Questions about -orderFrontTablePanel:

2011-09-22 Thread Ulf Dunkel
I wonder about the functionality of the NSTextView method -orderFrontTableView: but couldn't find answers for my following questions in the documentation or googling. The documentation only says: "Brings forward a panel allowing the user to manipulate text tables in the text view.", but it als

Error Recovery at close of document window

2011-09-22 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
In a document based app, when - (id)fileWrapperOfType:(NSString *)typeName error:(NSError **)outError does not work, I return an NSError with NSRecoveryAttempterErrorKey etc. which gives the user the option to sort out the problem, and finally I call: [self performSelector:@selector(sav

Re: Passing NSPrintOperation* to CPP Function

2011-09-22 Thread KappA
Did you try to cast the parameter being passed so that it enforces the definition - when calling the function? m_bprinter->Setup((NSPrintOperation*)po); Also, did you rename your .cpp file to .mm? (although that shouldn't really matter much)... And in the CPP header file, did you include the app

Re: Cannot quit TextEdit

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Tsai
I found that this problem occurs if the non-TextEdit editor uses safe saving (FSPathReplaceObject or -[NSFileManager replaceItemAtURL:...]), whereas TextEdit doesn't complain if the app just writes directly to the file. Filed as rdar://9978155. --Michael On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Boyd Coll

Re: Open panel/window with button click in Print Dialog Extension (PDE)

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Babin
On Sep 20, 2011, at 2:47 AM, Bartosz Białecki wrote: > I have a OutputBinsPDE sample and I added a button and a panel to it. I'd > like now to open that panel when I click on the button. The problem is that > every time the panel appears under the print dialog and I have no focus on > it and I can

Re: Error Recovery at close of document window

2011-09-22 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 22 Sep 2011, at 14:06, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > In a document based app, when > - (id)fileWrapperOfType:(NSString *)typeName error:(NSError **)outError > > does not work, I return an NSError with NSRecoveryAttempterErrorKey etc. > which gives the user the option to sort out the problem

Re: Error Recovery at close of document window

2011-09-22 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 22 Sep 2011, at 21:14, Mike Abdullah wrote: > > On 22 Sep 2011, at 14:06, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > >> In a document based app, when >> - (id)fileWrapperOfType:(NSString *)typeName error:(NSError **)outError >> >> does not work, I return an NSError with NSRecoveryAttempterErrorKey etc

Re: Gestalt

2011-09-22 Thread AM
On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Conrad Shultz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 9/21/11 2:22 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: >> Why not? I find it to be safer than checking for the existence of >> a method, because you never know if that method might have actually >> have ex

Re: Gestalt

2011-09-22 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 22 sept. 2011 à 16:37, AM a écrit : > > On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Conrad Shultz wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 9/21/11 2:22 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: >>> Why not? I find it to be safer than checking for the existence of >>> a method, because you nev

Re: Error Recovery at close of document window

2011-09-22 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > In a document based app, when > - (id)fileWrapperOfType:(NSString *)typeName  error:(NSError **)outError > > does not work, I return an NSError with NSRecoveryAttempterErrorKey etc. > which gives the user the option to sort out the prob

Deploy terminal app

2011-09-22 Thread Bruno Berisso
Hi every one. I just finish a simple command line tool thats may help my fellows in the office and I wonder how can I deploy it. I try search the web but there is no much info about develop command line app for Mac. My intention is to copy the executable and a man page to the right place and c

Re: Sandboxing and file references

2011-09-22 Thread Sean McBride
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:26:20 +0800, Peter N Lewis said: >The explicit entitlement to read a file following an open/drag exists >only until the application quits (a fragile exception exists in using >URLs stored into the restorable state archive, but even that won't work >long term). Thus keeping

Re: Sandboxing and file references

2011-09-22 Thread Torsten Curdt
>>The explicit entitlement to read a file following an open/drag exists >>only until the application quits (a fragile exception exists in using >>URLs stored into the restorable state archive, but even that won't work >>long term).  Thus keeping references to files is essentially impossible >>(long

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Sean McBride
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:10:08 +0700, Gerriet M. Denkmann said: >So - should I just ignore all the hype about UTIs, or what? UTIs are quite nice, unless you deal with file formats that have conflicting extensions. The OS basically derives the UTI from the extension (or HFS type as a fall back) an

Re: Sandboxing and file references

2011-09-22 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Sean McBride wrote: > Either App Sandbox is unfinished, or Apple is taking us towards of word of > iFart-type apps only. Sandbox is not yet finished. On the dev forums, the sandbox engineers (or DTS representatives) have been rather responsive to the needs of de

Re: Gestalt

2011-09-22 Thread Conrad Shultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/22/11 7:37 AM, AM wrote: >> What are some examples of breakage happening under this >> scenario? I'd like to be on the lookout myself if I indeed did >> put too much faith in the documentation. > > One relevant case I encountered was a leak in CF

Re: Telling apart different save panels

2011-09-22 Thread Seth Willits
On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:00 PM, douglas welton wrote: > I'm not sure that my solution is any "less messy" than what you have > suggested, but... when faced with this same situation, I gave the save panel > a different title each time it was invoked. When the panel object was passed > to my delegat

Re: Sandboxing and file references

2011-09-22 Thread David Riggle
>>> The explicit entitlement to read a file following an open/drag exists >>> only until the application quits (a fragile exception exists in using >>> URLs stored into the restorable state archive, but even that won't work >>> long term). Â Thus keeping references to files is essentially impossibl

Re: Deploy terminal app

2011-09-22 Thread Nick Zitzmann
On Sep 22, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Bruno Berisso wrote: > My intention is to copy the executable and a man page to the right place and > create some files and folder. I think I can do this with a simple script, but > I'm looking for the "right" way. > Any ideas? Did you try PackageMaker (which comes

Re: Sandboxing and file references

2011-09-22 Thread Lee Ann Rucker
On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Sean McBride wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:26:20 +0800, Peter N Lewis said: > >> The explicit entitlement to read a file following an open/drag exists >> only until the application quits (a fragile exception exists in using >> URLs stored into the restorable state

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 23 Sep 2011, at 00:55, Sean McBride wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:10:08 +0700, Gerriet M. Denkmann said: > >> So - should I just ignore all the hype about UTIs, or what? > > UTIs are quite nice, unless you deal with file formats that have conflicting > extensions. The OS basically derives

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Charles Srstka
On Sep 22, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > I guess everybody would win, if the UTI would be stored (e.g. as an extended > attribute, like the string encoding is). > > There must be some very good reason this is not done - maybe somebody could > point it out to me. That would def

Re: Telling apart different save panels

2011-09-22 Thread Graham Cox
On 23/09/2011, at 5:20 AM, Seth Willits wrote: > On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:00 PM, douglas welton wrote: > >> I'm not sure that my solution is any "less messy" than what you have >> suggested, but... when faced with this same situation, I gave the save panel >> a different title each time it was in

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: > A while ago someone posted on this list that they needed to list all files > that were applications, including old Classic apps. To do that the old way, > you’d have to check for .app, bundles with the package bit set and ‘APPL’ in > the

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Charles Srstka
On Sep 22, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Charles Srstka > wrote: >> A while ago someone posted on this list that they needed to list all files >> that were applications, including old Classic apps. To do that the old way, >> you’d have to check for .app

Re: Telling apart different save panels

2011-09-22 Thread Conrad Shultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/22/11 3:34 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 23/09/2011, at 5:20 AM, Seth Willits wrote: > >> On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:00 PM, douglas welton wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure that my solution is any "less messy" than what >>> you have suggested, but... when f

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: > No, but it would no longer be an abstraction over the type system. The idea > of UTI is that you just want to handle a certain type of file; you don’t > care *how* the OS figures out that it’s that particular type of file. If > someone comes

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Charles Srstka
On Sep 22, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Charles Srstka > wrote: >> No, but it would no longer be an abstraction over the type system. The idea >> of UTI is that you just want to handle a certain type of file; you don’t >> care *how* the OS figures out th

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Quincey Morris
On Sep 22, 2011, at 15:48 , Charles Srstka wrote: > The idea of UTI is that you just want to handle a certain type of file; you > don’t care *how* the OS figures out that it’s that particular type of file. > If someone comes up with a newer and better way to implement file types in > the future

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Charles Srstka
On Sep 22, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > I believe you are overlooking two points, one minor and one major: > > 1. The minor point is that *if* the "UTI system" can never change -- I mean, > if there's never going to be a new or enhanced UTI system, independently of > your imagined

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Quincey Morris
On Sep 22, 2011, at 17:24 , Charles Srstka wrote: > Sure there can be a “new or enhanced” UTI system, as long as its (rather > simple) interfaces continue to work with current applications. Since the > behind-the-scenes of how the UTI system detects what types of files is > abstracted away, it

Re: UTI in Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Charles Srstka
On Sep 22, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Sep 22, 2011, at 17:24 , Charles Srstka wrote: > >> Sure there can be a “new or enhanced” UTI system, as long as its (rather >> simple) interfaces continue to work with current applications. Since the >> behind-the-scenes of how the UTI sy

Cocoa Simulator

2011-09-22 Thread koko
Should the settings for nextKeyView be apparent in the Cocoa Simulator? I.e. should the 'tab order' work? -koko___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the mode

Re: Garbage Collection: memory limits, crash when using "lots" of memory, why?

2011-09-22 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
That just has to be a bug. Exceeding the available memory of the garbage collector should not crash, instead your allocations should fail. Failing allocations should be handled by some kind of error recovery code. Unfortunately Objective-C provides the "convenience" that it's Totally Cool to se

Re: Cocoa Simulator

2011-09-22 Thread Bayes Scott F
On Sep 22, 2011, at 19:48 , koko wrote: > Should the settings for nextKeyView be apparent in the Cocoa Simulator? I.e. > should the 'tab order' work? For standard controls, they seem to work correctly in the simulator in 4.1, but for your own custom stuff, unless it inherits from some concrete

Question to support File Version in 10.7

2011-09-22 Thread Yingshen Yu
Hi, I'm working on adding File Version support to my application. It's not Cocoa document based app, so I have to add version support on my own. My question is when should I add a new version? I know I should add a file version when user save the file, but my observation to TextEdit.app looks the

Re: Cocoa Simulator

2011-09-22 Thread koko
I had all the nextKeyView outlets connected but did not connect initialFirstResponder, upon doing so it worked. Thanks for responding. -koko On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Bayes Scott F wrote: > On Sep 22, 2011, at 19:48 , koko wrote: > >> Should the settings for nextKeyView be apparent in the

iPad

2011-09-22 Thread koko
I have been approached to develop an iPad app with subscription content. I hav elooks at the iOS Development start page (http://developer.apple.com/ipad/sdk/) but I do not see anything about these kind of apps. Where can I learn best practices for developing a subscription based app: -koko___

Re: Garbage Collection: memory limits, crash when using "lots" of memory, why?

2011-09-22 Thread Joar Wingfors
On 22 sep 2011, at 21:04, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > Exceeding the available memory of the garbage collector should not crash, > instead your allocations should fail. When memory allocations fail, apps crash. Like it or not, that's just the way it is. Not sure what the alternative woul