Custom View Binding, Arrays, and observeValueForKeyPath

2010-05-19 Thread Mazen M. Abdel-Rahman
Hi all, I have a general question about bindings - and I feel like there's something I'm not quite getting. I have a custom view class with an array property. I want to bind that array property to a model - which in my case is an array that is in a container/manager object. The binding is do

Re: Custom View Binding, Arrays, and observeValueForKeyPath

2010-05-19 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Mazen M. Abdel-Rahman wrote: > What is the best way for calendarView to get the items of the array that are > going to be removed before they are actually removed? We use NSSet KVO instead of array KVO for this exact reason. Another option is to cache the array

Original iPhone animation performance

2010-05-19 Thread Andrew
Hi All, Im writing some code to animate an image moving up the display, just a simple thing moving from the bottom to the top. the image is 75x75, and Im displaying that in a CALayer sized to 45x45 by setting its .contents property to the .CGImage of the UIImage. on the newer phones this runs

Re: Regarding MVC design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Sai
Hi all, I have gone through the Memory Management Programming Guide document last night, and modify my codes a little bit. Even the program runs well without crashing, but I still have some questions remained. I will attach some of my codes as follow: 1. I have both Controller Object and MyModel

Re: singleton design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 18 May 2010, at 23:58, Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote: > static NSMutableDictionary* uniqueInstance = nil; > // the static variable has to be initialized before you enter the > uniqueInstance method. Not true. Static variables are initialised to nil (or zero) automatically (it says

Re: Regarding MVC design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Jack Nutting
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Sai wrote: > I have two questions: > 1. Look at the awakeFromNib method of Controller, my output of the retain > count to the console are > myModel retain count: 5 > controller retain count: 17 > both number are very surprised me, why is that? I suppose they shoul

Re: Regarding MVC design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Sai
Hi Jack, Thank you for your quick response. Your answer is very useful. Since I have pasted some of my codes in the previous mail. I just wonder if you have any comments on my codes, anything I can improve for this little app? Any advice will be very appreciated. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM,

Re: Regarding MVC design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Jack Nutting
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Sai wrote: > Hi Jack, > Thank you for your quick response. Your answer is very useful. > Since I have pasted some of my codes in the previous mail. I just > wonder if you have any comments on my codes, anything I can > improve for this little app? Any advice will

Solved BUT How to get NSLog back - Re: NSTask and piped commands -

2010-05-19 Thread René v Amerongen
Op 19 mei 2010, om 03:37 heeft Greg Guerin het volgende geschreven: > appledev wrote: > >>arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"-c", @"/bin/df -k| /usr/bin/grep >> /dev/ | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1 $4 $5 $6;}'",nil]; > > > Your awk syntax is somewhere between quirky and wrong. Since you

Re: Custom View Binding, Arrays, and observeValueForKeyPath

2010-05-19 Thread Ken Thomases
On May 19, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Mazen M. Abdel-Rahman wrote: > I have a custom view class with an array property. I want to bind that array > property to a model - which in my case is an array that is in a > container/manager object. The binding is done via a custom view controller > (in it's a

rendering PDF on iPad's

2010-05-19 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Hello all. I would want to know if I can render pdf into iPad using quartz, or I have to use UIWebView... or whats the way to achieve this? Any headlights are appreciate it. thanks Gustavo ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) P

Re: rendering PDF on iPad's

2010-05-19 Thread Laurent Cerveau
Gustavo You can use the CGPDF API. However be careful on memory usage (in particular keeping the CGPDFDocument open all the time could lead to some memory issues that could be workarounded by closing and reopening it) Regards laurent On Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at 12:07PM, "Gustavo Pizano"

Re: Regarding MVC design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Joanna Carter
Hi Guys Can I just suggest something more? > @interface Controller : NSObject { >IBOutlet UIButton *beginButton; >IBOutlet UIButton *endButton; >IBOutlet UILabel *nameLabel; >IBOutlet UILabel *numberLabel; >MyModel *myModel; > } > > @property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet MyMo

Re: Original iPhone animation performance

2010-05-19 Thread Ricky Sharp
On May 19, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Andrew wrote: > Im writing some code to animate an image moving up the display, just a simple > thing moving from the bottom to the top. > > the image is 75x75, and Im displaying that in a CALayer sized to 45x45 by > setting its .contents property to the .CGImage o

Re: rendering PDF on iPad's

2010-05-19 Thread Mike Abdullah
UIWebView is the easiest way to view PDFs. But if you want any editing or other custom manipulation, will need to drop down lower to CoreGraphics. On 19 May 2010, at 11:07, Gustavo Pizano wrote: > Hello all. > > I would want to know if I can render pdf into iPad using quartz, or I have > to u

Re: rendering PDF on iPad's

2010-05-19 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Hello Jack and Laurent. So I will see the CGPDF API, also what Jack wrote. The idea its very simple, load pdf and be able to add notes, as I understand I can "inject" the notes object in the pdf strucutre, correct me if Im wrong please, this is the first time Im gonna be doming something like

Re: rendering PDF on iPad's

2010-05-19 Thread Jack Nutting
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Gustavo Pizano wrote: > Hello Jack and Laurent. > > So I will see the CGPDF API, also what Jack wrote. > > The idea its very simple, load pdf and be able to add notes, as I understand > I can "inject" the notes object in the pdf strucutre,  correct me if Im wrong

Re: rendering PDF on iPad's

2010-05-19 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Aha .. ok.. :P np. G On 19.5.2010, at 13:11, Jack Nutting wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Gustavo Pizano > wrote: >> Hello Jack and Laurent. >> >> So I will see the CGPDF API, also what Jack wrote. >> >> The idea its very simple, load pdf and be able to add notes, as I understand >

Re: rendering PDF on iPad's

2010-05-19 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Laurent hi. About your warning. SO If I have a pdf of many many pages, I shall just open de CGPDFDocument, then get the required page using CGPDFDocumetnGetPage(), dra the page then release the CGPDDocument?.. and when swapping pages just release the current page, open document again get next

Re: Regarding MVC design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Joanna Carter wrote: > Any outlets for controls (top level objects) in the Nib should be released in > the dealloc method only for OS X apps but not for iPhone apps. Setting the > properties to nil will ensure that the synthesized setter will be called, > which

Turning text tokens into single elements

2010-05-19 Thread Gideon King
I'm looking for some sample code that shows how to take a token in a text view and represent it as a single graphical item - just like what xcode does when it does method completion, and it puts the arguments in a single blue capsule thing that is treated as one single character (only I wouldn't

Re: Regarding MVC design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Joanna Carter
Hi Sherm > If you set the ivars directly, as above, the synthesized setters will > NOT be called. For that to happen, you need to use dot-syntax, like > this: You are absolutely right. I keep slipping back to previous languages :-) Joanna -- Joanna Carter Carter Consulting

Simulating Text Input

2010-05-19 Thread Eiko Bleicher
I am working on a remote-controller, i.e. take one device (be it a Mac or a mobile client) and control another Mac. So the application runs in background and the events should be delivered to the front-most application. Moving the mouse around works by posting the corresponding events, but I hav

Re: Turning text tokens into single elements

2010-05-19 Thread Jonathan del Strother
On 19 May 2010 13:02, Gideon King wrote: > I'm looking for some sample code that shows how to take a token in a text > view and represent it as a single graphical item - just like what xcode does > when it does method completion, and it puts the arguments in a single blue > capsule thing that i

Re: Simulating Text Input

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Sanders
> I am working on a remote-controller, i.e. take one device (be it a Mac or a > mobile client) and control another > Mac. So the application runs in background and the events should be delivered > to the front-most application. > Moving the mouse around works by posting the corresponding events,

Re: Turning text tokens into single elements

2010-05-19 Thread Gideon King
That looks to be exactly what I was looking for, thanks. Gideon On 19/05/2010, at 10:31 PM, Jonathan del Strother wrote: > > Try NSTokenField ? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator co

Problem resizing an attachment in a NSTextView

2010-05-19 Thread Anders Sommer Lassen
Hi, I am working on a small project, which is about inserting a horizontal line into a NSTextView. My first solution is to subclass NSAttachmentCell, and let the custom class do the drawing. I am here neglecting that an attachment would normally have a file or an image embedded (attached). Th

Progress Indicator in Table View

2010-05-19 Thread Rick C.
Hello, I'm struggling a bit with what seems to be quite common these days, putting an NSProgressIndicator inside of an NSTableView. I'm able to make it work to a point but quite buggy and not always able to update it properly. I have found the topic discussed a bit in the Archives and via Goo

Re: rendering PDF on iPad's

2010-05-19 Thread Rafael Cerioli
Hi Gustavo, When you draw a CGPDFPageRef into a graphic context, Quartz will hold images inside the PDF page in a sort of cache (at least, it seems with Instrument Object Alloc). You can only empty that cache by destroying the CGPDFDocumentRef. However, if you do not destroy your CGPDFDocumen

Re: rendering PDF on iPad's

2010-05-19 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Rafael hi Thanks for the info,, I will be testing the behavior with some pdfs and see whats better, to keep the CGPDFDocumentRef and destroy it when closing the pdf.. or open-close each time I change.. I guess I must decided what I want speed vs memory usage. G, On 19.5.2010, at 15:0

iPhone/iPad: Desktop wallpaper can't be set.

2010-05-19 Thread sebi
Hello, A customer wants an app that changes the desktop background image. I told him that is not possible (and probably won't be in the near future) because that would mean to play outside the sandbox. Is this correct? Thanks and regards, Sebastian Mecklenburg___

Solved!! NSLog issue with NSTask Bash commands Re: Solved BUT How to get NSLog back - Re: NSTask and piped commands -

2010-05-19 Thread René v Amerongen
Op 19 mei 2010, om 11:44 heeft René v Amerongen het volgende geschreven: >> > > Because I didn't see any result, I noticed that this happened only when I use > /bin/sh -c. > > My code was just a short piece in main as test bed, and did trust my NSLog > output which was ok and visible in the x

Re: iPhone/iPad: Desktop wallpaper can't be set.

2010-05-19 Thread David Duncan
On May 19, 2010, at 7:55 AM, sebi wrote: > A customer wants an app that changes the desktop background image. I told him > that is not possible (and probably won't be in the near future) because that > would mean to play outside the sandbox. Is this correct? Correct, this is not possible in th

Re: iPhone/iPad: Desktop wallpaper can't be set.

2010-05-19 Thread Joanna Carter
> Correct, this is not possible in the current API. I would recommend filing a > bug report asking for this capability. There's an interesting post on MacRumours, that might save you the trouble of filing that report. http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/18/apple-releases-iphone-os-4-beta-4-and-sdk

Re: singleton design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Alejandro Marcos Aragón
I found the problem. It was not in the singleton design pattern, but in the way I created the NSMutableDictionary. The dictionary contained NSString as keys and NSMutableArrays as values, then I was trying to create the NSMutableDictionary with initWithDictionary method from an NSDictionary. But

Re: singleton design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Alejandro Marcos Aragón
Hi Abhinay, Why declaring the static variable outside the function? If I have it inside, I make sure that it's initialized before it's being used. aa On May 18, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote: > > On May 18, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote: > >> >> On 18 May 2010,

Re: Regarding MVC design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: > If you set the ivars directly, as above, the synthesized setters will > NOT be called. For that to happen, you need to use dot-syntax, like > this: But you shouldn't be using accessors in -init or -dealloc anyway. It makes subclassing fragil

Re: iPhone/iPad: Desktop wallpaper can't be set.

2010-05-19 Thread sebi
Hehe, I'm with you here, man :-) Sadly, however, if I would accept only job offers where I can create useful programs for smart people I would be starved by now. Regards, Sebastian Mecklenburg On 19.05.2010, at 18:23, Phil Hystad wrote: > I hope this feature is not supported. The last thing

Re: iPhone/iPad: Desktop wallpaper can't be set.

2010-05-19 Thread banane
I too would really hate this feature, as a user. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/

Re: Progress Indicator in Table View

2010-05-19 Thread Karl Moskowski
On 2010-05-19, at 1:55 PM, Rick C. wrote: > Hello, > > I'm struggling a bit with what seems to be quite common these days, putting > an NSProgressIndicator inside of an NSTableView. I'm able to make it work to > a point but quite buggy and not always able to update it properly. I have > fou

Re: Progress Indicator in Table View

2010-05-19 Thread Sean McBride
On Wed, 19 May 2010 20:55:21 +0800, Rick C. said: >I'm struggling a bit with what seems to be quite common these days, >putting an NSProgressIndicator inside of an NSTableView. I'm able to >make it work to a point but quite buggy and not always able to update it >properly. I have found the topic

Re: Simulating Text Input

2010-05-19 Thread Flavio Donadio
Paul, I am interested in simulating text input (maybe via generating keystrokes), but never found an example for that. One example is redirecting input from a serial port to the active application. I tried to do it in the past, but didn't get it to work with Cocoa/ObjC, though I succeeded usi

Scripting Bridge to Mail using predicates question

2010-05-19 Thread David Hoerl
I'd like to use Scripting Bridge to find messages in Mail's Inbox that have attachments with a certain suffix (e.g., txt) and ultimately retrieve just those. When I get a reference to "Inbox", what I want (in plain English) is ALL messages that have at least one attachment whose name ends in "

Re: Simulating Text Input

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Sanders
> I am interested in simulating text input (maybe via generating keystrokes), > but never found an example for that. Well VNC must simulate keystrokes somewhere along the line, although finding it may take a bit of digging around in the sources. As you say, mapping all the various keycodes is

Re: Why I can't see my localized nib?

2010-05-19 Thread Frédéric Testuz
Well, I'm not sure. I only use AppleLanguages for debug. I'm setting the argument in the launch argument in Xcode. I think that your method can work. Perhaps you can even set the defaults in the beginning of the application [NSUserDefaults registerDefaults:], but I think it must be very early

Re: Why I can't see my localized nib?

2010-05-19 Thread Gustavo Pizano
Yeah, well.. as I see some multi language apps, you change the language and then you must restart the app in order the selected lang to be used. So my guess is that they register the language as I described and restart the application.. once in the +(id)initialize method of t he delegate where

Cracks in image using NSDrawThreePartImage

2010-05-19 Thread B.J. Buchalter
Hi Folks, I have followed the suggestion in the documentation to use NSDrawThreePartImage to draw an extensible image. The way that I am using it, the image is extensible in the horizontal dimension, and may be resized in the vertical dimension, so the individual component images are resc

Re: Specify "Sent Action on" Behavior of NSTextField

2010-05-19 Thread Lee Ann Rucker
Only in IB 3.2. The 3.1 tooltips are not so useful. This one happens to be simple, though. Look up sendsActionOnEndEditing On May 18, 2010, at 4:02 AM, René v Amerongen wrote: In IB, move with the mouse over the popup item. Op 18 mei 2010, om 10:21 heeft Dong Feng het volgende geschreven: T

Re: Get controller from nib

2010-05-19 Thread James Maxwell
okay, going slightly nuts. I've implemented my MIDI_Instrument_Controller object, and hooked it up to my table view, but it's complaining about implementing numberOrRowsInTableView and tableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row:. Fine, except that I very definitely have implemented them. I tried c

Re: Cracks in image using NSDrawThreePartImage

2010-05-19 Thread Ken Ferry
Hi BJ, File a bug with a test case that shows the problem. I would expect there to be seams due to rounding error if you look in pixie, but I have never seen a case where it was visible to the eye at actual scale. -Ken On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:41 PM, B.J. Buchalter wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I h

Re: singleton design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy
everytime you ask for a uniqueInstance it looks like it retrieves a new instance not the existing instance... since you set the uniqueinstance to nil inside that function, your function will discard the previous instance if any and then create a new instance. Singleton is supposed to return ex

Re: Cracks in image using NSDrawThreePartImage

2010-05-19 Thread Ricky Sharp
On May 19, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: > File a bug with a test case that shows the problem. > > I would expect there to be seams due to rounding error if you look in pixie, > but I have never seen a case where it was visible to the eye at actual > scale. I only recall seeing this when

Re: Cracks in image using NSDrawThreePartImage

2010-05-19 Thread Ken Ferry
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Ricky Sharp wrote: > > On May 19, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: > > > File a bug with a test case that shows the problem. > > > > I would expect there to be seams due to rounding error if you look in > pixie, > > but I have never seen a case where it was visi

Re: Cracks in image using NSDrawThreePartImage

2010-05-19 Thread B.J. Buchalter
Hi Ken, File a bug with a test case that shows the problem. Ok -- I filed rdar://8005118 This includes a default configuration that shows the crack clearly. The crack comes and goes as you rescale the window. I would expect there to be seams due to rounding error if you look in pixie, b

Re: singleton design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Greg Guerin
Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote: everytime you ask for a uniqueInstance it looks like it retrieves a new instance not the existing instance... since you set the uniqueinstance to nil inside that function, your function will discard the previous instance if any and then create a new instan

Re: singleton design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy
Thanks GG. Apologies for the wrong remark. On May 19, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Greg Guerin wrote: > Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote: > >> everytime you ask for a uniqueInstance it looks like it retrieves a new >> instance not the existing instance... since you set the uniqueinstance to >> nil inside

Re: Original iPhone animation performance

2010-05-19 Thread Andrew
Hi Ricky, that is interesting, for some reason I assumed that the presentation layer would take care of caching the presented view. ok, I will try that and see how it goes, thanks. is there anything else you can think of that might make a difference? - Andrew Bush > >> Im writing some cod

Re: Progress Indicator in Table View

2010-05-19 Thread Rick C.
Great thank you both for the replies! On May 20, 2010, at 2:18 AM, Sean McBride wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2010 20:55:21 +0800, Rick C. said: > >> I'm struggling a bit with what seems to be quite common these days, >> putting an NSProgressIndicator inside of an NSTableView. I'm able to >> make it

"semi modal" view

2010-05-19 Thread B.J. Buchalter
Hey Folks, I would like to implement something that I would describe as "popup" text entry. Effectively I have a view that displays some textual information. I would like to make it so that if the user clicks on the view it becomes a text entry box. I have worked out how to insert a NSTex

Re: singleton design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Graham Cox
On 20/05/2010, at 7:35 AM, Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote: > everytime you ask for a uniqueInstance it looks like it retrieves a new > instance not the existing instance... since you set the uniqueinstance to nil > inside that function, your function will discard the previous instance if any

Re: singleton design pattern

2010-05-19 Thread Alejandro Marcos Aragón
Static variables inside member functions are initialized only once, static variables therefore keep the state of the variable in repeated calls. aa On May 19, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 20/05/2010, at 7:35 AM, Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote: > >> everytime you ask for a uniqu

Adding Mutiple Lines to a UITableView

2010-05-19 Thread Nick Rawlins
Hi, Does anyone have any suggestions or examples on adding more than 2 lines to a UITableView row on the iPhone? I am using textLabel and detailTextLabel at present but wish to also add a 3rd and 4th line. Best Regards, Nick ___ Cocoa-dev mailing l

Re: Simulating Text Input

2010-05-19 Thread Eiko Bleicher
Thanks. I looked into it - compiled and run. The code uses the keycodes as well, and finally doesn't give special characters (tested with JollyVNC client and an iPad app). I think I can get it running "good enough" - but of course a nice solution is preferred. At least only the "ANSI" named sub

Re: Get controller from nib

2010-05-19 Thread James Maxwell
oh jeez... This is making me crazy. For some reason, my NSArrayController appears to be calling "count" on MIDIInstrument objects. No idea why. I could see it calling count on the array it's controlling, but not an object in that array. Has anyone come across this problem? I have a MIDI_Instru

Re: Simulating Text Input

2010-05-19 Thread Flavio Donadio
Paul, You're right. I'll check VNC server source later. Thanks for the help. Cheers, Flavio On 19/05/2010, at 16:53, Paul Sanders wrote: >> I am interested in simulating text input (maybe via generating keystrokes), >> but never found an example for that. > > Well VNC must simulate keystro

Re: Adding Mutiple Lines to a UITableView

2010-05-19 Thread WT
Hi Nick, you can add more content (labels or any other views) to the contentView of the cell (in the -tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: method of the table view data source) or you can create a custom cell. Read the documentation of UITableViewCell and the Table View Programming Guide for detail