Re: Bindings & Reverting Properties

2009-08-22 Thread Sean McBride
Quincey Morris (quinceymor...@earthlink.net) on 2009-08-21 12:56 AM said: >since we're comparing comparing BOOLs, I'll contribute my preferred >version: > >- (void)setHappy: (BOOL)newHappy >{ > if (!happy != !newHappy) // Another way of safely comparing BOOLs I prefer: if (!!happy != !!new

Re: Bindings & Reverting Properties

2009-08-22 Thread Dave Keck
>  Someone has to say it: Why?! :-) > >  I can't imagine any possible reason why any design should make it possible > for prefs saving to fail. Just because I can't imagine it doesn't make it > impossible, but it sounds very, very wrong. Well it seems my attempt to over-simplify the situation has

Re: Bindings & Reverting Properties

2009-08-22 Thread Dave Keck
> What led you to believe you needed to call the setter recursively? All you > need is: The only reason I did that was to show that the correct KVO notifications would be invoked by reverting the happy property from within the setter. It was a gross oversimplification, and I'm sorry. :) I realize

Re: Setting multi line Text to Radio button

2009-08-22 Thread Andy Lee
On Friday, August 21, 2009, at 12:17PM, "Jerry Krinock" wrote: > >On 2009 Aug 21, at 06:39, Vijay Kanse wrote: > >> I want my radio buttons to have multi line text > >I've found this to be one of those things that "just doesn't work". >Set the title to an empty string, and display the title in

Re: Bindings & Reverting Properties

2009-08-22 Thread Quincey Morris
On Aug 22, 2009, at 00:14, Dave Keck wrote: What led you to believe you needed to call the setter recursively? All you need is: The only reason I did that was to show that the correct KVO notifications would be invoked by reverting the happy property from within the setter. It was a gross ov

Re: Bindings & Reverting Properties

2009-08-22 Thread Dave Keck
> not the correct effect. Attempting to nest willChange/didChange is a Bad > Idea because KVO notifications aren't nestable.) Is that documented? I would have thought that a nested willChange/didChange pair would have simply been ignored. > The immediate problem here is the presence of willChange

Re: Setting multi line Text to Radio button

2009-08-22 Thread Paul M
Some extra newlines preceeding your title should make it _look_ like your screenshot (for odd numbers of lines in the lable, anyway), but it still wont work quite the same, as there will be a clickable area above your lable. (if that makes sense). I dont know how that'll affect the spacing betwe

Syntax Coloring?

2009-08-22 Thread Keitaroh Kobayashi
Hello, I'm writing a code editor and so far, i've been using Flex for regex-matching the whole document every time the text is changed and coloring appropriately... I got this idea from some CocoaBuilders or CocoaDev forum/mailing list awhile ago, but it's terribly inefficient and slow, especially

Re: Syntax Coloring?

2009-08-22 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 22 août 2009 à 14:33, Keitaroh Kobayashi a écrit : Hello, I'm writing a code editor and so far, i've been using Flex for regex-matching the whole document every time the text is changed and coloring appropriately... I got this idea from some CocoaBuilders or CocoaDev forum/mailing list awhil

Re: Best Way to Simulate Keyboard

2009-08-22 Thread Joe Turner
Hey, That works well, until I add modifiers. To do my modifiers i put the modifier keys down before the character part, but this doesn't seem to work when the command key is down or something :/ Is there any way to supply modifiers into a single CGEvent? Cheers, Joe Turner On Aug 21, 2009

Displaying svg image with WebKit - scaling issues

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Zegelin
Hi, I would like to display a simple svg image in my app using webkit. Unfortunately I also need to be able to scale the image to the size of the view. The webview class has makeTextLarger and makeTextSmaller which works, but limits the scaling to about 10 'steps'. Apparently you can do

Re: Displaying svg image with WebKit - scaling issues

2009-08-22 Thread Gideon King
II saw an NSSVGImageRep in webcore - I would have thought that you could use that with NSImage and do the normal scaling there. I haven't tried it, and could make use of it myself if it works, so would be interested if anyone else has had experience using it. Gideon I would like to displ

Re: Table view with multiple columns

2009-08-22 Thread Massimiliano Gargani
Thanks, NSDictionary is my friend. Max Il giorno 22/ago/09, alle ore 07:39, Andrew Farmer ha scritto: On 21 Aug 2009, at 03:53, Massimiliano Gargani wrote: I have a mutable array with inside something like "luke","l...@luke.com ","mark","m...@mark.com", .. ... - (id) tableView: (NSTable

Re: Displaying svg image with WebKit - scaling issues

2009-08-22 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 22 août 2009 à 16:27, Peter Zegelin a écrit : Hi, I would like to display a simple svg image in my app using webkit. Unfortunately I also need to be able to scale the image to the size of the view. The webview class has makeTextLarger and makeTextSmaller which works, but limits the s

Re: Best Way to Simulate Keyboard

2009-08-22 Thread Bill Cheeseman
On Aug 22, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Joe Turner wrote: That works well, until I add modifiers. To do my modifiers i put the modifier keys down before the character part, but this doesn't seem to work when the command key is down or something :/ Is there any way to supply modifiers into a single C

Re: Best Way to Simulate Keyboard

2009-08-22 Thread Joe Turner
But then I must have the CGKeyCode for the character i would like to post, which is what I'm trying to get away from. When I do "CGEventSetFlags" on an event I've set a unicode string for, it doesn't work. Joe On Aug 22, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: On Aug 22, 2009, at 10:24

checkbox question

2009-08-22 Thread Michael de Haan
I wonder if someone can just point me in the correct direction. I am at the stage of not really knowing if the error is simply a missed connection, etc or a fundamental misunderstanding. I have a checkbox, which I wish to bind to an iVar in my model ( which is a windowController). What I

Re: checkbox question

2009-08-22 Thread Quincey Morris
On Aug 22, 2009, at 16:16, Michael de Haan wrote: I wonder if someone can just point me in the correct direction. I am at the stage of not really knowing if the error is simply a missed connection, etc or a fundamental misunderstanding. Fundamental misunderstanding. :) I have a checkbox,

Re: Bindings & Reverting Properties

2009-08-22 Thread Quincey Morris
On Aug 22, 2009, at 01:21, Dave Keck wrote: Aye aye. Here's a simple project that uses that setter: http://themha.com/happy.zip When clicking the checkbox in the window, it stays checked. Regardless of what you do to the happy ivar within the setter, the checkbox assumes the intuitive value tha

Re: Displaying svg image with WebKit - scaling issues

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Zegelin
Too Easy! Works perfectly in the MiniBrowser demo project. Many thanks! Peter On 23/08/2009, at 1:15 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: Le 22 août 2009 à 16:27, Peter Zegelin a écrit : Hi, I would like to display a simple svg image in my app using webkit. Unfortunately I also need to be ab

Re: checkbox question

2009-08-22 Thread Michael de Haan
On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: On Aug 22, 2009, at 16:16, Michael de Haan wrote: ..or a fundamental misunderstanding. Fundamental misunderstanding. :) That figures! I have a checkbox, which I wish to bind to an iVar in my model ( which is a windowControll

NSTextField too slow to update

2009-08-22 Thread PCWiz
Hi, I have a large list of files that are being copied in my app, and after each file I need it to update the NSTextField so that it reads something like this: Processing file X of X The problem is that the text field is way too slow in updating its value. So slow infact that nothing app

Re: NSTextField too slow to update

2009-08-22 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Aug 22, 2009, at 6:41 PM, PCWiz wrote: Any faster way to do this? Isn't this kind of the same question as your NSProgressIndicator query? --Kyle Sluder ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests

Re: checkbox question

2009-08-22 Thread Quincey Morris
On Aug 22, 2009, at 18:11, Michael de Haan wrote: OK...that certainly clarifies one thingso, one **cannot** bind to an object, but to that object's properties? (Hence the error when I tried that). The error occurred because you bound a binding that requires a numeric value to somethin

Re: NSTextField too slow to update

2009-08-22 Thread Steve Christensen
On Aug 22, 2009, at 6:41 PM, PCWiz wrote: I have a large list of files that are being copied in my app, and after each file I need it to update the NSTextField so that it reads something like this: Processing file X of X The problem is that the text field is way too slow in updating its

Re: NSTextField too slow to update

2009-08-22 Thread Quincey Morris
On Aug 22, 2009, at 18:41, PCWiz wrote: I have a large list of files that are being copied in my app, and after each file I need it to update the NSTextField so that it reads something like this: Processing file X of X The problem is that the text field is way too slow in updating its va

Handling international text without text views

2009-08-22 Thread Wade Williams
I've got an OpenGL application that implements its own widgets for text entry and display. The application is a Cocoa application. When in windowed mode, it uses a subclass of NSView for its GL context. In full-screen mode, it captures the display with CGL. I need to support internationa

NSTableView and OutineView resizing bugs

2009-08-22 Thread Ernesto Giannotta
Hello list, I've found that when enlarging the OutLineView having grouped rows some annoying white vertical lines and other garbage artifacts appear briefly in the newly displayed area. This is most noticeable if the group row happens to display also images (subclassing the NSTextCell to

Re: Undocumented preparedCellAtColumn:-1 row:row

2009-08-22 Thread Ernesto Giannotta
On 22/ago/09, at 00:17, Seth Willits wrote: In some Apple sample code... // If it is a "full width" cell, we don't have to go through the rows NSCell *fullWidthCell = [self preparedCellAtColumn:-1 row:row]; if (fullWidthCell) { } else { } It's not documented what

Re: Undocumented preparedCellAtColumn:-1 row:row

2009-08-22 Thread Ernesto Giannotta
On 22/ago/09, at 00:33, Seth Willits wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Ernesto Giannotta wrote: It's not documented what preparedCellAtColumn:-1 returns though. Anyone know for sure? yep! it's the cell that you can return in the delegate method: - (NSCell *)outlineView:(NSOutlineView *)

Possible reasons why "no help is available"?

2009-08-22 Thread Brant Sears
Hi. I'm trying to get a Help Book to open for my application. I have a pile of .htm and .css files that were given to me by someone who generated them from Robo Help. I put them in a folder called "XX Help", dropped the folder onto Help Indexer which generated a filed called "XX Help.helpin

Re: NSTableView and OutineView resizing bugs

2009-08-22 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Ernesto Giannotta wrote: After a lot of tests I've noticed that this bug is greatly reduced if drawsBackground is set to false, but I still can see a white line and a ghost right image while enlarging. Have you seen this? http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/me

Re: checkbox question

2009-08-22 Thread Michael de Haan
On Aug 22, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: If you did that, you could add a "measurementUnits" property to your window controller: + (NSSet*) keyPathsForValuesAffectingMeasurementUnits { return [NSSet setWithObject: @"state"]; } - (NSString*) measurementUnits { retur

Re: Handling international text without text views

2009-08-22 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Aug 22, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Wade Williams wrote: When the application was Carbon, as I recall, I would setup a new TSM document, and that would automatically give me the bottom-line text input bar and I would process the input with my Carbon event handlers. I've been doing some searchin

Re: Core Animation + Garbage Collection

2009-08-22 Thread Evan M
So, it isn't Garbage Collection + Core Animation that is breaking the transition, I just refactored my entire project to remove GC support (big pain) and the animation hasn't changed at all. Now I'm looking at my custom NSView that is being animated and I'm wondering now if that is the prob

Re: Possible reasons why "no help is available"?

2009-08-22 Thread Jerry Krinock
The of your "index.html" needs some tags like this: BookMacster Help Also, make sure that there is only one file in the Help folder with these tags. If there's more than one, it will fail. If it works, reply and let us know which one or more of those

Re: Possible reasons why "no help is available"?

2009-08-22 Thread BravoBug Software
Here's a walkthrough, in case it might be helpful: http://bravobug.com/news/?p=160 On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Brant Sears wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to get a Help Book to open for my application. > > I have a pile of .htm and .css files that were given to me by someone who > generated them fro