and so far, I haven't found any other way then using a virtual printer driver. So, I have to temporarily switch to that printer to convert a document, then revert back to what it was. It's not only for my app,

Re: How to switch the default printer?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > Anybody has any suggestion on how to do that? This sounds like a terrible idea. If you want to maintain a separate default printer for your app or for a document (InDesign does this, for example, because documents are often tied to a sp

Re: NSSplitView and NSScrollView

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Harry Sfougaris wrote: > I have placed a NSSplitView inside a NSScrollView in code. Obligatory question: why are you doing this in code, and not in Interface Builder? > However, when the user resizes one of the views so part of it outside the > NSScrollView visib

Re: NSSplitView and NSScrollView

Good day, Would you like to share some of your code? It would be a lot easier to see what may be going on... Cheers! On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Harry Sfougaris wrote: > I have placed a NSSplitView inside a NSScrollView in code. > However, when the user resizes one of the views so part of

How to switch the default printer?

I tried different options to transparently switch the default printer and restore it (lpoptions called from my app) but although it works under SL, it doesn't seem to work so well for Leopard. Anybody has any suggestion on how to do that? Thanks in advance! -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/

Re: Mixed font sizes in a UILabel?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > Thanks Luke. This might be a nice feature request to be able to do this > easily (and let's say truncation and resizing would not work if implemented > (I realize the pitfalls)). > You might want to check out Joe Hewitt (of Facebook fame)

Re: shared preferences.

Thank a bunch guy's , this is exactly what i was looking for! Tegards. Sandro Noël sandro.n...@mac.com Mac OS X : Swear by your computer, not at it. -Pensez vert! avant d’imprimer ce courriel. -Go Green! please consider the environment before printing this email. On 2009-10-15, at 11:20 AM,

Re: Mixed font sizes in a UILabel?

Truncation and resizing would be super simple to implement since the UIStringDrawing handles all that for you. Simply make UIView that autoresizes and have the content style to redraw. SO a couple lines there. Then a drawRect with the UIStringDrawing methods to the size of the view and voil

Re: Mixed font sizes in a UILabel?

Thanks Luke. This might be a nice feature request to be able to do this easily (and let's say truncation and resizing would not work if implemented (I realize the pitfalls)). Eric On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Luke the Hiesterman wrote: > If you don't want to use labels, you can draw the text

Re: Can I make custom pasteboard type for an object reference?

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > I'm trying to implement a library like Interface Builder's. When the user > drags an item out of the library and onto one of my custom views, it should > instantiate an object and place it in the view accordingly. > > I'm trying to implement the

Re: Code Sign verification on Leopard

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Charles Srstka wrote: > On Oct 15, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Clark S. Cox III wrote: > >> The malicious code could just move the entire original bundle wholesale. >>  Code signature check still sees the original bundle. >> >> Sent from my iPhone > > Presumably, this would

Re: Code Sign verification on Leopard

On Oct 15, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Charles Srstka wrote: Presumably, this would be more noticeable to the user than simply copying a binary file inside an opaque app bundle that most users never look inside. The malicious code could also break the code sign checking APIs to always return 'true

Re: Code Sign verification on Leopard

On Oct 15, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Clark S. Cox III wrote: The malicious code could just move the entire original bundle wholesale. Code signature check still sees the original bundle. Sent from my iPhone Presumably, this would be more noticeable to the user than simply copying a binary file i

Re: Code Sign verification on Leopard

The malicious code could just move the entire original bundle wholesale. Code signature check still sees the original bundle. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 14, 2009, at 21:42, Charles Srstka wrote: On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Jeff Laing wrote: Actually, heck, you wouldn't even need that

Re: Opening a NSSavePanel as a Sheet, and blocking like in [panel runModal]

On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Motti Shneor wrote: Hello. I'm in a strange situation, where I am implementing a plugin component that runs within a host application which I don't have access to. Within this context, The host sometimes calls my plug-in to open an NSSavePanel (or NSOpenPanel). Th

Re: Mixed font sizes in a UILabel?

If you don't want to use labels, you can draw the text yourself using UIStringDrawing methods. Otherwise, you need two labels for this. Luke On Oct 15, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: I have a simple question. In my application (iPhone) I am displaying the current time. NSDateFor

Mixed font sizes in a UILabel?

I have a simple question. In my application (iPhone) I am displaying the current time. NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; [formatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle]; NSDate *date = [NSDate date]; [formatter setDateFormat:@"h:mm a"]; [clockLabel s

NSArrayController performance using NSManagedObject content on 10.6 (fixed typo)

The following is correct: All objects are loaded into the NSArrayController MOC using an NSFetchRequest with setReturnsObjectsAsFaults:NO. Jonathan Mitchell Developer http://www.mugginsoft.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple

NSArrayController performance using NSManagedObject content on 10.6

I am using an array of simple NSManagedObject subclasses bound to an NSArrayController. The object graph is shallow with a tiny number of objects (<500). All objects are loaded into the NSArrayController MOC using an NSFetchRequest with setReturnsObjectsAsFaults:YES. Therefore no faulting

Re: Can I make custom pasteboard type for an object reference?

On 15/10/2009, at 9:34 PM, Timothy Stafford Larkin wrote: I messed around with this problem for some time, before I gave up trying to be clever and cast the pointer as an unsigned long. NSNumber *p = [NSNumber numberWithUnsignedLong:(unsigned long) object]; The number can be added to a pa

Re: Can I make custom pasteboard type for an object reference?

I messed around with this problem for some time, before I gave up trying to be clever and cast the pointer as an unsigned long. NSNumber *p = [NSNumber numberWithUnsignedLong:(unsigned long)object]; The number can be added to a pasteboard. Or if dragging more than one object,

NSSplitView and NSScrollView

I have placed a NSSplitView inside a NSScrollView in code. However, when the user resizes one of the views so part of it outside the NSScrollView visible bounds, the NSScrollView does not display the scroll bars. Is this not possible? Thank you, Harry Sfougaris ___

Re: Record and Playback immediately

Le 15 oct. 2009 à 09:41, Symadept a écrit : Hi, I took the examples of afplay & afrecord. But it does the normal record to completion and play to completion manner. How can I Record into buffer and play from there. I hope instead of AFPlay, Queue based recording and playing would help. C

Record and Playback immediately

Hi, I took the examples of afplay & afrecord. But it does the normal record to completion and play to completion manner. How can I Record into buffer and play from there. I hope instead of AFPlay, Queue based recording and playing would help. Can anybody put some light on this example. Regards sym

Re: SelectedRowIndexes

On 15/10/2009, at 5:56 PM, Peter Hudson wrote: The problem is that our users find it easier to scroll their way through the list and command click on the appropriate rows. Users prefer to have their way I find. Ah, users. The bane of our lives! If only they didn't pay our wages... ;-)

Re: SelectedRowIndexes

Graham's solution is excellent. You could also have a couple of buttons between the two lists, with arrows (one right, one left) to move items to and remove them from, the sub-group list. And an additional pair to the right of the sub-group list (one up, one down) allowing reordering. This would