Re: Exception getting shared font panel

2011-08-22 Thread P Teeson
was corrupted? Was it just a matter > of elimination? Binary search? > > On 22/08/2011, at 11:02 PM, P Teeson wrote: > >> >> Does your user have a corrupted Font? >> I had something somewhat similar with FreeSans.ttf and LibreOffice. >> Took a while to tr

Re: Exception getting shared font panel

2011-08-22 Thread P Teeson
On 2011-08-22, at 5:11 AM, Gideon King wrote: > I've had a report from a user of the following segv exception on 10.7.1: > > Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread > 0 com.apple.CoreText 0x7fff94955f89 > _ZL39CTFontDescriptorsCopyAttributesInternalPK9__CFArrayPK7__CFSetjb

Re: Find network mounted DVD's

2011-04-19 Thread P Teeson
Thank you for your thoughts. On 2011-04-19, at 11:08 AM, Michael Dautermann wrote: > On Apr 19, 2011, at 10:52 AM, P Teeson wrote: > >> Thanks for your suggestion. >> I did look at all the sample projects and know about that approach. >> But it does seem somewhat in

Re: Find network mounted DVD's

2011-04-19 Thread P Teeson
Thanks for your suggestion. I did look at all the sample projects and know about that approach. But it does seem somewhat inelegant. Am I missing something available using IOKit? On 2011-04-19, at 9:36 AM, Michael Dautermann wrote: > On Apr 18, 2011, at 10:35 PM, P Teeson wrote: > >&g

Find network mounted DVD's

2011-04-18 Thread P Teeson
In an app I am working on I have the below code to detect physical DVDs attached to the computer. io_iterator_t dvdDeviceList; CFMutableDictionaryRef classesToMatch; kern_return_t result = KERN_FAILURE; // Get an iterator for all DVD devices classesToMatch = IOServiceMatching(kIODVD

DVDInitialize() and "Program exited with status value:45"

2011-03-17 Thread P Teeson
Environment: SL 10.6.6, Xcode 3.2.4 This sample project, built for SDK 10.5, runs in release mode. But in debug mode the call to DVDInitialize(), results in a "Program exited with status value:45". From the searches I've made this seems to be because of DRM issues. This is usually attributed to

Finding network mounted DVDs

2011-03-09 Thread P Teeson
In my app I want to find all mounted DVD volumes, including those mounted from other Macs on my network. The reason is that I want the user to be able to choose the one they want. Here is the code I am using to find them (based on the CDROM sample from Apple): kern_return_t FindEjectableDVDMedia

Re: Report writer for Cocoa?

2009-01-16 Thread P Teeson
On 16-Jan-09, at 11:48 AM, Robert Claeson wrote: On 16 Jan 2009, at 14:09, Jon C. Munson II wrote: I've been a DB developer for many years, albeit on the PC side. Report writing was usually part of the tools, or, something easily found elsewhere in the PC world. Not so easily found on the M

Xcode and Cocoa docs and the Preview sidebar TOC

2008-08-07 Thread P Teeson
I recently installed Leopard 10.5.4 and Xcode 3.1.1. Reading the docs launches Preview by default. To see the TOC one opens the sidebar. However I can't get it to open on the lhs of the doc - only the rhs. Yes I tried moving the window to the rhs of the screen and then opening it. Which is

Re: [SOLVED] NSButton alternate image problem - not redrawing

2008-07-19 Thread P Teeson
But the correct solution is: [cell0 setAlternateImage:theBlankImage]; // send messages via IBOutlet [cell0 setState:NSOffState]; // Added this line [cell0 setEnabled:YES]; Because it's a Toggle button and was in the ON state after being clicked. We can learn something every day if we're not v

Re: [SOLVED] NSButton alternate image problem - not redrawing

2008-07-18 Thread P Teeson
I solved it - thanks for not replying so I had to find out for myself. Seriously I appreciate it because I read more in Cocoa Drawing Guide and learned quite bit. respect Peter On 17-Jul-08, at 1:19 PM, P Teeson wrote: I posted about this issue but so far only one response. For the

Re: NSButton alternate image problem - not redrawing

2008-07-17 Thread P Teeson
I posted about this issue but so far only one response. For the full details please see earlier in this thread. This is a summary: Initially the button has blank icons for both image and alternate image. User clicks on button, action method is called, in that method a different alternate image

Re: NSButton alternate image problem - not redrawing

2008-07-16 Thread P Teeson
On 16-Jul-08, at 1:03 PM, Gary L. Wade wrote: Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11, Xcode 2.5, G4 867mhz I am making a Cocoa Application kids game using NSButtons. They are of behaviour Toggle and of type Square Button and the icon position is centred (i.e. no title) and each button has a unique tag and is e

NSButton alternate image problem - not redrawing

2008-07-16 Thread P Teeson
Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11, Xcode 2.5, G4 867mhz I am making a Cocoa Application kids game using NSButtons. They are of behaviour Toggle and of type Square Button and the icon position is centred (i.e. no title) and each button has a unique tag and is enabled. The icon images are in the nib file and

Re: Adding a new type of NSButton

2008-06-25 Thread P Teeson
On 25-Jun-08, at 6:37 PM, Hamish Allan wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:01 PM, P Teeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What appealed to me about the NSButton was it maturity as an interface item and I wanted to take advantage of that. This is a double-edged sword: I for one would f

Re: Adding a new type of NSButton

2008-06-25 Thread P Teeson
On 25-Jun-08, at 4:13 PM, Kevin Elliott wrote: On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:12 PM, P Teeson wrote: Environment is Mac OS X 10.4.11 Xcode 2.5 I need a new type of NSButton/NSButtonCell that I am calling an NSLatchButton. Once it is pushed it stays pushed - pushing it again does not revert it

Re: Adding a new type of NSButton

2008-06-25 Thread P Teeson
On 25-Jun-08, at 3:21 PM, Marco Masser wrote: Once it is pushed it stays pushed - pushing it again does not revert it back to unpushed state. You could simply hook up an appropriate kind of a standard NSButton to an IBAction that disables the button. That way, you can't click it anymore and

Re: Adding a new type of NSButton

2008-06-25 Thread P Teeson
On 25-Jun-08, at 3:22 PM, I. Savant wrote: I need a new type of NSButton/NSButtonCell that I am calling an NSLatchButton. Once it is pushed it stays pushed - pushing it again does not revert it back to unpushed state. (Of course there would be a method to set it to it's unlatched state but

Adding a new type of NSButton

2008-06-25 Thread P Teeson
Environment is Mac OS X 10.4.11 Xcode 2.5 I need a new type of NSButton/NSButtonCell that I am calling an NSLatchButton. Once it is pushed it stays pushed - pushing it again does not revert it back to unpushed state. (Of course there would be a method to set it to it's unlatched state but p

Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-18 Thread P Teeson
begin rant: Oh me oh my the poor newcomers to Cocoa. Sorry folks back in the days of 360 mainframes there were manuals and they were inscrutable. But if you took the Winston Churchill aproach and spent some blood, sweat, toil and tears you would probably become a 1/2 decent assembler langua

Where to set values for initWithFrame:..... in my NSMatrix subclass

2008-05-07 Thread P Teeson
Using Mac OS X.4.11, Xcode 2.5 on PPC In my project I have sub-classed both NSMatrix (e.g FooMatrix) and NSButtonCell (e.g. FooButtonCell). The designated initialiser for FooMatrix is -(id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frameRect mode:(int)aMode cellClass:(Class)classId numberO