I'm finding a few open source projects, mostly older, that lack an .xcodeproj directory hierarchy. It seems like all other crucial files are there. Curiously enough, I'm wondering how these projects are even accessed via Xcode? I'd like to compile them, break them, fix them etc. Is there a way to open these more legacy projects? Here'...
In Cocoa on the Mac, I'd like to detect when a window belonging to another app is moved, resized, or repainted. How can I do this? ...
I have an application using Core Data and bindings. I want to have an NSSearchField that can search through an NSArrayController bound to an NSTableView. The array controller contains Core Data objects that have a "name" field. I have setup the NSSearchField like this: Bind To: the array controller Controller Key: filterPredicate Pre...
I'm new to Cocoa development - I want to display an aribitrary number of directory paths in a control/view. What's the best type of built-in control/view for this? Requirements: This should be a flat list only and not a full File System browser. Users should be able to select one (or more) items and remove them (i'll provide a remov...
I might not be using IBOutlet correctly, or some other subtlety with how NIB files work is causing me trouble - any help would be much appreciated (feel free to propose an alternate way to accomplish what I want). I have a View object and a Controller object. Both are in the NIB. The Controller's init is also called when the NIB is load...
NSURLConnection by default performs a GET request with HTTP v1.1. How do I get it to perform a GET request with HTTP v1.0? Or is there a HTTP header I can set that will do this for me? ...
If I have an immutable string is the hashing algorithm run every time I call hash, or does it remember the value (given that the string can't change)? ...
I have a NIB file that I load using NSWindowController initWindowNibName. The NIB file contains one NSWindow. It's File's Owner is of class NSWindowController. I've connected the window outlet from File's Owner to the Window. When I load the NIB, [windowController window] is nil and so is the top level objects array. However, I can stil...
... after having just read http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CocoaInsecurity ... I am curious to know about your experiences with copy protection solutions for protecting macintosh applications. Is it worth investing any time in at all? OR Is it worth investing money in a commercial solution? (& if so, which?) please consider in your a...
I need to get bitrate information from audio files, for some reason AudioFileGetProperty function with kAudioFilePropertyBitRate constant always returns 0 for me. The same with kAudioFilePropertyInfoDictionary, the resulting dictionary doesnt contain bitrate info. I would try to manualy get this from raw data in case of mp3, but I need t...
I'm trying to take a numeric value in a string and raise it by a power of 10. stumbled upon – decimalNumberByMultiplyingByPowerOf10:withBehavior: which looks promising but I can't for the life of me figure out how to configure/set the withBehavior argument. I think I need to set it to NSRoundDown so when raising to negative power it ...
Is there like an AIR for python? I know I can use Cocoa with Python, is there anything else? How easy is it to get started with Cocoa for Python if you know Python. ...
I have a statusItem in the StatusBar. I've retained a reference to it in my class. Now, I want to update the image of the item. In order to this, I wrote a method similar to: -(void)updateStatusIcon:(NSString *)newImage { [statusItem setImage:[NSImage imageNamed:newImage]]; } The image is a valid icon and works when I set it initi...
Hey! My idea: I select a string/text and drop it on my app's icon. My app comes up and does fancy things with the string. Now my question is how I can do it that I can drop it on the app, how I can notify my app and how my app gets the string. Any suggestions? Thanks for answering and any idea! :) ...
I like to create a Cocoa window without any chrome whatsoever. The only thing the user should see is what I draw. I've discovered I can create a custom NSView but does this have to be in an NSWindow to display? If not, how can I display it without putting it in an NSWindow? If it does have to be in an NSWindow, how do I stop the window ...
I want to get the dimensions of the main screen, so I use this snippet: NSLog(@"mainScreen frame = %@", [[NSScreen mainScreen] visibleFrame]); It's printing mainScreen frame = (null) Earlier it was printing the expected dimensions of my main monitor. What are some possible causes of this? ...
I need to reorder a plist (an array of dictonaries) by Key value. In this example content I'd like to order by the value for the key Name (Matt, Joe): <dict> <key>Name</key> <string>Matt</string> <key>Details</key> <string>Me</string> </dict> <dict> <key>Name</key> <string>Joe</string> <key>Details</key> ...
I am debugging a Cocoa application using xcode-gdb. I am at a break point and I want view the value of some Cocoa constants (ie NSControlKeyMask) and to do some test with the values in the current stackframe. Specifically I am in - (void) keyDown:(NSEvent *) e , and I have done set $mf = (int)[e modifierFlags] on the gdb prompt. Now ...
Without any changes to my code except building against Qt 4.5 I get the following warning message when I run my application: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x50a1b0 of class NSCFNumber autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking I am not using any Objective-C in my code but Qt 4.5 is using a new Cocoa based back end instead ...
I keep getting this error: What is it? I never even called "isEqualToString". Here Is my Joke.M @implementation Joke @synthesize joke; @synthesize rating; - (id)init { [super init]; return self; } - (void)dealloc { [joke release]; [super dealloc]; } + (id)jokeWithValue:(NSString *)joke { Joke *j = [[Joke alloc] init]; j.joke =...