Re: Core Audio Help

2011-12-23 Thread Phil Hystad
, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> I have been reading the Core Audio documentation at the Apple Developer site >> and I am not sure I know any more today then when I started. Are there any >> Core Audio pro

Re: Core Audio Help

2011-12-23 Thread Phil Hystad
Thanks. On Dec 23, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Antonio Nunes wrote: > On 23 Dec 2011, at 18:44, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> Yes, I know of that "promised" book. It seems to have been in the works for >> a long time. I just checked Amazon and it says April 2012. Well, I

Re: Core Audio Help

2011-12-23 Thread Phil Hystad
On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> I have been reading the Core Audio documentation at the Apple Developer site >> and I am not sure I know any more today then when I started. Are there any >> Core Audio programmers on this list or is there a better spot.

Re: Core Audio Help

2011-12-23 Thread Phil Hystad
wrote: > "Beginning iPhones Game Development" (http://playcontrol.net/iphonegamebook/) > has a few chapters on Core Audio and OpenAL. > > HTH, > > Dave > > On Dec 23, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> Yes, I know of that "promised"

Re: Core Audio Help

2011-12-23 Thread Phil Hystad
; I have been eagerly waiting for Chris Adamson(sp) book or Core Audio, and my > Amazon order I think is around 2 years old now. I would look for his site and > talks at iDev360 and VTM because he is the best resource I found for > interesting stuff. > On Dec 23, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Phil H

Core Audio Help

2011-12-23 Thread Phil Hystad
I have been reading the Core Audio documentation at the Apple Developer site and I am not sure I know any more today then when I started. Are there any Core Audio programmers on this list or is there a better spot. Basically, I am planning to experiment with various DSP filters on an input aud

Re: iPad store ?

2011-09-12 Thread Phil Hystad
Thanks. I will look at that. PEH's iPhone On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Hunter Hillegas wrote: > There's an Enterprise program meant for internal deployments. > > http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/ > > On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Phil Hystad wrot

iPad store ?

2011-09-12 Thread Phil Hystad
This may be off-topic but I am not sure of the right forum. Is there any way to deploy an iPad app other then the AppStore? I don't mean for development testing or other temporary purposes. Situation is the development of an application for a particular customer who would use the app for speci

Initial project shell and handling of window pointer

2011-07-03 Thread Phil Hystad
I am not sure if this is a question for Cocoa-dev or for Xcode. I just started playing around with iOS 4 and Xcode 4. Learning the ropes of the new Xcode I see a difference in how the project templates are used to create a simple Cocoa window app in iOS versus Mac OS X. With iOS, the app deleg

Re: sending a message from an initializer method

2011-01-12 Thread Phil Hystad
You can do the following, in your implementation file create a local procedure and then call it from your init method. I did not bother copying your arguments but you define them in the regular way. -(void)myCalculation { // do the calculation } - (id) init { if ( self = [super init]

Re: Initializing a view controller...

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Hystad
Fritz... Thanks for the pointers to the documentation. I was going to get to reading it if I struck out here. I am really not lazy, just old. phil On Jan 10, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > On 10 Jan 2011, at 9:17 AM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> Is there a proper way to

Re: Initializing a view controller...

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Hystad
: > > On Jan 10, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> Is there a proper way to initialize a view controller. So far, I have been >> doing this in the application delegate by calling calling an initialize >> method ( i.e. [vie

Initializing a view controller...

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Hystad
Is there a proper way to initialize a view controller. So far, I have been doing this in the application delegate by calling calling an initialize method ( i.e. [viewController initialize]) in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method (prior to the view being added to the window and th

Re: Missing ??

2011-01-03 Thread Phil Hystad
or OS X, you want to add an object from the top set. > > On 04-Jan-2011, at 12:20 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> I just did it again. I create a new project, iOS View Application for iPad. >> Do an immediate build and it works and runs fine (with blank view of >>

Re: Missing ??

2011-01-03 Thread Phil Hystad
Jan-2011, at 1:47 AM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> I just started playing around with Xcode and Cocoa again and doing a few >> little iPad apps. When I add a class to the project, (simple NSObject based >> class) the .h file includes the import for . But, the build >> and co

Missing ??

2011-01-03 Thread Phil Hystad
I just started playing around with Xcode and Cocoa again and doing a few little iPad apps. When I add a class to the project, (simple NSObject based class) the .h file includes the import for . But, the build and compile fails because it says this header file is not found. This happens even i

Re: Threading and Event Queue Question

2010-08-03 Thread Phil Hystad
n of a guy at work whose answer led me to think that maybe Windows and Cocoa managed their run loops differently. That is why I asked the question. thanks for the comments. On Aug 3, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >>

Threading and Event Queue Question

2010-08-03 Thread Phil Hystad
I am not an experienced programmer in Cocoa -- I have only dabbled. But, I have a question with regard to how event queue (terminology may not be correct) is done differently then a windows platform. As an example, I noticed that each separate Tab of a Chrome browser instance is itself a separ

Re: Memory management on returning nil in init

2010-06-21 Thread Phil Hystad
7;t this instance be released? Alloc already did its > job if we get into init. On the other hand, we shouldn't call release, > because super wasn't initialized. So as of my (maybe limited) understanding > by now, doing the code after [super init] is the way to go. > > >

Re: Memory management on returning nil in init

2010-06-21 Thread Phil Hystad
Does this mean we don't get to find out what the ok variable is all about? If the ok variable has meaning then the code would be much better written as something like: -(id) initWithBool:(BOOL)ok { if ( !ok ) return nil; ...rest of code... } On Jun 21, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Eiko Bleicher

Re: iPhone/iPad: Desktop wallpaper can't be set.

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Hystad
I hope this feature is not supported. The last thing I want is some application changing my desktop background which is my choice, not one of the application. Yes, I know this can be done with some kind of dialog for approval but then that really stresses the logic of why you would want to do

NSString and Regular Expressions

2009-12-14 Thread Phil Hystad
I was sort of suspecting that regular expression matches would be supported by NSString yet I find no message interface for supporting regular expressions. So, is the only capability for handling regular expressions in Objective-C the Posix Regex library? phil phys...@mac.com

File system file renaming question...

2009-12-08 Thread Phil Hystad
This question is not specifically about Cocoa programming but I hope that some Mac OS X experts out there can give me an answer. I sent an attached photo to my daughter so that she could print it out using Costco print services. I sent it at high resolution, the photo image was 1.6 MB. It see

Neophyte Question: Connecting to nib objects

2009-10-19 Thread Phil Hystad
I am new to Cocoa and I am wondering how to do something that should be simple and obvious. Given that I have an object defined in the nib (aka xib), for example, an object that responds to a given view, what is the correct way for my running application (if it is in some other state, not

Re: Interface Builder Questions...

2009-06-28 Thread Phil Hystad
(3) Again, on the window sizing inspector, if I resize the window using the resize thingy in the lower right hand corner, I can see the updated pixel size in the inspector, but only after I stop resizing. If I want to resize to a particular dimension, say 300 x 225 (or, whatever), it is a

Interface Builder Questions...

2009-06-28 Thread Phil Hystad
I am new to Interface Builder and I am still trying to figure out some subtle details of how things work. And, my frustration level is growing because although I have access to a very rich set of documentation, a number of questions I have pondered are not answered. Some of these may be r

Re: Opinion on managed memory and garbage collection

2009-06-22 Thread Phil Hystad
with 20 years in C++, having to do my own memory management is certainly not a new thing for me. Though, I must admit, I do prefer GC languages and I much prefer Java over C++. phil On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:14 AM, WT wrote: On Jun 22, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: Being relatively

Opinion on managed memory and garbage collection

2009-06-22 Thread Phil Hystad
Being relatively new to Cocoa and Objective-C, what is the consensus on using the new version 2.0 managed memory features (garbage collection). If you were writing a new Cocoa application from scratch, would garbage collection be the preferred method over the reference counting (retain/re

NSLog ??

2008-12-19 Thread Phil Hystad
Why can't I find any reference page for NSLog? I believe I have searched all over all documentation that I have and the closest match is NSLogicalTest. I even tried a search using Spotlight on my entire system. I was able to find a usage of NSLog in a program but no documentation hits.

The Ages Old __MyCompanyName__ Question

2008-12-17 Thread Phil Hystad
OK, I am fairly new to Xcode and Cocoa programming and I want to change the __MyCompanyName__ template macro definition. So, I google this question, find answers, and try it out. It did not work. So, is there something different in today's Xcode that means the procedure for changing __MyC