Re: iOS kiosk mode?

2012-11-04 Thread Shazron
Store Demo Mode. http://zchristopoulos.com/2012/02/how-to-disable-ipad-home-button-kioskstore-demo-mode/ On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > I was in the Apple store yesterday, and noticed that all the products had > iPads next to them, embedded in acrylic stands. This prevented

Re: iOS kiosk mode?

2012-11-04 Thread Rick Mann
On Nov 4, 2012, at 0:22 , Shazron wrote: > Store Demo Mode. > http://zchristopoulos.com/2012/02/how-to-disable-ipad-home-button-kioskstore-demo-mode/ Ah, interesting! Still doesn't go quite as far as I want Apple to go: I want a power-cycled device to skip Springboard and launch my app. I wan

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-04 Thread Markus Spoettl
On 11/4/12 2:27 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: Maybe a better approach would be to use Core Animation layers. Those can have rounded corners and that may allow the system to update them in a better manner. I'm curious, what you mean by that, how would that work? You need to host layers in a view in

MKMapView compositing

2012-11-04 Thread vincent habchi
Hi folks, for a demo app, think of it as some kind of “geographic mashup”, I’d like to display a MKMapView on an aerial photographic background that I fetch from a remote server, and be able to vary its transparency. Before diving into it, is there any other option except embedding the MKMapVie

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-04 Thread Ken Thomases
On Nov 4, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Markus Spoettl wrote: > On 11/4/12 2:27 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: >> Maybe a better approach would be to use Core Animation layers. Those can >> have rounded corners and that may allow the system to update them in a better >> manner. > > I'm curious, what you mean by th

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-04 Thread Andrea3000
> On Nov 1, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Andrea3000 wrote: > >> I'm trying to address a performance problem regarding transparent NSWindows >> during resize. > >> This way I have a borderless NSWindow which is transparent with a NSView >> that draws an opaque NSRect with rounded corners. >> Therefore it

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-04 Thread Ken Thomases
On Nov 4, 2012, at 4:52 AM, Andrea3000 wrote: >> This suggests that the limiting factor is the GPU and/or the window server's >> throttling of the refresh rate. So, the process isn't using much CPU time >> because it's blocked waiting for the GPU or window server to recomposite the >> window i

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-04 Thread Andrea3000
> On Nov 4, 2012, at 4:52 AM, Andrea3000 wrote: > >>> This suggests that the limiting factor is the GPU and/or the window >>> server's throttling of the refresh rate. So, the process isn't using much >>> CPU time because it's blocked waiting for the GPU or window server to >>> recomposite the

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-04 Thread Vincent Habchi
Andrea, >if (self = [super initWithContentRect: contentRect >styleMask: NSBorderlessWindowMask > backing: bufferingType >defer: flag]) Sei sicuro bufferingType è uguale a NSBackingStoreBuffere

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-04 Thread Andrea3000
> Andrea, > >> if (self = [super initWithContentRect: contentRect >> styleMask: NSBorderlessWindowMask >> backing: bufferingType >> defer: flag]) > > Sei sicuro bufferingType è uguale a NSBackingStor

Re: Suggestions Please - Lookup Lists in Core Data

2012-11-04 Thread Keary Suska
On Nov 4, 2012, at 12:50 AM, Rick Aurbach wrote: > In my Core Data data model, I have four different entities, each of which > implement a lookup list. That is, the entity has one attribute (a name > string) and a relationship pointing to all of the other objects which use > that particular ter

Re: MKMapView compositing

2012-11-04 Thread Evadne Wu
Use overlays. Look into ClassicMap: https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/ClassicMap which is doing about the same thing using likely illegally obtained Google tiles. Best, Eve On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:15 AM, vincent habchi wrote: > Hi folks, > > for a demo app, think of it as some kind of “geogr

Re: Extremely low fps during transparent NSWindow resize

2012-11-04 Thread Lee Ann Rucker
There is (or was) a QuartzDebug option to show which parts of a window are actually transparent; on the standard windows only the corners are transparent, so for most of the window area the system can use the faster opaque calculations. I never filed a bug requesting a way for non-Apple code to

REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, ...?

2012-11-04 Thread Todd Heberlein
Is there currently a standard, Apple-recommended way of doing interoperable client-server architectures? I accidentally backed into a solution that is Apache, PHP, and libcurl, and I figured I should go with one of the many standards out there. REST is pretty close to what I am already doing, a

Re: REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, ...?

2012-11-04 Thread Rick Mann
I don't think so. REST is a popular solution today, almost always used on top of HTTP, and it's clean enough, I guess. But you still get to pick how you want to encode the data up and down. In my applications, I use REST with a combination of binary content (say I'm posting or pulling an image),

Re: REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, ...?

2012-11-04 Thread Jens Alfke
On Nov 4, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Todd Heberlein wrote: > Is there currently a standard, Apple-recommended way of doing interoperable > client-server architectures? Nope. That’s not really something Apple sees as its job. > I accidentally backed into a solution that is Apache, PHP, and libcurl, and

Re: REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, ...?

2012-11-04 Thread Gwynne Raskind
On Nov 4, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Todd Heberlein wrote: > Is there currently a standard, Apple-recommended way of doing interoperable > client-server architectures? Nope. > I accidentally backed into a solution that is Apache, PHP, and libcurl, and I > figured I should go with one of the many standa