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iPhone No Saved Photo Album created on iPhone

Hi, I am using iPhone 2.0 SDK. I used the API UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum to save an image. A Saved Photos album gets created on the iPhone Simulator when I save an image but tested on the device the image gets added in the Camera Roll album. While debugging, no errors occur but the Saved Photos album is not created on the device. ...

Send An Action Cocoa - IBAction

I'd like to send an action to another object using cocoa. Ideally i would also like it to appear in the Interface builder. I've tried the apple documentation, but there is something i'm missing. Adding the following, the interface building only shows the action as a received one. - (IBAction)setTarget:(id)anObject; - (IBAction)setActio...

Update GCC on OSX

So I am a new programmer and I just installed XCode on my Macbook to get the GCC. I think Xcode is the only way for getting GCC on OSX. Now when I run my Hello World application, in C++, g++ comes up saying it is version 4.0.1 but when I look for commands starting with g I also see g++-4.2. Is there any way of making 4.2 default rather t...

What are your motivations for developing Software for Mac OSX?

I really like my Mac, and I am thinking about developing Software for it some time in the future. What are the reasons why you're making Mac Software? Because you think Mac is so cool? Or is the market so interesting? I think many of us would like to know, right? Well for me, as I said, it's the coolness of the Mac. I don't know anythin...

Creating a new webproject with MonoDevelop 2.1 under Mac OS X => exception

I have a fresh install of MonoDevelop 2.1 and Mono-Framework 2.7. When I try to create a new project, the following exception: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Add-in 'MonoDevelop.AssemblyBrowser,2.1.0' could not be loaded....

[NSView setFrame:] not working?

Greetings all, I have a puzzling problem. I have a pointer to a vanilla NSView that was initialized in a nib. I message the nsview with [myNSView setFrame:NSMakeRect(0,0,816,1056)]; but when I step through the debugger, myNSView has a frame of {{0,0}, {801, 1041}}. The dimensions of the rectangle are 15 less than I've specified! Thi...

Using virtualenv on Mac OS X

I've been using virtualenv on Ubuntu and it rocks, so I'm trying to use it on my Mac and I'm having trouble. The virtualenv command successfully creates the directory, and easy_install gladly installs packages in it, but I can't import anything I install. It seems like sys.path isn't being set correctly: it doesn't include the virtual s...

Cocoa NSView changing autosizing properties

Using interface builder you can select the corners an object should stick to when resizing. How can you do this programatically? ...

How do I choose which Python installation to run in a PyObjC program?

I use Python 2.6 more than I use Leopard's default python installation, so I have it set as my main Python installation. But I'd rather use the default Python for a PyObjC program I'm working on. Is there any way to specify to only use it instead of Python 2.6? ...

How to do Core Data queries through a relationship?

I'm messing around with Core Data, and I am sure I am missing something obvious, because I cannot find an example that at all resembles what I am trying to do. Let's say I'm playing around with a DVD database. I have two entities. A Movie (title, year, rating, and a relationship to Actor) and Actor (name, sex, picture). Getting all the...

How do I develop an addon for Safari?

I want some personally developed JavaScript code to execute whenever I load a page in Safari. Seems like addblock for Safari does this. Anyone know how to do this? Safari is not extensible. There's no addon framework for it. But yet there's adblock and verious other addons available for it, although Apple's Webkit and Safari developers ...

How to static link on OS X

I'm trying to link to a static library on OS X. I used the -static flag in the gcc command but I an error message: ld_classic: can't locate file for: -lcrt0.o collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I looked in the man pages and it reads something like: This option will not work on Mac OS X unless all libraries (including libgcc.a) ...

Move focus to newly added record in an NSTableView

I am writing an application using Core Data to control a few NSTableViews. I have an add button that makes a new a record in the NSTableView. How do I make the focus move to the new record when this button is clicked so that I can immediately type its name? This is the same idea in iTunes where immediately after clicking the add playli...

Make QTMovieView full screen

I have a QTMovieView set up as an IBOutlet. I want to play the video in full screen. Which method allows this? ...

How can I make a JFileChooser on the Mac that lets users create directories?

I have an installer program that lets the user choose a directory in which to install. The JFileChooser implementation on MacOS uses a native dialog (or at least it looks native). That's great. The only problem is there's no way to create a directory from this dialog ... you can only choose a pre-existing one, which is clunky. Is there...

How do I represent a void pointer in a PyObjC selector?

I'm wanting to use an NSOpenPanel for an application I'm designing. Here's what I have so far: @objc.IBAction def ShowOpenPanel_(self, sender): self.panel = NSOpenPanel.openPanel() self.panel.setCanChooseFiles_(False) self.panel.setCanChooseDirectories_(True) NSLog(u'Starting OpenPanel') self.panel.beginForDirectory...

Mac OS X: Spawning a Ruby Tk window that has focus

I'm trying to spawn a Tk window from ruby script using ruby's Tk module. It works, but I cannot figure out a way to focus the spawned window. It's frustrating. If I run this code from terminal, as in $ruby screenup.rb the window spawns behind the terminal window. If I run as a shell script in Quicksilver, two windows spawn. One is t...

Problem installing pyscopg2 on Mac OS X

I have downloaded the latest build of pyscopg2 and have tried to build and install it using the directions provided. However i always get an error saying that 'w' is undeclared. Does anybody have any experience with this? ...

Getting the name of document that used to launch the application bundle on OS X

When writing an OS X Bundle application (.app), how can I get the name of the document that caused the application to be launched? Say I've associated .abcd with MyApp, when I click on foo.abcd MyApp is launched. How can I get the foo.abcd from inside MyApp? (Command line arguments only contain the process id). ...

NSTextView not refreshed properly on scrolling

Greetings, I have a NSTextView with a sizeable quantity of text. Whenever I scroll however, the view isn't updated properly. There are some artifacts that remain at the top or the bottom of the view. It appears that the view doesn't refresh itself often enough. If I scroll very slowly the view updates correctly though. If I add a border...