Hi, I'm building some home automation software with Cocoa/Objective-C. The main application will have a minimal GUI and will most likely be represented by a status bar icon only. I'm using proprietary speech-to-text software (MacSpeech Dictate) that takes my voice command and converts it to plain text. I then need to send this plain te...
Hi, I have a NSArray of objects. Those objects have an int attribute called "distance". I would like to sort my array by distance. Could someone please tell me how to do that ? I can't understand how the sortUsingSelector or sortUsingDescriptor methods are working... Thanks ...
I figured out the answer to this question, but I couldn't find the solution on here, so posting it for posterity. So, in Objective-C, how do you create an object out of a pointer in order to store it in objective-c collections (NSArray, NSDictionary, NSSet, etc) without reverting to regular C? ...
Is there any way to write to the XCode build transcript? What i want to do, is throw a warning if a device is not attached to the computer instead of an assertion failure in my unit test cases (some cases rely on an attached ipod). I thought of something like the standard compiler warnings (only with custom message). Thanks. ...
Hey guys, i was searching SO for help on this, but i can't seem to find a concrete solution. Is, or isn't it possible to connect to a mysql database with Cocoa? Because i'm working on a program that i'd like to extend to a database, but i sure as hell don't know how! I mean, that cocoa-mysql package is heavily outdated, and i dont even ...
Hi, I have an NSWindowController and I initialize it like this; + (MyWindowController *) sharedController { static MyWindowController *singleton = nil; if (!singleton) singleton = [[self alloc] initWithWindowNibName: @"myWindow"]; return singleton; } and I show windows like this; [[MyWindowController sharedController] s...
I'm working on a simple little text editor that implements the editor portion of the ODBEditorSuite of Apple Events so that my app can work with QuickCursor for providing editing capabilities. The events that need to be sent are pretty straightforward and share a lot of the same code, so I've wrapped it up into a method like this: -(BOO...
I read the other post here on Outlineviews and DND, but I can't get my program to work. At the bottom of this post is a link to a zip of my project. Its very basic with only an outlineview and button. I want it to receive text files being dropped on it, but something is wrong with my code or connections. I tried following Apple's example...
I don't see any options for the FSPathMoveObjectToTrashSync() function for not following links. Here is what I have tried Create a link and a file [ 21:32:41 /tmp ] $ touch my_file [ 21:32:45 /tmp ] $ ln -s my_file my_link [ 21:32:52 /tmp ] $ la total 8 drwxrwxrwt 12 root wheel 408 17 Maj 21:32 . drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel...
I just finished reading the "Functions" chapter from Uncle Bob's Clean Code. The main advice was to make sure that functions are short -- really short. And they should only do one thing per level of abstraction. Here's a function from an app I'm making to learn Cocoa (idea from Andy Matuschak). - (IBAction)go:(id)sender { NSString *outp...
I've used the code below to emulate Safari's ability to change the scale of a webpage: -(IBAction)changeScale:(NSControl *)sender { [[[[wv mainFrame] frameView] documentView] setBounds:[self originalBounds]]; [[[[wv mainFrame] frameView] documentView] scaleUnitSquareToSize:NSMakeSize([sender floatValue], [sender floatValue])]; ...
I have a string I want to parse and return an equivalent enum. I need to use the enum type elsewhere, and I think I like how I'm defining it. The problem is that I don't know a good way to check the string against the enum values without being redundant about the order of the enums. Is there no option other than a big if/else? typedef ...
I have an array of images, and two nib files. One nib file has a window that displays the images in an NSTableView. The other nib has a window that draws the array of images into an NSView, and also draws a highlight over the images that are selected. The array of images is controlled by an NSArrayController. I'm having trouble getting ...
I am working on a project where I have a table view that is currently updated via a web request that returns XML. I implemented -(int)numberOfRowsInTableView:(NSTableView*)tv and -(id)tableView:(NSTableView *)tv objectValueForTableColumn:(NSTableColumn*)tableColumn row:(int)row in my XML parsing class, and have the table updated w...
Hey guys, I need to add some kind of archiving functionality to a Objective-C Trie implementation (NDTrie on github), but I have very little experience with C and it's data structures. struct trieNode { NSUInteger key; NSUInteger count, size; id object; __strong struct trieNode ** children; __strong struct trieN...
I was messing with my Objective-C++ namespace today. I found that Handle, Size and Duration are already defined in ObjC++. What are they defined to be and where are they defined? I have only #imported Foundation/Foundation.h ...
Is there a way to get the standard error/output path from within the process? I tried NSTask's standardError but it returns NSFileHandle, and I need the path as string. Thank you! p.s. StandardErrorPath is set in a .plist used by launchd to start the process on system start. The process is a bundle, written in objective c. ...
i am using ASIHTTPRequest for downloading file from server but its giving error Failed to move file from '/Users/admin/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/3.1.3/Applications/8650FFE4-9C18-425C-9CEE-7392FD788E6D/Documents/temp/test.zip.download' to '/Users/admin/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/3.1.3/Applications/86...
Hello, I have an NSCollectionView and the view is an NSBox with a label and an NSButton. I want a double click or a click of the NSButton to tell the controller to perform an action with the represented object of the NSCollectionViewItem. The Item View is has been subclassed, the code is as follows: #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> #import "Wiz...
Hi there, is there any idea for getting the text under the mouse cursor? I'm trying to build a dictionary app, that pops up a panel of translates when mouse hangs over a word. I took a look at the accessiblity apis, and it only can find the current ui element, but not the current word... my last choice will be makeing screenshots freq...