You probably should be using @synthesize instead
For modeled Core Data properties, @dynamic is better.
- Ben
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Rick,
There's a difference in NSDocument parlance between "save", "save as",
"save to", and "auto save". None of those things are "saves
automatically, after a timer or notification"
You can easily implement "saves automatically". Apps like iCal simply
save at the end of the event, pigg
On Jul 19, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Paul Sargent wrote:
While you're right I would return different objects if I was called
twice, I'm not. As I understand it the Outline View will only ask
for objects when it knows the data has changed (e.g. after a
reloadData or reloadItem call) at which point i
On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
I realize after all this, it's not really the Dot Syntax I need. I
need to know how a property name (starts with lower-case letter) is
transliterated into the getter/setter names.
The dot syntax uses the getter and setting specified for the pro
On Jul 19, 2008, at 11:51 PM, Brian Hughes wrote:
How do I track down the cause of an infinite loop in my drawRect
method.
Have you tried putting a breakpoint in it?
Are there any other custom views in your view hierarchy, and if so,
what do *their* -drawRect: methods look like? One possib
I'm writing a preference pane which uses a timer added to the current
run loop in the mode NSDefaultRunLoopMode.
It seems that 10.4.x systems can't find this symbol with a dyld link
error at load time, and the preference pane fails to load on 10.4.x
systems. Works fine on 10.5.x.
My prefp
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Matt Connolly
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm writing a preference pane which uses a timer added to the current run
> loop in the mode NSDefaultRunLoopMode.
>
> It seems that 10.4.x systems can't find this symbol with a dyld link error
> at load time, and the prefe
On 20 Jul 2008, at 09:02, Ken Thomases wrote:
On Jul 19, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Paul Sargent wrote:
While you're right I would return different objects if I was called
twice, I'm not. As I understand it the Outline View will only ask
for objects when it knows the data has changed (e.g. after a
On Jul 20, 2008, at 5:25 AM, Paul Sargent wrote:
wasn't really expecting the view to keep a cache at all. I was
expecting it to request the item each time it wanted information
about it (in which case an returning an autoreleased object seemed
reasonable).
It may not have been your inte
Le 20 juil. 08 à 10:33, Ken Thomases a écrit :
On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
I realize after all this, it's not really the Dot Syntax I need. I
need to know how a property name (starts with lower-case letter) is
transliterated into the getter/setter names.
The dot syntax
Within MyDocument's isDocumentEdited I have code to determine whether
MyDocument is edited and return the BOOLean flag accordingly.
I then discovered that the only way to set the window's "dirty" flag was to
*explicitly* call [window setDocumentEdited:editedFlag] within other methods
by duplicatin
Still struggling with documentation!
Simple task. I have two text fields (text1 & text2) and all I'm
trying to achieve is to put into text2 a number specifying how many
characters there are in the text in text1.
I started with:
[text2 setStringValue:[text1 stringValue]];
..just to make s
Try using
[text2 setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", [[textField1
stringValue] length]]];
Using setIntValue on a text field won't set the text field's
stringValue to be a string from that int.
Tim
On 20 Jul 2008, at 12:56, Phil Faber wrote:
Still struggling with document
On 20/07/2008, at 9:56 PM, Phil Faber wrote:
Still struggling with documentation!
That might be because the documentation makes the reasonable
assumption that you already know how to use C and Objective-C.
Simple task. I have two text fields (text1 & text2) and all I'm
trying to achi
Normally you "tell" a document that it is edited in one of two ways -
either a) by maintaining an Undo stack in which case it "just works",
and b) by calling -updateChangeCount: The method you mention is a
lower level method that is not meant to be overridden, as far as I'm
aware. If you us
You can also use a formatter (which can be set up in IB) that allows
you to call setIntValue: on a text field and have it display something
sensible.
Not sure if that will help or hinder, but it's there FWIW,
hth
Graham
On 20 Jul 2008, at 10:12 pm, Tim Isted wrote:
Try using
[text2 se
On 19-Jul-08, at 22:42:05 , Marcel Weiher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Jul 19, 2008, at 18:34 , Ian Joyner wrote:
On 19/07/2008, at 11:36 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
The universe of programming languages extends far beyond this little
island of ALGOL-lookalikes. Objective-C messaging syntax
On Jul 20, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Tim Isted wrote:
Try using
[text2 setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",
[[textField1 stringValue] length]]];
Using setIntValue on a text field won't set the text field's
stringValue to be a string from that int.
I believe this is incorrect. Try s
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:28 AM, lajos kamocsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems that in order to add an opaque type (for example CFPathRef) to an
> NSArray it needs to be wrapped into an object. What's the best way of doing
> this?
I assume you mean a CGPathRef. That's a CFType, and all CFT
On Jul 20, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
The dot syntax uses the getter and setting specified for the
property in the @property declaration. As documented[1], if you
don't explicitly supply getter or setter names in that directive,
it defaults to the property name for the get
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Le 20 juil. 08 à 10:33, Ken Thomases a écrit :
>
>> On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
>>
>>> I realize after all this, it's not really the Dot Syntax I need. I need
>>> to know how a property name (starts
Le 20 juil. 08 à 16:31, Clark Cox a écrit :
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le 20 juil. 08 à 10:33, Ken Thomases a écrit :
On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
I realize after all this, it's not really the Dot Syntax I need.
I need
Thanks! (I did mean CGPathRef..)
-lajos
On Jul 20, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:28 AM, lajos kamocsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
It seems that in order to add an opaque type (for example
CFPathRef) to an
NSArray it needs to be wrapped into an object. What
Hi everyone.
I am trying to execute a ruby script from within a Cocoa application.
I want to use NSTask (any better ideas?).
My scripts outputs its progress by printing single lines on standard
out containing percentages (e.g. "15%"). How can I update my
application continuously depending
Hi All,
I have run a number of searches and cannot find any documentation nor
examples for putting an image in a table column header. I tried
setting the table header column cell to an NSImageCell but that failed
fabulously. It seems that I need to sub-class NSTableHeaderCell and
draw the
Hi again,
I hate answering my own question but I did figure it out. I sub-
classed NSTableHeaderCell then created an instance using
initImageCell. Then it occurred to me that it seemed a bit silly. If I
can init an image cell, maybe I can just set the cell. So, create an
outlet to the colu
Hi
I'm looking for a simple example that will show me how to do an http
POST with user and password in cocoa.
All I want to do is send some text to a php script but it expects the
see the user and password and I'm not sure what classes to use and how
to set them up.
I've looked at a num
Le 20 juil. 08 à 19:54, Marc Respass a écrit :
Hi again,
I hate answering my own question but I did figure it out. I sub-
classed NSTableHeaderCell then created an instance using
initImageCell. Then it occurred to me that it seemed a bit silly. If
I can init an image cell, maybe I can jus
On Jul 20, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
Le 20 juil. 08 à 19:54, Marc Respass a écrit :
Hi again,
I hate answering my own question but I did figure it out. I sub-
classed NSTableHeaderCell then created an instance using
initImageCell. Then it occurred to me that it seemed a
Le 20 juil. 08 à 19:55, Richard Nichols a écrit :
Hi
I'm looking for a simple example that will show me how to do an http
POST with user and password in cocoa.
All I want to do is send some text to a php script but it expects
the see the user and password and I'm not sure what classes to
Thanks for all of the replies. I do use the debugger, but even with the
debugger I couldn't figure out why it is looping.
Obviously, there is something I am not understanding which is why I am writing
to cocoa-dev.
I also removed the NSLog statement but it is still looping. I can't see it in
I'm trying to make a stopwatch application, and I'm having trouble
getting the Timer to fire, and then having the Text field being updated.
Here's the code:
AppController.h
@interface AppController : NSObject {
IBOutlet NSTextField *textField;
NSTi
Thank you for the link,
I'm missing something, how do I get the user and password information
inserted?
As a little additional information, I'm trying to talk to a php script
that has an API similar to Twitter.
So I need to have user password and UTF8 text.
It should be simple but I've b
I'm trying to make a stopwatch application, and I'm having trouble
getting the Timer to fire, and then having the Text field being
updated.
Here's the code:
The essential part is missing: the method in which you are updating
your text field.
- (IBAction)startWatch:(id)sender
{
I have Wants Core Animation Layer checked in IB on my view, and when I
do, my view subclass' drawRect doesn't get called. Is there any way to
have it also called (preferably after CA draws my layers)?
Mostly this is just for experimentation, so I can draw while figuring
out how to convert m
Hi all,
I'm struggling with "receivedData is declared as a method instance
elsewhere" in this explanation of NSURLConnection delegation:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/URLLoadingSystem/Tasks/UsingNSURLConnection.html
When I declare the receivedData as NSMutableData in t
On Jul 20, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
On Jul 20, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
Le 20 juil. 08 à 19:54, Marc Respass a écrit :
Hi again,
I hate answering my own question but I did figure it out. I sub-
classed NSTableHeaderCell then created an instance using
I am using Core Data syncing which uses its own managed object context
to apply sync changes. In the pulling stage, my application's managed
object context's mergeChangesFromContextDidSaveNotification method is
getting called. However, the application has some array controllers
that are lis
Thanks to all who helped me with this challenge of obtaining the
number of characters in a string.
On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:12, Tim Isted wrote:
Try using
[text2 setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", [[Field1
stringValue] length]]];
Using setIntValue on a text field won't set the
Thanks. That solved many issues.
However, I still have another question.
How about if I wanted the Timer to start at from 0, and then go to
1, 2, 3, etc..., not from January 1st like -
timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate does? I tried doing
timeIntervalSinceDate:, but it wouldn't work, and
tim
AFAIU accessing UI elements from within an NSThread is a big no-no.
So in the following naive code I would have to either wrap the calls
to the progressIndicator object through a performSelectorOnMainThread
or could send NSNotifications to update it on the main thread. But
looking around th
On 20-Jul-08, at 3:40 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
I have Wants Core Animation Layer checked in IB on my view, and when
I do, my view subclass' drawRect doesn't get called. Is there any
way to have it also called (preferably after CA draws my layers)?
No.
If you're using layer-backed views (you
receivedData should be an instance variable of the class that contains
the code in Listing 1 - Creating a connection using NSURLConnection.
often an instance of that class is also used as the delegate (which is
what this example code is assuming)
the code for these snippets really needs to
On Jul 20, 2008, at 11:43 PM, JB Ashton wrote:
Hi all,
I'm struggling with "receivedData is declared as a method instance
elsewhere" in this explanation of NSURLConnection delegation:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/URLLoadingSystem/Tasks/UsingNSURLConnection.html
Wh
AppKit stuff isn't thread safe. AppKit stuff is usually the user
interface stuff (like Progress bars) So that should be run on the main
thread, something like:
> [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(convert)
> toTarget:self
> withObject
Thanks, guys.
-m
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Kyle Sluder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Ken Thomases <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> -[NSApplication setApplicationIconImage:] to set the dock tile.
>
> Also take a look at NSDockTile, which is Leopard-only. It doe
Hi everyone. I am interested to create a window with status bar at its
bottom. Hmm, you can see Xcode editor window as an example, once we open a
.m source file, the editor window has a status bar at its bottom. When click
the build and run buttom, you can see the prompt information from Xcode
show
Hi, I've been playing with WebKit, and I've written a Cocoa app that
brings up a site in a WebView. That was easy, but now I'd like to go
to a site with a form and have the Cocoa app fill in the form fields
and submit the form. Can anyone point me to documentation on how to
programmatically fill i
You'll need to use the DOM API. Either from the ObjC API, or another
language such as javascript.
On 20 Jul 2008, at 17:39, Diop Mercer wrote:
Hi, I've been playing with WebKit, and I've written a Cocoa app that
brings up a site in a WebView. That was easy, but now I'd like to go
to a site wi
On Jul 20, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Torsten Curdt wrote:
AFAIU accessing UI elements from within an NSThread is a big no-no.
There are exceptions, but that's a good rule of thumb.
Here are Apple's specific guidelines: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Multithreading/ThreadSaf
On 21/07/2008, at 6:26 AM, Phil Faber wrote:
On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:16, Ron Fleckner wrote:
Still struggling with documentation!
That might be because the documentation makes the reasonable
assumption that you already know how to use C and Objective-C.
You're not recognising the differe
On 20 Jul '08, at 9:37 AM, Yann Disser wrote:
I am trying to execute a ruby script from within a Cocoa
application. I want to use NSTask (any better ideas?).
You can use the Ruby C API to run Ruby inside your process, but that's
definitely more work.
My scripts outputs its progress by pr
On 20 Jul '08, at 11:53 AM, Richard Nichols wrote:
As a little additional information, I'm trying to talk to a php
script that has an API similar to Twitter.
So I need to have user password and UTF8 text.
Does the website support HTTP authentication? That's the preferred way
to interact w
On 19 Jul '08, at 8:10 PM, Cloud Strife wrote:
Hi everyone. I am interested to create a window with status bar at its
bottom. Hmm, you can see Xcode editor window as an example, once we
open a
.m source file, the editor window has a status bar at its bottom.
In Interface Builder, just move
On 20 Jul '08, at 9:39 AM, Diop Mercer wrote:
Hi, I've been playing with WebKit, and I've written a Cocoa app that
brings up a site in a WebView. That was easy, but now I'd like to go
to a site with a form and have the Cocoa app fill in the form fields
and submit the form. Can anyone point me
On 19 Jul '08, at 5:00 AM, Gang Chen wrote:
I am new to Cocoa and Mac dev, and I want to make a simple
dictionary program with Cocoa on MacOSX. Can anybody help and tell
me how to get any words on screen where cursor points in Cocoa?
I'm not exactly sure how the built-in Dictionary app doe
On 19 Jul '08, at 1:53 PM, Ashley Perrien wrote:
am having no luck with getting the custom view within the drawer to
redraw except by closing and reopening it. I throw setNeedsDisplay:
YES at it from everywhere I can think of and it just won't redraw.
Usually when something like this happe
On Jul 16, 2008, at 16:23:23, David Duncan wrote:
Can't really say what you are or are not seeing here, I'd probably
have to see code. If this is critical, I'd recommend filing a DTS
incident.
David, I checked my code again, and realized I was setting the bias to
1 (I thought I saw that
OK, now that is at least the type of definitive statement I've been
looking for. (I have recently opened a discussion with DTS on some of these
issues.) So apparently, there are some things internal that change when you
call "setLayer" besides just the layer?
I have also figured out (and
On Jul 20, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Brian Hughes wrote:
Thread 2
-[LNTab3View drawRect:] at LNTab3View.m:52
-[NSView _drawRect:clip:]
-[NSView _lightWeightRecursiveDisplayInRect:]
_lightWeightRecursiveDisplayInRect2
CFArrayApplyFunction
-[NSView _lightWeightRecursiveDisplayInRect:]
_lightWeightRecursiv
hi,
I have some questions related to CALayer drawing. I want to be able
to display images, text, 2D graphics or a PDF page. I'm able to display
an image by directly setting the contents property using a CGImageRef
or subclassing CALayer, overriding display and sending setNeedsDisplay,
but
On 20 Jul '08, at 5:00 PM, Bob Barnes wrote:
I have some questions related to CALayer drawing. I want to be
able to display images, text, 2D graphics or a PDF page. I'm able to
display an image by directly setting the contents property using a
CGImageRef or subclassing CALayer, overridin
On Jul 20, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Torsten Curdt wrote:
So in the following naive code I would have to either wrap the calls
to the progressIndicator object through a
performSelectorOnMainThread or could send NSNotifications to update
it on the main thread.
Notifications — whether via NSNotific
On Jul 20, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 20 Jul '08, at 5:00 PM, Bob Barnes wrote:
I have some questions related to CALayer drawing. I want to be able
to display images, text, 2D graphics or a PDF page. I'm able to
display an image by directly setting the contents property using a
Hi,
I am working on a custom control, which has a few simple properties.
The object is a subclass of NSBox, and is therefore initialized with
initWithCoder.
When the object is created for the first time and nothing has been
saved to the archive, all properties are set to zero values.
My
I have these windows, each of which has a table displaying data from
an array of dictionaries. The data is never stored on disk, so I
don't think of these windows as "documents". Since there is a window
(which has a title that depends on the data) I thought I should use a
subclass of NSWi
On 20 Jul '08, at 8:05 PM, James W. Walker wrote:
Since there is a window (which has a title that depends on the data)
I thought I should use a subclass of NSWindowController. On the
other hand, there is an array being displayed in a table, and I
gather that's easier to set up using bindi
I have Tried initWithContentsOfURL. But I am getting exception.
NSData *imageData = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentOfURL:@"
file://localhost/volumes/DATA/image/
> play.tiff "];
What Might be problem with That ?
Is there any other problem with my code ?
Thank You.
-Original Message-
Fro
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Vijay Kanse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Tried initWithContentsOfURL. But I am getting exception.
It's -initWithContentsOfURL, not -initWithContentOfURL: as your code
seems to indicate. And in the future, if you are getting errors or
exceptions, you need t
I am getting the Image set for the Person.
I was Missing to write [NSURL URLWithString@"url path"].
Thank You.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Kyle Sluder
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:39 AM
To: Vijay Kanse
Cc: Heinrich Giesen; cocoa-dev@li
On Jul 20, 2008, at 20:00, Bob Barnes wrote:
I have some questions related to CALayer drawing. I want to be
able to display images, text, 2D graphics or a PDF page. I'm able to
display an image by directly setting the contents property using a
CGImageRef or subclassing CALayer, overriding
I am using NSSuperscriptAttributeName to make part of a string
displayed in an NSTextView label display as superscript (to show "to
the power of 2"). I may also use a smaller font attribute to make the
"2" char smaller.
My problem is that thebaseline of the text drawn in the NSTextView is
Does anyone know of any example code that demonstrate
IKImageBrowserView working with bindings?
Cheers in advance,
Duncan.
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On Jul 16, 2008, at 16:23:23, David Duncan wrote:
This is also why when you scale up a CALayer its content its content
looks interpolated - its the same number of pixels as before, just
interpolated larger. If you exceed the maximum LOD of a tiled layer,
you will see the same thing (which
On 20-Jul-08, at 7:21 PM, Gordon Apple wrote:
OK, now that is at least the type of definitive statement I've been
looking for. (I have recently opened a discussion with DTS on some
of these
issues.) So apparently, there are some things internal that change
when you
call "setLayer" bes
that shouldn't be an issue if he's explicitly calling the
setNeedsDisplay
is the method signature correct on your implementation of
drawInContext:?
On 21-Jul-08, at 12:22 AM, Brian Christensen wrote:
On Jul 20, 2008, at 20:00, Bob Barnes wrote:
I have some questions related to CALayer
On 21-Jul-08, at 1:20 AM, Rick Mann wrote:
On Jul 16, 2008, at 16:23:23, David Duncan wrote:
This is also why when you scale up a CALayer its content its
content looks interpolated - its the same number of pixels as
before, just interpolated larger. If you exceed the maximum LOD of
a ti
On Jul 20, 2008, at 22:44:37, Scott Anguish wrote:
all the visual properties that are 'animatable' are applied at
render time.
Thanks for that answer, Scott.
So, can I not make my own drawing code an animatable property? I
thought I could.
I was really hoping I would be able to do this
On 21-Jul-08, at 1:52 AM, Rick Mann wrote:
On Jul 20, 2008, at 22:44:37, Scott Anguish wrote:
all the visual properties that are 'animatable' are applied at
render time.
Thanks for that answer, Scott.
So, can I not make my own drawing code an animatable property? I
thought I could.
On Jul 20, 2008, at 22:57:12, Scott Anguish wrote:
Nope. That is entirely private.
The reason I had mentioned the animatable properties is because
those visuals (including background color and the border) are not
scaled the same as your content, since they aren't cached..
Okay, thanks f
Hi List,
I'm having some problems with memory management of a window
controller in a standard NSDocument based application. The problem is
that my window controller gets released through an autorelease pool
after the document has been deallocated (and released it in the
process).
I've
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