I’m trying to create a date in the BC era, but failing pretty hard. The following returns ‘4713’ as the year, instead of ‘-4712’: NSCalendar *calendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar]; NSDateComponents *components = [NSDateComponents new]; [components setYear: -4712]; NSDate *date = [calendar...
I need to display numbers on a plot axis. The values could change but I want to avoid too long numbers that will ruin the readability of the graph. My thought was to group every 3 characters and substitute them with K, M and so on (or a custom character). So: 1 -> 1, 999 -> 999, 1.000 -> 1k, 1.200 -> 1.2k, 1.280 -> 1.2k, 12.800 -> 12.8k,...
Hi I am a bit uncertain on how to do this: I start a "worker-thread" that runs for the duration of my apps "life". [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(updateModel) toTarget:self withObject:nil]; then - (void) updateModel { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; BackgroundUpdate *update = [[Back...
I need to handle a touch event on my custom uiviewcotroller. I have a sub controller within the view that already handle touch event (it's a plot that handle zooming and scrolling). I want to make a tabbar disappear when I tap the screen once. Actually it only works (even tought the tabbar doesn fade away but simply is no visible) in the...
Interestingly i didn't find the answer for this seemingly trivial question - Cocoas mouse events have z-coordinates - what are they for? ...
I need a hint on how to write multiple NSData chunks to single file. Downloading a file using NSURLConnection in chunks. Each chunk is downloaded in a separate NSOperation thread. As the chunks finish downloading they need to be written to a file so combined result is the file downloaded. What would be the best way to manage the NSData ...
My Problem is this: My framework contains public and private headers - the public headers import private headers in the framework My app that links against this framework imports public headers Now when I compile it, XCode complains about missing files (the private headers that are indirectly imported via the frameworks public header...
Hi, I have some big problem with an NSMutableArray I'm filling with objects in a database. I'm using [appDelegate.myArray addObject:myObject], then somehow the object gets crushed in the memory, I don't know why, I didn't release anything... Thanks for your answers (and sorry for my poor english xD) ...
Yes, I'm being lazy. What happens when I call performSelector:onThread:... and pass in a thread that's currently blocked (on synchronous I/O, for instance)? Does the selector just get queued to be executed later? ...
I am using a UITableView to display the results of a series of calculations. When the user hits 'calculate', I add the latest result to the screen. When I add a new cell, the UITableViewCell object is added to an array (which is indexed by tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:), and then I use the following code to add this new row to what is...
Hi everybody. I'm having problems installing pyobjc on SnowLeopard. It came with python 2.6 but I need 2.5 so I have installed 2.5 successfully. After that I have installed xcode. After that I have installed pyobjc with "easy_install-2.5 pyobjc" But when I start my python 2.5 and from cmd line try to import Foundation, it says "no modu...
I'm using Mac OS X 10.6 SDK ImageKit's IKSaveOptions to add the file format accessory to an NSSavePanel using: - (id)initWithImageProperties:(NSDictionary *)imageProperties imageUTType:(NSString *)imageUTType; and - (void)addSaveOptionsAccessoryViewToSavePanel:(NSSavePanel *)savePanel; I have tried creating an NSDictionary to speci...
applicationDidFinishLaunching on my app delegate is being called when I run my Python-Cocoa app from the Terminal (i.e. python myapp.py). However, if I then use py2app to create an .app bundle, applicationDidFinishLaunching does not get called when I open the .app bundle. ...
Hi, I am trying to update another windows when the one becomes visible. So I found the NSWindowDidExposeNotification and tried to work with it, so I wrote in my awakeFromNib: // MyClass.m - (void)awakeFromNib { NSNotificationCenter *nc = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]; [nc addObserver:self selector:@selector(me...
I have some strange problem with CATransactions nested: - (void) setXShift:(int)newShift; { [CATransaction begin]; [CATransaction setAnimationDuration_c:1]; //1 if(newShift > 0 && image.x < image2.x && image.x <= 0 && image.x > -image.w + 800) { [CATransaction begin]; [CATransaction s...
I have used 4 NSButtons and assigned them to the 4 arrow keys separately to move in four different directions. Now I want to use two keystrokes, left arrow and up arrow together simultaneously, for north east movement, how can I do it? I am only able to use one keystroke at a time , I need to catch two key strokes simultaneously, I need...
I know this is not normally recommended but I really need to access the NSPopupButtonCell of NSPopupButton. Is there a way to do this? ...
Hi All, How to build the libsox.la library and integrate into xCode for editing audio in iPhone ? thanks ...
I have a bunch of HTML resources in my app organized in a hierarchy like so: dirA |---> index.html |---> a1.html |---> a2.html |---> dirB |---> b1.html |---> b2.html |---> dirC |---> c5.html |---> c19.html I'm trying to collect the absolute paths of all HTML resources however deep down, but can't seem to figure...
I have two entities: A and B A has two properties from and to, both pointing to the B entity. B as a fetched property to A with predicate from == $FETCH_SOURCE or to = $FETCH_SOURCE -- (from) -> A -- (to) -> B <- (As) -- In my application I select a certain B instance, and then show all of its A instances. Now, in my tab...