want to use to see what is actually
> going on.
>
> Constraints is a very big topic with many things to learn and control.
> They are
> very powerful, and thus very maddening when they don’t work they way you
> understand. Take the time to learn how to use them, and you will be muc
I might try it, but it's difficult to do accurately because the views are
assembled programmatically - it's dynamically generated based on the data
read in.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:37 AM, Richard Charles
wrote:
>
> > On Mar 16, 2018, at 9:03 AM, David Catmull
> wrote:
I found that in my googling, but since I'm not changing priorities, it
wasn't helpful.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Richard Charles
wrote:
>
> > On Mar 16, 2018, at 9:03 AM, David Catmull
> wrote:
> >
> > After I set up a somewhat complex view hie
After I set up a somewhat complex view hierarchy, I'm getting a crash with
this exception:
2018-03-16 08:59:21.814873-0600 App[31201:13046721] *** Assertion failure
in -[NSLayoutConstraint setPriority:],
/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/Foundation/Foundation-1451/Foundation/Layout.s
In my table view, when you drag an item, the drag image it uses comes from
the column cell where the drag started, rather than using the cell from the
first column where I have the icon and name. How do I make it use the first
column?
I'm looking at Apple's TableViewPlayground as an example, and t
Apparently the answer is that they should be declared nullable. Even though
I've seen claims that the property will always return a set, apparently
it's also allowable to assign it to nil to clear it out.
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:00 PM, David Catmull
wrote:
> I'm adding nullab
I'm adding nullability notations to my Core Data classes for Swift
interoperability, and I need to know whether the properties for to-many
relationships should be considered nullable, or if they will always read as
empty sets. Is there an authoritative answer for this?
_
I have a preferences window with a NSTabViewController hooked up to the
toolbar for selecting tabs. I want the window to be resizable, and to
resize iself if necessary when switching tabs to fit the new tab's size.
I'm subclassing NSTabViewController with the following overload:
override var sele
In the 10.13 SDK, the return type for NSObject.validModesForFontPanel()
changed from Int to NSFontPanel.ModeMask. This is problematic for backwards
compatibility because the different signature means it's considered to be a
new function, different from the one that's been around since 10.3.
If I s
The documentation for Process.launch() (the equivalent of -[NSTask launch])
says it "raises an NSInvalidArgumentException if the launch path has not
been set or is invalid or if it fails to create a process", and yet the
function is not marked as "throws". So what happens if I call it from Swift
an
oblem, since they'll just be
restored to the same values both times.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Quincey Morris <
quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2017, at 11:32 , David Catmull wrote:
>
>
> I am explicitly calling encodeRestorableState (in wi
Morris <
quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2017, at 10:09 , David Catmull wrote:
>
>
> I'm working on using encodeRestorableState/restoreStateWithCoder to save
> and restore the state of a window. (I'm doing this manually because I want
> t
I'm working on using encodeRestorableState/restoreStateWithCoder to save
and restore the state of a window. (I'm doing this manually because I want
to explicitly save my window state in the document and not just rely on the
OS restoring its state as part of restoring the application state.)
The pr
I'm trying to create a title bar resembling Xcode's, where toolbar-like
controls replace the standard window title in the area to the right of the
standard 3 buttons.
So far, I've added a title bar accessory view and set the window's
titleVisibility to hidden. But the results aren't quite right.
target.
Using an auto-generated header from another target is kind of a hack, but
it works, and it's the simplest solution so far, so I'm going with it for
now.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 2:16 PM, David Catmull
wrote:
> After converting some parts of my project to Swift, I've run in
thout that, I'm looking at two alternatives for the NSArray iterating
scenario:
- Rewrite the function that does the iterating, using Objective C so that it
doesn't do the type checking.
- Rewrite the function that creates the array, using Swift so that hopefully
the classes will match
OK, thanks. I wasn't thinking of bold being affected by row size, but I
guess it makes sense that it's going to reset the font entirely.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:46 AM, corbin dunn wrote:
>
> On Jun 10, 2016, at 7:58 AM, David Catmull wrote:
>
> I have a vie
I have a view-based, sidebar-style NSOutlineView. For some items, I want to
make the text bold. But if I change the rowSizeStyle to medium instead of
the default (in awakeFromNib), the text doesn't display as bold. If instead
I use a custom row size (in outlineView:heightOfRowByItem:) it works. Wha
about working with Affinity Designer.
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Quincey Morris <
quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2016, at 10:55 , David Catmull wrote:
>
>
> On OS X. I have an NSSegmentedControl in my xib, with my template images
> assigned to
On OS X. I have an NSSegmentedControl in my xib, with my template images
assigned to the segments by specifying the image names.
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Quincey Morris <
quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2016, at 07:51 , David Catmull wrote:
>
>
I'm trying to use PDF files as image templates for my segment controls, but
they come out too small.
I created them using Affinity Designer, adding the "Template" suffix. They
end up getting drawn at half size in my controls. I tried changing the
export DPI from the default (~144) to 72, but it ha
> On Apr 8, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Quincey Morris
> wrote:
>
> You could verify this by simply removing the target connection that’s causing
> the warning, and see if the action method still ends up in the right place.
As has been pointed out, removing the target connection in the nib also remove
On Apr 7, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Quincey Morris
wrote:
> I don’t actually know the answer to the original question, but I wonder if
> the problem is that (for a view-based table view) the cell view is archived
> in a separate NIB file that’s generated when the storyboard or XIB containing
> the tab
On Apr 7, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
>
> I’m curious about two things.
>
> (1) Which platform?
OS X 10.11.3
> (2) Is your view controller not a table delegate already?
I currently have the data source as the delegate, mainly because to me it makes
more sense to have the delegat
I have some buttons in my table cell views, and I wanted to set my view
controller as their target, but Xcode warns that such objects “may only be
connected to the table view’s delegate”. The things is, it works as is. Why
does Xcode want me to do it that way?
I plan to try refactoring to satis
> Are you sure a (rather small) sort indicator didn't appear in the column's
> header?
No, nothing appeared there either.
>> I’m trying to use the column highlight to indicate a view state unrelated to
>> sorting…
>
> Don't do that. Don't try to hijack features intended for one semantic for
Is setting the highlightedTableColumn property on an NSOutlineView supposed to
work? I’m expecting the column background to darken, but nothing seems to
happen.
Showing the column headers didn’t help (I normally have them hidden), and
neither did setting a sort key for the column. I’m trying to
How can I detect when a screen shot selection (cmd-shift-4) is in progress?
I have a custom window that I’m trying to make behave like a menu (it comes out
of a status item). Part of this behavior is dismissing it when the user clicks
on something else, which I detect using a CGEventTap. One cas
I'm working on a library for doing full-height toolbar items, like the center
status display in Instruments, Xcode, and iTunes. I'm not completely finished
yet, but I have reached a point where I'd like to share it. Feedback is welcome.
https://github.com/Uncommon/UUFullHeightToolbar
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> Also, I suspect that the docs you cite might be saying that you would
> subclass NSToolbar and implement that delegate method if you want to
> intercept it.
If I implement that method in a subclass, then it gets called with toolbar and
itemIden
The documentation for toolbar:itemForItemIdentifier:willBeInsertedIntoToolbar:
says that it's optional for nib toolbars, but it can still be used to "augment
functionality". My experience is that it actually doesn't get called at all in
the nib case, which isn't good because I want to know if my
As recommended, I used PDF images for some of my button icons with the
expectation that they would look nice on retina displays. They are nice and
smooth, but they're also scaled a bit smaller than on a regular display.
Example:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10822169/Screen%20Shot%202012-10-12%20at%20
Uli Kusterer wrote:
> In the old days, one could use Icon Services calls to change the icon used
> for a particular file type, that might even save you the renaming, but Icon
> Services is probably considered "old" API these days, and I'm not sure if
> changes to icons in your app using Icon Se
On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
> The good news is that these APIs often become public in later OS releases,
> especially if developers file bugs clamoring for them (hint hint).
Done: bug 10766939.
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On Jan 26, 2012, at 9:03 PM, Mark Alldritt wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to make a view-based Toolbar Item that occupies the
> full height of the toolbar (i.e. including the space normally reserved for
> the toolbar item's label). Xcode 4 does this for its "status" display, and I
> have a sim
Customize sheet. This leads me to suspect there's a relatively
non-messy way to implement this.
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<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6169255/is-it-possible-to-draw-in-the-label-area-of-nstoolbar>
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It's a rewrite of the GitX git client.
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ld be good for, but I can't figure it out.
I think there are basically two questions:
- What is the simplest way to adjust the text field's height to fit its content?
- How do (or can) I set up constraints so that the window and other controls
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them
programmatically, but that doesn't work if the group is empty. I could expand
it when I add children, but then I have to keep track of whether it's for the
first time or if I'm just refreshing. So how do I make my groups shown by
default?
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How can I make a toolbar item that takes up the full height of the toolbar,
including the space where the label would normally be? Simply setting the label
to an empty string doesn't seem to do it. I want to make something like Xcode
4's status display.
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ply to files in certain
locations, and it looks like I can only filter by file type. Is there no way to
filter by location too?
It looks pretty lame to have to let the commands always appear, and then tell
the user afterwards, "No, sorry, you can't really do this to that file.&
I'm looking a the MenuItemView sample code:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/MenuItemView/Introduction/Intro.html
This sample shows various views and controls in a menu, including an
indeterminate progress bar - but it doesn't animate (even though startAnimation
is called). I a
addObject:tag];
I discovered the answer as I was preparing to post my question on Stack
Overflow. It was yet another case of trying to anticipate all the obvious "did
you try this" responses, and finding the answer myself in the process.
On Jul 10, 2010, at 9:03 AM, David Catmull
x27;re not transient. This is
the first time I've had trouble with object relationships. What could be
causing it?
The project is on GitHub if you want to try it out:
http://github.com/Uncommon/Budget-Machine
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htt
I had a situation where I was accessing a C array from inside a block. It
worked fine until I upgraded to Xcode 3.2.3; then I started to get errors.
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On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Keary Suska wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2010, at 9:14 AM, David Catmull wrote:
>> ..so I take it the particular NSSet variant used by Core Data doesn't
>> support observing @sum. Or did I do that wrong?
>
> Yes, because you are trying to observe an e
etItems, but I'm struggling with the best way to do that.
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On Jan 18, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2010, at 2:43 PM, David Catmull wrote:
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>> Is there any way to make sheets open instantly, instead of animating? I'd
>> just like to speed up my unit tests.
>
> Why do your unit tests need to bring up
Is there any way to make sheets open instantly, instead of animating? I'd just
like to speed up my unit tests.
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opping the derived property approach
and using predicates that access the original date property directly.
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ple way to write a unit test that simulates closing an
reopening a Core Data document? I want to avoid actual file operations for the
sake of simplicity, but NSPersistentDocument does not implement the
dataOfType:error: method.
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of individual callbacks, and I worry that
that would be a bottleneck.
Recommendations? Other options?
Thanks,
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trigger and I can examine
the object in the debugger after the crash. It looks fine. The outline view's
_delegate and _dataSource still point to it, too.
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for that in the unit test and it was fine. When I run the app
normally everything works.
I create the document by calling [[NSDocumentController
sharedDocumentsController] openUntitledDocument:YES error:&e]. Is there
something else I need to do so that everything get set up correc
On Nov 4, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Matthew Lindfield Seager > wrote:
You may need to implement NSOutlineView's data source methods.
I considered that, but I'm hoping to avoid having to re-implement all
the stuff that already works in the normal table view/array controller
cas
to manage that is to use an
array controller.
I tried returning the array controller's arrangedObjects as the
children of a group object, but when items are added they don't appear
in the source view. I'm not sure where to go from there.
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