Re: UIView animation

2010-09-02 Thread Christian Ziegler
Hi! Thanks Wyatt and Ricky for your answers. The views have to visible at the same time. I thought of making an image out of this view as well but I didn't know how. I googled a little and this is what I found: UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(myView.bounds.size); [myView.layer renderInContext:UI

IrDA protocols

2010-09-02 Thread kirankumar
Hi All Mac os x does not support IrDA protocols (IrLAP, IrLMP, IrNET).why? These are higher layer protocols of the IrDA stack that use xxx driver and hardware operating at the Data Link Layer to communicate with other devices(like mobiles, etc.,). It is not possible for us to provide these hig

Re: NSTimer not working in a multithreaded application

2010-09-02 Thread Wyatt Webb
On Sep 2, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Abhijeet Singh wrote: > Hi,I am working on a multithreaded software that runs on a medical > instrument. The software has 2 parts. GUI and worker threads (worker threads > sends commands to instrument). The GUI is developed using ObjectiveC and > Cocoa. Worker threa

Re: iTunes 10 UI

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Suter
Hi, On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: It's not easy. > > 1. If you retrieve a NSButton with the official API, you will not be able > to get the mouse over effect. This is a bug since Mac OS X 10.4 and it has > still not been fixed in Mac OS X. > > 2. The NSButton Apple uses for

Re: NSTimer not working in a multithreaded application

2010-09-02 Thread Dave DeLong
Just a minor correction: All threads have a run loop created automatically, but only the main thread's run loop is running by default (if it's a GUI application). If you're on a secondary thread, you have to spin the run loop manually using one of its "run..." methods. But (in essence) you're

Re: NSTimer not working in a multithreaded application

2010-09-02 Thread Nathan Day
NSTimers rely on there being an NSRunLoop for the current thread, so if you are creating a timer in a thread without a run loop it will not work, because the is no run loop to add the timer to. From the sounds of it you also want the timer to be executed in the main thread, in which case you wil

NSTimer not working in a multithreaded application

2010-09-02 Thread Abhijeet Singh
Hi,I am working on a multithreaded software that runs on a medical instrument. The software has 2 parts. GUI and worker threads (worker threads sends commands to instrument). The GUI is developed using ObjectiveC and Cocoa. Worker threads are all in C and Carbon.It is a Cocoa application.I am wo

[Moderator] Re: iTunes 10 UI - End of Thread

2010-09-02 Thread Scott Anguish
I thought I had been fairly clear about that. Even though this answer is technical. UI discussion like this just isn’t appropriate. What iTunes does if it isn’t HIG compliant and you feel strongly, file a bug. There was a reason the UI discussion list was closed. On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:07 AM, I

Re: how to set the value of NSLevelIndicatorCell in tableView

2010-09-02 Thread Dave DeLong
The NSLevelIndicator wants a number between the minValue and the maxValue to determine what level it should draw. Simply return that value as an NSNumber from the objectValue:forTableColumn:row: datasource method, and the level indicator will use that to set its level. Dave smime.p7s Descript

how to set the value of NSLevelIndicatorCell in tableView

2010-09-02 Thread cocoa-dev
I drag NSLevelIndicatorCell to tableView,and use it like this: -(IBAction)levelAction:(id)sender { NSLog(@"Level clicked: %ld", [senderintValue]); [levelCellsetIntValue:[senderintValue]]; [levelCellsetWarningValue:[senderintValue]]; } - (void)tableView:(NSTableView *)aTableView setObjec

Re: Core Data fetch performance, design pattern sought

2010-09-02 Thread Quincey Morris
On Sep 2, 2010, at 14:46, Sean McBride wrote: > I have 2 CoreData entities, Foo and Bar. Both have 'name' string > attributes. There are textfields allowing the user to rename any Foo > and any Bar. Assume no 2 Foos can have the same name; likewise for > Bars. There is a relationship between F

Re: CALayer -drawInContext and GCD

2010-09-02 Thread John C. Randolph
On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:17 PM, David Duncan wrote: > On Sep 2, 2010, at 11:29 AM, vincent habchi wrote: > >> You mean I shall use your dispatch_async invocation instead of calling >> [layer setNeedsDisplay]? > > Calling -setNeedsDisplay arranges for -display to later be called on the > current r

Re: UIView animation

2010-09-02 Thread Ricky Sharp
On Sep 2, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Christian Ziegler wrote: > I could use your help because I'm running out of ideas! > > Here's the situation. I got this custom view on screen which I want to remove > from the screen by moving it outside the left border of the screen. However > at the same time, I w

Re: UIView animation

2010-09-02 Thread Wyatt Webb
On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Christian Ziegler wrote: > Hi all, > > I could use your help because I'm running out of ideas! > > Here's the situation. I got this custom view on screen which I want to remove > from the screen by moving it outside the left border of the screen. However > at the s

Re: CALayer -drawInContext and GCD

2010-09-02 Thread David Duncan
On Sep 2, 2010, at 11:29 AM, vincent habchi wrote: > You mean I shall use your dispatch_async invocation instead of calling [layer > setNeedsDisplay]? Calling -setNeedsDisplay arranges for -display to later be called on the current runloop. As such using -setNeedsDisplay is reliant on a runloop

UIView animation

2010-09-02 Thread Christian Ziegler
Hi all, I could use your help because I'm running out of ideas! Here's the situation. I got this custom view on screen which I want to remove from the screen by moving it outside the left border of the screen. However at the same time, I want to move it back in from the right side but at a diff

Core Data fetch performance, design pattern sought

2010-09-02 Thread Sean McBride
Hi all, I have 2 CoreData entities, Foo and Bar. Both have 'name' string attributes. There are textfields allowing the user to rename any Foo and any Bar. Assume no 2 Foos can have the same name; likewise for Bars. There is a relationship between Foo and Bar. I want a Foo to be related to a B

Re: CALayer -drawInContext and GCD

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Parker
Hi Vincent, On 2 Sep 2010, at 11:29 AM, vincent habchi wrote: > I promise I did not plan to start an Apple internal quarrel! ;) I don't think there's any real quarrel here; David and I are looking at this from two distinct points of view. :) The docs for +[CATransaction flush] make the stateme

Re: [NSTextView] Is there a workaround for Snow Leopard new word selection behavior/bug?

2010-09-02 Thread Ken Thomases
On Sep 2, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Stephane Sudre wrote: > I need to detect double-click on a word when the alt key is hold down > (to do something similar to what Xcode does). > This does not work as well in Mac OS X 10.6. > > Because when you double-click on the word myclass in a text like this: > >

Re: [NSTextView] Is there a workaround for Snow Leopard new word selection behavior/bug?

2010-09-02 Thread Stephane Sudre
It's a good solution if you need in which direction you need to shrink the selection. But I can't know that. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:57 PM, vincent habchi wrote: > Le 2 sept. 2010 à 21:42, Stephane Sudre a écrit : > >> >> This does not work as well in Mac OS X 10.6. >> Because when you double-c

Re: iTunes 10 UI

2010-09-02 Thread Lee Ann Rucker
On Sep 2, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Daniel DeCovnick wrote: > > On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: > >> >> 2. The NSButton Apple uses for NSWindow buttons are not simple NSButtons. >> And you can not display the mouse over version of the button rendering (as >> far as I've tried and Ap

Re: [NSTextView] Is there a workaround for Snow Leopard new word selection behavior/bug?

2010-09-02 Thread vincent habchi
Le 2 sept. 2010 à 21:42, Stephane Sudre a écrit : > > This does not work as well in Mac OS X 10.6. > Because when you double-click on the word myclass in a text like this: > > myclass.mymethod > > this selects myclass.mymethod. > > On previous OS versions, only myclass was selected. You can a

[NSTextView] Is there a workaround for Snow Leopard new word selection behavior/bug?

2010-09-02 Thread Stephane Sudre
Case: - I need to detect double-click on a word when the alt key is hold down (to do something similar to what Xcode does). To do this I subclassed NSTextView and implemented a custom the mouseDown: method (that calls the super method, don't panic). This works fine on Mac OS X 10.4.x and 10.

Re: CALayer -drawInContext and GCD

2010-09-02 Thread vincent habchi
David, Chris, I promise I did not plan to start an Apple internal quarrel! ;) >>> dispatch_async(queue, ^{ >>> [layer display]; >>> [CATransaction flush]; >>> } >> >> There is (almost) never any reason for anyone to be calling +[CATransaction >> flush] directly. You'll cause all sorts o

Re: iTunes 10 UI

2010-09-02 Thread Daniel DeCovnick
On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: > > 2. The NSButton Apple uses for NSWindow buttons are not simple NSButtons. And > you can not display the mouse over version of the button rendering (as far as > I've tried and Apple's DTS was not able to provide a solution either). > Apparen

Re: CALayer -drawInContext and GCD

2010-09-02 Thread David Duncan
On Sep 2, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Chris Parker wrote: > On 2 Sep 2010, at 8:52 AM, David Duncan wrote: > >> On Sep 2, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Vincent Habchi wrote: >> >>> I just wanted to know someone has already tried to successfully send a >>> CALayer -drawInContext method to a GCD dispatch queue. I susp

Re: CALayer -drawInContext and GCD

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Parker
On 2 Sep 2010, at 8:52 AM, David Duncan wrote: > On Sep 2, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Vincent Habchi wrote: > >> I just wanted to know someone has already tried to successfully send a >> CALayer -drawInContext method to a GCD dispatch queue. I suspect this is not >> possible, because of main loop relat

Re: CALayer -drawInContext and GCD

2010-09-02 Thread David Duncan
On Sep 2, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Vincent Habchi wrote: > I just wanted to know someone has already tried to successfully send a > CALayer -drawInContext method to a GCD dispatch queue. I suspect this is not > possible, because of main loop related issue, but this is unclear. This can be done, but y

CALayer -drawInContext and GCD

2010-09-02 Thread Vincent Habchi
Hi everybody, I just wanted to know someone has already tried to successfully send a CALayer -drawInContext method to a GCD dispatch queue. I suspect this is not possible, because of main loop related issue, but this is unclear. If it does not work, does it make sense to divide the code in two

Wrong font size in menu items

2010-09-02 Thread Ulf Dunkel
Did you ever see this issue with your own Cocoa apps for Mac OS X? On of our apps which is in maintenance for a major upgrade right now, suddenly changed all its menu item font heights. Usually all Mac OS X apps have the same font size for all menu items, except those of the Help menu (since

Re: [iPhone] Breaking content of NSMutable array into two arrays.

2010-09-02 Thread Tharindu Madushanka
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Not able to export the data from Dtrace custom Instruments

2010-09-02 Thread Vijayakumar_Thota
Dear list, I am facing an issue with instruments tool in exporting the data using a Dtrace custom instrument. I have created the new instrument with the probe of type 'Objective-C' and one of my class. When I start record, it will record all the functions/methods with respect to the use-case, w

Re: iTunes 10 UI

2010-09-02 Thread Tony Romano
The controls used in the title bar are NSThemeWidgets and not your standard button. It appears that many functions are overridden to control behavior. Your best best is to hide the standard controls and place your own buttons there. This is what I have done for my Inspector Panel. Tony Romano

Re: iTunes 10 UI

2010-09-02 Thread Graham Cox
On 02/09/2010, at 9:35 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 02/09/2010, at 5:32 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > >> Assume anything you see in iTunes, and don't see in the API, is a custom >> implementation > > > Isn't this a feature of Carbon? That supported side title bars on utility > windows with ve

Re: iTunes 10 UI

2010-09-02 Thread Graham Cox
On 02/09/2010, at 5:32 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > Assume anything you see in iTunes, and don't see in the API, is a custom > implementation Isn't this a feature of Carbon? That supported side title bars on utility windows with vertical buttons, but Cocoa doesn't. I'm not sure if iTunes is s

Re: iTunes 10 UI

2010-09-02 Thread Iceberg-Dev
On Sep 2, 2010, at 5:28 AM, John C. Randolph wrote: On Sep 1, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: Top left, the traffic lights have been turned to the vertical. Is this something new or was this easy to do before? Is it just a custom implementation, or? It's pretty easy to implement