Re: Custom window disappears dragging to second display

Alex, Have you updated your Graphics Drivers? This sounds like a different version of the >1 Monitor/>1 Graphics Card problem on Mac OS X 10.11. Dave > On 3 May 2016, at 03:33, Alex Zavatone wrote: > > Are you talking within Xcode? This always crashes Xcode for me. Simply > dragging one

Apple Developer Reference Library Safari Plugin

Hi All, I know this has come up before but after 20 mins of searching I’ve not managed to find it. There is a Safari Plugin that add Apple Developer Reference Library support. I used to have this installed but I had to reinstall and I must have forgotten to copy it. If anyone could point me to

Re: Refresh View After Mouse Inactivity

> However if I press any key on the keyboard after mouse has stopped moving and > the delay time period has passed then presto the view refreshes. > > --Richard Charles How about sending it a Keystroke then? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@li

Re: Refresh View After Mouse Inactivity

> On May 3, 2016, at 7:30 AM, Dave wrote: > > How about sending it a Keystroke then? I tried that several days ago and it did work! void MySimulatedKeystroke(CGKeyCode virtualKey) { // Key down CGEventRef e1 = CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent(NULL, virtualKey, true); CGEventPost(kCGSessi

Re: Yosemite NSCollectionView appropriate for spreadsheet-like view?

> On May 1, 2016, at 9:06 AM, thatsanicehatyouh...@me.com wrote: > > As I've been thinking about this problem it occurred to me that the new(ish) > NSCollectionView might be a viable replacement in this case. Before I go down > the rabbit hole, is it reasonable to use to create a spreadsheet-li

Re: Yosemite NSCollectionView appropriate for spreadsheet-like view?

10.11 CollectionView reuses views and doesn’t create 100,000 cells. So that could be appropriate. > On May 3, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > >> On May 1, 2016, at 9:06 AM, thatsanicehatyouh...@me.com wrote: >> >> As I've been thinking about this problem it occurred to me that the ne

Re: Yosemite NSCollectionView appropriate for spreadsheet-like view?

On May 3, 2016, at 2:53 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > No, because it eagerly creates a view for every item in the collection. So if > you have a spreadsheet with 100,000 cells, it’s going to create 100,000 > NSViews when the window opens. I should have been more specific - my understanding was that

Re: Yosemite NSCollectionView appropriate for spreadsheet-like view?

> On May 3, 2016, at 12:08 PM, thatsanicehatyouh...@me.com wrote: > > I should have been more specific - my understanding was that NSCollectionView > from 10.11 onward did not do this... which Alex Kac just beat me to > mentioning! I was curious if anyone was aware of limitations of this scope

Re: Yosemite NSCollectionView appropriate for spreadsheet-like view?

There is the old NSCollectionView and the new. You have to use the new delegate methods and so on. Its the same class, but behind the scenes the new collection view is literally the UICollectionView from iOS ported over (syslog even says UICollectionView…). Its not *at all obvious*. I know I wo

Re: Yosemite NSCollectionView appropriate for spreadsheet-like view?

> On May 3, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Alex Kac wrote: > > There is the old NSCollectionView and the new. You have to use the new > delegate methods and so on. Its the same class, but behind the scenes the new > collection view is literally the UICollectionView from iOS ported over > (syslog even say

Re: Yosemite NSCollectionView appropriate for spreadsheet-like view?

Model your spread sheet on a (hypothetical 2-D)TableView. Maintain a pool of cells starting with enough to cover the view at the default size plus a bit of margin. As cells scroll off the view return them to the pool; as you need new ones get them from the pool. If the pool is empty you alloc

Re: Yosemite NSCollectionView appropriate for spreadsheet-like view?

> On 1 May 2016, at 17:06, thatsanicehatyouh...@me.com wrote: > > My guess is that since the basic unit here is NSTableRowView, all of the > columns are loaded into each row view whether they are on the screen or not. > View based table views recycle their views and I have found them to be ver

Popover anchors are frequently in the wrong place

I have a simple UINavigationController stack with a single VC. The nav bar has an Action UIBarButtonItem. I present a UIActivityViewController and set the .popoverPresentationController?.barButtonItem to my bar button item. But the anchor point is not in the center of the bar button item, it's m

Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

My main dev machine runs the latest OS - 10.11.4 I need to install a 10.9 image on a disk partition for development testing. How? Apple’s dev site is getting worse all the time - wasting its time selling you something you already have - OS X - but hiding away basic resources, like an OS 9 inst

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

On May 3, 2016, at 16:28 , Graham Cox wrote: > > I need to install a 10.9 image on a disk partition for development testing. > > How? I did start a thread about this, which might be the one you are remembering. You’re fighting a number of road blocks. The important one is that a Mac cannot ru

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

Can you make a bootable USB drive and install from there? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 Sandor Szatmari > On May 3, 2016, at 19:28, Graham Cox wrote: > > My main dev machine runs the latest OS - 10.11.4 > > I need to install a 10.9 image on a disk partition for development testing.

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

On Tue, May 3, 2016, at 06:28 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > My main dev machine runs the latest OS - 10.11.4 > > I need to install a 10.9 image on a disk partition for development > testing. > > How? > > Apple’s dev site is getting worse all the time - wasting its time selling > you something you alre

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

On May 3, 2016, at 8:13 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On May 3, 2016, at 16:28 , Graham Cox wrote: >> >> I need to install a 10.9 image on a disk partition for development testing. >> >> How? > > I did start a thread about this, which might be the one you are remembering. > > You’re fighting

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 10:17 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > > Downgrading the OS (even on a second partition) isn’t actually that > simple of a request. If your computer was released after OS X Mavericks, > it definitely cannot support running OS X Mavericks. In this case it’s a MId-2010 iMac, should be

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

On May 3, 2016, at 17:21 , Alex Zavatone wrote: > > Whaat? Any OS installers at all? > > What types of errors does it throw? IIRC, however you get the older installer, you still have to run it as an app under the current OS, and it just says the installer is too old to run as an applicat

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

Along those lines, is it at all possible to disable the damn memory compression? Ever since memory compression has been enabled on the OS level, my older machines that I have had to upgrade have horrible performance, even with 16 GB of RAM. This memory compression is simply EVIL on machines w

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

That should work. Sent from my iPhone > On May 3, 2016, at 8:31 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > >> On 4 May 2016, at 10:17 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: >> >> Downgrading the OS (even on a second partition) isn’t actually that >> simple of a request. If your computer was released after OS X Mavericks, >

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 10:31 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > >> Downgrading the OS (even on a second partition) isn’t actually that >> simple of a request. If your computer was released after OS X Mavericks, >> it definitely cannot support running OS X Mavericks. > > In this case it’s a MId-2010 iMac, sho

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 09:18, Graham Cox wrote: > > but at that point it gave an error that the installer could not be verified > and ‘may’ be corrupt. Yeah, I’ve been through this. I now have disks with every OS from 10.6 through to 10.11 and a couple of old MBPs to run them on. Treat them like

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 09:18, Graham Cox wrote: > > I could not download 10.9 as the button was greyed out with “downloaded” on > it. Yeah, about that. Whenever you download from the App Store, save a copy of the installer BEFORE you run it. Copy it off onto some removable media device. If y

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 09:18, Graham Cox wrote: > > I could not download 10.9 as the button was greyed out with “downloaded” on > it. Yeah, about that. Whenever you download from the App Store, save a copy of the installer BEFORE you run it. Copy it off onto some removable media device. If

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On May 3, 2016, at 7:18 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > I went to the app store (arrgh!!) to redownload the full installer image (why > oh why is this not available as a developer download from apple dev? Using > the app store is an abysmal non-choice to force on developers). I could not > downlo

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 10:08, Carl Hoefs wrote: > > I don't know why, but you'll find that none of your previously purchased > items will be grayed out there. What’s installed isn’t a historical record attached to your account. As indicated in my earlier post, it’s actually a live search of the

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 12:52 PM, sqwarqDev wrote: > > Yeah, I’ve been through this. I now have disks with every OS from 10.6 > through to 10.11 and a couple of old MBPs to run them on. Treat them like > gold dust. You may well hit that “could not be verified” message again - I > know I did, with

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 10:28, Graham Cox wrote: > > This seems to be the bulk of the installer. I take it that’s the *REAL* > install image. Can I install directly from that, and if so, how? Yes you can. The old way was mount the InstallESD image in the Finder and then use Disk Utility’s ‘Resto

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 10:34, sqwarqDev wrote: > > I don’t know exactly what that does or if its the same function From the new DU’s help, step 1 refers to the destination, step 2 the InstallESD: Select the volume in the sidebar you want to restore, then select Edit > Restore. This is the volum

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

On May 3, 2016, at 20:28 , Graham Cox wrote: > > Going for VMWare, does Fusion do the job, or do I need Fusion Pro? Just Fusion. “Pro” has enterprise features you don’t need, unless you’re running a coding slave farm up there in the tropics. > Within the installer app, there is an embedded .dm

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On May 3, 2016, at 10:28 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > >> On 4 May 2016, at 12:52 PM, sqwarqDev > > wrote: >> >> Yeah, I’ve been through this. I now have disks with every OS from 10.6 >> through to 10.11 and a couple of old MBPs to run them on. Treat them like >> gold

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

Aha, ArsTechnica to the rescue. Here’s the full skinny on how it’s done: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/how-to-create-a-bootable-backup-mountain-lion-install-disk/ Best Phil > On 4 May 2016, at 10:38, sqwarqDev wrote: > > >> On 4 May 2016, at 10:34, sqwarqDev wrote: >> >> I don’

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 4 May 2016, at 10:48, Charles Srstka wrote: > > In the earlier downloadable OS X installers, the InstallESD was bootable; in > the current ones it’s not. I don’t remember when that changed, 10.7 I believe. > Aha, ArsTechnica to the rescue. Also, don’t quote me on it, but I believe tha

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On May 3, 2016, at 10:55 PM, sqwarqDev wrote: > > >> On 4 May 2016, at 10:48, Charles Srstka wrote: >> >> In the earlier downloadable OS X installers, the InstallESD was bootable; in >> the current ones it’s not. I don’t remember when that changed, > > 10.7 I believe. It was definitely bo

Initial scroller style

I’m designing a new OS X UI via a storyboard, which is mostly a scroll view with a fixed-size documentView. If the scroll view is smaller than the documentView, IB shows scrollers in the design canvas, which is OK. What’s not OK is that these scrollers are shown in scroll bar “channels” on the r

Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.

> On 3 May 2016, at 8:28 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > So probably a redownload isn’t going to help, but I’m doing it anyway. Success! Finally. I created a new bootable installer using createinstallmedia and a fresh Mavericks download. I did the Pacific Daylight Time change just in case (though