Re: Drag and drop onto BSD command line tool?

2014-05-17 Thread Bob Sabiston
> On May 17, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Kevin Meaney wrote: > >> I think an applescript droplet, using the "on open" call which then calls >> "do shell script" with the path to your command and the file that is dropped >> on it. >> >> Kevin > > >>> You have to create the right kind of Automator workf

Re: Drag and drop onto BSD command line tool?

2014-05-17 Thread Bob Sabiston
On May 17, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Kevin Meaney wrote: > I think an applescript droplet, using the "on open" call which then calls "do > shell script" with the path to your command and the file that is dropped on > it. > > Kevin >> You have to create the right kind of Automator workflow for droppi

Drag and drop onto BSD command line tool?

2014-05-17 Thread Bob Sabiston
Hello, I have a little console app written in C, one which takes a filename as an argc/argv argument. Is there any *easy* way to make this into a tool which I can just drop files onto it in the finder? There used to be a program called DropScript which would do this, but it was PPC based

Re: dev site down time is ridiculous

2013-07-24 Thread Bob Sabiston
Oops sorry I didn't know this -- I will shut up now lest I get booted! This was just the only place I could think of that was still up and running. I feel like I am Under the Dome! > Dear Bob Sabiston, > Gavin Eadie has asked us not to further discuss the matter on the list and we

Re: dev site down time is ridiculous

2013-07-24 Thread Bob Sabiston
Ha ha at least you can't tell me to file a bug! ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe

Re: dev site down time is ridiculous

2013-07-24 Thread Bob Sabiston
And of course I expect nothing but people to defend Apple and imply that I am f'ed up for complaining -- god forbid someone else should feel the way I do. Bring it on I don't care. Of COURSE it is completely acceptable and makes perfect sense that a week later the site is not back up! What is

Re: dev site down time is ridiculous

2013-07-24 Thread Bob Sabiston
OK I don't want to get in some flame war with people that are going to attack me and say Apple is in the right. I am just surprised it's taking so long for one of the biggest companies in the world to get this site back up. This is not "soon" by any stretch of the word. On Jul 24, 2013, at 1

dev site down time is ridiculous

2013-07-24 Thread Bob Sabiston
Man what is going on with Apple? With their dev site down for almost a week now, and they are so uncommunicative. What in the world is happening over there. This is not like the Apple I know. I sure hope they offer a good explanation for what happened and why it is taking so long to fix wha

simple question about variable retain/release (NSDate)

2008-11-21 Thread Bob Sabiston
Hi, I have a newbie question about retain/release stuff when using NSDate. I am confused a little about what is necessary in this case. I've got a local variable sTime (NSDate *). I use it to measure the time and then compare it to the current time, so that I can space out an animation

UITextView textViewDidBeginEditing issue

2008-11-19 Thread Bob Sabiston
Hi, I've got a UITextView and I am trying to add a "save" button to the top bar when the user clicks it to start editing. The UIView which contains the textview is a delegate for the TextView, so I have a textViewDidBeginEditing function something like this: - (void)textViewDidBeginEdi

newbie NSMutable dictionary subclass question

2008-11-16 Thread Bob Sabiston
Can the value part of a key-value pair in an NSMutableDictionary be a literal NSString, like @"name"? It would seem so, because this works or at least doesn't crash: NSMutableDictionary *bobo; bobo = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init]; [bobo setValue:@"root" forKey:@"na

simple window close question

2008-09-09 Thread Bob Sabiston
Hi, I've got a cocoa-in-carbon window, and I want to let my carbon app know when the cocoa window closes. I'm kind of new to cocoa--how do I do this? Here's what I've tried so far. I made File's Owner the delegate of my window by dragging a line between them in Interface Builder. In m

Re: [Moderator] Re: iphone SDK questions

2008-08-28 Thread Bob Sabiston
the information. um...thanks? scott [moderator] On 27-Aug-08, at 7:30 PM, Bob Sabiston wrote: What's the deal with the iphone SDK talk? Ask a question here and you get shut down. But talk is all over the discussion groups on Apple's own site. For example, http://discussi

iphone SDK questions

2008-08-27 Thread Bob Sabiston
What's the deal with the iphone SDK talk? Ask a question here and you get shut down. But talk is all over the discussion groups on Apple's own site. For example, http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1443702&tstart=180 So why is this list any different? Bob

cocoa window in carbon?

2008-08-14 Thread Bob Sabiston
Hello, I have a cocoa window that I open and use in my carbon app. I used the apple sample code to do this, and it has worked for years -- using Xcode to compile the cocoa window bundle and Codewarrior to include it in the app. Now I am trying to do the same thing all in Xcode and it i

Re: including a cocoa bundle in a carbon app

2008-08-11 Thread Bob Sabiston
On Aug 10, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote: On 10.08.2008, at 19:38, Bob Sabiston wrote: I got my Cocoa bundle to compile on the Intel machine. It still doesn't load within my app, though. Is there something special I need to do to include it in my project? I just dragged it

Re: including a cocoa bundle in a carbon app

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Sabiston
On Aug 10, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Bob Sabiston wrote: 2) the bundle right now is compiling for i386, the native architecture of this machine. does it need to be compiled for all 4? it should at least run on this machine if everything, app and bundle, is being compiled for this architecture

Re: including a cocoa bundle in a carbon app

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Sabiston
On Aug 10, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Bob Sabiston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This bundle works when compiled in Xcode 2.4.1 on a G5 and then included in a Codewarrior project. But I haven't gotten it to work with the same project

including a cocoa bundle in a carbon app

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Sabiston
Hi, I got my Cocoa bundle to compile on the Intel machine. It still doesn't load within my app, though. Is there something special I need to do to include it in my project? I just dragged it in on the left, amongst all the other types of files, and it gave me a menu of targets from wh

compiling a bundle on intel?

2008-08-09 Thread Bob Sabiston
Hi, I have a Cocoa bundle that I compile with my Carbon program. I used the Apple examples to do it, and I don't have a very thorough understanding of Cocoa or bundles. However, on my G5 w/ Codewarrior compiling (still!), it actually works. I have to compile the bundle using Xcode,

alternative to flash

2008-07-16 Thread Bob Sabiston
Hi, If there's no Flash on the iphone, is there a good replacement in terms of vector graphic animation? Ideally the same file would play in a PC/Mac browser as well. I'm just looking to go to a URL and an animation fills the screen and is playing, no quicktime control bar or anything