Re: OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)

2010-06-07 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Jun 7, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Graham Cox wrote: I need to be able to make a .gzip file from a FOLDER on my hard disk programatically. I would use ditto to produce the tarball, because it will produce the same results as the Finder. --Kyle Sluder (Sent from my hotel room at WWDC, where you

Re: OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)

2010-06-07 Thread Graham Cox
On 08/06/2010, at 4:21 PM, John Joyce wrote: > which > > and that will let you locate the actual path of the command line tool you > want to use. (pass that path to your next NSTask) Ok... but doesn't that just displace the problem one step? How do I find the path to without being able to r

Re: OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)

2010-06-07 Thread Graham Cox
On 08/06/2010, at 4:16 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote: > b) In a working OS X system, the unix executables will always be where > they're supposed to be (ie: /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, etc). Thanks Stephen, so given the four choices I looked at each and find zip in /usr/bin The question i

Re: OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)

2010-06-07 Thread John Joyce
On Jun 8, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Stephen J. Butler wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Graham Cox wrote: >> I need to be able to make a .gzip file from a FOLDER on my hard disk >> programatically. > > a) You can't gzip a folder. That's why people tar the folders, then > gzip the tar file (or j

Re: OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)

2010-06-07 Thread Graham Cox
It has been pointed out to me off-list that I've been labouring under the misapprehension that gzip is equivalent to zip, which appears not to be the case. It might explain why it was hard to find relevant info. So I need zip then... otherwise same discussion applies. I don't really care how I

Re: OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)

2010-06-07 Thread Stephen J. Butler
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > I need to be able to make a .gzip file from a FOLDER on my hard disk > programatically. a) You can't gzip a folder. That's why people tar the folders, then gzip the tar file (or just use the 'z' option in tar). b) In a working OS X system, the

OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)

2010-06-07 Thread Graham Cox
I need to be able to make a .gzip file from a FOLDER on my hard disk programatically. I've searched the archives and Googled for it, and now I'm just confused. Some folk advocate linking to the library directly, other to invoke it via NSTask. Since it's a folder I need to compress, not in-memor

Printing and Segmented Control state

2010-06-07 Thread James Merkel
I have a view that has among other things a segmented control. In the printing code I want to print a string that represents the current state of the segmented control. However, whenever I query the segmented control with -selectedSegment in the print code, I get a value of 0. On the other

Re: Problem with setting a cursor

2010-06-07 Thread Gideon King
Thanks Jim - I switched it over and it works fine, and with much less overhead on mouse moved too. Regards Gideon > If I understand correctly you are calling NSCursor's -set from within your > view's -mouseMoved: method. If you are just changing cursor to indicate > resize control areas, it

IKImageView image position

2010-06-07 Thread Travis Kirton
I've been meddling with IKImageview for the last couple of days. As far as I've seen I think there isn't a method that will return the bounding rect of of the zoomed/panned image within the image view. Can someone please confirm or deny? I'm thinking the only way to know for now is to track it b

Re: [iPhone] -UIScrollView

2010-06-07 Thread Henry McGilton
On Jun 1, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Hank Heijink (Mailinglists) wrote: > On Jun 1, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > >> On 31 May 2010, at 11:58 PM, Development wrote: >> >>> I have a Scroll view that contains a master view. This master view adds >>> page sized views of image data, specificall

Re: Scrolling Behavior of NSTextView

2010-06-07 Thread Dong Feng
Thanks for all your replies, Martin and Paul. Martin, I tried the " [NSTextView scrollRangeToVisible:] with NSMakeRange(0,0) ", but it is the same as to use [scrollPoint:] solely. Only with [glyphRangeForTextContainer:] in prior the scroll-to-top works. I don't think it is the problem of coordinat

Re: setting tab stops in a document

2010-06-07 Thread Boyd Collier
Paul, You're quite right. I commented out the call to shouldChangeTextInRange: and my code still does what I want. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll have a look at the documentation on methods for bracketing multiple changes to the text (after I get my head around efficiently creating trian

Re: Custom field editor context menu

2010-06-07 Thread Rimas M.
Hi Martin, You are right - that works. I can swear that I have tried this before. But looks like was overridden to much methods. Now I have started this part from scratch and..tadaaa. Thank you. Regards, Rimas M. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Martin Wierschin wrote: > Hi Rimas, > > I want m

Re: Debugging sporadic crashes

2010-06-07 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 7 juin 2010 à 16:39, Gabriel Zachmann a écrit : > I have an application with LSBackgroundOnly = on, and LSUIElement = off. > > Unfortunately, it crashes occasionally, or, rarely, it just hangs for a > minute (with beach ball) then comes back to life. > > So far, I have been unable to find a

Re: Debugging sporadic crashes

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Sanders
On 7 Jun 2010, at 15:39, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: > > All kinds of suggestions, insights, and tips will be highly appreciated. > A quick and easy way to find out where an app is hung is to sample it in Activity Monitor. Regards, Paul Sanders. ___ C

Re: Debugging sporadic crashes

2010-06-07 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
On 7 Jun 2010, at 15:39, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: > > All kinds of suggestions, insights, and tips will be highly appreciated. > Have you sampled your app extensively? If not I would suggest getting to know Shark. Regards Jonathan Mitchell Developer Mugginsoft LLP http://www.mugginsoft.com _

Re: Scrolling Behavior of NSTextView

2010-06-07 Thread Martin Wierschin
On 2010.06.07, at 2:10 PM, Paul Sanders wrote: I encountered a wired behavior of NSTextView. I tried to use the following statement to scroll to top: [[_scrollView documentView] scrollPoint:NSMakePoint(0, 0)]; where the *documentView* is a NSTextView. But it seems when the window is in cert

Re: Scrolling Behavior of NSTextView

2010-06-07 Thread Martin Wierschin
I encountered a wired behavior of NSTextView. I tried to use the following statement to scroll to top: [[_scrollView documentView] scrollPoint:NSMakePoint(0, 0)]; where the *documentView* is a NSTextView. But it seems when the window is in certain size, the scroll-to-top behavior does not t

[Moderator] Reminder WWDC is under NDA

2010-06-07 Thread Scott Anguish
A quick reminder. Aside from the Keynote, all the sessions of WWDC are under non-disclosure and cannot be discussed here. Thanks Scott [Moderator] ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator

Re: Custom field editor context menu

2010-06-07 Thread Martin Wierschin
Hi Rimas, I want menu to have only my custom items. No spelling & co above my items. Always. Even with some text selected. How could I achieve that? In your NSTextView subclass, you can override -[NSTextView menuForEvent:] to return your custom menu. ~Martin _

Re: Problem with setting a cursor

2010-06-07 Thread Jim McGowan
On 7 Jun 2010, at 12:01 , Gideon King wrote: > I have a view where I set the cursor in a mouse moved event, when the mouse > is over certain places in my view (resize handles for objects). This works > fine, but sometimes I need to add some subviews to this view, and for some > reason, when I

Debugging sporadic crashes

2010-06-07 Thread Gabriel Zachmann
I have an application with LSBackgroundOnly = on, and LSUIElement = off. Unfortunately, it crashes occasionally, or, rarely, it just hangs for a minute (with beach ball) then comes back to life. So far, I have been unable to find a case where this happens deterministically. So, could you please

Re: Scrolling Behavior of NSTextView

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Sanders
> I encountered a wired behavior of NSTextView. I tried to use the following > statement to scroll to top: > [[_scrollView documentView] scrollPoint:NSMakePoint(0, 0)]; > > where the *documentView* is a NSTextView. But it seems when the window is in > certain size, the scroll-to-top behavior does

Limitation on an NSStatusBarItem's menu?

2010-06-07 Thread augusto callejas
hi- i have an NSMenu attached to a NSStatusBarItem and its being displayed properly, except for a single NSMenuItem in that menu, which contains as a view with a single search field: NSMenuItem* firstItem = [[NSMenuItem allocWithZone:[NSMenu menuZone]] initWithTitle:@"Test" action:NULL keyE

Custom field editor context menu

2010-06-07 Thread Rimas M.
Hello list, Congrats on WWDC week. Have great sessions :) I have some troubles implementing custom context menu in NSTextField. While field is editing, field editor take control over field. So I implemented my custom field editor: - (id)windowWillReturnFieldEditor:(NSWindow *)sender toObject:(id

Re: Notification of window visible?

2010-06-07 Thread Ken Thomases
On Jun 7, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:31 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: > >> Why do you need such a notification? Windows don't "spontaneously" become >> visible unbeknownst to your code. > > I’ve run into this in an app that has a singleton panel, which I want to > pe

Re: Notification of window visible?

2010-06-07 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:31 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: > Why do you need such a notification? Windows don't "spontaneously" become > visible unbeknownst to your code. I’ve run into this in an app that has a singleton panel, which I want to persistently remember whether it’s open or closed. In other

Re: PDFSelection question

2010-06-07 Thread John Calhoun
On Jun 5, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Matthew Weinstein wrote: > I think I must be missing some simple method in the api to do this, but, > given a range of a PDFDocument string, how do I convert that to a selection? > I found the PDFPage selection from range, but how do I find what pages a > selection f

Problem with setting a cursor

2010-06-07 Thread Gideon King
Hi all, I have a view where I set the cursor in a mouse moved event, when the mouse is over certain places in my view (resize handles for objects). This works fine, but sometimes I need to add some subviews to this view, and for some reason, when I do, it stops setting the cursors in some of th

Re: setting tab stops in a document

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Sanders
> /** ADDED CODE **/ > NSMutableDictionary* typingAttributes = [[myTextView typingAttributes] > mutableCopy]; > [typingAttributes setObject:paraStyle forKey:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName]; > [myTextView setTypingAttributes:typingAttributes]; > NSRange rangeOfChange = NSMakeRange(0, [[myTextView st

Scrolling Behavior of NSTextView

2010-06-07 Thread Dong Feng
I encountered a wired behavior of NSTextView. I tried to use the following statement to scroll to top: [[_scrollView documentView] scrollPoint:NSMakePoint(0, 0)]; where the *documentView* is a NSTextView. But it seems when the window is in certain size, the scroll-to-top behavior does not take ef

Re: SQLite Database 2 distinct database iphone.

2010-06-07 Thread Greg Reichow
> Greetings. > > I'm building a iPhone application which is database driven. > in that application i've designed it to have two databases. > One database will be distributed with the application and is meant to be read > only. > the second database is meant to copy items to it for the user's saf

Re: Creating Photoshop plugins

2010-06-07 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Jun 7, 2010, at 7:36 AM, lorenzo7...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone point me to documentation on how to create a Photoshop plugin in XCode? I've found bits and pieces about the internet, but nothing that gives a clear understanding of how to go about it. The Photoshop SDK and samples seem

Creating Photoshop plugins

2010-06-07 Thread lorenzo7620
Can someone point me to documentation on how to create a Photoshop plugin in XCode? I've found bits and pieces about the internet, but nothing that gives a clear understanding of how to go about it. The Photoshop SDK and samples seem to come from the days when Gil Amelio was in charge at Appl

Re: [ANN] Cocoa Talk

2010-06-07 Thread Scott Anguish
On 2010-06-06, at 10:11 PM, Development wrote: > Cocoa Talk is a brand new video blog on cocoa. > > Check it out at http://cocoatalk.libsyn.com/ > > This episode concerns UIViews and touches. Please, if your entire post is about promoting a blog, product, job position, remember to run it bu

Re: Notification of window visible?

2010-06-07 Thread Ken Thomases
> Am 04.06.2010 um 07:11 schrieb Chris Idou: > >> How does one get notification that a window has become visible? I >> can see notifications for most every type of window event except >> this most obvious one. Why do you need such a notification? Windows don't "spontaneously" become visible

Qt standalone application with Cocoa Library Crash

2010-06-07 Thread Raja Rokkam
Hi All, I have written a standalone Qt Core Application in which the only call is to a constructor of a library which is written in Cocoa and using 10.5 as base SDK. As soon as I run this application it crashes with below errors: What could be the problem: The logger constructor is basically

Re: Notification of window visible?

2010-06-07 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 7 Jun 2010, at 02:16, Chris Idou wrote: > Is it? Can't a window become visible without becoming key? Indeed. NSWindowDidBecomeKeyNotification won't do it for you. You might be able to use NSWindowDidUpdateNotification for this, since you'll get one of these before the window is displayed on

Re: Notification of window visible?

2010-06-07 Thread Reinhard Segeler
I don't know, what the idea is behind your question. But if it's not the only window, that's displayed in your app, you could change that by making another window the keyWindow or by using unhideWithoutActivation ( NSApplication class )... For better answers some more information would be n