How to get the handler of an NSException?

2010-03-02 Thread Oleg Krupnov
Is there a way to find out if a particular exception being thrown will be caught by a @catch handler further down the code, and if this handler is top-level or not? By top-level I mean the handler on the NSApplication level. I'm trying to build a reliable handler of uncaught exceptions that shuts

Re: Trying to achieve aperture PopUp buttons

2010-03-02 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Aha thanks.. I will check that out.. Maybe it will give me an Idea of what Im missing, I I can't figure it out, then I will be using his framework. On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > On 3/2/10 9:28 PM, Gustavo Pizano said: > >> Have somebody used aperture? well if so, in the fi

Re: Custom NSCell

2010-03-02 Thread Gustavo Pizano
happy to help. On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Tilo Villwock wrote: > Finally! That did the trick, thanks a lot! Does make sense though, the > coordinates I used originally of course refer to the NSView insets and not to > the ones from each NSCell, which is why all Strings were in same place. >

Re: NSCollectionView deselection

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Davie
On 2 Mar 2010, at 04:03, Markus Spoettl wrote: > On Mar 1, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Thomas Davie wrote: >> However, when the user clicks on item B after clicking on item A, >> setSelected:NO is *not* sent to the NSCollectienViewItem subclass for A. >> This displeases me greatly :(. > > > Works fine

Re: NSXMLDocument and threads

2010-03-02 Thread Jens Alfke
On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Thus, Apple's documentation gives every reason to believe that it is safe to > use NSXMLDocument off the main thread, but libxml's documentation gives every > reason to believe that it is not safe. Treat NSXMLDocument as a black box and follow

NSXMLDocument and threads

2010-03-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
My question is, how do I use NSXMLDocument safely on a non-main thread? I need to do this for performance reasons, otherwise my app can pinwheel during XML parsing. NSXMLDocument uses libxml. This can be verified in the debugger. Here's the thread safety documentation for libxml: http://xmlsof

[Solved] Re: Writing string to pasteboard on 10.5 causes crash

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Hewitson
Jonathan, That was the answer. I've used this method in other places in the app where I have used my own pasteboard types, but I somehow thought (probably from the name of the method) that I didn't need it if I was using a built-in pasteboard type. Anyway, thanks again! Martin On Mar 1, 20

Re: Windows and nibs and dialogs, oh my!

2010-03-02 Thread Andrew Merenbach
On Mar 2, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Steven Degutis wrote: > Few simple steps: > > (1) Create a subclass of NSWindowController and override -init to call > super's -initWithWindowNibName:, passing something like @"MyWindow" > (2) Create a XIB file with the filename called MyWindow > (3) Change File's Own

Using a NSNumberFormatter with a UITextField

2010-03-02 Thread Ryan Stephens
Hello list, I'm currently trying to use an NSNumberFormatter to format the text of a UITextField, so that as a user enters numbers into a text field, I can apply currency-style formatting to the text (ex. add a properly localized currency symbol/number separators).  Currently I'm implementing -tex

running javascript from obj-C

2010-03-02 Thread Russell Gray
Hi, I am currently trying to implement element blocking into my opensource Safari adblocker project: http://code.google.com/p/safariadblocker/ And I was thinking of taking the approach, of feeding a javascript function to Safari: function hide_elements(id) {
document.getElementById(id).style.

Re: Custom NSCell

2010-03-02 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Sean hello. Im not expert in this, but I had the same problem when making my own NSCell subclass to display a name and a picture next to it.. So in your NSCell subclass in the method - (void)drawWithFrame:(NSRect)cellFrame inView:(NSView *)controlView print(draw) your items in the cellFrame y p

Re: NSCollectionView deselection

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Davie
On 2 Mar 2010, at 14:39, Markus Spoettl wrote: > On Mar 2, 2010, at 3:36 AM, Thomas Davie wrote: >>> On Mar 1, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Thomas Davie wrote: However, when the user clicks on item B after clicking on item A, setSelected:NO is *not* sent to the NSCollectienViewItem subclass for A

Re: Windows and nibs and dialogs, oh my!

2010-03-02 Thread Steven Degutis
Few simple steps: (1) Create a subclass of NSWindowController and override -init to call super's -initWithWindowNibName:, passing something like @"MyWindow" (2) Create a XIB file with the filename called MyWindow (3) Change File's Owner to your recent subclass (4) Connect the -window outlet of you

Re: Trouble with core data and Save As

2010-03-02 Thread Richard Somers
On Feb 26, 2010, at 11:50 PM, Gideon King wrote: I'm having another look at an issue I posted about a couple of weeks ago, where Save As was causing an error. On my project I noticed the following anomaly. Add a managed object to the store, save the file, then save the file as another name.

Windows and nibs and dialogs, oh my!

2010-03-02 Thread William Squires
Please help, I'm still a bit fuzzy on how to open a window in Cocoa/ ObjC. I realize there's a correlation between a nib, the window you design(ed) in IB, and the .h/.m files for the controller class, but how do you actually USE this stuff? i.e. If I wanted to make a window in REALbasic, I w

Re: Creating layered TIFF files

2010-03-02 Thread Murat Konar
Last time I looked into this (a couple of years ago), an external library was all I came up with. _murat On Mar 2, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Graham Cox wrote: I'm looking for hints, code or anything at all that will let me write a layered TIFF file from Cocoa. There are a few mentions in the arch

Creating layered TIFF files

2010-03-02 Thread Graham Cox
I'm looking for hints, code or anything at all that will let me write a layered TIFF file from Cocoa. There are a few mentions in the archives but nothing concrete. Can Cocoa be made to support this, or do I need to use an external TIFF library? --Graham __

Re: loadNibNamed:owner [Pilot Error]

2010-03-02 Thread David Blanton
Thanks Graham! Your insights are always helpful. -db On Mar 2, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Graham Cox wrote: Hi David, You'd probably be better off making Files Owner a subclass of NSWindowController, as it is controlling a window. (That it's a panel is not a reason not to). While in this case th

Re: How a window was closed?

2010-03-02 Thread Jens Alfke
On Mar 2, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Eric Gorr wrote: Is there any way to determine how a window was closed? I need to base what I do on whether or not a window will be closed by the user pressing the close (red) button or some other way. If you have an NSWindow subclass, you can override -performCl

Re: How a window was closed?

2010-03-02 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 2 Mar 2010, at 23:32, Eric Gorr wrote: > Is there any way to determine how a window was closed? > > I need to base what I do on whether or not a window will be closed by the > user pressing the close (red) button or some other way. > > One thing I did try was: > > NSB

How a window was closed?

2010-03-02 Thread Eric Gorr
Is there any way to determine how a window was closed? I need to base what I do on whether or not a window will be closed by the user pressing the close (red) button or some other way. One thing I did try was: NSButton *closeButton = [[self window] standardWindowButton:

Re: loadNibNamed:owner [Pilot Error]

2010-03-02 Thread Graham Cox
Hi David, You'd probably be better off making Files Owner a subclass of NSWindowController, as it is controlling a window. (That it's a panel is not a reason not to). While in this case the advantage is likely to me minimal, it's probably good practice to get into using the right object for the

Re: Trouble with core data and Save As

2010-03-02 Thread Gideon King
> > The custom store seems like the most probable source of issues. One source > of problems I've seen is when a custom store doesn't handle either the > metadata or the objectIDs correctly. The store UUID and the object's IDs > need to be stable (e.g. if we ask your store for its UUID, it do

Re: loadNibNamed:owner

2010-03-02 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 2 Mar 2010, at 3:53 PM, David Blanton wrote: > I have a nib file named Hoops. > In this nib is an NSPanel. > Outlets and Actions are defined in Files Owner and connected to the Panel. > In code I create an object that has the corresponding Outlets / Actions as > File's Owner. > I then loadNibN

Re: loadNibNamed:owner [Pilot Error]

2010-03-02 Thread David Blanton
I inadvertently set a view in the nib to the class I was instancing. Sorry for the noise. -db On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:53 PM, David Blanton wrote: I have a nib file named Hoops. In this nib is an NSPanel. Outlets and Actions are defined in Files Owner and connected to the Panel. In code I

Re: property setters and getters with different types

2010-03-02 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 2 Mar 2010, at 3:12 PM, Jean-Denis Muys wrote: > I have a domain class with a number of fields, most of them NSString, but a > few NSDate, int and BOOL, for example > > @interface Stuff : NSObject { > NSString *name; > NSDate *when; > int *size; > BOOL *grownUp; > } > > @property (nonato

loadNibNamed:owner

2010-03-02 Thread David Blanton
I have a nib file named Hoops. In this nib is an NSPanel. Outlets and Actions are defined in Files Owner and connected to the Panel. In code I create an object that has the corresponding Outlets / Actions as File's Owner. I then loadNibNamed:owner with owner as the object just created.

Re: Trying to achieve aperture PopUp buttons

2010-03-02 Thread Sean McBride
On 3/2/10 9:28 PM, Gustavo Pizano said: >Have somebody used aperture? well if so, in the filter panel, the PopUp >buttons that appear there are black, and the background of the menu is >black as well. 1) File a radar asking Apple to provide these HUD style controls. 2) See if BWToolKit does what

re: Trouble with core data and Save As

2010-03-02 Thread Ben Trumbull
> I'm having another look at an issue I posted about a couple of weeks ago, > where Save As was causing an error. At the time, I was using a custom managed > object context. I have now reverted to a standard managed object context. I > do not create or release this managed object context anywher

Not responding in activity viewer

2010-03-02 Thread Alexander Cohen
Hello, I've got a very simple launch Agent that always shows up as not-responding in the activity monitor on 10.4 and 10.5 This is issue does not happen on 10.6. The app is very simple and does not do much. It has no UI but does link against Carbon since it uses GetNextProcess. It has 2 threads

property setters and getters with different types

2010-03-02 Thread Jean-Denis Muys
Hi, In my latest app, I wrote the property setters for some model classes as taking a different argument type than the type returned by the getters. I don't feel totally comfortable with that, so I would appreciate some feedback. Here is what I did and why. I have a domain class with a number

Trying to achieve aperture PopUp buttons

2010-03-02 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Hello. Have somebody used aperture? well if so, in the filter panel, the PopUp buttons that appear there are black, and the background of the menu is black as well. I was trying to achieve something alike, but I hadn't done it. I was able to subclass NSPopUpButton, and override the drawRect meth

Re: NSCollectionView deselection

2010-03-02 Thread Markus Spoettl
On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Thomas Davie wrote: > The NSCollectionView certainly *thought* it was being deselected – if the > user clicks A, then A again, only one setSelected:YES gets sent, if the user > clicks A, then B, then A again, setSelected:YES gets sent to A twice and B > once. > > I'

CocoaHeads March Meetings

2010-03-02 Thread Stephen Zyszkiewicz
Greetings, CocoaHeads is an international Mac programmer's group. Meetings are free and open to the public. We specialize in Cocoa, but everything Mac programming related is welcome. Austria Graz - Monday, March 15, 2010 19:00 Wien - Thursday, March 11, 2010 19:00 Canada Ottawa/Gatineau, O

WebKit Plugin issues

2010-03-02 Thread Fermion72
Hi there, I¹ve been trying to implement a webkit plugin in Snow Leopard, and I can¹t seem to get the plugin to actually work. I tried using the 10.5 version of WebKitMoviePlugin (compiled as a 32/64-bit Universal), and I¹ve found the following interesting anomalies (but the plugin doesn¹t work)

Re: NSCollectionView deselection

2010-03-02 Thread Markus Spoettl
On Mar 2, 2010, at 3:36 AM, Thomas Davie wrote: >> On Mar 1, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Thomas Davie wrote: >>> However, when the user clicks on item B after clicking on item A, >>> setSelected:NO is *not* sent to the NSCollectienViewItem subclass for A. >>> This displeases me greatly :(. >> >> >> Work

Re: what is a bindings pattern to check for a non-empty selection?

2010-03-02 Thread Steven Degutis
Just wanted to update everyone on this issue; I've done some experimentation with this, and I've found that binding to "selection" with NSIsNotNil transformer does not reliably work, but binding to "selectedobjec...@count" does work. (And by "work" I mean be disabled when the table has no selection

Re: Catching double click (any mouse events) in an NSTableView

2010-03-02 Thread Eric Giguere
Hi Keary Thank you for your answer. I manage to have that working yesterday night yes. That wrapping behaviour around this binding must also explain why all other techniques failed. Eric. On 2010-03-01, at 11:23 PM, Keary Suska wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:26 AM, Eric Giguere wrote: > >

Re: Custom NSCell

2010-03-02 Thread Tilo Villwock
Finally! That did the trick, thanks a lot! Does make sense though, the coordinates I used originally of course refer to the NSView insets and not to the ones from each NSCell, which is why all Strings were in same place. Thanks again. Tilo Am 02.03.2010 um 08:56 schrieb Gustavo Pizano: > Sean