Re: App submission

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Williams
Shut down from Thurs the 23rd through Tues the 28th. From: Dan Hopwood Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:39:22 -0500 Subject: App submission I am trying to find out how app submission is affected over the Christmas period. ___

Re: How to approach to write such an app?

2010-11-28 Thread Chris Williams
Maybe you got no response because every iPhone comes with an app that can do that, safari. From: ico Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:01:09 -0500 To: Subject: Re: How to approach to write such an app? Hi all, No clue for this? Probably I should rephrase my question as

Re: NSOutlineView Drag and Drop

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Williams
Or check the sample code. There's a great sample that shows it all. From: Seth Willits Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:20:24 -0400 To: cocoa-dev list Subject: Re: NSOutlineView Drag and Drop On Sep 14, 2010, at 7:36 PM, k...@highrolls.net wrote: > Other than > > -

Re: Set the Cursor Position

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Williams
"software that warps the pointer's location independent of the mouse is much un-loved on the Mac." SB "much unloved on the planet". Am in the process of fixing another program that does this (on another OS) and it's the most frustrating UI I've ever been exposed to.

Re: Looking for info on anti-piracy and trial-mode techniques for my app . . .

2010-02-24 Thread Chris Williams
This can be quite a religious argument, but speaking from experience of code that's been rigorously hacked time and again, the only effective way to disable parts of your code is to not have that code in the executable. E.G. a compile a demo version, and a real licensed version. Having code ex

Re: iPhone: validate a NSString for US zipcode

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Williams
As someone who lives in a zip code that was added in 2004, yet STILL shows up as invalid in countless databases, I can't stress this point enough. Do not maintain data yourself that someone else has a reason/motivation and the resources to maintain. Just send it to the service, and catch the f

Re: why use pow(x, 2)?

2009-11-02 Thread Chris Williams
How completely rude of you, Greg, to confuse a good argument with facts :) But it still does leave the style question: is pow(x,2) clearer than x*x? In the case from the OP, I think that the pow is clearer, because it is implementing an algorithm that calls specifically for x-squared. And in the

Re: SelectedRowIndexes

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Williams
Graham's solution is excellent. You could also have a couple of buttons between the two lists, with arrows (one right, one left) to move items to and remove them from, the sub-group list. And an additional pair to the right of the sub-group list (one up, one down) allowing reordering. This would

Re: Debugging Information

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Williams
Perhaps this is a tad simplistic, but have you searched your code for NSKeyedUnarchiver? Can't be too many instances of that... > From: ALEXander > Subject: Debugging Information > > Hello, > > when the objective C runtime engine throws an exception during > runtime, I get messages like > > 2

Re: How to make app login window to look like OS X user login window ?

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Williams
Completely agreed. That's just arrogant and insulting. > From: Benjamin Dobson > > I have seen splash screens that have a higher > window level than normal. This is just wrong. If you're app takes long > enough to load to warrant a splash screen, it takes long enough to > load for the user to ge

Re: How to make app login window to look like OS X user login window ?

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Williams
Below: > From: Michael Ash > > I don't really mind splash screens, although I find them to be > pointless. However, if your splash screen does not go into the > background when I click on another app while waiting for your app to > load, then your app goes into the trash instantaneously. Of cou

Re: How to make app login window to look like OS X user login window ?

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Williams
So you'd rather the user sits there wondering if this huge, highly complex application (like any Office or Adobe app) that takes 10-15 seconds to load, even longer on a slow laptop, is actually starting up, or should I click it again, or is my computer dead, or "what the heck is going on here"...?

Re: Check box to indicate more than 2 states

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Williams
How about check for enable/disable, and change the font (bold, italic, something) to indicate modified?? > From: Mark Ritchie > Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:51:00 -0400 > To: Arun > Cc: > Subject: Re: Check box to indicate more than 2 states > > On 7-Apr-09, at 1:43 PM, Arun wrote: >> Is it poss

Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code

2009-01-18 Thread Chris Williams
In 25 years in the computer business, I've seen precisely one example of someone successfully re-coding around performance issues with the language or library. And that was only because they coded a tiny snippet of assembler that managed to fit into the pre-fetch cache of an 80286. Every other ti

Re: No warning on float to int assignment?

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Williams
Surely there should be a way to warn on any conversion where data is lost, even if it is not on by default. The compiler knows when this is happening, the author may not. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin

Re: MySQL?

2008-09-15 Thread Chris Williams
I've been using MySQL-Cocoa and it works fine... Light, fast, easy: http://mysql-cocoa.sourceforge.net/ Documentation is sparse (non-existent), but it's a simple API that you can easily see by looking at the code. Had to recompile for intel, but that wasn't a big deal. > From: "J. Todd Slack" <

Re: BLOBs, MySQL, hex. Oh my

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Williams
That would make me suspect the way in which you are unzipping it, not the way it's stored. I assume you are writing it to a file, and passing that to your unzip routine? Is the issue there? > From: Ben Einstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: BLOBs, MySQL, hex. Oh my > > I was very surprise

Re: BLOBs, MySQL, hex. Oh my

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Williams
I'm doing exactly what you are describing, using Serge's great stuff, and it works perfectly. I'm not sure what your problem is... I just put it in with the "prepare..." function, and when I get the thing back from MySQL, pump it into an NSImage, and voila, it works fine. If it's stored in a blo

Re: Resource Fork - is this a good use/the right thing to do?

2008-04-23 Thread Chris Williams
But the resource fork idea has the same issue if someone uses/sends/writes to the file from the other 90% of the computers on the planet... (windows). Doesn't it? I think you're best tracking the info in your own data source, doing your best to track and keep up with the user changing it outside y