Advice for iOS web app with live feed

2015-01-14 Thread Steve Mills
I have an opportunity to branch out to new areas (yay!) that I've never had the chance to work with before, an iOS app that acts as the frontend for a web site, receiving and sending Facebook- or Twitter-like statuses/updates. The backend and web guys on the project have mentioned using AJAX. Di

Re: Advice for iOS web app with live feed

2015-01-14 Thread Scott Ribe
On Jan 14, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Steve Mills wrote: > > Or is that done more from the client side where a timer pings the server for > updates periodically (that sounds inefficient)? Indeed, horribly inefficient and doesn't scale--but when they mention AJAX, that's likely what they mean. Keeping

Re: Advice for iOS web app with live feed

2015-01-14 Thread Shazron
Consider constructing a JSContext and setting up HTML5 Server Sent Events (in essence, push for web browsers): http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Steve Mills wrote: > I have an opportunity to

Re: Advice for iOS web app with live feed

2015-01-14 Thread Jens Alfke
> On Jan 14, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Steve Mills wrote: > > I have an opportunity to branch out to new areas (yay!) that I've never had > the chance to work with before, an iOS app that acts as the frontend for a > web site, receiving and sending Facebook- or Twitter-like statuses/updates. > The ba

Re: Advice for iOS web app with live feed

2015-01-14 Thread Jens Alfke
> On Jan 14, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Shazron wrote: > > Consider constructing a JSContext and setting up HTML5 Server Sent > Events (in essence, push for web browsers): The data format for these events is so brain-dead simple that it's not worth starting up a JavaScript context just to handle them.

Re: deny file-read-data after launch

2015-01-14 Thread Martin Wierschin
> Certainly I don't want to attempt to start and stop access for the search dir > every time the browser asks for an item's imageRepresentation. I'm guessing > I'd run into race states there if multiple items are queried at once. Yes, getting security-scoped URL access started and stopped in th

Re: drawRect runs twice, bounds are changed in between

2015-01-14 Thread N!K
On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:50 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2015, at 9:25 PM, N!K wrote: >> >> A breakpoint at the end of drawRect shows that it runs twice. After the >> second pass, the view appears, as it should. >> Between passes, bounds is changed somehow, as shown by NSLog at the s

Re: drawRect runs twice, bounds are changed in between

2015-01-14 Thread N!K
On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:55 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Jan 13, 2015, at 21:25 , N!K wrote: >> >> I have not been able to find a reason for this behavior. . I don’t know how >> to reveal the point between passes where bounds is actually changed. It does >> not happen in any other NSView p

Re: drawRect runs twice, bounds are changed in between

2015-01-14 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jan 14, 2015, at 20:39 , N!K wrote: > > I’m trying to learn more about drawing. One stumbling block was getting an > NSBezierPath to change size proportional to the window size when the corner > is dragged. This is the wrong way to approach the problem. Scaling the bezier path itself is a