I have a memory management question involving the interaction of:
- (id) initWithCoder: (NSCoder*) coder
from any class that implements and
+ (id) unarchiveObjectWithData: (NSData*) data
from the NSKeyedUnarchiver (or any unarchiver) class.
After the following lines of code run ...
NSData* d
Greetings
I've been looking at Collection View Drag and drop,
I've implemented the NSCollectionViewDelegate
and now I can Drop items in and everything works fine.
I've been looking at removing items from the collection view by dragging them
out of the frame.
I'm confused by the proper procedur
>
> Subject: Re: NSPathStore2 HELP!!
>
> Ok, here is how I solved this. Before I called [NSKeyedUnarchive
> unarchive...], I called the class method:
>
> [NSKeyedUnarchiver setClass:[NSString class] forClassName:@"NSPathStore2"];
>
> This fixed the errors and allowed me to reclaim the data
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jack Carbaugh wrote:
> i would think you could use FSEvents to be informed of any changes to a
> .plist file.
You have no guarantee that this is how an application is storing its
preferences. And for apps that do use this method, they might
synchronize their prefe
i would think you could use FSEvents to be informed of any changes to
a .plist file.
On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:24 PM, Sandro Noël wrote:
Greetings.
I'm trying to figure out how to monitor the preferences changes in
another application's preferences
I would like my application to react to chang
Greetings.
I'm trying to figure out how to monitor the preferences changes in another
application's preferences
I would like my application to react to changes made in another application
settings by the user.
besides reloading the plist on a schedule is there a better way? ( I don't like
this
In documentation of the protocol NSAnimatablePropertyContainer, -setAnimations:
"Sets the option dictionary that maps event trigger keys to animation objects."
What is a "trigger key"? I can't find any mention of "trigger key" in "Core
Animation Programming Guide". Any relation to an "animatab
> [[self window] setAnimations:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[self
> shakeAnimation:[[self window] frame]] forKey:@"frameOrigin"]];
> [[[self window] animator] setFrameOrigin:[[self window] frame].origin];
>
> /*
>
> shake animation
> http://www.cimgf.com/2008/02/27/core-animation-tutorial-
On Feb 19, 2010, at 13:36, Mazen M. Abdel-Rahman wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your help on this. I wanted to know if the mouse was on
> the border area prior to the mouse down event to determine if the mouse icon
> should change as the mouse hovers over the border. Is there a way to do this
On 2010 Feb 19, at 13:30, Sean McBride wrote:
> In my case currently, I need several separators and also an 'other...'
> item that brings up an open panel.
I don't know about the separators but I have done the 'Other...' item
successfully. Referring to my previous message, define a new class c
On Feb 19, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Damien Cooke wrote:
> I have a situation where I am using a 3rd party library to manage content on
> their service. When I delete an entry the method requires a call back all
> good. Now I need to wait for that call back to be called to know if it was
> successful
On 19 Feb 2010, at 03:50, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
> On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Simon Wolf wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I'm wondering when writing a layer hosting view, when the most appropriate
>>> time is to set the layer and call -setWantsLayer:YES?
>>>
>>> Calling it in -initWithFrame: is too early a
On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Damien Cooke wrote:
I have a situation where I am using a 3rd party library to manage
content on their service. When I delete an entry the method
requires a call back all good. Now I need to wait for that call back
to be called to know if it was successful or
Hi All,
I have a situation where I am using a 3rd party library to manage content on
their service. When I delete an entry the method requires a call back all
good. Now I need to wait for that call back to be called to know if it was
successful or not. In the call back I can set a boolean to i
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Gustavo Pizano
wrote:
> Is it possible to give a different color to the popupbutton? not the default
> one? will overriding NSPopUpButtonCell make the job? or are there any other
> aspects to take into mind when doing it?
You would have to do all the drawing y
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:08 PM, David Blanton wrote:
> Not really, as I call selectWithObjectValue on an NSComboBox and the
> warning is on an NSComboboxCell
You are aware that many (most?) control methods are actually just
cover methods for their underlying cells? The Control and Cell
Programm
Read up on NSView's addCursorRect:cursor: method.
_murat
On Feb 19, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Mazen M. Abdel-Rahman wrote:
Thanks everyone for your help on this. I wanted to know if the
mouse was on the border area prior to the mouse down event to
determine if the mouse icon should change as the
Thanks everyone for your help on this. I wanted to know if the mouse was on
the border area prior to the mouse down event to determine if the mouse icon
should change as the mouse hovers over the border. Is there a way to do this
without a mouseMoved event?
Thanks,
Mazen Abdel-Rahman
>
> -
Hello.
Is it possible to give a different color to the popupbutton? not the default
one? will overriding NSPopUpButtonCell make the job? or are there any other
aspects to take into mind when doing it?
Thanks
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On 2/18/10 4:13 PM, Jerry Krinock said:
>Quincey's answer is excellent, and abstract. Let me give you a concrete
>example from one of my projects. Presumably your table is bound to an
>array controller whose contentSet or contentArray is bound to a
>collection of Foo objects in your data model.
Not really, as I call selectWithObjectValue on an NSComboBox and the
warning is on an NSComboboxCell
but so what , I am doing just what the docs say and I get the
warning ... that is the essence of the question
On Feb 19, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:24
Le 19 févr. 2010 à 11:02, Jean-Denis Muys a écrit :
> I am looking for a way to enable a button in my window only if some selection
> has been made in the data. Currently the data is shown in a table view and is
> handled through an NSArrayController. I am trying to bind the button's
> "Enabled
Hi Folks
>> May I ask about an issue I am having adding page numbers to a print out.
Can I just jump in on this thread and ask where I can find info about printing
a document like an invoice, where there is a header and then a list of invoice
lines that is possibly longer than one page?
Regard
I've put a small NSXMLDocument into a Core Data binary property like this:
code:
NSManagedObject *object = /* ... */
NSXMLDocument *xmlDoc = /* ... */
[object setValue:[xmlDoc XMLData] forKey:@"xml"];
When I go to retrieve it, it's wrapped in an array:
(gdb) print-object
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:24 AM, David Blanton wrote:
> I get this warning, but I never call these methods:
> 2010-02-19 09:56:29.975 Customize It[338:10b] *** -[NSComboBoxCell
> selectItemWithObjectValue:] should not be called when usesDataSource is set
> to YES
> I do call
> [self selectI
yes i've set a breakpoint and watched.
in fact the values are the same before and after (indicating it was ALREADY set
up correctly
note the code below is called JUST before the call to popup the menu
i only put that extra AE_OS_MAC stuff there to prove again that it is set
correctly
in reality
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:07:54 -1000, Dave Keck said:
>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I'm wondering, why not put everything into a
>> single method and call that method from both initWithFrame and awakeFromNib?
>> One and only one of these will be called (depending whether you are
>> instantiatin
good tip, but no luck. same problem. myFunction is never called when i pick
an item :(
On Feb 19, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote:
> I would try and reset the target just after setting the action:
>
> [myMenuItem setAction:@selector(myFunction:)];
> [myMenuItem setTarget:self];
>
On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:43 PM, David M. Cotter wrote:
> just before the line of code that pops up the menu, i iterate over all the
> items
> so yes, i am absolutely sure it is getting called
> and i am absolutely sure that myMenuItem is non null
Posting you code is wildly more helpful than describ
I would try and reset the target just after setting the action:
[myMenuItem setAction:@selector(myFunction:)];
[myMenuItem setTarget:self];
I remember a long time ago I had a problem where if I reset the item's
action, it would set the target to nil for some reason. So in
practice I usually
just before the line of code that pops up the menu, i iterate over all the items
so yes, i am absolutely sure it is getting called
and i am absolutely sure that myMenuItem is non null
i'm just wondering if there is something which pre-empts my code, telling the
menu item to NOT call the action se
On Feb 19, 2010, at 11:31 AM, David M. Cotter wrote:
i'm completely baffled by this. does anyone have a hint?
i'm going to do a popup menu
i run thru all the items and call
[myMenuItem setAction:@selector(myFunction:)];
Where is that line of code? Are you sure it's getting called on the
i'm completely baffled by this. does anyone have a hint?
>> i'm going to do a popup menu
>> i run thru all the items and call
>>
>> [myMenuItem setAction:@selector(myFunction:)];
>>
>> upon first run, my "myFunction" never gets called with the result of the
>> menu item pick.
>>
>> but then,
okay, thanks Greg. Good to know that assistive devices isn't supposed to gate
crash just any old cocoa party!
I'll look for the memory bug.
cheers,
J.
On 2010-02-19, at 10:53 AM, Greg Parker wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2010, at 10:41 AM, James Maxwell wrote:
>> I have a strange crash happening while
On Feb 19, 2010, at 10:41 AM, James Maxwell wrote:
> I have a strange crash happening while trying load an open file window/sheet
> (NSOpenPanel).
> I've got a simple AppController class, which is set as the Application's
> delegate. This is all there is to the controller, at this point:
>
> I
Hello All,
I have a strange crash happening while trying load an open file window/sheet
(NSOpenPanel).
I've got a simple AppController class, which is set as the Application's
delegate. This is all there is to the controller, at this point:
#import "AppController.h"
@implementation AppContro
On 2010 Feb 18, at 17:32, Keary Suska wrote:
> you could just use the willDisplayCell delegate method?
And indeed I did and it works. Thank you, Keary. I wasn't aware of that
method.
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On 2/18/2010 2:18 PM, Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote:
I was wondering if there is any alternative / better approach
for validating text in a textfield??
I've done this by writing a custom subclass of NSFormatter that
overrides isPartialStringValid:newEditingString:errorDescription:.
--
- (void)updateMyTextViewTextAttributes
{
NSMutableParagraphStyle* paragraphStyle = [[myTextView
defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy];
if (paragraphStyle == nil) {
paragraphStyle = [[NSParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy];
}
float charWidth = [[myFont
screenFon
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Roland King wrote:
> why would that leak it? Those calls are paired, a table enters editing mode,
> the variable is set and what it's set to is retained, when the table exits
> editing mode again the cached value is released and nil'ed. The variable is
> also re
Steven,
You are right. I got my way.
Regards,
Cocoa.learner
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Steven Degutis wrote:
> Essentially you need to use the Security.framework API which you were
> already using in the beginning. You're already heading in the right
> direction. If you continue to read t
On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:03 AM, lyndsey.fergu...@gmail.com wrote:
> I've tried calling my updateMyTextViewTextAttributes call when myTextView has
> the new myFont set. That doesn't change a thing.
With updateMyTextViewTextAttributes as described, it will set the paragraph
style for new text but w
On 2010 Feb 19, at 07:55, Dado Colussi wrote:
> I would like to customize how errors in controls like NSTextField
> are presented. The documentation for NSResponder recommends overriding
> -willPresentError: in order to customize error presentation. However, that
> doesn't let me customize *how*
I get this warning, but I never call these methods:
2010-02-19 09:56:29.975 Customize It[338:10b] *** -[NSComboBoxCell
selectItemWithObjectValue:] should not be called when usesDataSource
is set to YES
2010-02-19 09:56:29.976 Customize It[338:10b] *** -[NSComboBoxCell
indexOfItemWithObject
If you review the documentation, it tells you how to show either the
vertical or the horizontal scroller.
On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:13 AM, Mario Kušnjer wrote:
On 2010.02.19, at 11:43, Jack Carbaugh wrote:
tell your NSScrollView to setAutoHidesScrollers:yes
This should hide the scrollbars unti
Oh, sorry, I was looking at the routine on its own. You're hanging
onto preEditPath for the duration of the editing period and then
releasing it when it's done. It's still early and I haven't had any
coffee. :)
On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Roland King wrote:
why would that leak it? Those
My layout got messed up.
Imagine that the " - 1 tab" is is tabbed in with the width of four
spaces and that the " - 4 spaces" block lines up along with it.
Also, imagine that:
[smaller font]
- 1 tab
- 4 spaces
has the " - 1 tab" offset to the right of the " - 4 sp
I'm working with an NSTextView and one of the requirements I have is that a
tab character, '\t', shall have the same width as four spaces.
So the text-content would look like this:
- 1 tab
- 4 spaces
And this is how I accomplish this:
// done when NSTextView first loaded and wh
On Feb 18, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Mazen M. Abdel-Rahman wrote:
I was wondering if there is a straight forward away to know if the
mouse is on the border of a view? I know how to detect if the mouse
enters a view area by using NSTrackingArea - but how can I tell if
the mouse is on a border? I w
why would that leak it? Those calls are paired, a table enters editing mode,
the variable is set and what it's set to is retained, when the table exits
editing mode again the cached value is released and nil'ed. The variable is
also released in dealloc (not shown here). I do not know of a case w
Although it looks like your code is leaking a NSIndexPath each time
through because you retain it on "if (editing)" and release it on "if
(!editing)".
On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Luke the Hiesterman wrote:
This seems fine to me. Generally, when subclassing, the contract is
that you must
I would like to customize how errors in controls like NSTextField
are presented. The documentation for NSResponder recommends overriding
-willPresentError: in order to customize error presentation. However, that
doesn't let me customize *how* the error will be presented to the user. I am
unhappy wi
Has anyone ever experienced a crash like the one below? It is happening
sporadically in the field (I have, I think, 5 crash logs, spread across all 3
major versions of OS X, i.e. 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6) but I have never seen it
here. Examination of the object code reveals that NSCarbonMenuImpl+52
Just a quick update on this for anyone still interested. To the list of
exceptions to explicitly ignore in your uncaught exception handler, include
NSPortTimeoutExceptions. These happen (rarely) when the spell checking service
is busy or slow to start up (I'm not sure which, it's happening on
On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Tom Davie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some problems with an open panel. I display the panel, allow the
> user to chose and image, and then do some work, which involves showing a
> sheet while the work is done. This all works wonderfully, until the user
> clicks the
Hi,
I'm having some problems with an open panel. I display the panel, allow the
user to chose and image, and then do some work, which involves showing a
sheet while the work is done. This all works wonderfully, until the user
clicks the "set texture" button again, and my method is called again.
I went ahead and filed an enhancement request on this one - rdar://7667092
On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Eric Gorr wrote:
> Other then creating a dummy NSScoller and incrementally decreasing it's
> height until usableParts returns 0, is there any easy way to determine what
> the minimum height
It sounds a lot to me (and I could be wrong here) that you're trying to
implement something along the lines of an ActiveX control as they were back
when I used Visual Basic 5, in the sense that you want a "control" which is
really a collection of other controls, and to be able to drag them around i
I too have been wondering how others approach this issue. For a long time I
used "canRemove" and eventually switched to using my own value transformer
which does the heavy lifting for me. But it's quite tedious to include this
value transformer in every project I write which uses bindings like this
On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
> On 2010 Feb 19, at 03:02, Jean-Denis Muys wrote:
>
>> I have tried bindings to selectedObjects using the model key "count", as a
>> non zero count is obviously compatible with the BOOL that the property
>> expects. But this doesn't work: I get
On 2010 Feb 19, at 03:02, Jean-Denis Muys wrote:
> I am trying to bind the button's "Enabled" property to the ArrayController so
> that I get whether something is selected (multiple selections allowed).
In code, write a simple subclass of NSValueTransformer, nonreversible, which
transforms an
Hi,
I have a window which is split into two views (one atop the other). Both are
NSScrollView instances containing a subclass of NSCollectionView (in an
NSScrollView). The layout of the two views is dynamic -- sometimes only the top
one is visible ( and takes up the full space ) and sometimes b
On 2010.02.19, at 11:43, Jack Carbaugh wrote:
tell your NSScrollView to setAutoHidesScrollers:yes
This should hide the scrollbars until needed.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSScrollView_Class/Reference/Reference.html
That's one o
Hello,
I have tried to search for an answer to that question, and I'm sure it must
exist somewhere, but "bindings" and "select" or "selection" are definitely not
specific enough.
I am looking for a way to enable a button in my window only if some selection
has been made in the data. Currently
tell your NSScrollView to setAutoHidesScrollers:yes
This should hide the scrollbars until needed.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSScrollView_Class/Reference/Reference.html
On Feb 19, 2010, at 3:10 AM, Mario Kušnjer wrote:
Hi all !
On 19/02/2010, at 7:05 PM, BareFeet wrote:
> I have some working code for adding attributes to a string. I'd like to
> modify it so it will work without needing AppKit. I can get it all going
> except the NSForegroundColorAttributeName constant which seems to only exist
> in AppKit.
If you l
Hi all !
So I have a question on how to resolve a little issue I have with
NSScrollView.
I have created everything programmatically (a little exploration task
to learn and understand how to do stuff without IB).
I have an NSOutlineView enclosed in an NSScrollView (as recommended by
document
Hi all,
I have some working code for adding attributes to a string. I'd like to modify
it so it will work without needing AppKit. I can get it all going except the
NSForegroundColorAttributeName constant which seems to only exist in AppKit.
Here's an example:
NSColor* tokenColor = [NSColor red
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