Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:02 AM, mmalc Crawford wrote: On Jul 1, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: But it doesn't work at all for user controls in general, and the docs are misleading (i.e., wrong) about that. although I'm not sure I'd agree with Bill that the docs are *wrong*, they ce

Re: NSComparisonResult and equality

Since NSComparisonResult is an ordered enum typedef, I'd like to know if it's safe to write the following code to test for 'greater or equal to': // This would cover both NSOrderAscending and NSOrderSame if ([obj1 compare:obj2] < NSOrderDescending) { I'd just use "isGreaterThanOrEqualTo:", wh

Re: Alternative to NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithGraphicsPort:flipped:

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Scott Thompson wrote: > If I understand... you're going all the way to NSGraphicsContext just to flip > the coordinate system? That's a long row to hoe :-). It would be, but I'm actually going to NSGraphicsContext so that I can draw NSImages and NSStrings on the

Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Keary Suska wrote: So I think you are claiming this works because the documentation says so. I'm saying the documentation is wrong because it doesn't work. I would love to see a project proving me wrong. Can you show me one? No, I am saying that it works as ad

Sorting on a table view of a managed object - debugger throws exception

Folks; 10.5.7 - 10.5 SDK - target 10.4 I have a managed core data entity working pretty nicely. I can display values in a tableView blah-blah Clicking on table column headers does as expected IN RELEASE versions for both Tiger and Leopard. However, in the debugger a click on table col

Re: Sorting on a table view of a managed object - debugger throws exception

On Jul 2, 2009, at 01:10, Steve Cronin wrote: 10.5.7 - 10.5 SDK - target 10.4 I have a managed core data entity working pretty nicely. I can display values in a tableView blah-blah Clicking on table column headers does as expected IN RELEASE versions for both Tiger and Leopard. Howev

Re: Programmatically adding to one big Finder selection ?

Thanks everyone for your input. Interesting to see that I was wrong about selecting multiple files in the finder being a common task. Maybe a little background will shed some light on why I was trying to write this program: Currently I am primarily doing visual effects (digital compositing

Re: Drawing the background of a single row in NSTableView

On 02/07/2009, at 11:57 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jul 1, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Graham Cox wrote: On 02/07/2009, at 10:09 AM, Peter Zegelin wrote: Problem with this is there is no obvious concordance ( that I can see) between a row and its rectangle. Wouldn't scrolling affect all this?

Re: Programmatically adding to one big Finder selection ?

On a related sidenote, I saw that the Finder AppleScript dictionary has a couple of properties for its folder type that seem to deal with list views: "completely expanded", which has the description of: "(NOT AVAILABLE YET) Are the container and all of its children opened as outlines? (can

Extract the names of all the files in some folder

Hi all, Suppose that all of the files are .mov file in a folder. Now in my App, I want to realize that it can extract the names of all the movie files in the folder. At the same time, it displays the names in the table view of my application when the application launches every time. Could

Re: Extract the names of all the files in some folder

http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSFileManager_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSFileManager/enumeratorAtPath : In the above example's if statement inside the while loop, switch the extension to .mov. then if it matches I would add th

Re: warning:assignment from distinct Objective-C type

On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:26 AM, David Blanton wrote: in .h file NSMutableArray *m_sources; [...] m_sources = [volumes stringsByAppendingPaths:[defaultManager directoryContentsAtPath:volumes]]; -stringsByAppendingPaths: returns a

Setting a document's icon and default app

Hi, I¹ve set up my app with a document type (see below), moved the app to Applications, logged out, logged back in, created a document of this type, but the setting the doc¹s icon and association with my app does not occur automatically, only when I manually do Get Info and set it. What am I missi

NSTableView bug?

Hello, I've created a simple application with an NSTableView. I have written a delegate for this table, numberOfRowsInTableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row:, that returns the number of rows in the table when requested. My application uses the table view to display hexadecimal data on a flas

UIImageView source

I need to create a filebrowser of sorts that allows a user to select an image from the iPhone/iPod images directory. The same one that iPhone camera images are saved to preferably. Is there s built in method of doing this or perhaps some guidance I could get on how to select and set images

Re: NSTableView bug?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Chris Carson wrote: > > Hello, > > I've created a simple application with an NSTableView. I have written a > delegate for this table, > numberOfRowsInTableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row:, that returns the > number of rows in the table when requested. > > My a

Re: UIImageView source

Check out the UIImagePickerController class. Dave On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Development wrote: I need to create a filebrowser of sorts that allows a user to select an image from the iPhone/iPod images directory. The same one that iPhone camera images are saved to preferably. Is there s bu

Re: UIImageView source

Creating your own file browser for photos on the phone is not supported. An excellent one has already been written for you, though. See UIImagePickerController. http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIImagePickerController_Class/UIImagePickerController/UIImag

Re: Dynamically loading a part of a Window in Cocoa

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote: > On Jul 1, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> Well, I generally avoid bindings, since I can't comment nib/xib files, and >> it takes too long to reverse engineer my own (or worse, someone else's) >> bindings when I'm doing maintenanc

Re: Drawing the background of a single row in NSTableView

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Peter Zegelin wrote: > > On 01/07/2009, at 6:55 PM, Dado Colussi wrote: > >> Subclass NSTableView and implement your special drawing in - >> (void)drawBackgroundInClipRect:(NSRect)clipRect. >> >> /Dado > > Problem with this is there is no obvious concordance ( that I

Re: NSTableView bug?

I had this problem but it had to do with calculating the height for the row and returning a float value. When i made sure i returned an int this went away. Not sure if you doing that. Scott On Jul 2, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Chris Carson wrote: Hello, I've created a simple application with an

Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

On Thursday, July 02, 2009, at 03:48AM, "Bill Cheeseman" wrote: >I'm not "assuming" that it works with all user controls. The document >I quoted from says it does, explicitly and in detail, without >qualification. This is why in my Radar I suggested the "validated item" terminology to indic

Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: I'm not "assuming" that it works with all user controls. The document I quoted from says it does, explicitly and in detail, without qualification. All I asked in my original post is whether I'm correct in concluding that in fact buttons don'

Re: warning:assignment from distinct Objective-C type

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Mac First wrote: > Note that, if you want a mutable array, you can wrapper the return-result in >  [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray: ... ] Or use the -mutableCopy method. --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev

Re: UIImageView source

You could try this if you're lazy... Just call the presentImagePickerWithSource and choose your source type (camera or photo library) - (void)presentImagePickerWithSource: (UIImagePickerControllerSourceType)sourceType { pickerController = [[UIImagePickerController alloc]init];

Re: Setting a document's icon and default app

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Michael Domino wrote: > I¹ve set up my app with a document type (see below), moved the app to > Applications, logged out, logged back in, created a document of this type, > but the setting the doc¹s icon and association with my app does not occur > automatically, onl

Re: NSTableView bug?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Michael Ash wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Chris Carson wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've created a simple application with an NSTableView. I have written a >> delegate for this table, >> numberOfRowsInTableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row:, that returns

Re: Sorting on a table view of a managed object - debugger throws exception

Quincy; Hey thanks for some useful data! BUT it is not what is happening in this case. I have a base class MyManagedObject that all entities are derived from. MyManagedObject has the - setNilValueForKey: method defined. I set a breakpoint there and a log message as well. Neither are ever call

Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > I did find it confusing when I read the NSMenuItem and NSToolbarItem Class > Reference documents, which say that they conform to the other protocol, the > NSValidatedUserInterface protocol. But this tends to suggest that NSButton > will work,

Re: NSTableView bug?

On 2 Jul 2009, at 9:36 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Michael Ash wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Chris Carson wrote: Hello, I've created a simple application with an NSTableView. I have written a delegate for this table, numberOfRowsInTableView:objec

Re: NSTableView bug?

On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Tito Ciuro wrote: Not to mention that dragging the scroll thumb one pixel will result in thousands of rows scrolled at once. Simply useless. Well, yes, but the only real way to avoid that is to design your application to limit the amount of data presented to t

Re: NSTableView bug?

On 2 Jul 2009, at 9:56 AM, I. Savant wrote: On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Tito Ciuro wrote: Not to mention that dragging the scroll thumb one pixel will result in thousands of rows scrolled at once. Simply useless. Well, yes, but the only real way to avoid that is to design your applicati

Re: NSTableView bug?

On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Tito Ciuro wrote: I totally agree. I would never present anywhere that much info to the user. It's overwhelming and difficult to navigate through. My comment referred to a bad approach in design: I was adding another argument as to why displaying 14 million rows

Re: NSTableView bug?

I've created a simple application with an NSTableView. I have written a delegate for this table, numberOfRowsInTableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row:, that returns the number of rows in the table when requested. My application uses the table view to display hexadecimal data on a flash m

Re: NSTableView bug?

I was going to recommend 0xED is a good one too. Very fast and he appears to be using a custom view of somesort. Scott On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: I've created a simple application with an NSTableView. I have written a delegate for this table, numberOfRowsInTable

NSDocument's -close method calls itself?

Hi all, I'm trying to find somewhere to undo what was done in my NSDocument subclass' initializer. Specifically, to start/stop KVO observation. It seemed like 'close' would be a good place. First, should/must one call super in one's 'close' implementation? It seems so. After trying this, I've

Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Keary Suska wrote: Because the two protocols in question are formal protocols, the @interface declaration must specify conformance. If it doesn't, then no assumption of conformance should be made. Pure and simple. Also, protocol conformance is not inheritable in

Re: NSTableView bug?

Tito Ciuro wrote: Not to mention that dragging the scroll thumb one pixel will result in thousands of rows scrolled at once. Simply useless. Hold down the Option key and drag the thumb. It should "micro scroll" for as long as Option remains down. This scroller gesture modifier has been ar

Why I have to set position at the middle?

Hi I am new to Apple programming. I have UIView and it has CALayer (numberLayer). I would like to write something at the middle of that layer. So in my - (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame function I write somthing like this. CGRect viewRect = [self bounds]; CGPoint center = CGPointM

Re: Sorting on a table view of a managed object - debugger throws exception

On Jul 2, 2009, at 09:41, Steve Cronin wrote: BUT it is not what is happening in this case. Do you in fact have a "code" property? On the app delegate? What's does it's @property (or accessor prototype) look like? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Co

Drag and Drop UI

I've been working on some ground station software for controlling amateur UAV's. I have the basic functionality working, but I'd like to make it more generic so other people can configure it without having to recompile. My thoughts are to have a palette of UI elements, suck as dials, arti

CoreData - $FETCH_SOURCE and fetched properties (coredata newby)

Hi everybody Here, a CoreData novice, stumped at a fairly simple issue, a bit under- documented by apple (Apple under-documenting? uh?). If anyone can give me a hint, I'll be much in debt. Well, the thing is about $FETCH_SOURCE and a Fetched property in Core Data. I create two entities (x

Windows on main thread always only sometimes?

I've always been taught that one must only create and run AppKit objects on the main thread. Recently, though, over in objc-language, http://lists.apple.com/archives/Objc-language/2009/Jul/msg2.html it was pointed out that the threading Programming Guide seems to say otherwise:

Re: NSDocument's -close method calls itself?

On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:34, Sean McBride wrote: I'm trying to find somewhere to undo what was done in my NSDocument subclass' initializer. Specifically, to start/stop KVO observation. It seemed like 'close' would be a good place. 'close' isn't a good place, because it isn't necessarily call

Re: NSTableView bug?

On 2 Jul 2009, at 11:10 AM, Greg Guerin wrote: Hold down the Option key and drag the thumb. It should "micro scroll" for as long as Option remains down. This scroller gesture modifier has been around for a while. Wow. Never heard about this one before. I wonder how many people know abou

Private copy not working correctly

Hello, I'm trying to create a private copy of an object, but yet when the original changes, my copy changes too. I have an array of dictionaries called spacesData. Then, when I do: NSDictionary *backup = [[spacesData objectAtIndex:index] copy]; everything is fine, and this one looks as it s

How a subview can inform to the controler that an event has happened?

I am looking the sample Dragging views (The iPhone Developer's Cookbook) where the are N subviews (flowers) are floating inside UIViewController. It is a sample and working, but how subview can inform to UIViewController that the dragging (an event) has finished? -Agha

Re: How a subview can inform to the controler that an event has happened?

On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Agha Khan wrote: I am looking the sample Dragging views (The iPhone Developer's Cookbook) where the are N subviews (flowers) are floating inside UIViewController. The subviews are not "floating inside" the view controller. Views are subviews only to other views

Re: Debugging NSService

Hi Peter Thanks for the tips. I ended up finding that yes the Service was appearing but in Finder only. I think the main confusion was between the steps of having the service appear in the menu and the service menu item being enabled or not. It looks like a trick to simply appear is, for

Reading and writing rtf(d) files

bump bump :-) Ian. -- ianpi...@mac.com 07590 685840 | 01926 811383 Begin forwarded message: From: Ian Piper Date: 1 July 2009 3:53:52 pmBST To: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Reading and writing rtf(d) files Hi all, I have a question about reading and writing file types. I have been

Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

On Thursday, July 02, 2009, at 01:52PM, "Bill Cheeseman" wrote: >On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Keary Suska wrote: > >> Because the two protocols in question are formal protocols, the >> @interface declaration must specify conformance. If it doesn't, then >> no assumption of conformance should

screen lock events?

Are there events that I can observe that indicate when the screen lock has activated/deactivated? I have a background agent that should really be disabled when the screen is locked... Thanks for any pointers... -- Carl Harris cehar...@vt.edu ___

documenting bindings (was: Re: Dynamically loading a part of a Window in Cocoa)

On Thursday, July 02, 2009, at 11:39AM, "Michael Ash" wrote: >On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote: [...] >> That leads directly to something I've been thinking about as one new to >> cocoa: >> how do you document your bindings?   Any preferred formats other than a text >> file st

probablem with NSView redisplay.

I have an NSWindowController driving a window, with a view, with subviews. One of the subviews is an NSView *imageParentView. This view's only purpose is to provide a frame, a "bounding box" inside which its subview will be held. It's one and only subview is NSImageView *imageView. The

Changing content of object inside NSMutableArray

HI I have saved some objects inside GameArray (type NSMutableArray) and I would like to change of content of an object inside that array. GameObj is type of UIView so it has a frame. GameObj* p = [GameArray objectAtIndex:0]; p.frame = frame; This works, but this is not changing the content

Re: documenting bindings (was: Re: Dynamically loading a part of a Window in Cocoa)

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Andy Lee wrote: > My first reaction was: "Elegantly put!"  But then I thought, isn't *not* > generating this kind of code one of the reasons we tell people nibs are good? >  Wouldn't a .m be a good place to "document" targets and actions as well?   > And delegates

Re: Changing content of object inside NSMutableArray

On Jul 2, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Agha Khan wrote: This works, but this is not changing the content inside the GameArray. How this can be done. Use -replaceObjectAtIndex:withObject:. You are responsible for maintaining your own arrays; changing a pointer will not change the contents of the ar

Re: Determining OS at Runtime

On Jul 1, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:24 PM, iseecolors wrote: I need to support 10.4 in my application, but it uses some Carbon APIs that are deprecated in 10.5 and I am using some new 10.5 APIs that require the 10.5 SDK. I am sure I have seen this bef

Re: Determining OS at Runtime

One way that I've seen used is to do this: BOOL isLeopardOrBetter = YES; Class gcClass = NSClassFromString(@"NSGarbageCollector"); if (gcClass == nil) { isLeopardOrBetter = NO; } Cheers, Dave ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Pl

Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

On Jul 2, 2009, at 14:05, Andy Lee wrote: Hm, you know what, it seems odd to me that the NSValidatedUserInterfaceItem protocol doesn't include setEnabled: or some such. The doc says, "If no responder returns YES, the item is disabled." But how can the application know it *can* disable the

Re: disabling grammar checking

At 6:57 PM -0700 6/29/09, Martin Wierschin wrote: i'm not happy that the framework is changing the name of my menu item from "Show SpellingS" (as i've specified in IB) to "Show Spelling and Grammar". is there some way to globally "fix" this? (i know i can provide my overrides of showGuessPanel:

Re: Private copy not working correctly

On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Joe Turner wrote: I'm trying to create a private copy of an object, but yet when the original changes, my copy changes too. I have an array of dictionaries called spacesData. Then, when I do: NSDictionary *backup = [[spacesData objectAtIndex:index] copy]; every

Re: Reading and writing rtf(d) files

TextEdit sources in /Developer/Examples/AppKit/TextEdit may be useful. TextEdit's document types are set up to read/write RTF and RTFD, in addition to a number of other types. Ali On Jul 2, 2009, at 14:04 , Ian Piper wrote: bump bump :-) Ian. -- ianpi...@mac.com 07590 685840 | 01926 8113

Re: Determining OS at Runtime

On Jul 2, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Steve Christensen wrote: On Jul 1, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:24 PM, iseecolors wrote: I need to support 10.4 in my application, but it uses some Carbon APIs that are deprecated in 10.5 and I am using some new 10.5 APIs that

Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

Er, sorry about all the typos in the previous post on this subject. On Jul 2, 2009, at 16:33, Quincey Morris wrote: Something (presumabl[y] NSApp) presumabl[y] calls 'update' for the main NSMenu, and the 'update' calls trickle down to the NSMenuItems, which then initiate their own validation

Re: Determining OS at Runtime

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Dave DeLong wrote: > One way that I've seen used is to do this: > > BOOL isLeopardOrBetter = YES; > Class gcClass = NSClassFromString(@"NSGarbageCollector"); > if (gcClass == nil) { isLeopardOrBetter = NO; } Don't do that. Check for the specific feature that you wan

Why Applespell.service fail to launch?

Our application use Mac OS X spell checker service to do spell check. here is sample code . [[NSSpellChecker sharedSpellChecker] checkSpellingOfString:@"hello" startingAt:0]; But the problem is AppleSpell.service can not launch automatically by this code, so there is always an alert: couldn't conta

Re: Why Applespell.service fail to launch?

This code works just fine for me: NSLog(@"%@", NSStringFromRange([[NSSpellChecker sharedSpellChecker] checkSpellingOfString: @"hello, hwo are you today?" startingAt: 0])); Which prints '{7, 3}', as expected. I'll go out on a limb and guess that you're trying to access the spell checker from a

Re: User interface validation doesn't work, right?

On Thursday, July 02, 2009, at 07:33PM, "Quincey Morris" wrote: >I really all makes sense, I think, I think it makes the most sense if you figure out the validateMenuItem: mechanism, then figure out the validateToolbarItem: mechanism, then see they're closely related (no surprise, since menus

Possible NSPredicateEditor bug

Hi everyone, I'm either doing something wrong, or I've found a bug in NSPredicateEditor. Whenever I use setObjectValue: on the NSPredicateEditor, it displays the new predicate, but if I change a couple of the operators (is, contains, begins with, etc) the text fields on the rows disappear

Re: Sorting on a table view of a managed object - debugger throws exception

Quincey; Do you in fact have a "code" property? On the app delegate? What's does it's @property (or accessor prototype) look like? The 'code' property is declared on an entity: MyEntity. The accessors were created by XCode itself using the 'Copy Method Declaration/Implementation to Clipboard'

Replace -[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:] so it doesn't crash on corrupt archive

If -[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:] is handed a corrupt archive, it raises an exception AND crashes the program. I find this to be very annoying since, almost always, archives come from files or network sources where corruption is possible. Therefore, I have always protected

Re: Windows on main thread always only sometimes?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Jack Repenning wrote: > I've always been taught that one must only create and run AppKit objects on > the main thread. Recently, though, over in objc-language, > >  http://lists.apple.com/archives/Objc-language/2009/Jul/msg2.html > > it was pointed out that the t

Re: documenting bindings (was: Re: Dynamically loading a part of a Window in Cocoa)

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Andy Lee wrote: > On Thursday, July 02, 2009, at 11:39AM, "Michael Ash" > wrote: >>On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote: > [...] >>> That leads directly to something I've been thinking about as one new to >>> cocoa: >>> how do you document your bind

Re: Replace -[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:] so it doesn't crash on corrupt archive

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > If -[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:] is handed a corrupt > archive, it raises an exception AND crashes the program.  I find this to be > very annoying since, almost always, archives come from files or network > sources where corrup

Re: documenting bindings (was: Re: Dynamically loading a part of a Window in Cocoa)

On Jul 2, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Andy Lee wrote: On Thursday, July 02, 2009, at 11:39AM, "Michael Ash" > wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote: [...] That leads directly to something I've been thinking about as one new to cocoa: how do you document your bindings? Any prefe

Re: Sorting on a table view of a managed object - debugger throws exception

On Jul 2, 2009, at 19:51, Steve Cronin wrote: SortDescriptor is, of course, an NSArray - which is also named 'code'. Huh? Does the matching name mean something about the MyEntity "code" property? Furthermore this all works peachy in a Release build on either Tiger or Leopard. Clicking o

Re: Determining OS at Runtime

On 2 Jul 2009, at 16:29, Steve Christensen wrote: If you want to make sure that you don't include any "old" code in your executable when you decide to make 10.5 (for example) your base OS version, you could arrange your code like this: #if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_

Re: Replace -[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:] so it doesn't crash on corrupt archive

On 2009 Jul 02, at 21:11, Michael Ash wrote: Is there a reason you can't just implement a new method in a category and not replace the existing one? It will be just as safe in your code, just as easy to use, I'd considered doing that and yes it could be done. But then it would have a diffe

Re: Replace -[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:] so it doesn't crash on corrupt archive

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: If -[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:] is handed a corrupt > archive, it raises an exception AND crashes the program. Do you have a sample app & data combo which demonstrates the crash? +[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:

Re: Dynamically loading a part of a Window in Cocoa

On Jul 1, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote: On Jul 1, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Well, I generally avoid bindings, since I can't comment nib/xib files, and it takes too long to reverse engineer my own (or worse, someone else's) bindings when I'm doing maintenance work. W

Re: Replace -[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:] so it doesn't crash on corrupt archive

On 2009 Jul 02, at 22:53, Jim Correia wrote: Do you have a sample app & data combo which demonstrates the crash? Yes, if you take the TEST CODE at the bottom of my original post and revert to Apple's method by commenting out the +[NSKeyedUnarchiver load] method in there, it will crash.

Re: documenting bindings (was: Re: Dynamically loading a part of a Window in Cocoa)

On Jul 3, 2009, at 00:25 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: This is why I tell people nibs are no good. Also bindings. ;-) Bindings are definitely the worst-case scenario for nibs. They tend to proliferate, and they are burrowed deep in the IB UI making them hard to miss if you don't check every wi