Re: Performance

2009-11-18 Thread Alexander Spohr
Am 16.11.2009 um 07:14 schrieb Chris Carson: > The first class is the model that submits asynchronous bulk reads to the USB > device. The callback for these reads copies the received data from the buffer > asynchronous filled by the request and into an NSData object that is > allocated and add

Re: Help needed in Writing network usage monitor application

2009-11-18 Thread Aashishk Tiwari
Thanks Nick!! I got it that pcap will be used to capture packets. What will be achieved using IOKit? My other queries are like: 1. Will packets captured using pcap contain (if parsed) information like what application they belong to, , what particular document or tab (in case of browers) they bel

Keeping NSView square

2009-11-18 Thread Henri Häkkinen
Hello. I'm making a custom NSView derived class and I need the view to have a fixed width/height ratio at all times, specifically I would like the view to stay square. I am trying to override the setFrame: method like this: - (void)setFrame:(NSRect)frameRect { // Keeps the frame rectang

Re: setToolTip: not working

2009-11-18 Thread Ben Haller
On 16-Nov-09, at 12:11 PM, Ben Haller wrote: I'm having difficulty setting tooltips on some views in code. This should be a simple matter of calling setToolTip: on the views in question, as far as I can tell from the docs, but that is not working for me. I surfed the various lists for pr

Re: setToolTip: not working

2009-11-18 Thread Eric Gorr
On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Ben Haller wrote: > On 16-Nov-09, at 12:11 PM, Ben Haller wrote: > >> I'm having difficulty setting tooltips on some views in code. This should >> be a simple matter of calling setToolTip: on the views in question, as far >> as I can tell from the docs, but that i

Re: How to stop NSScrollView from scrolling to top when horizontally resizing contained NSTextView?

2009-11-18 Thread Lyndsey Ferguson
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Ross Carter wrote: > You mean when wrapping is turned off? You get that behavior for free. Try > this: > > 1. Create a new project in XCode. > 2. In the app delegate header, set up an IBOutlet to a NSTextView. > 3. In interface Builder, add a NSTextView to the wi

Re: firstResponder KVO snow leopard crash; bug?

2009-11-18 Thread Keary Suska
On Nov 17, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Aaron Clarke wrote: > Even if it doesn't crash, closing the NSWindow always results in the > following error message. > > An instance 0x11b75230 of class MyWindow was deallocated while key value > observers were still registered with it. Observation info was leaked, a

Re: firstResponder KVO snow leopard crash; bug?

2009-11-18 Thread Corbin Dunn
On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Aaron Clarke wrote: > We have an application that runs fine on leopard (10.5) but occasionally > crashes on snow leopard (10.6) when closing an NSWindow. Here is the > backtrace for the crash: > > Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. > Re

Re: firstResponder KVO snow leopard crash; bug?

2009-11-18 Thread Corbin Dunn
On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Aaron Clarke wrote: > We have an application that runs fine on leopard (10.5) but occasionally > crashes on snow leopard (10.6) when closing an NSWindow. Here is the > backtrace for the crash: > > Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. > Re

Re: Core Data derived property not recognized after save & reopen

2009-11-18 Thread David Catmull
Follow-up to my own question: I decided that since the year and month derived properties were only there for fetch requests, the correct thing to do is to get rid of them and instead use predicates that look for the corresponding date ranges. That works just as well, and avoids the derived prop

Re: Help needed in Writing network usage monitor application

2009-11-18 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Nov 18, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Aashishk Tiwari wrote: > 1. Will packets captured using pcap contain (if parsed) information like > what application they belong to, , what particular document or tab (in case > of browers) they belong, if it is a streaming data etc? No, no, and no. Short of hacking

Question about Style wrt "private" methods

2009-11-18 Thread Michael de Haan
In the newly released "Cocoa design patterns" (Buck and Yacktman), the chapter discussing Delegates includes an example, which in it's implementation file, has the following method, which is defined/declared like this: ( I have removed the actual definition) - (float)_myBarShouldChangeValue:(

Re: Keeping NSView square

2009-11-18 Thread vinai
Henri, Does setting your main window aspect ratio properties with "setContentAspectRatio" not work. In my own code, I have something like: [myWindow setContentAspectRatio: myImageSize] , where myImageSize is a variable of NSSize type (a pair of floats in a struct that give the width and hei

Re: Help needed in Writing network usage monitor application

2009-11-18 Thread Todd Heberlein
> What APIs/library/Technology we should use that notifies us about network > usages and also provides us with the data being transmitted. > > I have look in libpcap that pretty much gives the packets but i dont know > how much it helps in notification kind of things. I don't think there are any

Re: Question about Style wrt "private" methods

2009-11-18 Thread Jens Alfke
On Nov 18, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Michael de Haan wrote: > "Names of most private methods in the Cocoa frameworks have an underscore > prefix (for example, _fooData ) to mark them as private. From this fact > follow two recommendations. > > • Don’t use the underscore character as a prefix for

Re: Where are the interface builder components?

2009-11-18 Thread Sandro Noël
This is what i think from observing the applications apple released witch have controls that are not in the tools palette. > * Must work with localized content That's already implemented in the controls used by apple in their application. > * Must work with accessibility also alr

[iPhone] UITableView section header title color

2009-11-18 Thread Tharindu Madushanka
Hi Could we customize the UITableView section header title color programatically other than default one in a grouped table view ? Thank you Tharindu ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator

Re: [iPhone] UITableView section header title color

2009-11-18 Thread Luke the Hiesterman
You can provide a custom header view for each section through the tableView's delegate. You can do whatever you want within that view. Luke On Nov 18, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Tharindu Madushanka wrote: Hi Could we customize the UITableView section header title color programatically other than de

Re: [iPhone] UITableView section header title color

2009-11-18 Thread Dave DeLong
http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UITableViewDelegate_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006942-CH3-SW3 Cheers, Dave On Nov 18, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Tharindu Madushanka wrote: > Hi > > Could we customize the UITableView section header

SB won't create an element on 10.5

2009-11-18 Thread Fritz Anderson
I don't see a better list for Scripting Bridge — referrals welcome. I am looking for a local-folder element in the Entourage application. If there is none, I want to create it. This works fine on my 10.6 installation, but not on my customer's 10.5. Both machines are Intel, running the same versi

Re: Question about Style wrt "private" methods

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Correia
On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: This is unfortunately true. The danger is that if you add an _- prefixed method to your class, it might conflict with a private method declared in a superclass. If this happens your method will override the internal one, and Really Bad Things wi

Help with Background Tasks

2009-11-18 Thread Mark Bateman
Hi, I am developing an App with a table that will hold URL content. I want to download that in the background and then have it update the table as it arrives. I tried using [self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(MakeURLRequest:) withObject:UrlRequest]; but I can't get it to return an

Re: Question about Style wrt "private" methods

2009-11-18 Thread Jens Alfke
On Nov 18, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Jim Correia wrote: > This problem is just not restricted to private methods, or additions through > categories. You can also run afoul of a namespace conflict with a public > method in your subclass. Yes; but this is less likely because Apple engineers add public

Re: Help with Background Tasks

2009-11-18 Thread Jens Alfke
On Nov 18, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Mark Bateman wrote: > I am developing an App with a table that will hold URL content. I want to > download that in the background and then have it update the table as it > arrives. Don't do this using threads. Cocoa's networking APIs are asynchronous, so you can

Re: Question about Style wrt "private" methods

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Correia
On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > On Nov 18, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Jim Correia wrote: > >> This problem is just not restricted to private methods, or additions through >> categories. You can also run afoul of a namespace conflict with a public >> method in your subclass. > > Yes; b

Re: Question about Style wrt "private" methods

2009-11-18 Thread Michael de Haan
On Nov 18, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Jim Correia wrote: > On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > >> This is unfortunately true. The danger is that if you add an _-prefixed >> method to your class, it might conflict with a private method declared in a >> superclass. If this happens your meth

Re: Help with Background Tasks

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Guerin
Mark Bateman wrote: Can anyone point me in the right direction. http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ URLLoadingSystem/Tasks/UsingNSURLConnection.html -- GG ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.co

Re: addObserver:forKeyPath:options:context: memory management in GC

2009-11-18 Thread Lukhnos D. Liu
On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Sean McBride wrote: > The docs for addObserver:forKeyPath:options:context: say "Neither the > receiver, nor anObserver, are retained.". They don't comment on the > garbage collected case specifically. Does any know for sure? > Does calling this method add a strong ref

Re: SB won't create an element on 10.5

2009-11-18 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > Setting NSScriptingDebugLogLevel to 1 in the global, Entourage, and > my-application defaults had no effect at all on my 10.6 machine. So I can't > see whether the 10.6 core/crel is different. You can turn on AEDebugSends/AEDebugReceives

Re: SB won't create an element on 10.5

2009-11-18 Thread Fritz Anderson
A followup: One of my puzzlements was that the local folder "Archive" returned NO from [folder exists], when my customer swore that an "Archive" folder was there. I pressed him; the folder in place was named "Archives". So that was a red herring. I still am unable to insert a new folder under 1

Re: Core Data derived property not recognized after save & reopen

2009-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
On 11/17/09 9:02 PM, David Catmull said: >I have an entity with a "date" property, and derived properties "year" >and "month" (by having year/month methods in my NSManagedObject >subclass). In a couple of different places, I fetch the entries from a >particular year or month- the fetch requests's

Re: SB won't create an element on 10.5

2009-11-18 Thread Fritz Anderson
It begins to look more and more that I'm out of luck... To review, here is the NSLog of the failed core/crel event on 10.5: Event = 'core'\'crel'{ 'kocl':'cFld', 'insh':'insl'{ 'kobj':'obj '{ 'want':'cFld', 'from':'null'(), 'form':'indx', 'seld':'abso'($206C6C61$) }, 'kpos':'end ' }, 'prdt':{

unable to select submenu item

2009-11-18 Thread SRD
Sorry to have to post this again, but I have been unable to understand why this isn't working. I have an NSView with an NSPopUpButton within it. The NSPopUpButton is of type 'Pull Down'. This NSView is in the toolbar of my application, it looks just like the 'Action' button in the toolbar of XCode

Re: setToolTip: not working

2009-11-18 Thread Ben Haller
On 18-Nov-09, at 8:40 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Ben Haller wrote: Given the deafening silence on this, I'm putting in a Radar on the problem (7404209) and moving on. :-> Have you tried reproducing the problem with a test application? I think the reason for the deaf

WebView in a modal panel - any new solutions?

2009-11-18 Thread Leif Harrison
Is anyone out there using WebViews in modal panels? If so, what are you doing to get around it's issues with NSURLConnection? (Presuming it's still an issue in Snow Leopard? Which it certainly seem like from what I've seen...) Our current solution is to use a custom subclass of NSURLConnection

Re: Where are the interface builder components?

2009-11-18 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 18 Nov 2009, at 19:04, Sandro Noël wrote: > This is what i think from observing the applications apple released witch > have controls that are not in the tools palette. > >> * Must work with localized content > That's already implemented in the controls used by apple in their > applic

Re: unable to select submenu item

2009-11-18 Thread Keary Suska
On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:45 PM, SRD wrote: > - (IBAction) readMenuSelection:(id) sender > { > NSMenu *projectMenu = [sender menu]; > NSLog(@"projectMenu = %@", projectMenu); > > NSMenuItem *menuItem = [sender selectedItem]; > NSLog(@"menuItem %@", menuItem); >

Re: Question about Style wrt "private" methods

2009-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
On 11/18/09 2:15 PM, Jim Correia said: >This problem is much less insidious than the category problem, but the >potential does exist. (For both private and public methods.) For the category case, you can set the environment variable OBJC_PRINT_REPLACED_METHODS=YES. You'll get something like this:

Re: firstResponder KVO snow leopard crash; bug?

2009-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
On 11/18/09 9:00 AM, Corbin Dunn said: >Oh -- another thing. Does your subclass of NSCollectionView override: > > (void)viewWillMoveToWindow:(NSWindow *)window { > >but not call super? If not... call super! Your classes should always >call super if it is defined in a superclass, unless you have a

Object with no roots not garbage collected

2009-11-18 Thread Jeffrey J. Early
I have a series of objects created periodically in my code which show no roots under the GC Monitor in instruments, yet stubbornly refuse to be garbage collected. I've tried forcing garbage collection and also clearing the stack in various spots with objc_clear_stack(OBJC_CLEAR_RESIDENT_STACK).

What exactly does NSController do?

2009-11-18 Thread Chase Meadors
Maybe I'm missing some things here, but hey; that's what I come to the list for. I'm not fully understanding the need for NSController's and/or what they do. Say I have an NSObject subclass: (.h) @interface TestObject : NSObject { BOOL boolProp; } @property BOOL boolProp;

Re: firstResponder KVO snow leopard crash; bug?

2009-11-18 Thread Aaron Clarke
On Nov 18, 2009, at 12:00 , Corbin Dunn wrote: On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Aaron Clarke wrote: We have an application that runs fine on leopard (10.5) but occasionally crashes on snow leopard (10.6) when closing an NSWindow. Here is the backtrace for the crash: Program received signal E

Re: setToolTip: not working

2009-11-18 Thread Gregory Weston
Ben Haller wrote: >>> Given the deafening silence on this, I'm putting in a Radar on the >>> problem (7404209) and moving on. :-> >> >> Have you tried reproducing the problem with a test application? > > I get the impression that others are not seeing it because it's a > problem that spec

Re: What exactly does NSController do?

2009-11-18 Thread Chase Meadors
I wanted to add that my problem in the second part of my question has been solved. The only reason it wasn't working was that graphView is actually a CALayer, and doesn't automatically call -willChange and - didChange. Doing that solves the issue. However, my question becomes more strange, a

Re: unable to select submenu item

2009-11-18 Thread SRD
> Here your code indicates that the "Load" menu item was selected, and > according to everything you show, "Load" does *not* have a submenu, so > everything is working as expected, unless you aren't selecting "Load", in > which case your problem isn't the same as you describe. Apologies, I grab

Re: Core Data derived property not recognized after save & reopen

2009-11-18 Thread David Catmull
On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > What do you mean exactly by "derived properties"? Are they transient? > Are they in your xcdatamodel? In any case, I believe your problem is > that you can only fetch against properties that are in the persistent > store ie in your xcdatamodel an

Re: firstResponder KVO snow leopard crash; bug?

2009-11-18 Thread Sean McBride
Aaron Clarke (clark...@gmail.com) on 2009-11-18 8:28 PM said: >> Oh -- another thing. Does your subclass of NSCollectionView override: >> >> (void)viewWillMoveToWindow:(NSWindow *)window { >> >> but not call super? If not... call super! Your classes should always >> call super if it is defined in

Annoying Pragma Mark "Feature"

2009-11-18 Thread Chunk 1978
sometimes when i want to quickly jump to a method, the list of methods will only display it's title rather than the actual list. this usually happens when i have a lot of methods, and it only happens for the last marks. how can i force it to show the list? and why does it do this? it's complete

Re: Annoying Pragma Mark "Feature"

2009-11-18 Thread Dave DeLong
If you see how "Touch Methods" is indented with respect to "Animation Methods", it would seem to indicate that you're missing a closing brace in your animationDidStop:finished:context: method. Dave On Nov 18, 2009, at 10:24 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote: > sometimes when i want to quickly jump to a met

Re: Annoying Pragma Mark "Feature"

2009-11-18 Thread Chunk 1978
ohhh! i get it now... i like to jump around while i'm still writing methods. thanks for clearing that up :) On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Dave DeLong wrote: > If you see how "Touch Methods" is indented with respect to "Animation > Methods", it would seem to indicate that you're missing a c

Re: What exactly does NSController do?

2009-11-18 Thread Rob Keniger
On 19/11/2009, at 11:44 AM, Chase Meadors wrote: > However, my question becomes more strange, as now I have many working > bindings systems in my code without any NSControllers. Binding to plain old > NSObjects seems to be fine. What is the purpose of NSController? NSObjectController and frie

Re: Keeping NSView square

2009-11-18 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 18 Nov 2009, at 04:38, Henri Häkkinen wrote: > I'm making a custom NSView derived class and I need the view to have a fixed > width/height ratio at all times, specifically I would like the view to stay > square. I am trying to override the setFrame: method like this... Don't. Arbitrarily chan