>From the NSApplicationDocumentation:
"abortModal must be used instead of stopModal or stopModalWithCode:
when you need to stop a modal event loop from anywhere other than a
callout from that event loop. In other words, if you want to stop the
loop in response to a user’s actions within the modal
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ken Ferry wrote:
>> The issue concerns the order of in which changes to memory are observable by
>> other processors.
>
> Okay, and the read example is immune because you have to read the
> address before you c
On Oct 17, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Ben Haller wrote:
Copied the TrueType font from Instruments into my project, added the
necessary key to my Info.plist, set the font using [NSFont
fontWithName:...], and hey presto, there the font is in my app.
Only... it doesn't look as nice. It's less crisp.
On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
FYI, I haven't found any of the "Font Suitcase" files that have a
data fork. The font is in the 'FOND' resource -- and all of those
fonts work fine under Snow Leopard. Some of this legacy stuff is
probably pretty hard to eliminate without nas
I'm in the midst of debugging an extremely unusual problem, and I was
wondering if anybody might have any insight into what might be going
wrong:
In a controller class from a NIB, I take an NSPanel I from that same
NIB, and then show it app modally on an NSWindow (that was created by
hand in code):
Hello Cocoa List,
My Googling reveals this question has been asked before, but no answer
was given. Hopefully someone knows how to do this now.
I have a vertical NSRulerView attached to an NSTextView. I have
movable NSRulerMarkers and that's all working good. My only problem
is that th
On Oct 17, 2009, at 18:48, Rob Keniger wrote:
What happens if you explicitly disable Garbage Collection when the
user starts drawing and enable it when the user finishes?
That might be a practical answer, but I think maybe a key point got
skipped over earlier in the thread. If the collector
There's also the possibility that the text isn't being drawn properly
aligned to the pixel grid.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 17, 2009, at 19:52, Kyle Sluder wrote:
You need to post a screenshot of what you're seeing.
I can think of two possibilities off the top of my head:
1) You're renderi
Thanks a million for this, awesome!
--
yandy
On Oct 17, 2009, at 10:01 PM, Rob Keniger wrote:
On 17/10/2009, at 10:25 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
If there is a way to disable these insertions independently and
I've missed it, please someone, let me know how to do it.
I can't recommend th
numbers and punctuation in IB textfield properties for keyboard type
--
yandy
On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Tron Thomas wrote:
When an UITextField becomes active in a Cocoa Touch application, the
device automatically displays a keyboard for character input. The
keyboard always appears
I'm new to core data and bindings and need some help.
In my model, I've got an attribute called "story". This holds text,
so I set the attribute type to string.
I used bindings in IB to connect the story attribute to an NSTextView.
When I ran my app, an exception was thrown. The message in
Thanks, Scott! I had started to look at the printing prefs file as it contained
information about the printers in use. Appreciate the sharing!
Cheers!
-Laurent.
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AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin
http://nemesys.dyndns.org
Logiciels Nemesys Soft
(Due to a misconfiguration I did send this message more than once -
sorry for that to all)
Hi there,
thanks to your and esp. Todds hints everything works quiet fine now.
Two additional detail question remain:
1- How can I set up the BAS to proceed an install process without the
HelperTool c
On 10/17/09 10:21 PM, Alastair Houghton said:
>On 17 Oct 2009, at 03:12, Sean McBride wrote:
>
>> On 10/10/09 11:15 AM, Sander Stoks said:
>>
>>> First, do I really have to add all types to my Info.plist file? If
>>> the OS gets an update which adds a new file type to Image I/O, I have
>>> to upd
You need to post a screenshot of what you're seeing.
I can think of two possibilities off the top of my head:
1) You're rendering text into a CALayer (especially a CATextLayer).
Without some tweaking, CALayer can't do subpixel antialiasing (aka LCD
antialiasing), because it doesn't have the existi
So, I like the LCD-style font that Instruments uses to show the time
counter at the top center of the window. Thought I might use it
myself for an in-house project (not for release). Copied the TrueType
font from Instruments into my project, added the necessary key to my
Info.plist, set
On Oct 17, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
What do project templates have to do with code completion? The
comments don't mention how to customize code completion stubs
either. Did I overlook something?
For controlling code completion, search for
"XCCodeSenseFormattingOptions" on thi
On Oct 16, 2009, at 8:01 AM, John Love wrote:
In my app, I have a very long for-loop
It appears however, that in my app there is no background Thread
that begins and the reason for that is because my app's window stays
in the background until all NSOperations are complete. Any clues?
I
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Ken Ferry wrote:
> This is the kind of reasoning you want to avoid, actually. That's true on
> most but not all architectures. That article does explain.
> It's true on all architectures on which Cocoa is available, but even so, to
> write clear code whose correc
On 17/10/2009, at 10:25 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
> If there is a way to disable these insertions independently and I've missed
> it, please someone, let me know how to do it.
I can't recommend the ODCompletionDictionary plug-in for Xcode highly enough:
http://www.obdev.at/products/completion-dic
On 16/10/2009, at 4:17 PM, WareTo Development wrote:
> Looking at this problem, we could perform better memory management, so deep
> garbage collection does not happen that often. This reduces the problem, but
> can never eliminate it, since sooner or later the garbage clean operation
> must b
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ken Ferry wrote:
> > The issue concerns the order of in which changes to memory are observable
> by
> > other processors.
>
> Okay, and the read example is immune because you have to read the
> address before
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ken Ferry wrote:
> The issue concerns the order of in which changes to memory are observable by
> other processors.
Okay, and the read example is immune because you have to read the
address before you can read the thing at that address, and it's
therefore impossib
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Michael Ash
> wrote:
> > This just leaves the writes. I assume that the GC write barrier
> > includes a memory barrier, unless someone wants to tell me otherwise.
> > If so, then there's no problem at all.
>
>
On 17 Oct 2009, at 7:53 PM, Tron Thomas wrote:
I have an application containing a singular UITextField that is
intended for entering numeric data. I would like the keyboard to
come up in numeric mode and stay in that mode unless the user click
the button to toggle to letter mode, even if t
When an UITextField becomes active in a Cocoa Touch application, the
device automatically displays a keyboard for character input. The
keyboard always appears in alphabet mode so letters can be typed.
I have an application containing a singular UITextField that is
intended for entering num
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
> This just leaves the writes. I assume that the GC write barrier
> includes a memory barrier, unless someone wants to tell me otherwise.
> If so, then there's no problem at all.
Strictly speaking, this isn't really an atomicity issue, is it? W
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:38 AM, BJ Homer wrote:
>>
>>> But assuming that you
>>> wanted it there in the first place, why does the GC version not need the
>>> synchronization?
>>
>> Und
Hi all,
I have a Core Data entity that has an attribute called charge (stored
as a float). So I am storing a number of records each of which has a
charge. I simply want to be able to show a running total of charges as
I add or remove items. I was hoping that I might be able to use a
simpl
Thanks! I got close with Alastair's suggestion and I will give this a
try!
Michael
On Oct 17, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Ross Carter wrote:
static NSColor *sourceListBackgroundColor = nil;
if (sourceListBackgroundColor == nil) {
NSOutlineView *outlineView = [[NSOutlineView alloc]
initWithFrame
Thanks, Alastair, this helps a lot. Not understanding the
"perceptual", "absolute" and "relative" stuff in the Color Sync util,
I had to play around a bit, but I am getting closer to the right color.
Michael
On Oct 17, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
On 17 Oct 2009, at 21:32
On Oct 17, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
On 17 Oct 2009, at 21:32, Michael Cinkosky wrote:
Has Apple provided documentation on their standard source list
background color? I haven't found it in the HIG docs, or with
Google (I have not come up with the right terms to make the
In 10.6, there is a spell checking dictionary named LocalDictionary
that contains words learned outside the context of a particular
language.
How does one use NSSpellChecker -learnWord: and -unlearnWord: so that
those methods write to LocalDictionary?
For other language dictionaries, one
On 17 Oct 2009, at 21:32, Michael Cinkosky wrote:
Has Apple provided documentation on their standard source list
background color? I haven't found it in the HIG docs, or with
Google (I have not come up with the right terms to make the search
specific enough).
I have also tried just sampl
On 17 Oct 2009, at 03:12, Sean McBride wrote:
On 10/10/09 11:15 AM, Sander Stoks said:
First, do I really have to add all types to my Info.plist file? If
the OS gets an update which adds a new file type to Image I/O, I have
to update my Info.plist?
Since no one else replied... I'm pretty su
On 17 Oct 2009, at 2:14 PM, Tron Thomas wrote:
How can someone programmatically select all the text in an
UITextField control?
Look up the UIResponderStandardEditActions informal protocol. It
includes a selectAll: method. The docs say most descendants of
UIResponder should implement it.
> 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?
You a
On 17 Oct 2009, at 03:52, XiaoGang Li wrote:
Your solution is good. At first, I think it is simple to list all the
limited fonts in the plist file, and it is easy to enumerate these
fonts.
But, I think, when other font files are added to the bundle by other
engineer, I will update my plist fi
Has Apple provided documentation on their standard source list
background color? I haven't found it in the HIG docs, or with Google
(I have not come up with the right terms to make the search specific
enough).
I have also tried just sampling the colors from the running
applications (Mail
Hi all,
I've started getting some dangling references which I cannot figure
out. Basically, I've got the following class setup:
A <-->> B <<--> C
where A has-many to B, C has -many to B and B has-one to both A and C.
What happens on quit is that I get the following error: "D
Wow, reading comprehension failure on my part. Apologies for the noise.
--Kyle Sluder
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I *just* noticed the following error in the XCode Debugger Console:
__CFServiceControllerBeginPBSLoadForLocalizations timed out while
talking to pbs
.. and I'm getting it at the very top of -init for my NSDocument??
I have no clue as to when it started .. I kinda think maybe with
upgrading
On Oct 17, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Jeff Johnson
wrote:
After further experimentation, I've found the problem. Interface
Builder
doesn't find private header files in a framework. When I changed
the header
file from private to public, Interface
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
> Now, I'm not sure if you should do that, or observing the tree controller as
> recommended by Kyle. However, since I don't have a tree controller in a
> project of mine, I've kind of done what you suggested.
It depends on what you're trying
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Jeff Johnson
wrote:
> After further experimentation, I've found the problem. Interface Builder
> doesn't find private header files in a framework. When I changed the header
> file from private to public, Interface Builder found it.
If it's a private header, how a
After further experimentation, I've found the problem. Interface
Builder doesn't find private header files in a framework. When I
changed the header file from private to public, Interface Builder
found it.
Interface Builder doesn't find private
headers in framework
-Jeff
On Oct 17, 2
Exactly. I know. I am still working on that, but I don't want to
invest too much time in any one method until i know it can solve the
issue. But that's my point. I can seem to find any really good way to
do this in UITextField. So i am playing around with different methods
and posted the cl
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>
> On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:38 AM, BJ Homer wrote:
>
>> But assuming that you
>> wanted it there in the first place, why does the GC version not need the
>> synchronization?
>
> Under GC, object reference assignments -- scanned pointer assignme
Hi Kevin.
This occurs with both IB 3.2.1 on 10.6 and IB 3.1.2 on 10.5.
In the IB info window I get these warnings:
1) The 'delegate' outlet of 'AHTSessionWindow' is connected to 'File's
Owner' but 'delegate' is no longer defined on AHTWindow.
2) The 'window' outlet of 'File's Owner' is conn
On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:38 AM, BJ Homer wrote:
But assuming that you
wanted it there in the first place, why does the GC version not need
the
synchronization?
Under GC, object reference assignments -- scanned pointer assignments,
technically -- are, in and of themselves, atomic. Note that
On 17.10.2009, at 17:38, BJ Homer wrote:
In the Garbage Collection Programming Guide: Architecture [1], an
example is
given of a set of non-GC getters and setters which use @synchronized
(self)
to control the access to the ivar, and in the setter to protect the
releasing of the old object an
In the Garbage Collection Programming Guide: Architecture [1], an example is
given of a set of non-GC getters and setters which use @synchronized(self)
to control the access to the ivar, and in the setter to protect the
releasing of the old object and retaining of the new. Then, a GC example is
gi
On 2009 Oct 17, at 04:55, Joshua Garnham wrote:
Could I sub class NSManagedObject to make it observe objects as they
are added or fetched?
Well, first of all, let me rephrase your question. What you're
suggesting is to add an observer of the "name" property as objects are
inserted or fe
On Oct 17, 2009, at 02:37 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On Oct 16, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
1. Single Fonts with the ".ttf" file extension have only a data
fork, and the name of the file seems to be the name of the font.
Not necessarily. The filename is not part of the font, so it can
On 17/10/2009, at 6:24 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
What do project templates have to do with code completion? The
comments don't mention how to customize code completion stubs
either. Did I overlook something?
I didn't say anything about code completion. I understood the OP to be
talking ab
Hmm. Ok.
Could I sub class NSManagedObject then add the following code to make it
observe objects as they are added or fetched?
- (void) awakeFromFetch {
[self addObserver:[NSApp delegate] forKeyPath:@"name"
options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:nil];
}
- (void) awakeFromInsert {
Hi,
I'm having difficulty getting a NSSearchField to work properly in an
NSStatusItem. What I would like to do is something similar to the
spotlight status bar item and the search field that pops up.
After I create my view containing the NSSearchField and a also a
simple menu in Interface
On 16.10.2009, at 11:43, Graham Cox wrote:
On 16/10/2009, at 7:12 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
But you don't have to let Xcode frustrate you like this - you can
define your own templates for all of the stubs it inserts.
How? Where?!!! :-D
http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2009/04/cocoa-dev-des
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