I'm trying to build simple application installers (one for 10.4, one for 10.5+)
that place required files into Application Support as well as the application
itself into the Applications folder. Our current installers (built with a
superset of the script below) work fine on a clean machine. T
Subject: Re: How to use Uniform Type Identifiers for this ... ?
From: Jay Reynolds Freeman
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:28:24 -0700
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The issue isn't that it crashes, the issue is that I cannot test
that any given version of "MyApp" does the
Perhaps you're looking for these methods:
-[NSApplication currentEvent]
-[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
Documented here:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSApplication_Class/Reference/Reference.html
Goo
You want the installer-dev list.
--Kyle Sluder
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On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Dick Bridges wrote:
> N.B. Switching from error codes to exception handling can be somewhat
> disconcerting initially so it's probably not something you'd want to take on
> if you are under strong time pressures.
In Cocoa, we don't use exceptions to handle cases
By "mousing on", I refer to the action of double-clicking a document
so as to cause an an appropriate application to launch and deal with
that document.
The desired actions are: Double-click Able ==> Alice launches and
deals with Able; double-click Bravo ==> Bob launches and deals with
B
Hello everyone. I'm just changing the title of a previous thread, as my
problems were narrowed down from general NSSavePanel modality, into a
(possibly) bug in the OS.
The problems occur whenever I try to display a NSSavePanel as a sheet over a
Carbon window.
- (void) saveCarbonWindow: (Windo
i can't find any info about these c functions in the documentation. each
take 2 floating point arguments, but i'm not positive what the function is
doing with the arguments:
float myMinimumFloat = MIN(50.0, 78.0);
what does the function do with 50 and 78?
also, my flaming shields are up. thi
Hello everyone.
In my Cocoa Plugin, which runs in a Carbon host application, I need to
access and manipulate a host-created Carbon window.
My Cocoa interface would be
NSWindow *cocoaWrap = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithWindowRef: hostWindow];
However, when I finish my plugin's work, and I need to
On 26/10/2009, at 8:35 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote:
i can't find any info about these c functions in the documentation.
each
take 2 floating point arguments, but i'm not positive what the
function is
doing with the arguments:
float myMinimumFloat = MIN(50.0, 78.0);
what does the function do wi
> also, my flaming shields are up. this is certainly very basic so flame away
> if you must, but i just can't remember coming across these functions in any
> of my c books.
Try command+double-clicking them in Xcode. That'll take you to their definition.
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It did in fact make it through; a good way to check is to look at
Cocoabuilder (http://www.cocoabuilder.com) and the Apple mailing list
archives (http://lists.apple.com). In this case, I found your message
here: http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2009/Oct/msg01683.html
In Jon's defence I
On 25 Oct 2009, at 14:59, simon Scylla wrote:
hello every one
i need to get current system event,waiting until the function get some
event,then remove it from the queue
what should i do?
Usually, *not* that. There are two occasions on which you *might*
want to run an event pump yourself:
On 25 Oct 2009, at 22:44, Dick Bridges wrote:
FWIW, there are some people (myself included) that consider "error
numbers" to be something of an anti-pattern when exception handling
is available.
There are also some people (myself included) that consider that you
are wrong.
This has been
Hey list,
Until recently, I didn't realize that System Preferences on 10.6 required
preferences panes to be GC-supported. As such, I wrote my preference pane
RC-only, and now I've got a fun few weeks ahead of me. :)
I'm planning on systematically going through each of my source files and
updating
On 25 Oct 2009, at 6:28 PM, Paul Messmer wrote:
I'm trying to build simple application installers (one for 10.4, one
for 10.5+) that place required files into Application Support as
well as the application itself into the Applications folder. Our
current installers (built with a superset o
On Oct 25, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Dick Bridges wrote:
FWIW, there are some people (myself included) that consider "error
numbers" to be something of an anti-pattern when exception handling
is available. Because of [IMHO] improvements in gcc, Objective-C now
supports exception handling and it mi
On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Dave Keck wrote:
1. Apply workaround for interior pointers by '[containingObject
self];' at
the end of the method, to keep the containing object alive.
A valid point, but in my experience this is a rare problem: I have
never run into an instance of a bug cause
I'm about to unleash a Core Data-based application, and I'm sure the
schema will change in later versions. The Core Data Model Versioning
and Data Migration Programming Guide seems to say that migrating a
store from one version to another, at least in simple cases, is
magical: The applicati
Hi Fritz,
I have it running that way in one of my applications. The user base is
small (< 50 users), so I might not have yet had the chance to discover
magic not happening. I also invested a lot of time in the model
process, to avoid too many changes.
My changes, that worked well, include
Hi guys,
first let me thank you for all information and suggestions you provided!
Am 26.10.2009 um 00:48 schrieb I. Savant:
That was entirely my fault, sorry. I have no idea where I got the
idea it was for a screen saver. I did not follow the link. In my
defense, a better description of th
Hey Jonathan & Thomas,
it's finally working and even more easier than I've thought: So I made
a subclass of my IKImageBrowserView and added a new delegate method,
the one's missing:
//
---
// -browserView:dropped
On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Matthias Arndt wrote:
For some reasons I still don't understand (Argh!) the drawRect:
method of my view didn't pass the right rectangle to the object
actually responsible for the drawing. I just fixed the code to aim
for the best performance improvement: Don't
Le 26 oct. 2009 à 17:44, Matthias Arndt a écrit :
Hi guys,
first let me thank you for all information and suggestions you
provided!
Am 26.10.2009 um 00:48 schrieb I. Savant:
That was entirely my fault, sorry. I have no idea where I got the
idea it was for a screen saver. I did not follo
Am 26.10.2009 um 17:44 schrieb Matthias Arndt:
or some reasons I still don't understand (Argh!) the drawRect:
method of my view didn't pass the right rectangle to the object
actually responsible for the drawing.
I mis-phrased that! There is no *technical* thing I don't understand
with the
On Oct 26, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
What do you expect as rectangle ? drawRect: parameter is the
smaller rectangle that contains all rect marked as dirty.
If you want to exact list of dirty rects, you can query it using the
-getRectsBeingDrawn:count: methods.
This is mo
On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Dave Keck wrote:
3. Wrap all CF*Create(), CG*Create(), CF*Copy(), CG*Copy(), etc. with
CFMakeCollectable(), and replace corresponding CFRelease()s with a
custom
macro - CFReleaseIfRC(). (This way, if I ever choose to go GC-only,
I can
simply remove all calls to C
Well, after much work I've finally gotten some scrollbars to look how
I want. There's one thing I can't seem to figure out how to get rid
of, as I have pointed out in the screenshot you can find at the link
below. I want the top of the vertical scroller to sit flush against
the top of the v
Hi all,
Following up on my query about unit tests yesterday... I am writing
another test checking boundary conditions for a calculation. In the
normal running program I am feeding a very large number
(1000) into one text field and the
result displayed i
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Bryan Matteson wrote:
> Any nudge in the right direction would be appreciated.
That's the corner view. NSOutlineView asks its document view for a
corner view by checking to see if it responds to the -cornerView
method.
--Kyle Sluder
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Ian Piper wrote:
> STAssertEquals("inf", [newTemperatureInC stringValue], @"Expecting inf; we
> got %s", [newTemperatureInC stringValue]);
-stringValue returns an NSString, you used a %s specifier rather than %...@.
--Kyle Sluder
That's the corner view. NSOutlineView asks its document view for a
corner view by checking to see if it responds to the -cornerView
method.
Thank you, Kyle. Calling the setCornerView: method with nil
accomplished what I was looking for.
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Ian Piper wrote:
So I am guessing that when I get a float displayed as "inf" this is
not the string it seems to be. Also, it looks like the string value
of whatever is coming back is not something that I can use. Can
anyone suggest how I might handle a test case
On Oct 26, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Bryan Matteson wrote:
Calling the setCornerView: method with nil accomplished what I was
looking for.
Correction, that does not work, either. Setting a custom corner view
does solve the problem however. Thanks.
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:00 am, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> I'm about to unleash a Core Data-based application, and I'm sure the schema
> will change in later versions. The Core Data Model Versioning and Data
> Migration Programming Guide seems to say that migrating a store from one
> version to anot
On 26 Oct 2009, at 18:45, Greg Parker wrote:
On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Ian Piper wrote:
So I am guessing that when I get a float displayed as "inf" this is
not the string it seems to be. Also, it looks like the string value
of whatever is coming back is not something that I can use. Can
On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Ian Piper wrote:
On 26 Oct 2009, at 18:45, Greg Parker wrote:
On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Ian Piper wrote:
So I am guessing that when I get a float displayed as "inf" this
is not the string it seems to be. Also, it looks like the string
value of whatever is
On Oct 26, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Ian Piper wrote:
[testConverter setValue:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:
1000.0] forKey:@"originalTemp"];
I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm curious as to why
you're not using the INFINITY #define that's in math.h... i
On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Ian Piper wrote:
On 26 Oct 2009, at 18:45, Greg Parker wrote:
On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Ian Piper wrote:
So I am guessing that when I get a float displayed as "inf" this
is not the string it seems to be. Also, it looks like the string
value of whatever is c
> -Original Message-
> From: Alastair Houghton [mailto:alast...@alastairs-place.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 4:02 AM
> To: Dick Bridges
> Cc: Squ Aire; cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
> Subject: Re: Professional Error Handling
>
> On 25 Oct 2009, at 22:44, Dick Bridges wrote:
>
> > FWIW,
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Dick Bridges
wrote:
> IIUC,
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Exceptions/Exceptions.html
> is available to everyone and is not under NDA. It's the "Introduction to
> Exception Programming Topics for Cocoa". As noted on this
Hi,
My company's application has the ability to drag contact information for one
or more contacts from our application in multiple formats, including vCard.
Under Leopard, this enabled us to support dragging contacts from our
application into the Address Book.
This has stopped working in Snow Leo
What follows is my $0.02, and is worth every penny you paid for it. :)
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Dave Keck wrote:
> I'm planning on systematically going through each of my source files and
> updating them to be GC-supported. I've been compiling a list of things to
> do
> and to look out
Hi,
In my some 2 yrs of cocoa programming with cocoa, I have been able to
make a main app (which is selling) and a few related small apps.
Now I have to make a small utility that would download the appropriate
(best) version of main app that would run on the user system by
polling for the Ma
On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Nick Rogers wrote:
Hi,
In my some 2 yrs of cocoa programming with cocoa, I have been able
to make a main app (which is selling) and a few related small apps.
Now I have to make a small utility that would download the
appropriate (best) version of main app that w
On 26 Oct 2009, at 19:46, Ken Thomases wrote:
You want STAssertEqualObjects, here. You want to compare for equal
value, not identity, which is what STAssertEquals does.
Greg, Ken,
Thanks, that is what I was looking for. Great help, thank you.
Ian.
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hi,
the package is 6 MB for the demo & 11 MB for the full version, so
packaging all is not desired.
thanks,
Nick
On 27-Oct-2009, at 4:32 AM, Philip Ershler wrote:
On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Nick Rogers wrote:
Hi,
In my some 2 yrs of cocoa programming with cocoa, I have been able
to m
On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Nick Rogers wrote:
Now I have to make a small utility that would download the
appropriate (best) version of main app that would run on the user
system by polling for the MacOS type and its ability to run 64-bit
apps.
I have no internet related programming expe
On Oct 26, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Nick Rogers wrote:
Hi,
In my some 2 yrs of cocoa programming with cocoa, I have been able
to make a main app (which is selling) and a few related small apps.
Now I have to make a small utility that would download the
appropriate (best) version of main app that w
On 10/23/09 4:31 PM, Grant Erickson wrote:
> I have a device list in my preference pane implemented as a NSTableView under
> 10.5, not unlike the list of network devices in Apple's Network preference
> pane.
>
> Unlike the Network table, in my case there is no mandate that an item (i.e.
> row) alw
Its much easier to just build a Universal Binary (which will run on
any architecture) and distribute that. A few megabytes here and there
will not make a huge difference, as others have said.
On 2009-10-26, at 4:50 PM, Nick Rogers wrote:
Hi,
In my some 2 yrs of cocoa programming with cocoa,
Hi,
I have a Core Data app with a category on a model object, Address.
The category has a method to return a fullAddress property, which is
composed of the streetAddress, city, state and zipCode.
Updating one of the dependent properties only updates the fullAddress
property after I've sw
On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Brad Gibbs wrote:
I have a Core Data app with a category on a model object, Address.
The category has a method to return a fullAddress property, which is
composed of the streetAddress, city, state and zipCode.
Did you read the documentation for this method?
On 26 Oct 2009, at 12:11, Ian Piper wrote:
...and I still get a failed build with this message:
Expecting inf; we got inf
Which seems odd.
And internally, this is because the IEEE float machinery guarantees
that all infinite and NaN values compare as not-equal to each other,
so that 1/0 !
I did read the documentation, which is why I used
+keyPathsForValuesAffectingFullAddress. I also tried
+keyPathsForValuesAffectingValueForFullAddress:
Both methods work, but only after changing the view and then coming
back to it.
On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:27 PM, I. Savant wrote:
On Oct 26
On Oct 21, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Wim Lewis wrote:
Is there any useful documentation on what the behavior of
NSURLDownload is supposed to be w.r.t. file quarantine? I'm having a
hard time getting consistent behavior out of it.
FYI, if anyone else is having similar problems, it turns out that thi
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Brad Gibbs wrote:
> I did read the documentation, which is why I used
> +keyPathsForValuesAffectingFullAddress. I also tried
> +keyPathsForValuesAffectingValueForFullAddress:
>
> Both methods work, but only after changing the view and then coming back to
> it.
>> 4. Search for every call to -retain, -alloc, -init pairs, and -copy.
>> Verify that the object being retained is strongly referenced, and if not, it
>> must
>> be CFRetain()ed or -disableCollectorForPointer: must be called for it.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this.
For example, I have an
I have a custom UITableViewController that uses a custom cell that
displays a text field. I have this method added to the table view
controller to set the text field as first responder
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
MLPropertyEditing
Nope. In CocoaTouch, you can explicitly assign a UIResponder to be
first responder by sending it the -becomeFirstResponder message.
There is no "makeFirstResponder" method. IMO, this is one of the
improvements of CocoaTouch over Cocoa. The responder system seems to
be better organized.
On 27/10/2009, at 2:55 PM, Michael Link wrote:
Is there a different solution to getting a first responder in a
table cell and not having it resign on 3.1?
I'm unfamiliar with the iPhone version of Cocoa and whether its rules
are different, but certainly on the Mac you shouldn't invoke -
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build Apple's DepartmentAndEmployees sample project.
2. Launch it.
3. Create two documents (i.e. two departments)
4. Add an employee to Document 1.
5. Select the employee and Edit > Cut.
6. Click on the Employee table in Document 2.
7. Click Edit > Paste. Cut employ
On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Dave Keck wrote:
For example, I have an object that [self retain]; while it does some
work that takes awhile. I don't hold a reference to this object
anywhere after it's created - it simply notifies its delegate when its
finished.
I remember a thread about this a
On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:55 PM, Michael Link wrote:
I have a custom UITableViewController that uses a custom cell that
displays a text field. I have this method added to the table view
controller to set the text field as first responder
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super
On Oct 26, 2009, at 21:18, Jerry Krinock wrote:
But this answer is not as plausible if the user makes the move using
drag-drop instead of cut-paste. (Drag-drop is not implemented in
DepartmentAndEmployees, but it is common in real apps.) Clearly,
the user has now performed only one operat
Hello all,
I'm working with a Snow Leopard 64-bit app that contains a Finder-like
file browser that uses Carbon IconRef's. I'm trying to get the icons
for the selected file with a custom overlay based on the current file
selection and Icon Services. The problem I'm having is that the Icon
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda wrote:
> If there's a way to extract an IconRef from an NSImage (I see that NSImage
> has an -initWithIconRef: method defined) after doing all compositing via
> NSImage and related classes that would be good too.
Sounds like you should move all
Kyle, if I had my way, that's exactly what I would be doing... alas!
It's presently out of my control. I'm stuck with dealing in IconRef's
for the time being...
Best,
Dalmazio
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Dalmazio Brisinda > wrote:
If there's a way to extract an IconRef from an NSIma
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