Re: Stupid objective-c question

On 23 Sep 2016, at 9:49 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote: > > Are you sure? I only learned Cocoa when it came to OS X, but my impression > was that, while KVC came from NeXT, KVO arrived with bindings … that would > have been 10.3 or 10.4-ish? As I remember, when KVO was introduced, it was framed as a b

Re: Launching iOS 10 supported build using Xcode 7

On 9 Sep 2016, at 11:25 AM, Devarshi Kulshreshtha wrote: > > We have a thoroughly tested build on iOS9 using Xcode 7 swift 2.2, we are > planning to release it on 16th of this month, since iOS10 will be released > on 13th wanted to know that can we still release the build (iOS10 > compatible) u

Re: C callbacks with NSNotificationCenter?

“dangerwillrobinsondanger” correctly points to Core Foundation. I’m embarrassed to have forgotten — it should be very helpful to you, assuming it mixes with AVFoundation. > On 7 Sep 2016, at 11:33 AM, じょいすじょん > wrote: > > Have you considered Core Foundation? > > https://developer.apple.com/l

Re: C callbacks with NSNotificationCenter?

> On 7 Sep 2016, at 11:09 AM, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: > > As a C programmer I'm trying to avoid Objective C whenever and wherever > possible. > The good thing is that I can do most interaction with Cocoa from normal C > functions. > I only had to write very few classes. Most of the Cocoa stu

Re: UIStackView: Variable Spacing

Confirming that your concern is now Auto Layout overhead? --- Long, long ago, when there were no iPads or Auto Layout (2009?), the scrolling-performance session at WWDC said if your cells had nontrivial subview trees, and the table was stuttering, bite the bullet and start aggregating subview

Re: NSAlert and threading

On 23 May 2016, at 4:14 PM, Tom Doan wrote: > > I have an menu operation which, before it fully executes, pops up > an NSAlert asking a Yes/No question ("Selection Only(Y/N)?") then, > depending upon the answer will either apply to the whole list or just > the selection. However, no matter wha

Re: All threads in app periodically blocked

On 23 May 2016, at 1:37 PM, Seth Willits wrote: > > I'm telling you guys I used every skill I could think of, staring at zillions > of system calls in traces etc, and in the end all I needed was a little luck > and it was all due to a simple copy & paste error. and Seth was enlightened.

Re: How to stop an Application being Activated

On 7 Apr 2016, at 11:35 AM, Dave wrote: > > Is it possible to stop an application being activated, I mean, if an attempt > is made to make an application active it is somehow intercepted by another > application? I gather you hope to write the second application — the one that wages a denial-

Re: Proper target for table cell view buttons

On 7 Apr 2016, at 11:04 AM, David Catmull wrote: > > 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 w

Re: question about last used date

> On 14 Mar 2016, at 10:39 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > Unix filesystems do keep a last-accessed date for files, but it looks like > NSFileManager doesn’t expose an attribute for it. You can call stat() and get > the st_atimespec field of the result. NSURL *Resource* methods can get at NSURLCont

Re: 32-bit / 64-bit roadmap

On 21 Jan 2016, at 10:45 AM, Aandi Inston wrote: > > So far as I can see, all recent Mac OS systems are 64-bit on 64-bit > hardware and can run an app shipped in 64-bit only. And 32-bit continues to > run fine. > > But what about the future? Perhaps we can only speculate about whether > 32-bit a

NSXMLDocument & friends coalesce runs of spaces to one

I need to calculate offsets into a Word document XML (.docx) archive using two methods: Counting characters in NSAttributedString’s interpretation, and the text nodes (etc.) of the document XML itself. The offsets have to match. They don’t, mostly because of the way the parser treats runs of spa

Re: AVMetadataItem key

This is embarrassing… On 4 Oct 2015, at 5:39 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > > func OSTypeFor(code: UInt32, >encoding: UInt = NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding) >throws -> String > { >let codePtr = UnsafeMutablePointer.alloc(1) >codePtr.initializeFrom([code]) >

Re: AVMetadataItem key

On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:59 PM, Jan E. Schotsman wrote: > > Sorry for this stupid question but I just don't know how to do this. > > I have an AVMetaDataItem with > key = protocol? Int32(1851878757) > as shown by the debugger > > How can can extract the value 1851878757 which is the four char code

Re: Swift generics, circular type declarations, and segfaults, oh my!

On 3 Sep 2015, at 8:55 AM, has wrote: > Stuck and looking for ideas here. I need to define a base class whose methods > vends instances of its subclasses (thus enabling chained method calls; your > basic query builder). I’m assuming Swift 1.2. The following works in an OS X 10.10 playground:

Re: Referring to self in property initializer

On 14 Aug 2015, at 8:47 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > > So, adding lazy lets it work with the closure (makes self available to the > closure): > > lazy varbackgroundSession : NSURLSession= > { ... > > I really wish you could do lazy let foo = I don't see why the l

Re: How to implement NSSplitViewDelegate methods in an NSSplitViewController subclass

Speculation: This may be like the -window property of NSWindowController. Accessing it is the recommended way to force the controller to instantiate the window, even if you don’t care about the result. In this case, _you_ may not care what super’s NSSplitViewDelegate methods do, but NSSplitView

Re: NSManagedObject, NSString property retain vs copy

On 30 Jul 2015, at 11:03 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: > It seems Apple is using retain rather than copy for NSString properties in > an NSManagedObject subclass. > > I was always under the impression that copy should be used for NSString, so > why the retain?? For an immutable string, -copy is implem

Re: Unable to connect IBOutlet in Swift Xcode 7b2

[The thread is a week old, so it may have gone stale…] On 7 Jul 2015, at 1:58 AM, Rick Mann wrote: > >> >> On Jul 6, 2015, at 23:22 , Kyle Sluder wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015, at 07:57 PM, Rick Mann wrote: >>> On Jul 6, 2015, at 17:54 , Charles Srstka wrote: I’ve occasio

Re: Scary Stuff!

On Jun 18, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2015, at 4:46 PM, Britt Durbrow > wrote: >> >> WHAT?!?! No! You gotta use ROT13! ;-P > > One pass? Reckless. I use eight. Sent to the list in erro

Re: Scary Stuff!

On Jun 17, 2015, at 4:46 PM, Britt Durbrow wrote: > > WHAT?!?! No! You gotta use ROT13! ;-P One pass? Reckless. I use eight. — F ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator com

Re: Disabling auto-synthesis of property accessors.

On 22 May 2015, at 7:49 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > @property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *thing; > Another chore in porting this code: The retention attribute should be copy, not strong. If you needed to track changes in the string, you'd use strong, but NSStrings don’t mutate; NSMutableSt

Re: Disabling auto-synthesis of property accessors.

On 21 May 2015, at 12:27 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2015, at 12:11 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote: >> Jens mentioned that it was possible to turn off the auto-synthesis of >> properties in the build options of the target. >> >> This would be quite useful to help me iron out items that n

Re: Proper way to perform a task in the future on iOS 7 and 8

On 4 May 2015, at 1:29 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > > Since the app is already receiving location updates in the background, does > it make sense to check if the current time is > than the expiry timestamp > within a location manager update? It makes so much sense to me that I don’t know why I’d

Re: Spinning the busy indicator

On 1 May 2015, at 12:53 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > > So, the docs say (ha! here we go again…) that the default QoS is > NSOperationQualityOfServiceBackground. This appears to be the LOWEST QoS > constant. However, it also states that it is only used if the NSOperation > itself doesn’t set this va

Re: Bindings across view controllers in OS X storyboards

On 28 Apr 2015, at 6:54 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > I have a window made up of a couple of NSSplitViewControllers and custom view > controllers. It's mostly a master-detail type of thing, where the selected > item in the first split sets up the second, and a selected item there sets up > the third

Re: Submitting App Localization Issue...

It would be helpful to know what the unhelpful message was, and at what stage of the process it came to you. Also, what exactly are you doing for localization? — F > On Apr 21, 2015, at 5:32 PM, Peters, Brandon wrote: > > I am getting an error in iTunes Connect for my App pertaining to

Re: Why is NSString.UTF8String unavailable in Swift?

> On 21 Mar 2015, at 11:10 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > >> On Mar 21, 2015, at 8:43 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: >> >> If you convert between String and NSString a lot, it’ll have performance >> implications (which is why bridging to NSString just to get -UTF8String >> isn’t really a good idea).

Re: NSButton (radio button) not calling action when overlapped by invisible NSButton?

On 10 Mar 2015, at 5:01 PM, Aandi Inston wrote: > The dialogs are frequently very complex, with areas showing different > groups of controls according to context. Individual controls are > shown/hidden by the higher level code to make this work. Radio buttons are > naturally implemented as an NSB

Force a find in an NSTextView

Target OS X 10.10. How does a view controller force an NSTextView to perform a search if it doesn’t own the text view? My application is a debugging tool to break an attributed string into style runs and display the runs in a table. I’d like to double-click a row in the table, and select the

Re: Instantiate NSString from NSURL in Swift

On 23 Feb 2015, at 8:18 AM, Juanjo Conti wrote: > > I'm translating some code from Objective-C to Swift and in the middle of > that, i found this problem. > > theUrl is an instance of NSURL > > theUrl.host?.lowercaseString > > compiles ok. > > But > > NSString(string: theUrl.host?.lowercaseS

Re: Datatypes still not recognized after adding bridging header...

On 19 Feb 2015, at 9:59 PM, Peters, Brandon wrote: > I added a bridging header so that I could use the FMDB Objective-C code in > Swift. However, the compiler still says it cannot recognize the datatype. > Under Swift Compiler -> Code Generation I added the bridging header there. Is > there so

Re: Convert to NSString from

On 6 Feb 2015, at 12:04 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > No one's used MacRoman encoding since the OS X transition, except for a few > slow-moving legacy codebases. … and some Adobe PDF embedded fonts. — F ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@li

Re: iOS 6.x vs iOS 8.x layout

You guess correctly. It's a very large subject, and a mailing list is no place for a tutorial, but here's a direction: Do not learn auto layout as if you has a gun to your head. Do not rush. Do not poke constraints in one-by-one until they seem to be working; it'll take hours to dig yourself ou

Re: Is the button group in Safari a general widget ?

On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:20 AM, Aaron Lewis wrote: > I've seen a lot of apps like Safari. 5 buttons in the bottom > > Is that a common widget? I couldn't find it on google (Notes ~ “widget” doesn’t have the same meaning in iOS/OS X frameworks that it does on other platforms. You mean “control.”

Re: setApplicationIconImage:

On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:07 AM, Steve Mills wrote: > -setIcon:forFile:options: still sounds like your best bet, because it will > make a lasting change. Although it's too bad that Apple didn't allow this > method to take an .icns file as well as an image. That would've made it the > perfect solut

Re: URLByResolvingBookmarkData not case sensitive

On 5 Jan 2015, at 10:11 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: > > I am using URLByResolvingBookmarkData . > > If I make a Bookmark to a file: > > /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Documents/MyFile.txt > > and later resolve it with URLByResolvingBookmarkData, I get the original path > as expected. > > Then if I change

Re: Issues with applications running on background (Alarm Application)

> On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Claudio Maximiliano Edison Bastos Iorio > wrote: > > soundName property is OK, and allows to use any embedded sound. But there’s > no way to load any custom view dispatched right from the LocalNotification, > at least no with a previous user interaction. > > I’v

Re: WTF is happening?

I can be dense. Do I understand correctly that - You have an application that ideally should run continually. - It accepts plugins that provide one or more classes. - Those classes must at least observe a protocol; otherwise there would be no sensible way to use them. - They must have unique n

Re: Swift Interface vs Implementation

On Nov 22, 2014, at 1:27 AM, Richard Charles wrote: > Perhaps it is just me, but it is not uncommon for my source file to have many > more methods than what is in my header. So for me it is not the replicated > code in the header file that is a negative but rather it is being forced to > defin

Re: NSPersistentDocument, Export (Save As) and wal/shm

On Nov 14, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Richard Charles wrote: > I just checked my OS X application (Xcode 6.1, Objective-C source, 10.10 SDK, > running on 10.9.5). When doing a save as the new document also appears on > disk with external journaling files (shm and wal). That is nasty, very > distasteful

NSPersistentDocument, Export (Save As) and wal/shm

OS X application, Yosemite (host and target), Xcode 6.1, all-Swift. If you duplicate (save-as) an existing document, the new document appears on disk with external journaling files (SHM, WAL). It is impossible to state how undesirable this is without descending into sarcasm. The solutions I’ve

Re: updating NSTextField before spinner animates

On 12 Nov 2014, at 2:58 AM, sqwarqDev wrote: > Thanks for this Fritz. I think I get it. I need to get a clearer idea of how > the run loop works. This isn't the first time I've been confused about why a > line doesn't appear to return the result I expect before the next line > executes. I supp

Re: updating NSTextField before spinner animates

On 11 Nov 2014, at 4:15 AM, sqwarqDev wrote: > I have an NSTextView, whose string I want to update while I wait for another > method to complete. Since this method is going to take around 10-30 seconds, > I'm displaying a spinner progress indicator. > > However, I want the text field to updat

Re: Weak linking

On Nov 7, 2014, at 5:54 AM, Satyanarayana Chebrolu wrote (slightly more appropriate to xcode-users): > > The app is getting crashed when we launch it on 10.5 and 10.6 machines saying > that “dyld: Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSTableCellView”. > > Understand that NSTableRowView, NSTableCe

Re: Can an use introspection to determine if its a production app from the App Store?

On 31 Oct 2014, at 6:40 AM, Charles Jenkins wrote: > > My day job is programming in C# for Windows computers. I was really excited > when Swift came out because it’s so similar to other languages I know well > and use and admire. I’ll take this as the root theme of your message. Many of your

Re: Closing window on Yosemite crashes (isFlipped)

I haven’t encountered this myself. This is stream-of-consciousness, adding the presence of convertRect:toView: in the trace as the immediate caller… … The classic cause of a message arriving at the wrong object is that the expected object had been deallocated and its address recycled for the ob

Re: NSComboBox in the tab ring

On 18 Oct 2014, at 11:14 PM, Luther Baker wrote: > > Is it possible to keep an NSComboBox in the tabbing ring if I set its > "Behavior" to "Selectable". Tabbing reaches the control if the textfield is > editable but I don't want to allow the user to type randomly into the text > field ... but unf

Re: Expected identifier or '(' and other errors occur after copying working code to a second machine

A shot in the dark… What are the line endings of the files (LF [UNIX/Mac], CR [legacy Mac], CRLF [Windows/Internet protocols]), and how are they set in the Text Editing panels of the Preferences window in the respective machines? Inconsistent line endings have confused Xcode in the past, partic

Re: Mac containment segues, and prepareForSegue

On 28 Oct 2014, at 2:47 AM, Roland King wrote: > >> >> On 28 Oct 2014, at 11:40 am, Fritz Anderson wrote: >> >> I'm glad of the correction. >> >> Yes, I am speaking exactly about the "relationship" link between the window >> in a

Re: Mac containment segues, and prepareForSegue

... of the _view_ controller. ― F > On Oct 27, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > > the contents of the vote controller ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator

Re: Mac containment segues, and prepareForSegue

I'm glad of the correction. Yes, I am speaking exactly about the "relationship" link between the window in a window controller scene and the view in the view controller as provided in the template's Main.storyboard. I think it absurd that there is no obvious way for a document class that loads

Mac containment segues, and prepareForSegue

This is Yosemite, in Swift under Xcode 6.1. The summary: I don’t understand NSStoryboard containment relationships. I’ve never received a prepareForSegue(_, sender:), and without it, I can’t figure out how to propagate data from a document into its views. This is completely elementary. I can’t

Re: Bad EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION on drawRect call in Swift

[Usual disclaimer about incomplete information.] On Aug 22, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Peters, Brandon wrote: > I am getting this error: > > EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (code=EXC_I386_INVOP, subcode 0x0) > > over this line of code: > > if self.contentView!.frame.size.width > photo.size.width { >

Re: What is the modern Cocoa way to send an Apple Event to yourself?

On 22 Aug 2014, at 10:40 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > This is a very strange idea. Cocoa applications do not do this; they just > call straight into NSDocumentController. Even if they want to be recordable? — F ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Coco

Re: True Type Fonts

On Aug 9, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Raglan T. Tiger wrote: > I will find out about the licensing issue, but we are not changing or making > a derivative. Just to be clear: Preparing a derivative font is _one_ way to breach the license, but not the only, or even the primary, way. The core issue is tha

Re: NSAlert & NSOpenPanel on a background thread

On 22 May 2014, at 10:54 AM, edward taffel wrote: > i find no mention of thread safety in the NSOpenPanel doc, but the doc > mentions ‘Open panels are drawn in a separate process by the powerbox’: > perhaps this is the reason. This is one of those rules so universal in Apple APIs that it is ne

Re: How to check if file exists?

On May 10, 2014, at 2:06 PM, William Squires wrote: > If I have an NSString that contains a filename (and possibly a path, as typed > on the command-line), how can I check to see if the specified file actually > exists? [ code fragment that collects a string representing a file name (not an a

Re: Creating selector for nonexistent method

On 29 Apr 2014, at 9:29 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: > int main (__unused int argc, __unused const char **argv) { >@autoreleasepool { >NSArray *array = [NSArray new]; #pragma clang diagnostic push #pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wselector" > array = [array sortedArrayUsingSelect

Re: cocoapods: Problem with loading nib for a NSWindowController

Oh, also, HFS+ is case-sensitive in iOS, lacking NSWindowController though it be. (Is it HFS+? I’m too eager to get out the door for me to check.) — F On 18 Apr 2014, at 5:30 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > To be less Hermetic… case-sensitivity has been an option in HFS+ installat

Re: cocoapods: Problem with loading nib for a NSWindowController

To be less Hermetic… case-sensitivity has been an option in HFS+ installation for many, many years. I think you’d be ill-advised to pick it, as I am confident that there is a large codebase that inadvertently depends on case-insensitivity. (That is, the developer sometimes opened "Polish.dat",

Re: NSTask: how to launch a binary as if I launched it via terminal?

On 14 Apr 2014, at 10:08 AM, Colas B wrote: > OK. > > But without the simple quotes, it also fails. > > With the quotes, the error is > /bin/bash: pico /Users/colas/myfile.txt: No such file or directory > Without the quotes, the error is > Error opening terminal: unknown. > > Thanks! > Le Lund

Re: Automatically resize parent view when subviews resize

On 13 Apr 2014, at 11:01 PM, Lorenzo Thurman wrote: > I have an NSView with two subviews (A & B) placed horizontally with respect > to each other. The subviews can take a variable number of uniformly sized > subviews. I’ve placed these constraints on subviews A & B, (all done in IB): > (They sh

Re: Excessive open gui graphics files on Mavericks

(The attribution chain is wrong, because I’m coming to this after the message that raised libcramfs.) It’s remarkably hard to get an answer to this, so I may be talking through my hat: Does this involve linking libcramfs.a into the binary you distribute? Have you published the source of your a

Re: Memoryleak in SpriteKit?

On 9 Apr 2014, at 9:58 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > Frankly, I don’t even know what that memory-usage graph in Xcode’s debugger > pane is showing. I’ve found that “memory usage” is a slippery concept in a > modern OS, and unless you know exactly what you’re looking at, it’s easy to > draw the wrong

Re: To find if a file is fragmented

On 8 Apr 2014, at 9:19 AM, Nick Rogers wrote: > I just need to know, if a file is fragmented or not. I don’t need the frags > details etc. > Its for showing extended info about the selected file, like whether it is > fragmented or not. > > Is it possible with out raw reading the volume (for it

Re: error details in a NSAlert

On 6 Apr 2014, at 2:52 PM, Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote: > I want to display some text indicating a list of errors the user should > correct before submitting data. > > I am using a modal NSAlert in which i set a message with a localised string > from a table. > > I want to include the error

Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 11, Issue 170

On 29 Mar 2014, at 2:42 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > Oh, thank you! My googling turned up all sorts of stuff for the "old" > accessors, but I couldn't find anything about this. I wish they'd generate > the stubs like they used to. > > On Mar 29, 2014, at 09:11 , Rick Aurbach wrote: > >> Rick, >>

Re: Ordered to-many relationship CoreDataGeneratedAccessors

On 29 Mar 2014, at 3:11 AM, Rick Mann wrote: > I'm getting > >-[WireSegment replaceObjectInNodesAtIndex:withObject:]: unrecognized > selector sent to instance > > When I try to send that message. This is one of the > "CoreDataGeneratedAccessors", for an ordered to-many relationship. I don

Re: Understanding Application crash

On 25 Mar 2014, at 12:48 AM, Appa Rao Mulpuri wrote: All of this depends on your being able to produce the exception at least once. I agree that this is easier said than done. > Exception type is: > > ERROR 2014-03-22 08:21:59 +0530 An uncaught exception occured > Name: NSUncaughtSystemExcepti

Re: EULA presentation requirements?

On 10 Feb 2014, at 10:25 PM, rick.langschultz wrote: > Doesn't [EULA] stand for end-user LICENSE agreement, aren't such licenses > prohibited per the clear language in the agreement as outlined? My rule, if > you have a question about it, don't. I must not be clear on your meaning. First, t

Re: bouncing icon in dock

On 12 Mar 2014, at 12:15 PM, iseecolors wrote: > I do override sendEvent:, but I don’t see how that would matter. Begging pardon, but I’d think your next move is to see whether it _does_ matter. If you saw that something in your code would matter in causing a bug, you’d have fixed it already,

Re: NSArray's objectAtIndex compiles to objectAtIndexedSubscript?

On 7 Mar 2014, at 6:54 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > My code calls -[NSArray objectAtIndex:]. I compile it with Xcode 5.0.2 on OS > X 10.9.x Mavericks in a project with the target's Base SDK set to 10.9 and > the OS X Deployment Target set to OS X 10.7. It works fine when I run it on > OS X 10.9

Re: secure uitextfield is not secure

On 5 Mar 2014, at 1:17 PM, Luther Baker wrote: > I'm generally a big fan of Cocoa Touch - but why does the "secure" option > on a UITextField still display the character you are typing? Touch keyboards offer almost no user feedback compared to physical ones. The keys on the iPhone keyboard are,

Re: tableView - message sent to deallocated instance

On 25 Feb 2014, at 2:39 PM, Pax <45rpmli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This is a really weird problem (in my view, anyway), because it only occurs > in a very particular set of circumstances. My application is NSDocument > based (just in case it makes a difference), and my application uses ARC.

Re: NSNumber : method to return pointer to represented value

On 21 Feb 2014, at 6:12 AM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: > I require an pointer to the value represented by an NSNumber. (Assuming “value represented” means @1 -> 1, @HUGE -> HUGE.) > No interior pointer exists as the class is immutable. Immutability isn’t the point. The point is that the cla

Re: Changes in -performSelectorOnMainThread: from iOS 6 to 7?

On 12 Feb 2014, at 1:29 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > I think you misunderstand my question. I know about the new concurrency > types. I'm not interested in that. I want to know why my old code works > better on iOS 7 than 6. Given that the new concurrency method goes back a couple of years (iOS 5),

Re: Changes in -performSelectorOnMainThread: from iOS 6 to 7?

On 11 Feb 2014, at 6:04 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > I'm updating an old project that was built long ago, skipping udpates for iOS > 5 & 6. One of the things my app does, in an NSOperation, is call > -performSelectorOnMainThread: (waiting until done) as it integrates > downloaded data into the Core

Re: EULA presentation requirements?

On 10 Feb 2014, at 7:36 PM, SevenBits wrote: > What's funny is that Xcode - distributed through the Mac App Store - does > show a license screen at first launch. This would mean that Apple is > breaking its own rules, if in fact that clause means what you say. Old Latin aphorism, which has appli

Re: Core Data : Synchronizing objects with SQLite file

On 7 Feb 2014, at 3:58 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > Executing an ‘update’ query with another program upon the SQLite file, I > changed a different attribute of the problem object. Upon re-executing the > fetch request in lldb, the problem object was now a fault. I then sent > [myObject foo], w

Re: Getting QuickLook to work with NSDocument

On 8 Feb 2014, at 5:32 AM, Pax <45rpmli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get QuickLook preview to work with NSDocument - much as in the > QuickLookDownloader example provided by Apple. > > I thought I had it all set up correctly - > > #import > > @interface Document : NSDocument QL

Re: What iOS device?

On 31 Jan 2014, at 12:45 AM, KappA wrote: > I came across this the other day. Have you already looked at this? > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448162/determine-device-iphone-ipod-touch-with-iphone-sdk Very strange that nobody (until I did) noticed that if you want to convert from one un

Re: Legal Opinion on GCUndoManager

On 31 Jan 2014, at 11:46 AM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Jan 31, 2014, at 09:32 , Fritz Anderson wrote: > >> I can’t offer legal opinions or advice (retirees from the bar are >> particularly forbidden to do so) … > > I can’t help asking: Was the retirement volunt

Re: Xcode 5 & Obj-C++

On 30 Jan 2014, at 4:14 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > And C++ partisans would tell you that many of these things are limitations of > the usual C++ runtimes, not the language itself, but I'm not aware of any > current runtimes that avoid them. For reference, see

Re: Legal Opinion on GCUndoManager

On 29 Jan 2014, at 11:24 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > > On 2014 Jan 29, at 13:03, Keary Suska wrote: > >> unfortunately it [GCUndoManager] is not App Store safe … as it relies on a >> private method call for proper NSDocument change tracking… > > I just spent the last half hour studying this

Re: Non-breaking hyphen in UILabel?

On 24 Jan 2014, at 2:19 AM, Rick Mann wrote: > Thanks. That certainly works, but I found the trick: set the line break mode > for the whole thing to "word," and put in the non-breaking hyphen using the > Special Characters palette. I see there is such a thing as a nonbreak hyphen (U+2011) but

Re: IOBluetoothDeviceSelectorController and NSImage compositeToPoint

On 21 Jan 2014, at 3:52 AM, Livio Isaia wrote: > when I call (self is NSObject > [deviceSelector beginSheetModalForWindow:[self window] modalDelegate:self > didEndSelector:@selector(browseEnd: returnCode: contextInfo:) > contextInfo:NULL] > > in the output window appears > > *** WARNING: -[

Re: Resizing Detail View of UISplitViewController

nd probably unacceptable to the App Store reviewers. — F -- Fritz Anderson fri...@mac.com Xcode 5 Start to Finish: Available April 2014 from Addison Wesley ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post

Re: How is my CFRunLoopTimer getting called during a CFReadStream client callback? ANSWER

you’re wrong, or that Apple shouldn’t spend resources on solving the problem, but it is a problem to which I see no easy solution. (And anyway, the current system is lucrative for me.) — F -- Fritz Anderson fri...@mac.com Xcode 5 Start to Finish: Available April 2

Re: Auto Layout with NSSplitView, NSScrollView

On 4 Jan 2014, at 1:38 PM, thatsanicehatyouh...@me.com wrote: I like your user name. > I have a couple of questions about using auto layout (AL) with NSSplitView > and NSScrollView. I have watched the (excellent) WWDC videos from 2012, but > am having problems. > > I'm trying to implement an N

Re: NSShadow with [bezierPath addClip]

On 31 Dec 2013, at 6:15 AM, Leonardo wrote: > In my NSView subclass, I have to draw an image within a bezierPath and apply > an NSShadow to the result. > So within the drawRect: method I add > > [bezierPath addClip]; > [mImage drawInRect:inRect fromRect:fromRect > operation:NSCompositeSo

Re: DockTile sample code, Principal class is "DockTile" ?

On 28 Nov 2013, at 5:13 PM, Eden wrote: > In Apple's "DockTile" sample code there is a an app and a dock tile > plug-in. > > In the DockTilePlugIn-Info.plist, the "Principal class" is valued as > "DockTile", but there is no such class-- the class in the source code is > "DockTileP

Re: UISlider with custom images & narrow thumb

On 21 Nov 2013, at 8:36 AM, John Spicer wrote: > I'm trying to get a UISlider working with custom images. I've gone through > the docs, and I know how to set the images. > The question (and the problem) is a little different. > > Our design department has given us a thumb image that is wide at

Re: NSTextTable with only certain text selectabled

On 21 Nov 2013, at 10:55 AM, Andrew Arrow wrote: > How do I make a drag select on a NSTextView with an NSAttributedString > that contains a 2 column NSTextTable, only select the text in the 1st > column? > > You can see a video of the mac app skype doing this here: > > https://dl.dropboxusercon

Re: NSArray firstObject?

On Dec 22, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Trygve Inda wrote: [Quotes the documentation that says -[NSArray firstObject] is available since Mac OS 10.6.] > This seems to be an error in the docs as the method does not seem to exist > for me. I didn't see the method at all in the docs until I drew upon a ve

Re: AutoLayout and and views not appearing after segues.

On 10 Dec 2013, at 1:41 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > Using the controls at the bottom-right of the Storyboard canvas, set the > idiom to iOS 7. Open the Assistant editor and choose Preview. See what > happens as you fiddle around with orientation and screen size, again with > those

Re: AutoLayout and and views not appearing after segues.

On 10 Dec 2013, at 8:58 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > I've just run across a nasty behaviour where with AutoLayout on iOS 7, > sometimes a view will not appear at all after a segue. > > The scary thing is that this is intermittent, and will either happen all the > time for a build or never for a

Re: ToolTips for Matrix Cells

On 3 Dec 2013, at 9:45 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > Possibly this does not work because there is actually only [one] cell > instance? But, whatever the reason, if this requirement is important enough > for you to write some extra code, you could try defining tool tip rects on > the matrix. I t

Re: Best way to put a fixed view in a UITableViewController scene?

On 26 Nov 2013, at 12:53 AM, Rick Mann wrote: > On Nov 25, 2013, at 21:11 , Luther Baker wrote: > >> Maybe I am missing something - but I just created a new Tab based project >> and dropped a UITableView directly on the FirstViewController, under the >> "View" node in the expanding tree. If I r

Re: Stale xib files

On Nov 17, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Roland King wrote: > No I'm not sure that it is. Appstore updates really do blow things away and > start over. I'm not sure that anything less than that does that. Has that changed? At WWDC 2012 (as I remember), one of the big features of iOS 6 was that so long as

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