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FROM : Wayne McDermott
DATE : Sun Apr 08 23:25:30 2007
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> 1. dumb bindings/user defaults question (Andrew R. Kinnie)
> 2. stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error weirdness (Doug Knowles)
> 3. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Erik Buck)
> 4. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Graham Perks)
> 5. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Nick Zitzmann)
> 6. Current Hour & Minutes (???? ???????)
> 7. Re: How to make NSWindow redraw vacated rects "ifNeeded"?
> (Andrew Farmer)
> 8. Re: Handle data disappearing out from underneath me
> (Andrew Farmer)
> 9. Points (Ryan Brown)
> 10. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Charles Srstka)
> 11. Re: Current Hour & Minutes (Nick Zitzmann)
> 12. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Scott Anguish)
> 13. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Graham Perks)
> 14. Re: Points (j o a r)
> 15. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Nick Zitzmann)
> 16. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Scott Anguish)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:06:14 -0400
> From: "Andrew R. Kinnie" <<email_removed>>
> Subject: dumb bindings/user defaults question
> To: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> Greetings:
>
> I am working on a document based app, and I'm using the user defaults
> bindings mechanism. I created a plist with the relevant key/value
> combination (basically a string for a key and an int that corresponds
> to the key). I loaded this as factory defaults, and created several
> keys that can be reset by the user.
>
> In my app I created a text field bound to one of these keys in the
> user defaults. This works fine.
>
> I decided it was better to put this on a separate preferences panel.
> I created a panel in the MainMenu.nib and placed the text field bound
> the same way on that panel (SharedUserDefaults -> values.myKey) The
> panel is bound to the Preferences menu item (makeKeyAndOrderFront).
>
> However, the initial values do not appear when the preference panel
> is loaded. I can use my factory defaults button or my revert button
> and this populates the field with values, and I can change them,
> apply the changes, etc.
>
> If I change the values, apply it, then reload it, the CHANGED values
> appear, but still not the initial/factory ones.
>
> Anyone have an idea what I might be missing? Here is my initialize
> method (straight from the docs)
>
> + (void)initialize
> {
> [MyDocument setupDefaults];
> }
>
>
> + (void)setupDefaults
> {
> NSString *userDefaultsValuesPath;
> NSDictionary *userDefaultsValuesDict;
> NSDictionary *initialValuesDict;
> NSArray *resettableUserDefaultsKeys;
>
> // load the default values for the user defaults
> userDefaultsValuesPath=[[NSBundle mainBundle]
> pathForResource:@"UserDefaults"
> ofType:@"plist"];
> userDefaultsValuesDict=[NSDictionary
> dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:userDefaultsValuesPath];
>
> // set them in the standard user defaults
> [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]
> registerDefaults:userDefaultsValuesDict];
>
> resettableUserDefaultsKeys=[NSArray
> arrayWithObjects:@"myKey1",@"myKey2",@"myKey3",nil];
> initialValuesDict=[userDefaultsValuesDict
> dictionaryWithValuesForKeys:resettableUserDefaultsKeys];
>
> [[NSUserDefaultsController sharedUserDefaultsController]
> setInitialValues:initialValuesDict];
> }
>
> Thanks.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:22:03 -0400
> From: "Doug Knowles" <knowles.<email_removed>>
> Subject: stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error weirdness
> To: "Cocoa Dev" <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID:
> <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> I have been using, quite successfully, NSString's
> stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error to read RSS feeds from various
> sources. All of sudden, I'm getting errors when trying to process
> CNN's feeds (which I used to read successfully): the method returns a
> null result and an encoding error:
>
> Error: NSError "File could not be opened using text encoding Unicode
> (UTF-8)." Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=261
> UserInfo={NSStringEncoding = 4; NSURL =
> http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_latest.rss; }
>
> I can download the feed using curl from the command line, and it looks
> OK; the HTTP header says the content is UTF-8, the XML header says its
> UTF-8, and BBEdit doesn't have any trouble opening the curl-downloaded
> content.
>
> I've tried specifying other encodings, and at best I get garbage that
> can't be parsed as XML.
>
> Any ideas? My next idea is to open and process the URL connection
> myself, but I'd rather keep the simple implementation and fry other
> fish first.
>
> TIA,
> Doug Knowles
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:54:42 -0400
> From: Erik Buck <erik.<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Cocoa-Dev Mail <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
>> Well, the problem is localization. Unless you're fluent in pretty
>> much every language, you're going to need to send your nib files to
>> someone else to translate them into Spanish, French, Japanese, etc.,
>> and when they send the modified versions back to you, they sometimes
>> end up lacking the .svn directory inside, which causes Subversion to
>> go into a *fit*.
>>
>> If there's any way around this, I'd love to know about it as well.
>
> The old solution for using CVS with nibs in the Nextstep days was to
> have scripts which tared and untarred the nib as it was checked in
> or out. That way CVS treated the entire nib directory as a single
> binary file.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:08:08 -0500
> From: Graham Perks <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Charles Srstka <<email_removed>>
> Cc: Apple Cocoa List <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> Charles,
>
> There is the all-important setting that really ought to be part of
> the XCode install:
>
> defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder VersionControlDirectory
> "(CVS, .svn)"
>
> If you do that, IB knows to keep the .svn folder intact inside
> the .nib folder. Without it, as you say, Subversion goes frantic.
>
> Why should a nib file be mergeable between multiple devs? One is
> updating some bindings, another wrapping some view in a scroller,
> another setting an NSView to a custom view. Who knows? There are
> plenty of cases where multiple developers might need to be working on
> the same nib file.
>
> Cheers,
> Graham Perks.
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:
>
>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 4:58 AM, Graham Perks wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do teams share nib files? Whether saved in text or binary, it
>>>> appears that if two people edit a nib, there is no way to merge
>>>> the changes together in, say, Subversion.
>>>
>>> Conceptually, I don't think nibs are something that fit well with
>>> the concept of merging. The user interface of a window should
>>> really only be updated by one person at a time. From the user's
>>> perspective all of the onscreen elements directly impact each other.
>>
>> Well, the problem is localization. Unless you're fluent in pretty
>> much every language, you're going to need to send your nib files to
>> someone else to translate them into Spanish, French, Japanese,
>> etc., and when they send the modified versions back to you, they
>> sometimes end up lacking the .svn directory inside, which causes
>> Subversion to go into a *fit*.
>>
>> If there's any way around this, I'd love to know about it as well.
>>
>> Charles
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:11:17 -0600
> From: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Graham Perks <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Graham Perks wrote:
>
>> There is the all-important setting that really ought to be part of
>> the XCode install:
>>
>> defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder VersionControlDirectory
>> "(CVS, .svn)"
>>
>> If you do that, IB knows to keep the .svn folder intact inside
>> the .nib folder. Without it, as you say, Subversion goes frantic.
>
> Really? IB by default hasn't trashed .svn directories inside nibs
> since Xcode 1.1 or so.
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 23:15:58 +0300
> From: ???? ??????? <alrokayan.<email_removed>>
> Subject: Current Hour & Minutes
> To: Apple Mail List <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> Hi...
>
>
> Hmm, this look easy, but I don't know why it doesn't work with me !!!
>
> All what I need is the current hour & minutes as int.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ====== ONE OF MY TRYING =======
>
>
> I use NSDate and NSCalendar and some of the out resource classes, :
> ( but I didn't get what I want .
>
> ====== ONE OF MY TRYING =======
>
> I use this: http://theocacao.com/document.page/389
> It look like useful but when I do:
> NSLog(@"+currentHour: %i", [THCalendarInfo currentHour]);
>
> It show me the current hour, BUT when I do:
> int currentHour = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",[THCalendarInfo
> currentHour]] intValue];
>
> currentHour valuable will get zeros. !!!
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:23:05 -0700
> From: Andrew Farmer <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: How to make NSWindow redraw vacated rects "ifNeeded"?
> To: Jerry Krinock <<email_removed>>
> Cc: Cocoa Developers Developers <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> On 08 Apr 07, at 08:36, Jerry Krinock wrote:
>> I often find myself needing to sprinkle in what I feel are extra -
>> display messages to NSWindows to when I want them to update.
>> Yesterday I isolated a demo which gets me closer to understanding
>> this.
> <...>
>> // Update the window
>> [window displayIfNeeded] ; // Not good enough!!
>> // Uncomment the next line and it works as desired
>> // [window display] ;
>>
>> // Show for 3 seconds
>> [NSThread sleepUntilDate:
>> [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:3.0]];
>
> AppKit depends on the presence of an event loop for a lot of things,
> including redrawing views. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to
> accomplish here, but it'll probably work better if you avoid sleeping
> outside the event loop. Use NSTimer and -[NSObject
> performSelector:withObject:afterDelay:] to implement delayed events.
>
> As a general point, BTW, you should never need to call
> setNeedsDisplay, display, or displayIfNeeded on view objects. (Only
> exception is a view calling setNeedsDisplay on itself.) The view
> should otherwise be able to do redraw management for itself.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:23:34 -0700
> From: Andrew Farmer <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Handle data disappearing out from underneath me
> To: Ken Tozier <<email_removed>>
> Cc: Cocoa-Dev Mail <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> On 08 Apr 07, at 07:24, Ken Tozier wrote:
>> Being an autoreleased NSData probably has something to do with it
>> but I would have thought that PtrToHand did something internally to
>> prevent the deletion of the data it points to...
>
> Nope. I'm pretty sure that, as part of the old Memory Manager,
> PtrToHand doesn't do anything to retain data passed to it - it
> assumes that the underlying data was allocated with NewPointer or
> something similar. If the data was actually created as an NSData
> instance and hasn't been retained, it will get deallocated and
> (eventually) overwritten!
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:26:13 -0700
> From: Ryan Brown <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Points
> To: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame] reports the resolution of the main
> screen in points. Points are defined to be 1/72th of an inch. If my
> resolution is 1680x1050, [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame] returns (1680,
> 1050) and if my resolution (hypothetically) is 10x10 it returns (10,
> 10). But how can this be so? 10 pixels are being mapped onto to my
> 21" screen (making each pixel > 1in), so the number returned by
> [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame] should be significantly higher. Why
> isn't it? Is there some level of abstraction I'm missing?
>
> Ryan
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:29:41 -0500
> From: Charles Srstka <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Graham Perks wrote:
>>
>>> There is the all-important setting that really ought to be part of
>>> the XCode install:
>>>
>>> defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder VersionControlDirectory
>>> "(CVS, .svn)"
>>>
>>> If you do that, IB knows to keep the .svn folder intact inside
>>> the .nib folder. Without it, as you say, Subversion goes frantic.
>>
>> Really? IB by default hasn't trashed .svn directories inside nibs
>> since Xcode 1.1 or so.
>
> All I know is that the .nib files I get back from my localizers often
> lack those .svn directories, which causes me a lot of hassle in
> fixing it.
>
> I'll try asking my localizers to set that defaults key and see if it
> improves things at all.
>
> Charles
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:34:45 -0600
> From: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Current Hour & Minutes
> To: ???? ??????? <alrokayan.<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Ù.ØÙ.د اÙ"رÙfÙSاÙ? wrote:
>
>> Hmm, this look easy, but I don't know why it doesn't work with me !!!
>>
>> All what I need is the current hour & minutes as int.
>
> Try: (warning - written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk, etc.)
>
> NSCalendarDate *now = [NSCalendarDate date];
> int hour = [now hourOfDay];
> int minute = [now minuteOfHour];
>
> Alternately, this will work in Tiger and later, and is probably more
> future-proof:
>
> NSCalendar *cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
> NSDateComponents *hourAndMinute = [cal components:NSHourCalendarUnit
> | NSMinuteCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
> int hour = [hourAndMinute hour];
> int minute = [hourAndMinute minute];
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:35:44 -0400
> From: Scott Anguish <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Graham Perks <<email_removed>>
> Cc: Apple Cocoa List <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> in addition to what Erik said..
>
> remember that nibs aren't text configuration files. they're actually
> object graphs (archived versions of the objects you create in IB)
>
> that isn't something merge-able.
>
> by and large Subversion/CVS is the way to go.
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Graham Perks wrote:
>
>> How do teams share nib files? Whether saved in text or binary, it
>> appears that if two people edit a nib, there is no way to merge the
>> changes together in, say, Subversion.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:48:37 -0500
> From: Graham Perks <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> I was having trouble in XCode 2.4 until changing this default. Odd
> that... it seems you're right after some googling.
>
> Graham.
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
>>> There is the all-important setting that really ought to be part of
>>> the XCode install:
>>>
>>> defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder VersionControlDirectory
>>> "(CVS, .svn)"
>>>
>>> If you do that, IB knows to keep the .svn folder intact inside
>>> the .nib folder. Without it, as you say, Subversion goes frantic.
>>
>> Really? IB by default hasn't trashed .svn directories inside nibs
>> since Xcode 1.1 or so.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:52:00 +0200
> From: j o a r <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Points
> To: Ryan Brown <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>
> On 8 apr 2007, at 22.26, Ryan Brown wrote:
>
>> [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame] reports the resolution of the main
>> screen in points. Points are defined to be 1/72th of an inch.
>
>
> -[NSScreen frame] returns the "dimensions" of your screen. Where do
> you see that those are returned in points?
>
> Read more about this here:
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
> CocoaDrawingGuide/Transforms/chapter_4_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/
> uid/TP40003290-CH204-DontLinkElementID_94>
>
> j o a r
>
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> Message: 15
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:53:25 -0600
> From: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Scott Anguish <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
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>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
>> remember that nibs aren't text configuration files. they're
>> actually object graphs (archived versions of the objects you create
>> in IB)
>>
>> that isn't something merge-able.
>
> Here's something I've always wondered: Are the XML versions of nibs
> also unmergable, or is that only the binary nibs? I've never enabled
> the XML option in IB because it doesn't say anything in IB about
> their compatibility...
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:56:32 -0400
> From: Scott Anguish <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>>
>>> remember that nibs aren't text configuration files. they're
>>> actually object graphs (archived versions of the objects you create
>>> in IB)
>>>
>>> that isn't something merge-able.
>>
>> Here's something I've always wondered: Are the XML versions of nibs
>> also unmergable, or is that only the binary nibs? I've never enabled
>> the XML option in IB because it doesn't say anything in IB about
>> their compatibility...
>
> they're both object graphs.. both not merge-able.
>
>
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> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. dumb bindings/user defaults question (Andrew R. Kinnie)
> 2. stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error weirdness (Doug Knowles)
> 3. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Erik Buck)
> 4. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Graham Perks)
> 5. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Nick Zitzmann)
> 6. Current Hour & Minutes (???? ???????)
> 7. Re: How to make NSWindow redraw vacated rects "ifNeeded"?
> (Andrew Farmer)
> 8. Re: Handle data disappearing out from underneath me
> (Andrew Farmer)
> 9. Points (Ryan Brown)
> 10. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Charles Srstka)
> 11. Re: Current Hour & Minutes (Nick Zitzmann)
> 12. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Scott Anguish)
> 13. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Graham Perks)
> 14. Re: Points (j o a r)
> 15. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Nick Zitzmann)
> 16. Re: Multiple developers and nib files (Scott Anguish)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:06:14 -0400
> From: "Andrew R. Kinnie" <<email_removed>>
> Subject: dumb bindings/user defaults question
> To: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> Greetings:
>
> I am working on a document based app, and I'm using the user defaults
> bindings mechanism. I created a plist with the relevant key/value
> combination (basically a string for a key and an int that corresponds
> to the key). I loaded this as factory defaults, and created several
> keys that can be reset by the user.
>
> In my app I created a text field bound to one of these keys in the
> user defaults. This works fine.
>
> I decided it was better to put this on a separate preferences panel.
> I created a panel in the MainMenu.nib and placed the text field bound
> the same way on that panel (SharedUserDefaults -> values.myKey) The
> panel is bound to the Preferences menu item (makeKeyAndOrderFront).
>
> However, the initial values do not appear when the preference panel
> is loaded. I can use my factory defaults button or my revert button
> and this populates the field with values, and I can change them,
> apply the changes, etc.
>
> If I change the values, apply it, then reload it, the CHANGED values
> appear, but still not the initial/factory ones.
>
> Anyone have an idea what I might be missing? Here is my initialize
> method (straight from the docs)
>
> + (void)initialize
> {
> [MyDocument setupDefaults];
> }
>
>
> + (void)setupDefaults
> {
> NSString *userDefaultsValuesPath;
> NSDictionary *userDefaultsValuesDict;
> NSDictionary *initialValuesDict;
> NSArray *resettableUserDefaultsKeys;
>
> // load the default values for the user defaults
> userDefaultsValuesPath=[[NSBundle mainBundle]
> pathForResource:@"UserDefaults"
> ofType:@"plist"];
> userDefaultsValuesDict=[NSDictionary
> dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:userDefaultsValuesPath];
>
> // set them in the standard user defaults
> [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]
> registerDefaults:userDefaultsValuesDict];
>
> resettableUserDefaultsKeys=[NSArray
> arrayWithObjects:@"myKey1",@"myKey2",@"myKey3",nil];
> initialValuesDict=[userDefaultsValuesDict
> dictionaryWithValuesForKeys:resettableUserDefaultsKeys];
>
> [[NSUserDefaultsController sharedUserDefaultsController]
> setInitialValues:initialValuesDict];
> }
>
> Thanks.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:22:03 -0400
> From: "Doug Knowles" <knowles.<email_removed>>
> Subject: stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error weirdness
> To: "Cocoa Dev" <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID:
> <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> I have been using, quite successfully, NSString's
> stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error to read RSS feeds from various
> sources. All of sudden, I'm getting errors when trying to process
> CNN's feeds (which I used to read successfully): the method returns a
> null result and an encoding error:
>
> Error: NSError "File could not be opened using text encoding Unicode
> (UTF-8)." Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=261
> UserInfo={NSStringEncoding = 4; NSURL =
> http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_latest.rss; }
>
> I can download the feed using curl from the command line, and it looks
> OK; the HTTP header says the content is UTF-8, the XML header says its
> UTF-8, and BBEdit doesn't have any trouble opening the curl-downloaded
> content.
>
> I've tried specifying other encodings, and at best I get garbage that
> can't be parsed as XML.
>
> Any ideas? My next idea is to open and process the URL connection
> myself, but I'd rather keep the simple implementation and fry other
> fish first.
>
> TIA,
> Doug Knowles
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:54:42 -0400
> From: Erik Buck <erik.<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Cocoa-Dev Mail <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
>> Well, the problem is localization. Unless you're fluent in pretty
>> much every language, you're going to need to send your nib files to
>> someone else to translate them into Spanish, French, Japanese, etc.,
>> and when they send the modified versions back to you, they sometimes
>> end up lacking the .svn directory inside, which causes Subversion to
>> go into a *fit*.
>>
>> If there's any way around this, I'd love to know about it as well.
>
> The old solution for using CVS with nibs in the Nextstep days was to
> have scripts which tared and untarred the nib as it was checked in
> or out. That way CVS treated the entire nib directory as a single
> binary file.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:08:08 -0500
> From: Graham Perks <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Charles Srstka <<email_removed>>
> Cc: Apple Cocoa List <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> Charles,
>
> There is the all-important setting that really ought to be part of
> the XCode install:
>
> defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder VersionControlDirectory
> "(CVS, .svn)"
>
> If you do that, IB knows to keep the .svn folder intact inside
> the .nib folder. Without it, as you say, Subversion goes frantic.
>
> Why should a nib file be mergeable between multiple devs? One is
> updating some bindings, another wrapping some view in a scroller,
> another setting an NSView to a custom view. Who knows? There are
> plenty of cases where multiple developers might need to be working on
> the same nib file.
>
> Cheers,
> Graham Perks.
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:
>
>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 4:58 AM, Graham Perks wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do teams share nib files? Whether saved in text or binary, it
>>>> appears that if two people edit a nib, there is no way to merge
>>>> the changes together in, say, Subversion.
>>>
>>> Conceptually, I don't think nibs are something that fit well with
>>> the concept of merging. The user interface of a window should
>>> really only be updated by one person at a time. From the user's
>>> perspective all of the onscreen elements directly impact each other.
>>
>> Well, the problem is localization. Unless you're fluent in pretty
>> much every language, you're going to need to send your nib files to
>> someone else to translate them into Spanish, French, Japanese,
>> etc., and when they send the modified versions back to you, they
>> sometimes end up lacking the .svn directory inside, which causes
>> Subversion to go into a *fit*.
>>
>> If there's any way around this, I'd love to know about it as well.
>>
>> Charles
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:11:17 -0600
> From: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Graham Perks <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Graham Perks wrote:
>
>> There is the all-important setting that really ought to be part of
>> the XCode install:
>>
>> defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder VersionControlDirectory
>> "(CVS, .svn)"
>>
>> If you do that, IB knows to keep the .svn folder intact inside
>> the .nib folder. Without it, as you say, Subversion goes frantic.
>
> Really? IB by default hasn't trashed .svn directories inside nibs
> since Xcode 1.1 or so.
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 23:15:58 +0300
> From: ???? ??????? <alrokayan.<email_removed>>
> Subject: Current Hour & Minutes
> To: Apple Mail List <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> Hi...
>
>
> Hmm, this look easy, but I don't know why it doesn't work with me !!!
>
> All what I need is the current hour & minutes as int.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ====== ONE OF MY TRYING =======
>
>
> I use NSDate and NSCalendar and some of the out resource classes, :
> ( but I didn't get what I want .
>
> ====== ONE OF MY TRYING =======
>
> I use this: http://theocacao.com/document.page/389
> It look like useful but when I do:
> NSLog(@"+currentHour: %i", [THCalendarInfo currentHour]);
>
> It show me the current hour, BUT when I do:
> int currentHour = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",[THCalendarInfo
> currentHour]] intValue];
>
> currentHour valuable will get zeros. !!!
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:23:05 -0700
> From: Andrew Farmer <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: How to make NSWindow redraw vacated rects "ifNeeded"?
> To: Jerry Krinock <<email_removed>>
> Cc: Cocoa Developers Developers <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> On 08 Apr 07, at 08:36, Jerry Krinock wrote:
>> I often find myself needing to sprinkle in what I feel are extra -
>> display messages to NSWindows to when I want them to update.
>> Yesterday I isolated a demo which gets me closer to understanding
>> this.
> <...>
>> // Update the window
>> [window displayIfNeeded] ; // Not good enough!!
>> // Uncomment the next line and it works as desired
>> // [window display] ;
>>
>> // Show for 3 seconds
>> [NSThread sleepUntilDate:
>> [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:3.0]];
>
> AppKit depends on the presence of an event loop for a lot of things,
> including redrawing views. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to
> accomplish here, but it'll probably work better if you avoid sleeping
> outside the event loop. Use NSTimer and -[NSObject
> performSelector:withObject:afterDelay:] to implement delayed events.
>
> As a general point, BTW, you should never need to call
> setNeedsDisplay, display, or displayIfNeeded on view objects. (Only
> exception is a view calling setNeedsDisplay on itself.) The view
> should otherwise be able to do redraw management for itself.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:23:34 -0700
> From: Andrew Farmer <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Handle data disappearing out from underneath me
> To: Ken Tozier <<email_removed>>
> Cc: Cocoa-Dev Mail <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> On 08 Apr 07, at 07:24, Ken Tozier wrote:
>> Being an autoreleased NSData probably has something to do with it
>> but I would have thought that PtrToHand did something internally to
>> prevent the deletion of the data it points to...
>
> Nope. I'm pretty sure that, as part of the old Memory Manager,
> PtrToHand doesn't do anything to retain data passed to it - it
> assumes that the underlying data was allocated with NewPointer or
> something similar. If the data was actually created as an NSData
> instance and hasn't been retained, it will get deallocated and
> (eventually) overwritten!
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:26:13 -0700
> From: Ryan Brown <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Points
> To: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame] reports the resolution of the main
> screen in points. Points are defined to be 1/72th of an inch. If my
> resolution is 1680x1050, [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame] returns (1680,
> 1050) and if my resolution (hypothetically) is 10x10 it returns (10,
> 10). But how can this be so? 10 pixels are being mapped onto to my
> 21" screen (making each pixel > 1in), so the number returned by
> [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame] should be significantly higher. Why
> isn't it? Is there some level of abstraction I'm missing?
>
> Ryan
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:29:41 -0500
> From: Charles Srstka <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Graham Perks wrote:
>>
>>> There is the all-important setting that really ought to be part of
>>> the XCode install:
>>>
>>> defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder VersionControlDirectory
>>> "(CVS, .svn)"
>>>
>>> If you do that, IB knows to keep the .svn folder intact inside
>>> the .nib folder. Without it, as you say, Subversion goes frantic.
>>
>> Really? IB by default hasn't trashed .svn directories inside nibs
>> since Xcode 1.1 or so.
>
> All I know is that the .nib files I get back from my localizers often
> lack those .svn directories, which causes me a lot of hassle in
> fixing it.
>
> I'll try asking my localizers to set that defaults key and see if it
> improves things at all.
>
> Charles
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:34:45 -0600
> From: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Current Hour & Minutes
> To: ???? ??????? <alrokayan.<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Ù.ØÙ.د اÙ"رÙfÙSاÙ? wrote:
>
>> Hmm, this look easy, but I don't know why it doesn't work with me !!!
>>
>> All what I need is the current hour & minutes as int.
>
> Try: (warning - written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk, etc.)
>
> NSCalendarDate *now = [NSCalendarDate date];
> int hour = [now hourOfDay];
> int minute = [now minuteOfHour];
>
> Alternately, this will work in Tiger and later, and is probably more
> future-proof:
>
> NSCalendar *cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
> NSDateComponents *hourAndMinute = [cal components:NSHourCalendarUnit
> | NSMinuteCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
> int hour = [hourAndMinute hour];
> int minute = [hourAndMinute minute];
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:35:44 -0400
> From: Scott Anguish <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Graham Perks <<email_removed>>
> Cc: Apple Cocoa List <<email_removed>>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> in addition to what Erik said..
>
> remember that nibs aren't text configuration files. they're actually
> object graphs (archived versions of the objects you create in IB)
>
> that isn't something merge-able.
>
> by and large Subversion/CVS is the way to go.
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Graham Perks wrote:
>
>> How do teams share nib files? Whether saved in text or binary, it
>> appears that if two people edit a nib, there is no way to merge the
>> changes together in, say, Subversion.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:48:37 -0500
> From: Graham Perks <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> I was having trouble in XCode 2.4 until changing this default. Odd
> that... it seems you're right after some googling.
>
> Graham.
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
>>> There is the all-important setting that really ought to be part of
>>> the XCode install:
>>>
>>> defaults write com.apple.InterfaceBuilder VersionControlDirectory
>>> "(CVS, .svn)"
>>>
>>> If you do that, IB knows to keep the .svn folder intact inside
>>> the .nib folder. Without it, as you say, Subversion goes frantic.
>>
>> Really? IB by default hasn't trashed .svn directories inside nibs
>> since Xcode 1.1 or so.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:52:00 +0200
> From: j o a r <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Points
> To: Ryan Brown <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>
> On 8 apr 2007, at 22.26, Ryan Brown wrote:
>
>> [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame] reports the resolution of the main
>> screen in points. Points are defined to be 1/72th of an inch.
>
>
> -[NSScreen frame] returns the "dimensions" of your screen. Where do
> you see that those are returned in points?
>
> Read more about this here:
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
> CocoaDrawingGuide/Transforms/chapter_4_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/
> uid/TP40003290-CH204-DontLinkElementID_94>
>
> j o a r
>
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>
> Message: 15
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:53:25 -0600
> From: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Scott Anguish <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
>> remember that nibs aren't text configuration files. they're
>> actually object graphs (archived versions of the objects you create
>> in IB)
>>
>> that isn't something merge-able.
>
> Here's something I've always wondered: Are the XML versions of nibs
> also unmergable, or is that only the binary nibs? I've never enabled
> the XML option in IB because it doesn't say anything in IB about
> their compatibility...
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:56:32 -0400
> From: Scott Anguish <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Multiple developers and nib files
> To: Nick Zitzmann <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>>
>>> remember that nibs aren't text configuration files. they're
>>> actually object graphs (archived versions of the objects you create
>>> in IB)
>>>
>>> that isn't something merge-able.
>>
>> Here's something I've always wondered: Are the XML versions of nibs
>> also unmergable, or is that only the binary nibs? I've never enabled
>> the XML option in IB because it doesn't say anything in IB about
>> their compatibility...
>
> they're both object graphs.. both not merge-able.
>
>
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>
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