Re: Open panel is permanently dead?

2010-02-19 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Tom Davie wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some problems with an open panel. I display the panel, allow the > user to chose and image, and then do some work, which involves showing a > sheet while the work is done. This all works wonderfully, until the user > clicks the

Re: Puppeting/Automating one application from another?

2010-02-16 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:31 PM, James Trankelson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out the general feasibility of the following task. > > Imagine I have two separate applications, running side by side. Is it > possible to take all of the mouse/keyboard inputs that are going into > one of these

Re: Crash while drawing cell in NSOutlineView

2010-02-13 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 13, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Trygve Inda wrote: >> Trygve Inda (cocoa...@xericdesign.com) on 2010-02-14 22:13 said: >> >>> In code based largely on Apple's SourceView, I am drawing by IconAndTextCell >>> and getting a crash... >>> >>> Anyone seen this and know what it might be? >>> >>> I have

Re: How to get small UISegmentedControl?

2010-02-13 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 13, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > Is there anyway to have smaller segmented controls besides the large ones > available in IB? I'm talking the size of the one in Settings->General for > Location Services. Any idea? Using Interface Builder's Attributes Inspector, set the

Re: UINavigationController inside a TabBarController

2010-02-12 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 12, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > I'm not sure what I'm missing but I know it must be big. I started the design > of a TabBar-style app and now, I want one of the view to be a navigation one. > I did drag a UINavigationController to my xib, put it inside the TabBarView > a

Re: Connected Objects being allocated

2010-02-12 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 12, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Donald Klett wrote: > Once again, I am not understanding some aspect of Objective C and/or Cocoa. > > I created a simple class that contains two NSTextField objects. I used IB to > connect the Controller object with the two text fields. The code follows. > This

Re: What classes have -init?

2010-02-10 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:23 PM, James Walker wrote: > I think at times I've written things like [[NSMutableArray alloc] init] with > no apparent ill effects, but now I notice that the docs for NSMutableArray > and NSArray don't say that there is an init method. The NSObject docs say > that an i

Re: Strange UIImageView error

2010-02-07 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
ion options . . .Otherwise it might be a corrupted image . . . Cheers, . . . . . . . .Henry > > On Feb 7, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Henry McGilton (Boulevardier) wrote: > >> >> On Feb 7, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Development wrote: >> >>> I am adding an imag

Re: Strange UIImageView error

2010-02-07 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 7, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Development wrote: > I am adding an image to a UIImageView and every time that I try to I get this > error: : invalid distance too far back\n > > and only about the top 10 lines of the image appear in the view, the rest is > black even though the image size is > co

Re: Touch: Non-rectangular Touch areas

2010-02-06 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 6, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Development > wrote: >> I really like the sound of this solution. I've never worked with CGPaths, is >> that anything at all like NSBezierPath? >> because it seems like this might be the way to go. Can I use an Im

Re: Touch: Non-rectangular Touch areas

2010-02-06 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
gt; > On Feb 6, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Henry McGilton (Boulevardier) wrote: > >> >> On Feb 6, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Paul Sanders wrote: >> >>> Perhaps you could use separate images and convert them to >>> monochrome, saving them as 1 bpp bitmaps (

Re: Touch: Non-rectangular Touch areas

2010-02-06 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 6, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Paul Sanders wrote: > Perhaps you could use separate images and convert them to > monochrome, saving them as 1 bpp bitmaps (aka masks). Memory > should not then be an issue. > > Paul Sanders. > > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Farmer" > To: "Jens

Re: Dealing with rotten nibs

2010-02-06 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 6, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Matthew Weinstein wrote: > It's associated with an NSDocument... > > On Feb 6, 2010, at 9:41 AM, edole...@gmail.com wrote: > >> is it assoc with a view controller class? >> >> -- >> Sent from the Verizon network using Mobile Email >> >> --Original Messa

Re: Showing a menu after a delay...?

2010-02-01 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Feb 1, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Eric Gorr wrote: > Strange, I just replied to Richard saying that my selector is not performed > until after the mouse button goes up. I can hold the mouse button down for > several seconds and not see the selector performed. > > Of course, this may actually be due

Re: How to enable/disable a UITextField or UITextView programmatically?

2010-01-13 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:22 PM, William Squires wrote: > I have a UITableView that's part of a Navigation-based Application. There's > one .xib, a DrinkDetailViewController class (.m & .h files) and an > AddDrinkViewController class which inherits from DrinkDetailViewController. > Both share the

Re: iPhone: validate a NSString for US zipcode

2010-01-07 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > I don't care about the city, just that the zip code will work. On an iPhone > testing against an array of 42,305 values... could that be pretty quick? > Seems like a large set to go through looking. I'm sending the value to a > webservice to re

Re: NSBitMapImageRep Woes

2010-01-06 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:21 AM, David Blanton wrote: > Here is the code: > > @interface MyDocumentView : NSView { > @public > > NSBitmapImageRep* m_NSBitmapImageRep; > NSRect m_frameRect; > float m_sz; > BBitmap

Re: NSDate without time portion

2010-01-05 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:43 PM, mmalc Crawford wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:35 pm, Kyle Sluder wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:23 PM, mmalc Crawford wrote: >>> An NSDate object represent a single point in time -- you can think of it >>> basically as a wrapper for an NSTimeInterval from th

Re: iPhone Creating a months view

2010-01-04 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Jan 4, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > >> I am creating an iPhone view that has 12 months of views in it starting with >> January. > > Don't make assumptions about calendars unless you are absolutely sure you can > get away

Re: NSImage

2009-12-31 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 31, 2009, at 2:26 PM, David Blanton wrote: > Given an array of color data (a generic bitmap) what is the best / fastest / > recommended method to convert this to an NSImage? Load your data into memory, create an NSBitmapImageRep from that pile of data, then make an NSImage from the NSBit

Re: Knowing mouse pressed time?

2009-12-30 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Gustavo Pizano wrote: > Henry hi. > You mean with the NEEvent method that returns the timestamp?... I was trying > that also, and as far as I understood its the timestamp between the App > startup and the event... so I dunno how this might help me... maybe I > mi

Re: Knowing mouse pressed time?

2009-12-30 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 30, 2009, at 2:53 AM, slasktrattena...@gmail.com wrote: > Simple. Start a timer on mouse down, invalidate it on mouse up. > Something like this (written in mail): > > NSTimer *timer; > > -(void)mouseDown:(NSEvent*)ev > { >timer=[[[NSTimer alloc] blah ...] retain]; > } > > -(void)mou

Re: Updating tracking areas Rect

2009-12-28 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 29/12/2009, at 4:00 AM, Joar Wingfors wrote: > >>> NSInteger i = 0; >>> while ([[self trackingAreas] count]==0) { >>> [self removeTrackingArea:[[self trackingAreas] >>> objectAtIndex:i]]; >>> i++; >>> } >

[iPhone] NSKeyedArchiver with NSValue Objects

2009-12-24 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
I bashed into a problem with NSKeyedArchiver trying to encode NSValue objects. I am using NSValue to wrap up CGPoint and CGSize structures, then doing an encodeObject: forKey: to encode the NSValue. I get this message: [NSKeyedArchiver encodeValueOfObjCType:at:]: this archiver canno

Re: Core Data Anomaly?

2009-12-23 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 23, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Richard Somers wrote: > In my application when I do the following something strange happens. > > Add a managed object to the store, save the file, then save the file as > another name. > > Upon saving the file with another name, core data will create and then > de

Re: Inspect Core Graphics Object

2009-12-22 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Richard Somers wrote: > How do you inspect or print the description of a Core Graphics object? There's no analogue to the -description method of Objective-C frameworks. Many of the specific Core Graphics types like CGColor and CGColorSpace and CGImage and CGFont h

Re: UIImage and shadows, WAS: Re: Please if some one knows

2009-12-21 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 21, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Development wrote: > Then I don't understand how to do this. > > Do I create the context at this larger size? because that's what I did. > Do I drawInRect the image at it's original size? Because that's what I did. > > As near as I can tell, no matter what I do, th

Re: double free error

2009-12-14 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > I was receiving malloc double free errors when a view removed itself, so all > of the releases I was doing in the view I commented out, the view killing > itself after it animates from visual view: > > - (void) killMe:(NSString *)animationID

Re: [COCOA] notification of enter/focus event?

2009-12-11 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 11, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Paxton Sanders wrote: > Sorry if this is a bit too basic, but... > > I want to know when the user exits edit fields, so I can check values and > provide immediate feedback. I'm using > - (void)controlTextDidEndEditing:(NSNotification *)aNotification > and it works

Re: Hang Initializing App

2009-12-11 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Joe Programmer wrote: > I made a similar post to the Xcode list originally, but it was suggested that > I redirect it to the Cocoa list. Here it is: > > I'm working with a Cocoa app compiling with gcc 4.0 in Xcode 3.2.1. Both the > debug and the release builds la

Re: Unable to write in InfoPlist.strings file from cpp

2009-12-10 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Manfred Schwind wrote: >> Be careful, though: Some MacOS versions have a bug where .strings files had >> to be UTF16 to actually work. I don't think Apple has fixed that yet. > > Do you have more specific information about that? > I consequently always used UTF-8 fo

Re: Bug with IB?

2009-12-10 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 10, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > If I create a UILabel in IB in a view & I place 1/2 of the label out of the > view at the top, I can't seem to drag the view window around by the title > bar where the label is. I know that having the control 1/2 out of the view > isn't normal

Re: Question about touchesBegan

2009-12-09 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Dec 9, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: > Is there a way to define the touchesBegan in an added sub view to > be constricted to a certain area and not allObjects? Thus leaving a "hole" > to allow touches to be fired on the view below? If I interpret your question correctly, you want t

Re: dynamic NSPointArray allocation

2009-11-28 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Nov 28, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Nov 27, 2009, at 14:58, Shane wrote: > >> I think I'm understanding this in part ... >> >> // *.h >> NSMutableData *pointData; >> NSPointArray *points; >> >> // *.m >> pointData = [[NSMutableData alloc] init]; >> >> .

Re: Custom Controls Where to start

2009-11-27 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Nov 26, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Sandro Noël wrote: > Thank you Alastair. > > Well it's pretty complicated, This is my third application, the first being > Bonjour Mounter, the Second RDP Launcher. > Others were created but never released. I've always used the OS's controls > but now I find myself

Re: CATransition for whole windows?

2009-11-23 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:33 AM, PCWiz wrote: > What I had in mind was a window vanishing effect for when the window is > closed (for example a fade out is easy to do with [[window animator] > setAlphaValue:0.0];) but something slightly more complex, such as the private > "suckEffect" transition

Re: question about informal protocols

2009-11-22 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Michael de Haan wrote: > >> Does the, in your opinion, "optional" addition pretty much replace >> categories as a whole, or is there still a role for them? > > It replaces informal protocols. There are many othe

Problem With Setting Badge via Interface Builder

2009-11-22 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
I wonder if anybody else has seen this particular end case. I googled for anything remotely like this problem and found nothing really relevant, and CocoBuilder is down right now. In a group learning situation last week, one of the people stumbled over a problem defining and then trying to un-defi

Re: UITextField in UITableView covered by keyboard

2009-10-24 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Bob Barnes wrote: Hi all, I posted this a yesterday, but it never appeared on the list and it's not showing up in the web archive so I thought I'd retry. I have a UITableView that contains some cells with UITextField's embedded in them. When I touch the U

Re: app delegate +initialize

2009-10-07 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Oct 7, 2009, at 8:39 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Perhaps that's what's tripping me up: bogus expectations. Here's what I have set up. In the xib file, the File's Owner delegate is set to an AppController instance (an object in the xib). The AppController has a +initialize method which ini

Re: UITabBar & UIActionSheet

2009-10-07 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Oct 7, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Luke the Hiesterman wrote: If you subclass UITabBar you can get the touches yourself and respond appropriately. Luke You can also set a delegate for the Tab Bar Controller and implement the - (void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController didSe

Re: Drawing a graph & testing ranges

2009-09-15 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Sep 15, 2009, at 5:20 AM, Graham Cox wrote: On 15/09/2009, at 10:07 PM, Mark Bateman wrote: if I have a value of x= 10,000 y = 211.2 and an envelope of 9500, 200: 13000, 211: 14000,214: 9500,214 can i use NS range to check if the original coordinates are inside the bou

Re: coding NSNumber in NSArray?

2009-09-14 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Sep 14, 2009, at 9:11 AM, jon wrote: I thought i had read that NSNumber knew how to code itself in an NSArray... is this not the case? or is this code below just set up all wrong? and what would the proper way be to set this up? bookMarkNode's coders are below, this object has the

Re: Circular references

2009-09-13 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Sep 13, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: We already know the cause and the solution: MyViewController.h imports MySubview.h, and MySubview.h imports MyViewController.h. The standard C header preprocessor trick does not help in this situation, and neither does import. The solution

Re: Drawing Text in an NSImage

2009-08-27 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Seth Willits wrote: drawAtPoint/drawInRect in NSString/NSAttributedString says... "You should only invoke this method when an NSView object has focus." "Don’t invoke this method while no NSView is focused." When an image is focused, and you draw text, it'll defi

Re: Drawing text into a UiView

2009-08-25 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Aug 23, 2009, at 10:57 PM, J J wrote: I'm trying to write an app that will page through text .. I'm trying to grab the text, find out how much with fit on a page, write the text to a view (page), then perhaps paginate the pages around it onto other views to be ready as needed. Anyone ha

Re: NSMutableArray initWithCapacity and insertObject:atIndex

2009-08-09 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:59 PM, Adam Gerson wrote: I would like to insert objects out of order into an NSMutableArray. I create the array with NSMutableArray* cards = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:5]; initWithCapacity simply makes an array large enough to contain that number of ele

Re: [iPhone 3.0; XCode 3.1.3] Question about when views are available for manipulation.

2009-08-09 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Aug 8, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Brian Bruinewoud wrote: Hi, I'm a little confused about how this code works: MyController *myController = [[ myController alloc ] initWithNibName: @"myView" bundle: nil ]; [[ self navigationController ] pushViewController: myController animated: Y

Re: [iPhone 3.0] UIImage startAnimating -- how to tell when it's finished?

2009-08-08 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Aug 8, 2009, at 6:09 PM, John Michael Zorko wrote: Hello, all ... I load a UIImageView with an array of PNG images, and call startAnimating -- this works very well. However, I need to know when the animation is done, because I need to have a thread load the next animation. Unfortun

Re: Cahnging bgColor of a UIView not working.

2009-07-29 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Jul 29, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: This is good to use: #define UIColorFromRGB(rgbValue) [UIColor \ colorWithRed:((float) ((rgbValue & 0xFF) >> 16))/255.0 \ green:((float)((rgbValue & 0xFF00) >> 8))/255.0 \ blue:((float)(rgbValue & 0xFF))/255.0 alpha:1.0] cell.textCol

Re: where can I download xcode 3.2

2009-07-29 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:22 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:38 AM, YongLi wrote: I have installed the snow leopardbut i can't find the download link of xcode 3.2 1. This is cocoa-dev. This list exists for the discussion of Cocoa, not for downloading seeds or other non-Cocoa

Re: Beginner Question Re: Memory Management

2009-06-22 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Jun 22, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Daniel Torrey wrote: I'm looking at some sample iPhone code, and in the app delegate's applicationDidFinishLaunching method, I see // Set up the view controller MyViewController *aViewController = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"HelloWorld"

Re: NSInterger Infinity?

2009-06-18 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote: agreed. the reason i asked is because i saw this snippet of code: repeatCount = 1e100f; and i just though that seems awfully ambiguous and hoped for something a little more universal. Nothing ambiguous at all --- it's about 2 * 10 ^ 82 times th

Re: Scaling an entire CGPath?

2009-04-22 Thread Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)
On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Maryanna Rogers wrote: This path will never be drawn. ~m On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:23 PM, David Duncan wrote: On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Maryanna Rogers wrote: I need to take a CGPath (a set of lines, curves, etc.) and scale the entire thing as a whole.