Re: where is the basic NSString literal escape documentation?

There is some documentation in the CoreFoundation part for all CFStringRef formatting, which applies here. http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFStrings/formatSpecifiers.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004265-SW1 laurent On Tuesday, April 20, 2010, at

Re: Simple low memory warning?

One possibility is to install a CFRunLoopObserverRef that would query for available memory, using task_info on mach_task_self(). Then you can check if you start to are coming nearer to "dangerous territories". Not perfect though as usually the moment you can not alloc some memory it can be alre

Re: Change management using CFRunLoopObserver

I think it dépends more of what you application does. If you want to be more in the situation where it is sure that all you want to observe is "here" then I woulf advice kCFRunLoopBeforeWaiting Laurent Sent from my road phone On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:27 AM, Kiel Gillard wrote: Hi there,

Re: rendering PDF on iPad's

Gustavo You can use the CGPDF API. However be careful on memory usage (in particular keeping the CGPDFDocument open all the time could lead to some memory issues that could be workarounded by closing and reopening it) Regards laurent On Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at 12:07PM, "Gustavo Pizano"

Re: Spotlight SDK replacement on iPad/iPhone

You can try swish-e. Pretty good stuff. I still wish SearchKit would be public on the iPhoneOS Laurent Sent from my road phone On May 28, 2010, at 7:58 PM, sebi wrote: Hello, I'd like to have a quick full text search on a pdf in my app. Unfortunately the NSMetadata* classes are not ava

Re: Touch screen framework in MAC

MacOS and iPhoneOS are 2 differents platforms. Simply use the iPhone SDK and UIKit will be there. laurent Sent from my road phone On Jun 1, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Banupriya K wrote: Dave, Thanks for the reply, it would be helpful if i know the framework used for touch screen in iPhone,

Re: Mail Frameworks

Is this on MacOS or iPhoneOS? I think the way to go on MacOS is through the scripting bridge laurent Sent from my road phone On Jun 2, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote: So...I'm working on an app that needs an email framework to send messages...right now I'm using MailCore, and

Re: NSRunLoop

You may want to look at NSOperation. Regards laurent Sent from my road phone On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:22 AM, Ariel Feinerman wrote: Hi, I wish to make programme has cpu-related (one thread per core) number of worker threads. When user inputs the data, main thread splits up the data an

Re: How to retrieve a vCard during an ISyncSession?

Why would you want to retrieve the vCard? The sync engine can give you all attributes for a record. Or maybe AddressBook framework is more suited to your needs laurent Sent from my road phone On Jun 30, 2010, at 7:59 AM, unixo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing a sync client which pulls "Contac

Re: Finding Application support folder without Cocoa or Carbon

I think the lowest level you get this is with FSFindFolder laurent Sent from my road phone On Jul 12, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Alexander Cohen wrote: > Hello, > > I need to find the system Application Support folder without using either > Carbon or Cocoa, i can use CoreFoundation though. Is there

Re: MPVolumeView

Can't you just do what you want using directly CoreAudio? laurent On Feb 27, 2011, at 12:08 AM, David Rowland wrote: > Apple seems to have made it impossible for an app to control the system > volume. The user can use the physical buttons, and an app can contain an > MPVolumeView which lets th

Re: How to access iTunes using cocoa

You can use the scripting bridge framework which will send AppleEvent in a nice encapsulated way for you to iTunes laurent On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Ramesh P wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to access iTunes from cocoa application? Is there any open > source framework for accessing iTunes? >

Re: Debugging problem

Did you try to break on -[NSException raise] or on the NSURL initWithString method? Laurent Sent from my road phone On Mar 4, 2010, at 4:24 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: I'm trying to debug a problem where an NSOutlineView, as part of a drag, tries to create an instance of NSURL using "

Debugging NSService

Hi I want to add a service to my application. So I created the service entry in the plist, implemented the methods with proper signature, register the service at Application Did Finish launching time but unfortunately I never see my service appearing in the Services menu (after login and

Re: Debugging NSService

:34 PM, Laurent Cerveau wrote: Hi I want to add a service to my application. So I created the service entry in the plist, implemented the methods with proper signature, register the service at Application Did Finish launching time but unfortunately I never see my service appearing in the

Re: [Q] CFStringGetCStringPtr( ..., kCFStringEncodingUTF8)

According to the doc it is completely OK for the CFStringPtr to return NULL. CFStringGetCStringPtr() CFStringGetCharactersPtr() These functions are provided for optimization only. They will either return the desired pointer quickly, in constant time, or they return NULL. They might

Re: display Mac id

You can use IOKit UserLibg get the MAC hardware address. I did not retest it though (it comes from older code) so you probably have to check for small bugs. laurent kern_return_t kernResult; mach_port_t masterPort; io_service_t tmpService, controllerService; CFDataRef

Re: Debugging NSService

Simply retrying to see if there could be any idea on this one as I still have trouble getting success Thanks for the help laurent On Jun 23, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Laurent Cerveau wrote: I realize I did not provide a lot of information. So the Plist of my apps looks like : NSServices

Re: Debugging NSService

5) pbs may not have run. Logging out and back in should make it run again. As Malcolm says, if you have access to the SnowLeopard seed, you'll find that Services easier to debug, with the 10.6 version of Services documentation describing debugging techniques. On Jun 25, 2009, at 1

Re: NSTableView: Out-Of-Bounds Array Error on reloadData

You should check at the effect of reloadData to all your datasource methods (numberOfRowsInTableView and so on) laurent On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:53 AM, syntonica wrote: Hello Panel-- Ok, this is really annoying me. My app works fabulously on 10.4, but on 10.5, gives an out-of-bounds array

Finding my way through binding

Hi I have a document application with multiple window controllers. The document contains an array of objects (custom classes no Core Data here), called "entities" (NSMutableArray*) In one of the window,I would like to have an NSOutlineView (one column for now) with a binding for its conte

Storing PDF selection

Hi Is there a way to store serialize and store PDFselection ? If I have a PDF View , select part of it and get the currentSelection, showing it tells something like Page index = 2, Range = (0, 21] However I do not see where I could get the range of the PDFSelection and later recreate a sel

Re: Storing PDF selection

Thanks Antonio But the problem here is to get the "yourRememberedRange". Access to it does not seem to exist on a PDFSelection. As John Calhoun suggested in another email I tried with rect but this fails also. laurent On May 16, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Antonio Nunes wrote: You ask the page f

Re: Storing PDF selection

On May 16, 2008, at 9:40 PM, John Calhoun wrote: On May 15, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Laurent Cerveau wrote: If I have a PDF View , select part of it and get the currentSelection, showing it tells something like Page index = 2, Range = (0, 21] However I do not see where I could get the range of the

Re: Storing PDF selection

On May 17, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Antonio Nunes wrote: I would suggest you try to verify why John's suggestion fails, as one would expect it to work. Alternatively try this: Untested: 1. Ask for the bounds of the selection 2. Get the string of the selection 3. Get the string of the page 4. Use ran

Getting all subclasses

Hi Is there a way to get all subclases of a class. I have a class that I would call abstract (although I did not find any real way to declare some methods as virtual) and would like to get a list of all "real" subclass implementations. Thanks laurent _

Re: Getting all subclasses

( 0 != ( match = strncmp( temp->name, subclass->name, strlen( subclass->name && ( NULL != temp->super_class )) temp = temp->super_class; return ( match == 0 ); } hth, cheers, Graham On 18 Jun 2008, at 3:19 pm, Laurent Cerveau wrote: H

2 NSRuleEditor questions?

Hi Hi I have 2 questions related to NSRuleditor (not NSPRedicateEditor); - On one side, I can not find the format of a formattingDictionary for a NSRuleEditor. If I look at the doc the only thing I find is " The formatting dictionary should have NSString keys and NSString values. The syntax

Re: install_name_tool

On Jun 19, 2008, at 11:02 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And as you can see, nothing has changed and the first line has certainly not been replaced by "bla". What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't you be using the -id flag, not -change?

Re: 2 NSRuleEditor questions?

Hi Peter The formatting dictionary is used for localization. You can see a sample at http://homepage.mac.com/gershwin/NibBasedSpotlightSearcher.zip Nice! Thanks for the pointer. A nil formatting dictionary should be fine. The delegate methods are probably not being called because the

Losing some event

Hi I am experiencing with Core Animation applications in kiosk mode and starts from the MenuView sample code I found somewhere on Apple web site (it displays a Quartz Composer composition in the background with a few CALayer that acts as button). In order to go full screen I have been goi

Re: Losing some event

That was it! Thanks laurent On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Michael Ash wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Laurent Cerveau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am experiencing with Core Animation applications in kiosk mode and starts from the MenuView sample code I found somewh

Being notified of current document change

Hi This is probably a stupid question but : in a NSDocument application I did not found a way to be notified of change of currentDocument. For now I do some tricks with notification on window but I was wondering if I simply missed a part? Thanks laurent __

Overriding v alueForKeyPath

Hi I am trying to us KVC in a way that it allows me to add an accessor semantic to an object so that it can answer to simple valueForKeyPah call. For example I want to be able to write [myObject valueForKeyPath:@"texts.title.en"] which would give me the english version of the title of m

Re: Overriding v alueForKeyPath

check the proper behavior for observer to make sure they can observe properly thanks laurent On Jul 9, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Hamish Allan wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Laurent Cerveau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apparently what is happening is that the keyPath is decomposed,

Calling an Apple Detector

Hi Does anyone know if Is there a way to call an Apple Data Detector from Objective-C code. I'd like to use one that recognizes dates and events and that is working pretty well in Mail. Thanks laurent ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists

Getting access to image attributes in IKImageBrowser

Hi I am working with IKImageBrowser and would like to display the size of the image as subtitle in the browser. So I implemented an imageSubtitle method of the IKImageBrowserItem and started using ImageIO to get those info. However it looks to me that I am doing unnecessary work as the IK

Dealing with encoding in XML parsing

Hi I have an XML document with obviously some problems with it but that needs to be parsed in all cases. One of the problem is apparently an encoding one as some text read in an editor as "Restaurant, Bar, Bistro, CafÈ" (reopening with an ISO-8859-1 Windows apparently is solving the issue

Re: How to make a Panel like in Mail?

Hi Thomas I think this is simply a customized NSOutlineView embedded in an NSSplitView and you should certainly start around this. In Leopard you have the option to make NSSplitView with "no size" separator that should helpt to get you the final look and feel laurent On Mar 12, 2008, at

Re: NSTableView solution feedback and questions

On Mar 18, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Jay Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, I'm new to Cocoa (surprise) and I'm now working on a little app, and I've come up with a solution to an issue and I'd like some feedback on that solution. Here's the problem description: I have an NSTableView, bound

Re: To get machine type (ppc, intel)

Gestalt API should help you or sysctl family. Note that I am not sure about Rosetta handling in both APIs laurent Sent from my roadPhone On Mar 19, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Nick Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, In my app I'm reading raw bytes from the file. So to get a integer's correct value

How to get NSURL* form NSURLConnection?

Hi When using NSURLConnection is there a way to get back the NSURL from the NSURLConnection (in a delegate method)? Apparently if I log the NSURLConnection it knows what URL is concerned but I do not find an accessor for it. Thanks laurent ___

Re: How to get NSURL* form NSURLConnection?

: You get the URL out of the NSURLRequest, which you can fetch at various points. -Rob On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Laurent Cerveau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi When using NSURLConnection is there a way to get back the NSURL from the NSURLConnection (in a delegate method)? Apparen

Re: Leopard on PPC

Is there any message in the console? Laurent Sent from my roadPhone On Mar 26, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Lorenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have compiled my Cocoa application against SDK 10.4. While my application runs well on both Leopard and Tiger on Intel machines, It run on PPC machines o

Re: Leopard on PPC

It seems to be debuggable by yourself. Can you start up in XCode on PPC? If not you can simply launch the app under gdb and put a breakpoint at +[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:] with br. From then it would be interesting to check the passed argument (on PPC the argument of a met

Re: Table Header-Style View for a Label

On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote: I would like to make a header view that looks like an NSTableHeaderView (i.e., with the gradient of such a table header view) for an NSTextView and possibly an NSCollectionView. This view would label the view in question, but also would

Re: NSTableView - hiding columns

On 10.5 you should b able to hide directly (NSTableColumn setHidden method). . Otherwise the best way is to keep an NSArray around (for example in a subclass of NSTableView) where you add the column you want to hide. Then when you hide a column you add it to this array and delete it from th

Re: Calculating file size

On Apr 27, 2008, at 6:33 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: On 26 Apr '08, at 6:50 PM, Cocoa Dev wrote: I was wondering what was the best way to calucate folder size with cocoa? I was able to do this but it does not include resource forks: I think you'll need to drop down to a lower-level API to get

How to deal with property and Undo?

When reading through the doc for Document based application the advice is to implement undo by making setter invoking prepareInvocationWithTarget. Is there a way to have this done "automatically" with properties. For now it looks to me like I have to remove all @synthetize directive and r

Moving file to trash on afp volume

Hi I'd like to programmatically mov to trash a file from an afp mounted volume. I have been using NSWorkspace with NSWorkspaceRecycleOperation but it fails (tag returned is -1). Is there a way to get a more exact description of the error? I tried to move to FSPathMoveObjectToTrashSync and

Moving file to trash on afp volume

Hi I'd like to programmatically mov to trash a file from an afp mounted volume. I have been using NSWorkspace with NSWorkspaceRecycleOperation but it fails (tag returned is -1). Is there a way to get a more exact description of the error? I tried to move to FSPathMoveObjectToTrashSync and

Predicate syntax and localisation

Hi I am using NSPredicateEditor to display some predicates and after a few fights all is now fine. A feature I find particularly convenient is the use of a formatting dictionary to display user friendly sentences to a user. In another part of my application, I show some data computed based on t

Re: SQLite Question

The usual sqlite API are available . The header is to be imported with #import laurent On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:19 PM, Dave wrote: > Hi, > > If I need to access SQLite Directly on Mac and iOS, do I need to include my > own SQLite Library or can I use the in-built SQLite? > > Cheers > Dave >