How to show Interface Builder's build warning and messages?

Recently I was building my project and saw there were some warnings and messages regarding a XIB file. For example, there were warnings that some connection outlets were broken, and there were messages that some views were clipping their own content. After I fixed the connection outlets, the warn

file references in CoreData

hello, I’m very new to CoreData and can’t find anything on this: I need to store references to local files in CoreData. What is the best solution for this. Just now I use plain paths but there has to be a better way. Thanks Georg___ Cocoa-dev ma

Re: filtering a tableView from a pulldown

On 28 Oct 2008, at 16:15, I. Savant wrote: The pulldown is bound as follows: content: arrangedObjects[PurchaseOrder Array Controller(NSArray Controller)] content values: Purchase ORder Array Controller arrangedObjects.orderReference These bindings seem fine. How about selection? One of th

Re: file references in CoreData

Hi, When using Leopard this is easy: you can store any data type in core data using the 'Transformable' type. Use this to store instances of NSURL that point to your files see http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/Articles/cdNSAttributes.html for more information

Re: file references in CoreData

On Oct 29, 2008, at 4:44 AM, Georg Seifert wrote: I need to store references to local files in CoreData. What is the best solution for this. Just now I use plain paths but there has to be a better way. I use the much-lauded BDAlias: http://eschatologist.net/bDistributed.com/index.html

Re: Message Forwarding Overhead / Performance

Le 29 oct. 08 à 04:46, Michael Ash a écrit : On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Jerry Krinock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Roughly, the lesson is: Don't use message forwarding for "actual work". I was just wondering if anyone had ever found otherwise. I have to say that this is greatly overst

Path handling routines

Hello, Are there in the Foundation framework (or anywhere else on the Cocoa platform) path handling routines (directory extraction, path decomposition) ? Cheers ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requ

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

Hi, A solution for this is to not use directly asl_log, but wrap it to a function that will then use asl_log for console, and fprintf for logging to stderr (instead of asl_open(stderr)), of course you will have to regenerate yourself date, host name, process name, process id information i

Re: Path handling routines

On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote: Hello, Are there in the Foundation framework (or anywhere else on the Cocoa platform) path handling routines (directory extraction, path decomposition) ? Cheers There are a group of methods in NSString for working with paths.

Re: Path handling routines

NSString has most of them. See -[NSString pathComponents], -[NSString stringByAppendingPathComponent:] etc. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Daniel Luis dos Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Are there in the Foundation framework (or anywhere else on the Cocoa > platform) path handlin

Re: Open Window from Input Manager

Hi, thank you for your reply. Does this mean that I'm trying to loading a NIB file from the bundle of the running application (in which the input manager has been loaded)? NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle bundleWithIdentifier: @"org.x616c.LMC"]; I've found out how to find the right bundle, but I'm

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

On Oct 29, 2008, at 09:06 , Yvan BARTHÉLEMY wrote: A solution for this is to not use directly asl_log, but wrap it to a function that will then use asl_log for console, and fprintf for logging to stderr (instead of asl_open(stderr)), of course you will have to regenerate yourself date, hos

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

On 10/29/08 1:27 AM, Jason Coco said: That is no longer necessary in 10.5 / Xcode 3. You can use Unicode in string literals in Objective-C. >>> >>> Why do you say this? I thought that I may have missed something, >>> but looking >>> back through all the documentation, all the warni

Re: Open Window from Input Manager

Is your spelling right? The method is "loadNibNamed:owner:"; your email says "loadNibName:owner:". AppKit should be included in your average cocoa program. Also note that it's a class method, not an instance method. Not sure what else would be causing it. -- Kevin Kevin Gessner http://www.

Re: filtering a tableView from a pulldown

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Amy Heavey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The pop up has selectedObject bound to Purchase Order Array Controller 2 > selection.orderReference ... > At the moment the content Object is bound to selection.orderReference of the > Purchase Order Array Controller. Okay

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

In fact I am very interested about this undocumented call as it is painful for me to dig into darwin sources. Thanks, Yvan Le 29 oct. 08 à 14:41, Jason Coco a écrit : On Oct 29, 2008, at 09:06 , Yvan BARTHÉLEMY wrote: A solution for this is to not use directly asl_log, but wrap it to a f

Re: Open Window from Input Manager

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > thank you for your reply. > > Does this mean that I'm trying to loading a NIB file from the bundle > of the running application (in which the input manager has been > loaded)? > > NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle bundleWithIde

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

On Oct 29, 2008, at 09:41 , Jason Coco wrote: On Oct 29, 2008, at 09:06 , Yvan BARTHÉLEMY wrote: > A solution for this is to not use directly asl_log, but wrap it to a > function that will then use asl_log for console, and fprintf for > logging to stderr (instead of asl_open(stderr)), of course

Re: Open Window from Input Manager

I finally got it! :-) NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle bundleWithIdentifier: @"org.x616c.LMC"]; NSWindowController *controller = [[NSWindowController alloc] initWithWindowNibPath: [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/Contents/Resources/Chooser.nib", [bundle bundlePath]] owner: sel

Re: Open Window from Input Manager

On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Daniel wrote: [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/Contents/Resources/Chooser.nib", [bundle bundlePath]] I'm afraid I missed the start of this discussion, but this snippet is wrong. It should be [bundle pathForResource:@"Chooser" ofType:@"nib"]. Douglas Davidson

How do I call a function when my preference pane bundle closes?

Hi there, I want to save preferences when the user either closes the preference pane window, clicks the show all button or quits system preferences. Can I just put the method call in the -(void)dealloc or is this a bad idea? Thanks, Adam ___ C

Re: Path handling routines

On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:01 AM, Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote: Hello, Are there in the Foundation framework (or anywhere else on the Cocoa platform) path handling routines (directory extraction, path decomposition) ? NSString has several methods for extracting the basename, directory name

Re: Path handling routines

On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Jamie Hardt wrote: The safest way of turning argv[i] into an NSString is with NSFileManager, thus: NSString *path = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] stringWithFileSystemRepresentation:argv[i] length:strlen(argv[i])]; The best way to turn an arbitrary C string

Re: How do I call a function when my preference pane bundle closes?

On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:22 , Adam Penny wrote: Hi there, I want to save preferences when the user either closes the preference pane window, clicks the show all button or quits system preferences. Can I just put the method call in the -(void)dealloc or is this a bad idea? This is a bad i

Re: How do I call a function when my preference pane bundle closes?

Thank you Jamie and Jason. Jamie's email has just panicked me as I've been using CFPreferences rather than NSUserDefaults. It's a system preference pane and I understood that CFPreferences was the way to do this. The documents for CFPreferences kept on saying not to synchronize regularly, s

Re: How do I call a function when my preference pane bundle closes?

On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Adam Penny wrote: I want to save preferences when the user either closes the preference pane window, clicks the show all button or quits system preferences. Can I just put the method call in the -(void)dealloc or is this a bad idea? Bad idea. -dealloc is re

Re: How to show Interface Builder's build warning and messages?

On 10/29/08 9:39 AM, Oleg Krupnov said: >Recently I was building my project and saw there were some warnings >and messages regarding a XIB file. > >For example, there were warnings that some connection outlets were >broken, and there were messages that some views were clipping their >own content.

Re: file references in CoreData

On 10/29/08 7:02 AM, I. Savant said: >> I need to store references to local files in CoreData. What is the >> best solution for this. Just now I use plain paths but there has to >> be a better way. > > I use the much-lauded BDAlias: > >http://eschatologist.net/bDistributed.com/index.html Anothe

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

Sean, Thanks for following up to my comment 8-). Yes, we do support non-ASCII characters in CFString/NSString literals with the compiler shipped with Xcode 3.0 and later. The compiler does recognize the CFSTR() macro in non-Objc source files and both the macro and @"" notion in ObjC files.

Re: file references in CoreData

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last I checked, BDAlias does not support garbage collection and 64bit, > which NDAlias does. Good catch. Looks like I might need to update my own code in the next few months. :-) -- I.S.

Is there an equivalent to std::min/std::max for Cocoa programmer's

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Re: How do I call a function when my preference pane bundle closes?

On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Adam Penny wrote: Thank you Jamie and Jason. Jamie's email has just panicked me as I've been using CFPreferences rather than NSUserDefaults. It's a system preference pane and I understood that CFPreferences was the way to do this. The documents for CFPreferences

Re: file references in CoreData

I'm currently working on a system that uses NDAlias (http://codebeach.org/code/show/34 ) in a CoreData store. It works pretty well in that the user can move the files around when the app isn't running and (so long as they stay on the same volume) it'll find them again when it wakes up. I'm u

Re: file references in CoreData

On 29.10.2008, at 09:59, Dirkjan Krijnders wrote: When using Leopard this is easy: you can store any data type in core data using the 'Transformable' type. Use this to store instances of NSURL that point to your files see http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/Arti

Re: file references in CoreData

On 10/29/08 11:05 AM, Paul Thomas said: >I'm currently working on a system that uses NDAlias (http:// >codebeach.org/code/show/34 >) in a CoreData store. It works pretty well in that the user can move >the files around when the app isn't running and (so long as they stay >on the same volume) it'll

How to get CGScreenRegisterMoveCallback working?

Hi list, I am a complete Objective-C/Cocoa/Xcode novice, so please be gentle if my mistake is dead obvious. I am trying to detect whether any window moves on the screen. As far as I can tell CGScreenRegisterMoveCallback should let me do this. But in the little test code below, which registers cal

Re: How to get CGScreenRegisterMoveCallback working?

On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Steve McLeod wrote: I am trying to detect whether any window moves on the screen. As far as I can tell CGScreenRegisterMoveCallback should let me do this. But in the little test code below, which registers callbacks then waits 20 seconds, I never see the messa

Re: How to get CGScreenRegisterMoveCallback working?

Thanks Nick, I tried creating a RunLoop, that runs for 10 seconds, but I still had no joy. I guess I'm still making beginner mistakes. Any ideas from the code below, which now has a RunLoop? #import #import void MyScreenRefreshCallback (CGRectCount count, const CGRect * rectArray, void * userP

Re: ASL & Unicode in Xcode's Console

When a method is undocumented, that means it isn't part of the interface that is stable from release to release. If that function is removed from the OS, and you reference it in your binary, your app will not launch. -Ken On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Yvan BARTHÉLEMY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: How to get CGScreenRegisterMoveCallback working?

On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Steve McLeod wrote: I tried creating a RunLoop, that runs for 10 seconds, but I still had no joy. I guess I'm still making beginner mistakes. Any ideas from the code below, which now has a RunLoop? One other thing you might need to do is get a window server

Unhilite a window title bar?

Is there a way to remove the hilite from a Cocoa window, so that it no longer looks active, without making some other Cocoa window main or key? Sending the window resignMainWindow and resignKeyWindow doesn't do it. No doubt that sounds like a strange question. I'm looking for a workaround

Re: Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

Dear Cocoa-dev People, First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out the problem with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach. As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper to represent the data as two files; one the metadata and the other the pdf? Then

Re: Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

On 30 Oct 2008, at 7:46 am, Joel Norvell wrote: As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper to represent the data as two files; one the metadata and the other the pdf? Then I could work with the metadata file, but just display the pdf file. In the "What could go w

Re: Open Window from Input Manager

wow, now it my code looks much nicer :-) thank you very much! Daniel On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Douglas Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Daniel wrote: > >> [NSString >> stringWithFormat:@"%@/Contents/Resources/Chooser.nib", [bundle >> bundlePath]] > > I'

Re: Is there an equivalent to std::min/std::max for Cocoa programmer's

MIN(), MAX() (from Foundation/NSObjCRuntime.h) ? Le 29 oct. 08 à 18:26, Michael A. Crawford a écrit : -Michael___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the mo

Re: Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Joel Norvell wrote: Dear Cocoa-dev People, First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out the problem with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach. As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper to represent the data as t

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What's wrong with this font thing?

OK, I have to assume that I'm doing something really wrong here, but man, I sure can't see it. Maybe my understanding is out of whack, maybe some kind soul will show me the light... (Sorry for the length, I'm trying to include all relevant information up front.) I am attempting to replicat

Re: What's wrong with this font thing?

On 30 Oct 2008, at 9:45 am, Randall Meadows wrote: Why does the height suddenly jump UP going from 16 down to 15 points? I'm not sure, but could it be that there are thresholds where a different master font is used? As you cross the threshold the system decides to base the font on a dif

Re: What's wrong with this font thing?

On Oct 29, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Graham Cox wrote: On 30 Oct 2008, at 9:45 am, Randall Meadows wrote: Why does the height suddenly jump UP going from 16 down to 15 points? I'm not sure, but could it be that there are thresholds where a different master font is used? As you cross the threshold

Re: What's wrong with this font thing?

On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Randall Meadows wrote: OK, I have to assume that I'm doing something really wrong here, but man, I sure can't see it. Maybe my understanding is out of whack, maybe some kind soul will show me the light... (Sorry for the length, I'm trying to include all releva

Re: Is there an equivalent to std::min/std::max for Cocoa programmer's

Thank you. I did try to find these using the help feature in Xcode and the documentation that is included with Xcode but I did not get a hit. I also tried spotlight but no-joy. What is the best way to find equivalent methods like these? Most of my experience is in coding for POSIX/Linux

Re: Is there an equivalent to std::min/std::max for Cocoa programmer's

These are template methods that are included as part of the C++ standard library. They will take any type that supports comparison operators, both arguments must be of the same type. -Michael On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Stig Brautaset wrote: it would help if you explained what these func

Re: Is there an equivalent to std::min/std::max for Cocoa programmer's

On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Michael A. Crawford wrote: Thank you. I did try to find these using the help feature in Xcode and the documentation that is included with Xcode but I did not get a hit. I also tried spotlight but no-joy. What is the best way to find equivalent methods like t

Re: What's wrong with this font thing?

- Divide the space available by the measured width to find the scale factor You can also use the scale factor to create a new font with a fractional size. I have the same problem for a terminal emulator - I need the largest fixed font that will fit in a particular character spacing. When

Re: What's wrong with this font thing?

On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Peter Ammon wrote: Trying to find the right font size to just fit the text seems a bit archaic. Here is a different approach: - Measure the string with some font - Divide the space available by the measured width to find the scale factor - Use CGContextScaleCT

Re: Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Joel Norvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Cocoa-dev People, > > First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out the > problem with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach. > > As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper

Re: What's wrong with this font thing?

On 30 Oct 2008, at 10:37 am, Randall Meadows wrote: Doing that also shifts the rect that I'm trying to draw into. I'm doing multiple NSString drawInRect:withAttributes: calls, all within a single view. Remember that transforms are always relative to the view's origin, so just scaling w

Re: What's wrong with this font thing?

The "threshold" being discussed here is the boundary between the screen font vs printer font in NSFont jargon. For font size smaller than 16pt, we automatically substitute the default printer font to its corresponding screen font. The metrics gap is caused by the substitution. You can disab

Re: NSTableColumn unbindable when NSSegmentedCell is used?

If you google "NSSegmentedCell bindings", the first search result is http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ CocoaBindingsRef/BindingsText/NSSegmentedCell.html I'm guessing you want selectedIndex or selectedLabel or selectedTag. On Oct 29, 2008, at 2:23 AM, Mike Laurence wro

Static text over an image

Hi, I want to have text over an image. Even though I set it up in IB (move image to the back, bring the label to the front), the label is always drawn behind the image. Is there a setting to be set in IB for that or do I have to draw the text myself? Thanks, Andre Masse _

Re: Static text over an image

On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:48 PM, Andre Masse wrote: Hi, I want to have text over an image. Even though I set it up in IB (move image to the back, bring the label to the front), the label is always drawn behind the image. Is there a setting to be set in IB for that or do I have to draw the tex

Re: Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Joel Norvell wrote: First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out the problem with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach. As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper to represent the data as two files; one the metada

Re: Static text over an image

On 30/10/2008, at 2:48 PM, Andre Masse wrote: I want to have text over an image. Even though I set it up in IB (move image to the back, bring the label to the front), the label is always drawn behind the image. Is there a setting to be set in IB for that or do I have to draw the text mysel

Re: Static text over an image

I've seen it happen a few times where views will be layered in the reverse order that they're set to in IB. Try moving the label behind the image and see if that gives you the desired result. Cheers, Brandon On 30-Oct-08, at 12:48 AM, Andre Masse wrote: Hi, I want to have text over an ima

Parsing xml files in Cocoa applications

Hi All, How do I read, parse xml files in Cocoa App ?Any standard parser is available? Thanks in advance Regards Arnab ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact th

Re: inter-object communication

On 29 Oct 2008, at 06:30, Charles Steinman wrote: From: Albert Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What is the recommended way for Object B to inform Object A that it is done processing a request for the following scenario? Object A has a list of phone numbers to send SMS messages Object B implements

interface builder and nsarraycontroller binding newbie question

Hello, I'm pretty new to the OSX and really new to Cocoa. With the disclaimer aside For one my first learning projects I started to follow a tutorial that has me making use of a nsarraycontroller in IB and using bindings to bind an nsarraycontroller to a Employee class I created. CLASS Empl

Re: Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

> From your original implementation of putting the metadata directly into the > PDF file, you'll now end up with obviously a proprietary file. i.e. No > application that works with PDF will be able to work with that file. That is not at all true. You can embed the data into a PDF stream but nev

Re: Problem with NSData to NSString to NSData

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Joel Norvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Cocoa-dev People, > > First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out the > problem with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach. > > As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper

Re: Parsing xml files in Cocoa applications

On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Arnab Ganguly wrote: How do I read, parse xml files in Cocoa App ?Any standard parser is available? Did you see the documentation for the NSXML family of classes? Nick Zitzmann ___ Coco

Re: Is there an equivalent to std::min/std::max for Cocoa programmer's

Done. See radar 6331394. -Michael On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Michael A. Crawford wrote: Thank you. I did try to find these using the help feature in Xcode and the documentation that is included with Xcode but I did not get a hit. I a