Detecting text under mouse

useful on Microsoft Windows for learning chinese: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=chinese_dictionary_windows Best regards, Jacob -- Jacob Rhoden http://jacobrhoden.com ___ Cocoa

Re: Detecting text under mouse

That is exactly what I am looking for, a "Dictionary" application is essentially assisting you with being able to read information on the screen. Unfortunately I cannot find any documentation at all on how to access a programs accessable information! The only information I can find are pages an

Display either date part or time part in LOCAL format

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CLLocationDistance contents?

Hi Guys, I am doing the following to find a distance between two locations: CLLocation* venueLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude: venue.latitude longitude:venue.longditude]; CLLocationDistance distance = [venueLocation getDistanceFrom:currentLocation]; Is distance in metres/miles/

Re: CLLocationDistance contents?

CLLocation* venueLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude: venue.latitude longitude:venue.longditude]; CLLocationDistance distance = [venueLocation getDistanceFrom:currentLocation]; Is distance in metres/miles/km? How do I display it on screen in a platform independent way? On 19/12/

Sorting an NSMutableArray

How do you sort an NSMutableArray, when the difference between the two objects is determined by information not contained completely within the objects themselves. ie in Java you can implement a Comparator that takes two objects to compare then. Is this similar in Cocoa? ie in this case I need

Making an object release itself?

Im still learning cocoa, so I have a question about if this is a good idea or a crazy noob mistake. Given the following code can I alter it so that postreader auto releases itself? -(IBAction) fetchThreads:(id) sender { [progress startAnimation:nil]; PostReader* reader = [[PostReader al

Re: Odd EXEC_BAD_ACCESS after executing URLRequest

On 31/12/08 3:10 AM, marc hoffman wrote: i'm hoping someone has an idea here - i'm seeing odd crashes after doing URL requests. the first request completes fine (up to it triggering connectionDidFinishLoading:), but shortly after or while doing a subsequent request... Are you sure you are no

Stumped on memory problem :(

I have read the memory management documentation over and over but still cannot work out the problem with this code, can anyone see it? I have spent hours on this! +(NSMutableArray*)getStrings { NSMutableDictionary* dict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init]; [dict setValue: @"" forKey: [

NKE Kernel extension

Hi, Anyone here ever done any Network kernel extensions? I am trying to start by doing something simple as monitoring network traffic, but the apple documentation isn't getting me very far? Anyone know any useful websites or tutorials in this area? Best regards, Jacob ___

Re: NKE Kernel extension

Thanks, I hadn't thought to check some other lists, ill check out what there is. On 10/1/09 11:39 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote: On 10 Jan 2009, at 07:01, Jacob Rhoden wrote: Anyone here ever done any Network kernel extensions? I am trying to start by doing something simple as monit

Re: Mac Pro memory sizes

Depending on what sort of data you has, you could try allocating all of your memory on startup, organised into related "zones". That way you are not constantly allocating/deallocating anything. Just overwriting values. This can provide an unbelievable speed inprovement, and low memory overheads

Re: [NOOB] Finding Information

On 19/01/2009 9:47 AM, Stuart Malin wrote: You can't find an answer - have you had a look at the documentation? It's right there. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSDecimalNumber_Class/Reference/Reference.html Sometimes to the newbie it may seem ast

Re: Read lines from very large text file

7 AM, Alexander Spohr wrote: NSInputStream? Am 02.02.2009 um 14:42 schrieb Jacob Rhoden: I am wondering what the best way to read a text file, line by line, when the file size is much larger than available memory. I know there are helper functions like stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:, but

Read lines from very large text file

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Re: Read lines from very large text file

On 3/02/2009 8:41 AM, Kenneth Bruno II wrote: I am wondering what the best way to read a text file, line by line, when the file size is much larger than available memory. For very large files you probably want to use NSFileHandle. With the method readDataOfLength: you can read the file in chunk

Re: Read lines from very large text file

line ending is irrelevant, see a \n or a \r and we know we have reached the end of a "entry" in the log. Thanks, Jacob -- ________ Jacob Rhoden http://jacobrhoden.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Co

How to handle clicks on NSOutlineView

)awakeFromNib { [outline setAction:@selector(loadMemberList:)]; } -(IBAction)loadMemberList:(id)sender { if(ldap.connected) { NSLog(@"Load members"); NSLog(@" site %@ ",[[outline selectedCell] name]); } } Thanks, Jacob -- __

Re: How to handle clicks on NSOutlineView

On 14/2/09 3:39 PM, Graham Cox wrote: On 14 Feb 2009, at 12:22 pm, Jacob Rhoden wrote: I am trying to do an action when an item in an NSOutlineView is clicked. How do I work out which item was actually clicked on? Ive tried all sorts of things and nothing seems to work. (Google or Cocoa

Where to declare/initialise an NSOperationQueue

share" the same resources? I guess I am looking for direction on how best to use it. @interface WebsitesController : NSObject { NSOperationQueue *operationQueue; } Thanks, Jacob ________ Jacob Rhoden http://

Beginner memory management question

I am not sure how one would go about working this, Im writing my first "test" os/x applications and I am thinking this is probably not right. Am I doing the retain in the correct place? I tried reading the documentation on NSTextField but it didnt give me a clue about if I needed to "retain". (

Correct location to store application data.

I have an application which contains a "dictionary" file of sorts. Users can add/alter/and remove entries from a dictionary. I assume I will have the default dictionary stored as part of the application bundle somehow, and I should be saving a copy of some sort in a second hidden location, ie i

Date parsing problem (when running on iphone only)

he simulator: 2009-03-04 22:09:05.095 Test[68041:20b] DATE: Monday 26 January 2009 3:47:33 pm + to 5432224 Im completely stuck on this one! Are are there any other easy ways to parse dates? Any help appreciated. Thanks, Jacob ________ Jacob Rhoden

Re: Date parsing problem (when running on iphone only)

On 4/3/09 10:15 PM, Jacob Rhoden wrote: Anyone experience this weird behaviour with date parsing? Given the following code, it produces a different log output when running in the simulator or on the iPhone!!! NSString* test = @"Monday 26 January 2009 3:47:33 pm +"; NSDat

Re: Date parsing problem (when running on iphone only)

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Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...

.2 in OS X Leopard. My current plan of attack is working through these books: Learn C on the Mac C All in One Desktop Reference for Dummies Learn Objective-C On the Mac Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X 3rd edition by Aaron Hillegass -- Jacob R

Understanding how to display a context menu

Hey guys, I'm trying to understand the Apple docs for adding a context menu to an NSOutlineView: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MenuList/Articles/DisplayContextMenu.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004968 I am a bit stuck at how do you make it truly context sensitive, ie