Re: Two text fields, one outlet?

2010-04-04 Thread Jenny M
Thanks everyone! Your answers helped, it's what I thought, I was just overthinking things. > You can certainly bind any number of UI objects to a single property of an > object. > > Specifying an IBOutlet is only necessary if you want to create a connection > and can only be connected to one thi

Two text fields, one outlet?

2010-04-03 Thread Jenny M
Is it possible to link multiple NSTextFields to one outlet? I have three views - one of A items, one of B items, and one of both A and B items. So the text boxes in the A view also exists in the A&B view, and the value needs to be able to appear in both, though not at the same time. I have a method

Re: Creating WebView in code

2010-04-02 Thread Jenny M
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > There's one more thing. WebView loads requests asynchronously, so you need to > block while it is loading the request and laying out the page while taking > some time out to run the run loop. So do something like this: > AHA! Thank you, it

Re: Creating WebView in code

2010-04-02 Thread Jenny M
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > That's most likely Flash Player at work, since it's been known to do this. To > work around it, install a dummy SIGINT handler function that does nothing. > See the signal man page for details. > Yup, you're right. That was just something I

Re: Creating WebView in code

2010-04-01 Thread Jenny M
> Not an NSRect, but you can get an NSSize from [[NSPrintInfo sharedPrintInfo] > paperSize]. From that, you can build an NSRect with that value for the size > and NSZeroPoint for the origin. > Great, I'm testing that method now. I get everything built alright, but during the print operation (whi

Re: Creating WebView in code

2010-03-30 Thread Jenny M
Hi Nick... On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: >> Is it possible I could create it in a xib file and keep it invisible, >> and handle closing programmatically so it's not a waste of memory? > > Yes. > Okay... how? I can uncheck "visible at launch," then how do I control the vi

Creating WebView in code

2010-03-28 Thread Jenny M
Hi all, Going back a bit to my printing problem (http://groups.google.com/ group/cocoa-dev/browse_thread/thread/ cbf57025f0c2a7e0/99d39008358da90b), I'd like to call print on a WebView which loads a locally-generated HTML file that is created specially when my print function is called. So I'd like

Re: Printing an NSDocument

2010-03-19 Thread Jenny M
to know you're here! Thanks, Jenny On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Scott Anguish wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Jenny M wrote: > >> Sorry, no answer, I'm just having a similar issue. I need to print >> columns of text, and all the examples I see indicate a ma

Re: Manually adding objects to NSArrayController

2010-03-18 Thread Jenny M
Ahhh, thank you, that helped! What I did was add an NSArray property (though it could've been NSMutableArray), then called setValueForKey, and bound the ArrayController to that array. And it works great. Jenny On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Scott Anguish wrote: > Modify the model, not the con

Re: Printing an NSDocument

2010-03-18 Thread Jenny M
Sorry, no answer, I'm just having a similar issue. I need to print columns of text, and all the examples I see indicate a manual creation and placement of EACH line of text in an NSRect inside the view. ... Is there really no better way to place objects in the view? Jenny On Mar 18, 12:47 pm, B

Manually adding objects to NSArrayController

2010-03-18 Thread Jenny M
Hi all, I'm having a problem adding the appropriate objects to an NSArrayController. For some strange object model reasons, I will probably need to set this by hand, but I'm having issues. Back to my silly object discussions... before, it was about an NSTreeController which I did get resolved, but

Re: Stuck on NSTreeController bindings

2010-02-24 Thread Jenny M
eeController passing in the Alpha.Beta.Deltas array, then reload the > outlineview. Take the the binding for the tree controller though. I think > that the way that you have your model set up it won't work through > bindings. But I'm not totally sure. > > > --- > Mark Townsend

Re: Stuck on NSTreeController bindings

2010-02-24 Thread Jenny M
e said, this will never be true as the Alpha > objects are your top level objects. > > Alpha (parent == nil) > | > |->Beta (parent == Alpha) > | > |->Delta (parent == Beta) > |->Delta (parent == Beta) > > --- > Mark Townsend > http://www.markltow

Re: Stuck on NSTreeController bindings

2010-02-17 Thread Jenny M
eb 17, 7:22 pm, Jenny M wrote: > My objects are chained like: > Alpha (multiple) -> Beta (one) -> Delta (multiple) (delta has > references to itself via parent and children relationships) ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple

Stuck on NSTreeController bindings

2010-02-17 Thread Jenny M
Hi all, I have a collection of entities I'd like to display in an NSOutlineView with an NSTreeController. My issue is, I don't know how to set the bindings. All examples I've seen are where the Tree Controller contains ALL entities of a type. I need just a set of them, but nothing I've tried to se

Re: If Array Controller is empty, how to populate pop-up list?

2010-01-17 Thread Jenny M
Hi Ken, Thanks for your tips. We're closer I think. I took off the Selected Index binding and instead bound the Selected Value to ArrayController-selection-name. I'm probably binding it wrong though, because I haven't quite gotten it to work yet. I think what you say makes sense, about the select

Re: Adding to-many objects programmatically

2010-01-15 Thread Jenny M
When I tried to use the getter/setter, I get a build warning that says the NSManagedObject may not respond to that method. I noticed in the documentation, they're referring to the entities themselves - Employee and Department. I don't use custom classes, just the data model, so I've been referring

Re: Adding to-many objects programmatically

2010-01-15 Thread Jenny M
I've been setting it using key-value coding: [object setValue:mySet forKey:categories] so far, so that's good to know I'm on the right track. Though at the moment I am apparently having difficulties comparing strings, because I can't get my log messages to appear in the console hmm. Okay, duh,

Adding to-many objects programmatically

2010-01-15 Thread Jenny M
Hi all, I need to add a set of default objects to my core data store when the application is launched for the first time. (I store the properties for these objects in the app's plist.) The two objects (Types and Categories) are both to-many relationships - one type has many categories, and one cat

Re: If Array Controller is empty, how to populate pop-up list?

2010-01-14 Thread Jenny M
Like I mentioned previously - when I do that, it stays there even after an object has been added, which is not what I'm aiming for. I only want it to appear when empty. In your content binding for the popup button in Interface Builder, check the > "Inserts Null Placeholder" checkbox and enter a v

Re: If Array Controller is empty, how to populate pop-up list?

2010-01-14 Thread Jenny M
Cancel Message #2 - I figured out how to change the selected object. I added one more binding - I bound the NSPopUpButton "Selected Index" to "ArrayController.selectionIndex". However, message #1 still stands - how do I implement a placeholder object only when the array is empty??

Re: If Array Controller is empty, how to populate pop-up list?

2010-01-14 Thread Jenny M
Uhh, okay so there's another problem I discovered. Below the popupmenu, I have two text fields that are supposed to show two of the attributes of the selected object (in the array controller). But changing the selection in the popupmenu does NOT change the selected item in the array controller. How

If Array Controller is empty, how to populate pop-up list?

2010-01-14 Thread Jenny M
Hi all, I have an Array Controller whose objects are displayed in an NSPopUpButton. I can add and remove objects, and they refresh automatically in the box as expected. However, what can I do if the array controller becomes empty? If I delete all the objects, or if the window starts up with an em

Re: Table object not selected on launch

2010-01-12 Thread Jenny M
Empty Selection" checkbox in IB for the arraycontroller. Works great now.. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Jenny M wrote: > When my application launches, I have a custom BackgroundView that takes the > role of first responder. Within the main window, I have a NSScrollView that > con

Re: Table object not selected on launch

2010-01-12 Thread Jenny M
e sqlite query, then you can dump out of the > method. > > Regards, > > Phil > > > On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:28 AM, Jenny M wrote: > > When my application launches, I have a custom BackgroundView that takes the > role of first responder. Within the main window, I have a NSScroll

Table object not selected on launch

2010-01-11 Thread Jenny M
When my application launches, I have a custom BackgroundView that takes the role of first responder. Within the main window, I have a NSScrollView that contains core data objects in an NSArrayController. I want the objects to load in the table on launch, but I don't want any objects to be *selected

Re: Custom sheet question - which variable?

2010-01-11 Thread Jenny M
Thanks guys, I think I am understanding this more now. A few more questions... You can do whichever you like. I tend to wander objects up and down my > various controller and delegate chains as I write code because where I think > I want it, I sometimes don't want it. Ask yourself this, what is t

Re: Custom sheet question - which variable?

2010-01-11 Thread Jenny M
Oooh... okay, that helps... I haven't loaded yet, so I'm not sure what to put in it. In the MyObject XIB file, I manually set File's Owner to be the custom NSWindowController subclass, not AppDelegate. But, I'm trying to open the sheet from the AppDelegate class. Is that possible? It's possible I

Re: Custom sheet question - which variable?

2010-01-11 Thread Jenny M
> Learning your way around the documentation takes awhile, but do it whenever > you can. In your Xcode documentation window, in the search field at the top > right, type "Sheet Programming Topics". You'll get a wonderful document > which will explain many things you can't figure out by following

Re: Custom sheet question - which variable?

2010-01-10 Thread Jenny M
t; (called in the example you refer to) what type it should be: > > - (void)beginSheet:(NSWindow *)sheet modalForWindow:(NSWindow > *)docWindowmodalDelegate:(id)modalDelegate > didEndSelector:(SEL)didEndSelector contextInfo:(void *)contextInfo > > Thus, myCustomSheet is an instance of NSWi

Custom sheet question - which variable?

2010-01-10 Thread Jenny M
Hi, I have what may seem like a very stupid question about custom sheets. I am following this Apple dev tutorial: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Sheets/Tasks/UsingCustomSheets.html and I'm looking at this piece of code here: if (!myCustomSheet) //Check t