Okay, okay, this probably is off-topic, but I just spent fifteen minutes
at the Apple site trying to figure out how to get the needed help
without success, so at the risk of fiery flames shooting my way and
verbal attacks the likes of which would make H.L. Mencken proud, I am
going to ask my questi
t: Re: Getting help...
john darnell wrote:
> - (void) beginSheetModalForWindow:(NSWindow *) ykpfqy //the gibberish
> is italicized
For what it's worth, I experienced this yesterday when I was looking at
the
docs in Firefox on a Windows machine.
Looking now with Firefox and Safari on
I don't mean to be mean, but I agree with Joseph; most Apple
documentation is really, really poor.
*No, that's not correct.* The documentation is extensive, and
comprehensive, but unless you already know what you are reading about,
it might as well have been written in Farsi (no offense meant to
Sigh. Your attitude reminds me of a conversation I once had with a
fellow programmer. When I was encouraging her to add more documentation
to the code, she replied, jokingly, "If it was hard for me to write,
then it should be hard for them to read."
The sad thing is that you are not joking...
orn.
Thanks for the lively discussion.
John
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Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 9:32 AM
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Subject: Re: Guidance for Cocoa's steep learning curve
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:19 PM, john
Hello everyone:
I'm working through problems in the "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X"
book, and on page 113 I read the following instructions:
Next you will connect you AppController object's tableView
outlets to the table view. Control-drag from the
AppController
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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:57 PM, john darnell
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Hello Everyone:
I've been trying to get my head wrapped around the concept of
"delegates" and I thought I would run it by the list to see if I am
approaching the correct idea behind a delegate.
As far as I can tell, it is kind of like a virtual function (virtual
because I, the programmer, a
I believe it was Carl Jung who said that ideas needed meathooks in the
mind to help us retain/organize our thoughts and many of you have helped
me figure out the right meathooks to use when attempting to grok the
meaning of delegates (yeah, I know...I'm dating myself with the use of
the word "grok
8, at 5:00 PM, john darnell wrote:
> yeah, I know...I'm dating myself with the use of
> the word "grok"
Huh? You're not dating anything. :P I think grok gets used on this
list at least a few times a week. Grok is part of the geek lexicon,
even among people who h
I kinda got the idea that Mr. Sanz was being sarcastic...After all, this
topic keeps coming up and coming up and coming up...
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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:24 AM
To: Bruno Sanz
Cc: Cocoa-dev@lists
Hello Everyone:
I decided that it was time for a play period this morning so I set a
task for myself; to place a combo box on a dialog and
populate it with the names of ten cities--no more than that. I just
wanted to see if my understanding of the language had
progressed enough to do so.
I built
at 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: Trying to understand -- please help...
To: john darnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ok, I'm somewhat of a beginner myself, but here's what I see.
First off: Your array is being 'emptied' because [NSArray
arrayWithObjects:]
returns an autoreleased array. You
I don't know the answer to that question myself. Maybe it was because I was
running it in the debugger...
R,
John
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From: Gérard Iglesias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:35 AM
To: Hank Heijink (Mailinglists)
Cc: john darnell; Coco
Okay, this is a really basic question, but I need some help figuring out
what the code wants.
In the documentation for NSTableView, I am told that I must implement as
part of a datasource the following function:
- (id) tableView:(NSTableView *) aTableView
objectValueForTableColumn: (NSTableColumn
Hello Everyone:
First of all, I want you all to know that I am attempting to limit
myself to a single question per day to this list. I am trying not to
wear out my welcome.
I am attempting to play with a tableView. I build a list of files using
NSArray, and then I attempt to use the information
-
From: David Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:13 PM
To: john darnell
Cc: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Subject: Re: NSTableView
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:03 PM, john darnell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - (id) directoryTable: (NSTableView *) aTableView
> obj
Thanks for the feedback on my messages. I'll work to do better on the
subject.
And as you can see from other responses, your answer was correct (but
you already know that).
Take care,
John
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Got it! Thank you!
John
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From: Shawn Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:38 PM
To: john darnell
Cc: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Subject: Re: NSTableView
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM, john darnell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
Hello everyone:
This is a discussion on theory and not a request for any practical help.
Please also be advised I am not trying to bash Cocoa or Objective-C; I
am simply curious why the designers of same built the language the way
they did. Understanding theory can sometimes geometrically improve
failed at that, and that failing
is my fault. I will attempt to do better.
Thanks again for your tutelage. I appreciate it.
R,
John Darnell
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Without knowing what exactly you are trying to achieve, it's hard to advise
you, Angelo. Would a simple printf or one of its variants do for you?
R,
John
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> Behalf Of Angelo Chen
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Guys, this may be my third time posting this to the list. It's not
showing up in my Sent box using the previous two methods, so if this is
a duplicate message, once again I apologize.
Using Chapter 9 of Aaron Hillegass' book, COCOA PROGRAMMING FOR MAC OS
as a model, I attempted to create a very s
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> Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
> Subject: Re: Loading a nib
>
>
> On 11 Jun '08, at 12:43 PM, john darnell wrote:
>
> > I stepped through
> > showNewDialog and initWithWindowNibName so I know that that code is
> > being executed, but the s
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> Behalf Of Roni Music
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:13 PM
> To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
> Subject: Re: Style Question (Robert Claeson)
>
> the bottom of the page below has one opinion why one style is su
Hello all:
For those of you who do not like answering elementary questions, you
might want to give this message a pass.
I am making my first foray into writing Cocoa applications, and I have
created a very simple class. The header file looks like this:
/* Chooser */
#import
@interfa
Thanks to all of you who answered my question. I had seven answers
within an hour of posting, and it shows me that this bunch is willing to
help, even with simple questions (I groaned when I read the first
message, and realized how *obvious* the syntax error was).
I'll try not to abuse this lis
Mr. Krishna:
I, too am new to Objective-C, but in the two books I have been
studying on the language, they both make the point that Objective-C
plays nicely with both C and C++. Could you simply write a standard C++
class and instantiate it the same way one does with other C++ classes
(i.e. by
I am a long-time C/C++ programmer, with roots in XBase and Basic. Code
style is a subject that often comes up with newbie programmers
regardless of the language, and it deserves a thoughtful response.
I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Stiles; more than anything else, your
style of coding *is* a mat
Mr. LaMarche:
I agree wholeheartedly. Thanks for adding your very salient point.
Mr. IS:
My apologies. I have no desire to divert the list to some off-topic
subject.
R,
John
On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:25 AM, john darnell wrote:
> 4.) Comment verbosely and often. You may underst
. It's what glues a community together...
Take care.
John
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From: I. Savant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:20 AM
To: john darnell
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Subject: Re: is this badly written code?
> Mr. IS:
*Mister* Idiot Savant
;> #include
>> #include
>> #include
personnaly i prefere to sort line by size ;-)
#include
#include
#include
[John Darnell says:] Yeah, that would work, too.
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