Please stop copying Yann Disser's name into the subject line! It
breaks up threads unnecessarily.
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Nick Zitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 14, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Davide Scheriani wrote:
>
>> okkei,good,this is working,but I wanted to use NSArray instead a simple
>> C-style array.
>> In many case I have NSArray it hold NSValue for each NSRect.
>
> You c
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Mike Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I remember in the very dim past (when MacApp was still a modern framework
> ;-) that I had text based resource files (.r) to build the 'View' resources
> (rough analog to nibs) which included preprocessor macros to control
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Mike Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (I know this can be hacked, and that while verbose it's only xml. But I'd
> want my apps building in the next Xcode (sub-)release as well.)
Sure, well, you can't eat your cake and have it ;)
I'd have thought that you cou
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Laurent Cerveau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I then try to add an entity through the NSTreeController addObject method,
> and ...nothing happens, except a message in the console that says
> "Cocoa Bindings: Cannot create NSArray from object NSCFString of class
> NS
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:16 PM, ben syverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't want to listen to any input, and I want the loop to execute as fast
> as possible. However, NSRunLoop says I need to set a timer or an input...
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:53 PM, ben syverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:40 PM, ben syverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know it's kevent "style," but unless it's actually kevent (or a similar
> kernel-level event system) under there, I have my doubts about the
> performance under heavy load. I guess I could (should) do benchmarks of both
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:02 AM, JanakiRam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When i perform ls command it shows file name as "Icon?". When i perform cp
> command & tab it shows the file name as "Icon^M".
> Why Terminal does show different names for the same file.
Because the filename contains a non-pr
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:28 PM, JanakiRam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When i give this filename as part of rsync source file ( using --files-from
> ) , rsync is treating this filename as 2 different file names , because
> rsync expects each filen name separated by \r.
> Hence my rsync command is
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:03 PM, colo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> F-Script [...] gives you the code to Create a window from scratch
> and logically place the buttons on the window by coordinates. That
> kind of "knowing" how to make a window without IB is priceless to me
> imo.
I know you're nev
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Steve Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He's quite happy to walk across the floor, but knowing how the floor is
> constructed adds enormously to his confidence of doing so. Don't forget this
> is an unfamiliar building, a type of which he has not encountered befo
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:21 AM, ninad walvekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an existing GUI application and now i want to run that same
> application in the background at startup and then when the user wants to run
> the application run it as a normal GUI application.The application has be
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Brett Powley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You actually can have a GUI application in the background
True, but the OP said "at startup" (i.e. daemon not agent), and also
wants to run the *same* application "as a normal GUI application"
(i.e. in the foreground and
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Peter Duniho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And as long as you guys keep insisting that there's nothing wrong with the
> environment, and that people "just need to get used to it" and "then they'll
> love it", you're not going to get the kind of developer excitement
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Jonathan Dann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The way its
> traditionally (and designed to be) used is that the tree controller is the
> outline view's data source.
This statement is a little misleading: the tree controller is designed
to have bindings from the outli
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is that at some point the dependent key depends on a key for
> /another/;object. And this can not give automatic KVO notifications for the
> dependent key (using Tiger API), unless you actually use a KVC c
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Hamish Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CCed
the wrong list -- I meant to CC MacOSX-dev. Sorry!
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Nick Zitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a data model with a many-to-one relationship.
> [...]
> I am not using NSManagedObject at all.
> [...]
> So how do I query for related objects without NSManagedObjects?
Query what? What collection are you using t
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | My single column header |
> |Label 1 | Value 1|
> |Label 2 | Value 2|
> Does anyone have any ideas for how to accomplish this?
How about using a single column, with a data cell that d
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Nick Zitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using my own object caches.
So can you not iterate through them, checking for equality to an
object on the "one" side or on the "many" side?
Hamish
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Nick Zitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That involves a linear search, which is too slow with thousands of records.
> SQLite should be faster than that.
But if you're using your own object caches, and not using
NSManagedObject, in what way are you using Core Da
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Nick Zitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm getting the attributes from the records in the database using
> NSManagedObjectContext and NSFetchRequest and installing them into my own
> model objects.
If you don't throw away the NSManagedObjects, you can use them
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Peter Duniho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And again: it's not that I'm on a crusade to have Objective-C changed, or to
> have Cocoa made fully accessible via some other language. I just want
> people to have some empathy for what at least some of us go through upo
I'd like to reiterate what Quincey noted:
"BTW, I notice that the "Cannot perform operation without a managed
object context" error is logged *before* you log "default". The
problem is not apparently anything to do with getting the selection in
the code you posted, since it happens before you do t
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Johnny Lundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All it would take is a single sentence under the "Class Methods" header, to
> say that these methods autorelease the returned object (AND that such
> autoreleasing means that the object will be deallocated if the method in
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Dex Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> note: I need to 'see' both
> previous newly inserted object and old objects).
Not sure I understand your question, but if you need to differentiate
between objects inserted before some point in time and objects
inserted afte
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Dex Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This link actions happend in the main thread (so inside the main object
> context) and the app can't see objects inserted into the second
> managedobject until I perform a -save: to it.
> However it seems to be a damn expens
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Peter Duniho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's true, the phrase "riff-raff" wasn't actually used. But it's the
> essence of what was written.
>
> I'm not reading between the lines. People are explicitly stating the
> opinions I've described.
I don't think you u
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Dex Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's I'm wrong? The ID still temporany until I save the second managed
> object but If I can do it I can also make my relationship, the overhead it's
> the same.
Surely the overhead is less when you do many rather than on
ferred to
was that of *commitment* to the Cocoa design philosophy, and the
specific side-effect I didn't mind was gentle growth of the platform:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Hamish Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Peter Duniho <[EMAI
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification. I agree there is a sort of psychological
> hurdle that has to be overcome: one has to accept that Cocoa will require
> learning a lot of fundamentals, and learning to think differently about some
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Matthew Youney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What am I missing?
Adam Leonard's reply is an excellent description of the concepts you
need to understand first and foremost. But if I understand your
purposes correctly from your classnames, once you have a better gras
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Hernandez & Associates, Inc
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How would I accomplish this?
It's difficult to ascertain how much of an answer to give. Would you,
for instance, be able to create such a program if the text fields etc.
were just in a normal window, rather
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Steve Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The hang up that I see is that this documentation give no clue as to the
> reason for File's Owner's existence.
>From
>http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CoreAppArchitecture/chapt
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "unexpected state: found the same object more than once, but can't
> find the treenode for it"
>
> I'm not sure if this:
> a) indicates IP address conflicts that cause the same IP address to
> attempt to be added multiple
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Johnny Lundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have used it to set my class as its delegate so that I could implement the
> delegate method applicationWillTerminate:, and that was great. Easy to
> understand, it calls respondsToSelector: and then calls my delegate met
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Andy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I can make a rough analogy, many of our answers have been like different
> re-implementations of an algorithm. Like the guy on the guillotine in that
> engineer joke, we each think we see what the problem is. And so we "re
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Peter Duniho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I said, no one ever suffered from having too many code samples.
Again, I disagree. We are seeing an ever-increasing number of people
on this list who don't care about learning Cocoa, they just want to
piece together bit
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Peter Duniho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Inasmuch as anyone has an option as to what platform they will support --
> and many of us do -- high barriers discourage careful programmers as much as
> they discourage bad programmers.
I don't see any evidence of that o
Hi Gerriet,
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have an NSMetadataItem, which gives me via attributes a list of keywords.
>
> But: kMDItemPath is not in this list, although
>NSString *itemPath = [ item valueForAttribute: (NSString
> *)kMDIt
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Geoff Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3) If this is already known, is there a customary pattern for avoiding the
> problem? "Never release from observeValueForKeyPath" is a bit harsh!
I don't know if it's known, but you could try [obj
performSelector:@select
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Rick Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On May 31, 2008, at 00:32:30, j o a r wrote:
>
>> Search for "NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew" here:
>
> Already using that:
Read it again:
"The change dictionary doesn't contain old and new values. This is not
your fault, it'
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Jonathan del Strother
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Hamish Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Rick Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On May 31, 2008, at 00:3
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to use NSExpressions in a predicate but
> find the documentation a bit deficient.
I'm not convinced it's a documentation issue!
You could achieve what you want to do by creating a transient,
read-on
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Kyle Sluder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> NSArray *arrayB = [self getObjects] ;
>>
>> NSArray *titles = [arrayB arrayByApplyingSelector:@selector(title)];
>> NSArray *subtitles = [arrayB arrayByApp
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ashley Perrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should I create all the actions and outlets in IB and let it create the
> class?
No. I'm not even sure that's possible in the latest version of IB.
What version are you using?
Hamish
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On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Scott Anguish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> swearing isn't appropriate here. :-)
After Apple have failed to fix this glaring known bug after another
two major releases of the operating system? I beg to differ :P
Hamish
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On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Damien Cooke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> finding any other way of hiding them is eluding me.
NSImageView derives from NSView, which has a "hidden" property. But
you might find a tabless NSTabView easier: programmatically switching
between two tabs, one for each m
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Chataka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am developing a non-document-based Core Data application and
> am facing a trouble with "entity required" error message.
>
> When I quit the app, the error message is shown on the console and
> the app fails to save data, altho
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Antonio Nunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My NSDocument based app loads (imports) PDF files into its documents.
What code are you using to load them?
Hamish
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Chataka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the console, I just get
>
>> entity required
>
> That's it. Just two words.
> Nothing else I can include...
Ah, I see! Sorry, how frustrating.
Try setting a breakpoint on NSLog() (or fprintf(), or syslog()) to see
if you can
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> however, if i then redo the action, neither awakeFromFetch nor
> awakeFromInsert is called, and thus i'm left without my observing in place.
I had the same problem recently, and wrote a workaround for it:
http://www.c
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Dex Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've made a custom format used in a program of mine and I would to make a
> spotlight importer. I've looked at same examples and everything looks good;
> hovewer I've a question: is there a way to get multiple results item fo
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:30 PM, john darnell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just read Hillegass' chapter that introduces Key-Value coding.
> My question is, if this is such a necessary thing, why didn't the
> designers simply design the compiler to auto-generate setter and getter
> functions as
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Elan Feingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From the lack of responses I'm guessing I posted this to the wrong list :-)
Four hours you gave everyone in all the different timezones of the
world to respond before giving up!
I don't even know what the Cocoa interface
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This one also works for me. Only it kind of works too well, finding
> thousands of files.
>
> Another example: finds
> ".../Test.txt" which only contains the line: "Briggel and Braggel" .
> But I really want only fil
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2008, at 15:33, Hamish Allan wrote:
>
>> Are you using Tiger?
>
> Yes, I am.
In that case, finding "Briggel and Braggel" for "Briggel Braggel" is
expected behavi
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:52 PM, an0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And the NSTableView's sortDescriptors are found cumulated instead of
> changed by NSLog in dataSource's tableView:sortDescriptorsDidChange:
> method.
Hmm, could be a bug. Try giving your object a readonly property that
returns self,
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Gordon Apple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Both observations are set up in the same Nib
> in "awakeFromNib".
If you have dependencies between objects in your nib, you can use
-[NSApplication applicationWillFinishLaunching:] to set things up.
Hamish
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Karl Moskowski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since I can expect people to follow the conventions defined by the API, I'll
> just cast and expect the callers not to mutate.
Remember, the cast has no effect whatsoever...
Hamish
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Andy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>
>> If your window is sometimes disappearing under GC -- is sometimes being
>> collected prior to when you think it should be -- that means that the
>> collector doesn't believe
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Gordon Apple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I guess I don't know hw to use that. The particular situation was a nib
> that is document related, but loaded and opened later by menu.
Ah, okay. But the solution is essentially the same: set up the
observers when you'
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Trygve Inda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since the IBOutlets in Main point to a different Nib than the IBOutlets in
> Aux (even though they are functionally identical) is there a good, clean way
> to manage this?
Can you not wire the IBOutlets in Aux to the File's
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Trygve Inda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd need two instances of WindowController.
The way I see it, you have a choice: either a single instance of a
controller with 2n outlets, or two instances of a controller with n
outlets.
If you want to have "one controller
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Trygve Inda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thoughts?
It sounds like you're going for the "two instances of the same class" approach.
In which case, you have a single combined controller class with your
singe set of outlets and actions. Set your File's Owner in each
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:14 PM, James Cicenia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> why does it tell me:
>
> warning: (Messages without a matching method signature will be assumed to
> return 'id' and accept...
I'm guessing your method's definition comes after the code that uses
that method, and you have
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:38 PM, James Cicenia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What the heck is wrong with my declaration?
It's for a method called returnUIForFont:, not returnUIColorForFont:.
Take a few minutes to try to work out what's wrong before asking the
list. Finding your own mistakes is an
Hi Alex,
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Alexander Hartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1.) I gathered i have to create a new NSAutoReleasePool in my "threaded"
> method. Is this correct ?
Yes.
> 2.) During execution of this I am updating the UI components from a thread
> which is not the main
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Graham Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess the question is, given an object type 'id', which method signature
> will the compiler go with? Does the return type affect the method signature?
> (In C++ it doesn't for example), so two methods:
>
> - (CGPoint) posit
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Graham Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I turn this on, I get thousands of warnings, none of which appear to be
> telling me anything useful (i.e. the code is perfectly legitimate). With
> that amount of noise if it does pick up the odd case like this I'm never
>
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Brian Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While float and int are the same size they are returned from functions in
> different registers (on both ppc and intel). If the calling function expects
> a float returned type but an int is returned instead the calling funct
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Cemil Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This might be a really silly question - but am I missing something obvious?
> Is there any support at all for regular expressions in the Cocoa libraries?
You can use NSPredicate for regexp matching, though no substitution
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Bill Bumgarner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The garbage collector does not currently interpret inner pointers as
> something that can keep an encapsulating object alive.
But it's not the inner pointers I would expect to keep the object
alive -- it's the fact that
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Bill Bumgarner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, it is an exceedingly important optimization. Most likely, that stack
> slot is being reused by some variable later on.
I can see how this might be "exceedingly important" for deeply
recursive functions, but for the
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Bill Bumgarner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The easiest way to do this is to simply to use data once after the for()
> loop:
>
>NSData* data = ;
>const unsigned char* bytes = [data bytes];
>NSUInteger count = [data length];
>for (NSU
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Michael Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem here is
> that you're expecting one pointer to keep a *different* pointer live,
> which the GC does not make any guarantees about.
Pre garbage collection, this was straightforward: as long as you
retain your NSD
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Allison Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Really, once you figure out how to translate
>
> obj = [[SomeClass alloc] initWithName: @'my name' size: 16]
>
> to
>
> obj = SomeClass.alloc.initWithName_size('my name', 16)
>
> you're ready to start programming with Ruby
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Michael Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The business about scanning the stack is essentially an
> implementation detail; the promise that is being made is that objects
> which you're still pointing to won't go away.
We're just interpreting this promise differently
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Peter Duniho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:31:43 +0100
>> From: "Hamish Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> We're just interpreting this promise differently. To my mind, while
>> the
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Michael Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is pretty nitpicky. If it's in scope but you don't use it, then
> it doesn't matter. Kind of like a Zen koan: if an object is collected
> in the forest but nobody is pointing to it anymore, does it make a
> sound?
:)
I
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Hamish Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure, you could design NSData differently to mask a design problem in
> GC. But GC won't be easier to use than retain/release/autorelease
> without simple rules like "if you declare it on the stac
Hi Peter,
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Peter Duniho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe it's just because I've been using GC systems more than you have, and
> so I've gotten used to thinking about memory allocations in the paradigm
> that GC systems impose.
I'm starting to realise that this is
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Bill Bumgarner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Consider:
>
> {
>int foo;
>
>... calculate on foo ...
>
>int bar = getirdone(foo);
>
>while(1) {
>func(bar);
>func2(bar);
>... etc ...
>}
> }
>
> Without being able to recycle th
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Michael Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In many cases, including this one, the release build is actually
> exposing faulty code, whereas the debug build is hiding it by working
> as the programmer wants it to despite the code not actually being
> correct.
My thank
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Chris Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reason these kinds of methods have a return type of (id) is that there
> is no way to say "returns an object of the receiver's class." For example,
> +[NSArray array] returns (id) rather than (NSArray *) because otherwi
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Chris Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is perfectly legal to return an NSMutableArray from a hypothetical
> +(NSArray *)array method.
>
> However, all the sender of that +(NSArray *)array message can know is that
> the result can be treated as an NSArray. It
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Graham Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I give some time to the event loop while I'm running my own loop?
See here for a recent discussion:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2008/6/5/209308
Hamish
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Charles Srstka
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the problem is that if NSArray has +[NSArray array] returning an
> NSArray, then NSMutableArray has to return an NSArray also, since it can't
> have a different method signature for the same method. As a result, i
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Graham Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In this case I can do that... though out of curiosity I wonder if there is a
> way to do this "cooperatively" on the main thread without having to break up
> the loop doing the actual work. For example, in Carbon one can run
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Stuart Malin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an app that establishes multiple TCP connections. If the user quits
> the app, I'd like to shut all those connections gracefully (i.e., conduct a
> bit of protocol) rather than just close them abruptly. To most prope
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:01 AM, John Engelhart
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A return type of NSArray * means something very explicit. "But all you can
> expect is an object that behaves like a NSArray, so returning a subclass of
> NSArray, like NSMutableArray, is perfectly legal!" You're exactl
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Robert Sesek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have no other ideas for how to get this to work. Basically, the tree
> displayed is incomplete, and as the user expands the tree, data is fetched
> from a server and then inserted beneath a node.
Do you really want to ad
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Bill Prinzmetal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to create an NSImage starting from a c array. I have a c
> array, e.g.,
>
> float myArray[256][256];
>
> Where the values go from 0.0 (will be black) to 1.0 (will be white)
> I would like to may a gray leve
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Ashley Perrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Noob question: I'm putting together a small code library and I'm trying to
> include some error checking in the methods; what I want to protect against
> is the following:
>
> NSNumber *myNum;
>
> // Lots of code where I'
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Danny Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I don't understand is why the same binding returns a different object
> in two cases? Why don't get this proxy object when I bind the view directly
> to the controller?
Good question. I would guess that not everything
Hi Vikas,
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Vikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have recently started programming on Mac using Objective-C and Cocoa. I am
> coming from C++/C# world. So, its a fairly basic question. Please help me
> understand the following code:
>
> @implementation MyView
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Vikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> NSRectFill() is a C function, not part of any class e.g. NSView. aRect is
> simply a struct which specify location points (doesnt contain reference of
> any window). How the function knows about the drawing surface, in which
> win
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:52 PM, dream cat7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seeing notifications from outside:
> [...]
> Sometimes 2 process are
> communicating And one of them is launching / closing multiple times during
> the session (e.g. sending kill message as NSNotification).
You refer to NSNo
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Steven Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been a busy bee learning Cocoa and core data (as my frequent postings
> may reveal) and now I wish to add NSPersistentDocument functionality. I
> started my project using the normal Core Data template so how do I c
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:20 PM, James W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's my specific situation. I have several controllers that can create
> tasks, using an NSTask wrapper based on the Moriarty sample. When a task
> completes, it sends a message to the controller that created it. I
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