fork/exec vs NSTask

2010-10-24 Thread eveningnick eveningnick
Hello! I am wondering, if NSTask can be replaced with low-level fork/exec calls. Looking through forums, i often met statements that launching a process with "fork/exec" is not an "OS X way", especially if i am using Cocoa framework (and i am using Cocoa!). What i want to do - is to launch an appl

What are people using for page layout apps ui drawkit?

2010-10-24 Thread colo
I know Cocoa has a project group that was building a Graphics API called Drawkit but it's not been ported to iOS. So I was wondering what people are using to build Pages like apps say Freeform or other type of page layout apps. Is there a new project I might have missed or is everyone just rolling

Re: fork/exec vs NSTask

2010-10-24 Thread Thomas Clement
On 24 oct. 2010, at 19:03, eveningnick eveningnick wrote: > Hello! > I am wondering, if NSTask can be replaced with low-level fork/exec > calls. Looking through forums, i often met statements that launching a > process with "fork/exec" is not an "OS X way", especially if i am > using Cocoa frame

What alhorithm does the launcher follow while processing bundle?

2010-10-24 Thread eveningnick eveningnick
Hello! What operations does the "application launcher" (or launch services? who's responsible for launching bundles) when i doubleclick on a bundle? What happens when i open a terminal and go (CD) straight through MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS and launch the binary? Is there some source to read about th

Re: fork/exec vs NSTask

2010-10-24 Thread eveningnick eveningnick
> > Are you sure about that? No, but by reading all the topics of people, who tried to launch a simple (non bundled) binary with it, i left that idea - according to gossips Launch Services act like Finder's doubleclick - if you doubleclick on a binary file, it just won't work. And unfortunately on

Re: fork/exec vs NSTask

2010-10-24 Thread Greg Guerin
eveningnick wrote:: Basically this is the question about using fork in MacOS. But if there are other ways to launch a process, i'd appreciate if someone shared :) Maybe setup a launchd plist specifying the target executable you want to run, then ask launchd to run it by executing the 'laun

Re: What alhorithm does the launcher follow while processing bundle?

2010-10-24 Thread Thomas Clement
On 24 oct. 2010, at 19:56, eveningnick eveningnick wrote: > Hello! > What operations does the "application launcher" (or launch services? > who's responsible for launching bundles) when i doubleclick on a > bundle? What happens when i open a terminal and go (CD) straight > through MyApp.app/Conten

Re: fork/exec vs NSTask

2010-10-24 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 24 Oct 2010, at 18:48, Thomas Clement wrote: > On 24 oct. 2010, at 19:03, eveningnick eveningnick wrote: > >> Hello! >> I am wondering, if NSTask can be replaced with low-level fork/exec >> calls. Looking through forums, i often met statements that launching a >> process with "fork/exec" is n

Re: fork/exec vs NSTask

2010-10-24 Thread Thomas Clement
On 24 oct. 2010, at 20:03, eveningnick eveningnick wrote: > >> Not great but should work. >> Better would be to use LaunchServices, if not possible I would use >> SMJobSubmit() (ServicesManagement framework). > Could you please explain why? What steps do i omit, if using fork/exec? LaunchServi

Re: fork/exec vs NSTask

2010-10-24 Thread Ken Thomases
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:03 PM, eveningnick eveningnick wrote: > I am wondering, if NSTask can be replaced with low-level fork/exec > calls. Looking through forums, i often met statements that launching a > process with "fork/exec" is not an "OS X way", especially if i am > using Cocoa framework (a

NSMutableURLRequest google my maps help

2010-10-24 Thread Philip Vallone
Hi, I am trying to upload a xml file to google my maps that follows the following protocol: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/mapsdata/developers_guide_protocol.html#uploading_xml POST http://maps.google.com/maps/feeds/maps/userID/full Content-type: application/atom+xml Authorizat

[Q] What options to use to display menu bar in a full screen mode

2010-10-24 Thread JongAm Park
Hello, For PDFView, I used enterFullScreenMode:WithOptions: After looking up some sample codes, I found out that what they used in examples, • From A View to A Movie • From A View to A Picture are different from what is explained in the document. Anyway, I tried many options in

NSError help

2010-10-24 Thread Tom Jones
Hello, I'm trying to understand why I'm getting thrown in to the debugger when using NSError. I have three methods and I'm overloading them and trying to pass the NSError along the way. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, tom Code: -(NSString *)getDataForType:(NSString *)aType error:(NSError **)er

Re: NSError help

2010-10-24 Thread Ken Thomases
On Oct 24, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Tom Jones wrote: > I'm trying to understand why I'm getting thrown in to the debugger when using > NSError. I have three methods and I'm overloading them and trying to pass the > NSError along the way. What am I doing wrong? > -(NSString *)getDataForType:(NSString *

Re: NSError help

2010-10-24 Thread Stephen J. Butler
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Tom Jones wrote: > -(NSString *)getDataForType:(NSString *)aType error:(NSError **)err > { >    NSError *localErr = nil; >    NSString *result = [self getDataForType:aType separator:@"\t" > excludeFields:nil error:&localErr]; >    *err = *localErr; >    return res

Re: NSError help

2010-10-24 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Oct 24, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Tom Jones wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to understand why I'm getting thrown in to the debugger when using > NSError. I have three methods and I'm overloading them and trying to pass the > NSError along the way. What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks, > tom > > > Code:

Re: NSMutableURLRequest google my maps help

2010-10-24 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2010 Oct 24, at 13:26, Philip Vallone wrote: > I am not getting a response back, which indicates my post method is wrong. I disagree. You probably are getting a response, but you're allowing it to fall into the bit bucket on the floor. What are logging there, although you have labelled it

Re: NSMutableURLRequest google my maps help

2010-10-24 Thread Philip Vallone
Thanks Jerry. Works perfect! Regards, Phil ___ 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/Up

Re: NSError help

2010-10-24 Thread Greg Guerin
Dave Carrigan wrote: This is fine, although the code in the else is useless. It won't be fine if err is nil. That's another Cocoa idiom: if the NSError** is nil, then no NSError* is returned. -- GG ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lis

Re: NSError help

2010-10-24 Thread Stephen J. Butler
yes it will. i don't think the OP quite grasps pointer-to-pointers yet. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Greg Guerin wrote: > Dave Carrigan wrote: > >> This is fine, although the code in the else is useless. > > > It won't be fine if err is nil.  That's another Cocoa idiom: if the > NSError** is

Re: NSError help

2010-10-24 Thread Dave Carrigan
The else will be fine, but the other half isn't because he isn't checking for nil err, as Greg and others pointed out. On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote: > yes it will. i don't think the OP quite grasps pointer-to-pointers yet. > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Greg Guerin