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Adding item to right-click (Finder) menu?
Gregory Weston says: In article , ...SampleCMPlugin is in the Examples:Carbon directory that's created when you install the OS X developer tools. If you were focussing on finding ways to enhance something associated with the Finder specifically, you were probably filterin
324 Apr 2006 11:54 pm
How troubleshoot an application bundle
Simon Slavin says: ...<1145291348.813312.194110@e 56g 2000cwe.googlegroups.com>: ...Do you absolutely definitely /need/ it to have an installer ? Can you not just prepare an application icon or folder for the user to drag wherever they want it ? Simon.
324 Apr 2006 5:08 pm
Embedding a font in an application bundle
Tord Kallqvist Romstad says: ...After some googling, I managed to find the solution: http://www.cocoabuilder.com/ar chive/message/cocoa/2005/1/16/1 25883
212 Apr 2006 12:00 am
Generic info.
qwert says: Hello, I ussually build database applications on Windows based system. A friend with a macintosch ask me to build something. Sounds like fun, but it's all new. It will be a simple application. No large ammounts of data have to be handled, and no multiple users accessing the database simultaniously.
109 Apr 2006 4:51 pm
LDAP? SSH? How to logon to network?
Michael Ash says: ...[snip] None of this has anything to do with programming. You'll probably get better help if you post this in a newsgroup or other forum more suited to the subject.
209 Apr 2006 4:44 pm
CW to Xcode - error: expected initializer before '*' t…
David Phillip Oster says: In article , ...Do you have #include in your pre-compiled headers? You should.
205 Apr 2006 2:43 pm
Porting to Carbon, Lock/UnlockPortBits and Lock/Unlock…
Stephen Kay says: I am porting an OS 9 app to Carbon and then Mac OS X. In the original source, I might have something like: GetGWorld (&currPort,&currDev); SetGWorld (mGridPictGW->gw, nil); LockPixels ((mGridPictGW->gw)->portPixMap ); // do some drawing here //restore current port SetGWorld (currPort,currDev); Unloc
104 Apr 2006 6:09 pm
installation routine for Mac OSX apps
Reinder Verlinde says: In article <1144090856.061995.50820@t31g2 000cwb.googlegroups.com>, ...When in Rome, act like a Roman:
203 Apr 2006 7:28 pm
Re: Mach-O bundle application icons?
SM Ryan says: ...Assuming your icon file is correct and correctly positionned, and the Info.plist is correct, I find zipping and unzipping usually gets reluctant bundle icons to show up. You have to get Finder to look inside the bundle, and it's oft reluctant to do so.
124 Mar 2006 9:50 pm
Mach-O bundle application icons?
Howard says: Hi, I've tried everything I can think of, and I'm stumped. I have a .icns file, and I want it to be the icon for a bundle package I've created (an Audio Unit component). (I'll refer to the app as MyApp here.) I've put MyApp.icns into the folder MyApp/Contents/Resources. And in the Info.plist file (i
124 Mar 2006 6:18 pm
Reading the RGBColor value of a pixel in a pixmap - He…
LawsonE says: ...news:reinder-46C33B.2041102 3032006@reader28.wxs.nl... ...Thanks. Had forgotten about those archives. Woe unto Apple that they discontinued d e v e l o p, IMHO. Not only did it provide a timely source of Mac programming info that was available in hard copy directly from Apple without any online me
1023 Mar 2006 8:04 pm
Getting bundle name from a symbolic link?
Tom Harrington says: In article , ...I don't know how CFBundleGetMainBundle() works, but I suspect that the best solution here is to switch to CFBundleCreateBundlesFromDirec tory() in cases where you can't find the bundle that way. Using readlink() first should get you enough information t
223 Mar 2006 4:20 pm
Binding usual cursor movement key-sequences in Termina…
marcus says: Oh, I happend to find some hints at http://www.macosxhints.com/art icle.php?story=2004011108191698 4 The fix is to associate (in Terminal preferences) a unique key sequence with a literal string, corresponding to that character sequence. And when this sequence happens, then the string is sent to termi
213 Mar 2006 2:47 pm
[Segfault] NSUnLinkModule on Panther
mathieu.malaterre says: Hello there, I am running in a problem on Panther (10.3.9). Whenever I try to dlopen/dlclose a module (.so) I get a segfault if this module was compiled with coverage (-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage). I can not reproduce the seg fault on Tiger (10.4.2) and I cannot reproduce the bug when the library
113 Mar 2006 10:23 am
Linker error ?
Michael Ash says: ...No, frameworks are just dylibs in a funny directory structure. They work basically the same. ...Add a Copy Files build phase to actually copy the library into this location in your app bundle. ...Probably, but there would be no point.
208 Mar 2006 11:42 am
Quit menu item?
Michael Ash says: ...Implement this method in your application delegate. If you don't have one already, you can create one by making a new class, instantiating it in your MainMenu.nib, then connecting the "delegate" outlet of File's Owner to your newly-instantiated object. This object will then be sent all of the NSA
207 Mar 2006 11:46 am
announcing gestix personal business management for you…
GESTIX says: Gestix is an innovating light-weight business management application, now available for Mac OS-X, Windows and Unix as well. Please check the web site of the product for detailed information. Free 90-day trial downloads and online test-drive. Gestix has an easy to use, elegant web-like user interface
105 Mar 2006 10:52 am
Installation routine and shared libraries ?
Michael Ash says: ...You are completely misunderstanding my point. This isn't a hypothetical. It happens, all the time. I just built a very small application that does nothing but display its current working directory. When executed in Xcode, the working directory is the directory which holds the .app. When double-cl
1127 Feb 2006 4:56 pm
MPAllocateTaskStorageIndex() giving -4 result? Why???
Don Bruder says: MacOS 9.1, coding to CarbonLib 1.6 (from the Carbon SDK GM), specifically targeting pre-MacOS X machines (as in "MacOS X solutions need not apply"), and trying to use the OTMP package (from developer.apple.com) for my networking. Code builds fine, and the resulting program runs, but it doesn't accom
127 Feb 2006 4:32 pm
Package Maker and postinstall ?
lothar.behrens@lollisoft… says: Hi, I am playing around with the postinstall script of my installation package. The package is relocateable and when I let it install to the default place, it executes that script. But not when I install it into /sw for sample. Why doesn't it work in general ? The content of the script simply collec
125 Feb 2006 8:28 am
Panel problems
Gregory Weston says: In article <20060224154010492+1000@news.e cn.net.au>, ...That's the correct way to declare a typed outlet. What was going wrong with the other technique is that 'id' already is a pointer so the asterisk was redundant. Another way to deal with passing a value along, if you're not looking to be able t
324 Feb 2006 11:00 am
XCode and Dynamic Linking
rutski89 says: Before I was adding -lncuses in the get info menu for the Porject Structure tab. I had to instaed add --lncurses to the Targets -> (name of my binary) tab, as well as disable ZeroLink. Shouldn't things still work even with ZeroLink enabled?
423 Feb 2006 5:45 pm
XCode and Dynamic Linking
rutski89 says: I'm totally new to XCode and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my binary to link against a dynamlic library. I have a very simple ncurses program: ...int main() { initscr(); addch('o'); refresh(); getch(); endwin(); return0; ...I've trieded adding -lncurses or -ncures to OTHER_LDFAGS
123 Feb 2006 4:31 pm
XCode and Dynamic Linking
rutski89 says: I'm totally new to XCode and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my binary to link against a dynamlic library. I have a very simple ncurses program: ...int main() { initscr(); addch('o'); refresh(); getch(); endwin(); return0; ...I've trieded adding -lncurses or -ncures to OTHER_LDFAGS
123 Feb 2006 4:31 pm
Safari extension question
andreybutov says: My company recently released an extension for IE and a FireFox (also Windows) version is in beta right now. I am very interested in releasing this tool for Safari as well, and while I have done some Mac development before, I haven't touched Safari extensions, and after a cursory investigation, was w
122 Feb 2006 12:25 pm
Apply for one or two testers
lothar.behrens@lollisoft… says: Hi, I like to test my first binary package for Mac OS X (10.3.x) on a G4. It could be installed in a home directory and needs pointing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to ~/lib. Also a database access would be needed to setup the tables. (PostgreSQL via ODBC is preferred) Are some one kind enough to help me ? If, I
122 Feb 2006 8:44 am
Help with (free) Audion 3 on OS 9
D. Kirkpatrick says: In article <43effbef$0$8068$ba624c82@nntp 02.dk.telia.net>, ...Already done. I had a hacked extension from xlr8yourmac.com that allowed meto burn CD's (audio only) on a replacement CD-R module. I then got Toast and removed the conflicting extensions and use Toast exclusively for disk burning.
913 Feb 2006 4:54 am
MacOSX - Mad as heck and don't want to take it anymore
SM Ryan says: ...It involves making a script server that runs under login and funnelling daemon requests to that.
1510 Feb 2006 1:55 am
How to port intel Inline assembly Code to PPC ?
Bruce Hoult says: In article <1138217712.062110.300430@o13g 2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, ...This looks like an attempt to multiply a multiprecision number by a 32 bit number. Except that it's wrong. var is never modified and digits is never declared. I expect they are supposed to be the same variable, but why on earth
508 Feb 2006 8:29 am
using xcode to make windows apps
toby says: ...Slightly different problem. The OP is not writing portable code, but writing for Win32 - and wanted a cross-compilation environment on OS X. If his code were portable (and using a portable framework like wxWindows) he would not need a cross compiler.
604 Feb 2006 10:50 am
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128 Jan 2006 5:37 pm
Authentication using core data
Anand Pandey says: Does anyone describe that How to add login window before starting any Application using core data. I make a application using core data, Now I want to add a new window with userID and password before this window can I do it with Core data, if Yes then how and if no then what I have to do..........It
125 Jan 2006 3:28 am
Hi Everybody.
toby says: ...Probably not quite as much as: 1. http://developer.apple.com/ 2. a good O'Reilly book or three on the subject (these are particularly inexpensive in India :) 3. any of the tutorials and source code available on the web 4. learning by doing and redoing and doing over and doing better... HTH
223 Jan 2006 10:09 pm
Mastermind.app
Marko Riedel says: Hi folks, this is to announce Mastermind.app, a Mac OS X version of my GNUstep game GMastermind.app, which may be found here: http://www.gnustep.it/marko/GM astermind/ This is the well-known mastermind game. Drag-and-drop colors from the palette or from the board itself. The object is to determine th
122 Jan 2006 10:14 pm
Linking problems after updating fink
lothar.behrens@lollisoft… says: Hi, after realizing similar error messages and their solutions I got rid of these linking errors by -lc /usr/lib/libgcc.dylib or the like. But this leads to a problem with QuickTime 7.0.4. This version seems to be broken. Using a QuickTime 7.0.1 reinstaller solved that problem too. Here you can get
219 Jan 2006 6:06 am
HELP Mac OS-X USB HID problems... PLEASE HELP!
gary.ireland says: Hi, I am developing a non standard (i.e. non mouse keyboard type) HID device to act as a interface between the Microchip 2550 PIC and a Mac running OS-X (10.3.9). I have managed to develop a HID app working under Windows OS, but I'm having trouble with the Mac implementation. The Mac sees and report
116 Jan 2006 8:18 am
Re: iPod DVD menus?
c901rg says: 1.See Best Seller DVD to ipod Converter Software from Best Seller Reviews: http://www.best-seller-reviews .com/dvdtoipod/
214 Jan 2006 4:10 am
Mac OS X Server: IP-Adresse von Hand (per Texteditor) …
Frans Keijer says: sorry, my fault. wrong newsgroup.
213 Jan 2006 8:24 pm
loading powerpc f2 register from gcc
Hubble says: Hi all, there seems to be a bug in the vDSP library - http://www.opensubscriber.com/ message/perfoptimization-dev@li sts.apple.com/2739451.html Using the new Xcode2.2, the bug in vDSP_dotpr reveals also in my code, it returs NaN when using vectorized code, as my program does. As a temporary fix, I sha
109 Jan 2006 1:30 am
claris works header size
Lore Leunoeg says: Hello Does any one know where to find any information about the claris works (text) file specification. I need to know the header size of the file which varies from file to file. Thank you Sincerely Lore
107 Jan 2006 5:34 pm
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