Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / August 2003

I've a problem compiling,or more propably,with linkinging
libgsm as a static code into my app. It seems it compiles and
preprocess correctly (this is a c code). I include "gsm.h"
and the linker says e.g. gsm_create undefined (code).

I am having trouble under carbon with the keyboard.
I'm reading the keys with GetKeys( ... )
but the problem is that it uses an american keyboard layout, does anybody
have the code to translate that in the current keyboard layout ? ( i can't

When will it be available? I'd like to upgrade.

I have a Mach-O dynamic library which has a static object with a dtor
defined:
When the program starts, the constructor will be called during the
modul init routine. When the program terminates however, the

Is there an equivalent of GetPtrSize() for malloc()?
thanks
Jeff

I don't know why more people aren't more upset over how lacking CW8.3 is
compared to earlier releases.  They should be getting the current version to
actually WORK right before they even think about charging money for a new
version.  

I'm currently using CodeWarrior v8 to build applications for two targets: classic & carbon.
Carbon target doesn't cause any problem.
Classic target will give me this error message when I run any minimal application:
 The application could not be opened because ...

Using CW8.3
My problem was, that a constructor was not called for an object allocated on
the stack (It looked like that) since the members of the class were never
initialized, 3 std::string objects where either full of garbage, with random

The option to "Break on C++ Exceptions" is dimmed after I switched my
PowerPlant application over to the BSD headers, BSD libc, and MSL C++.  Is
this what should happen?  It took me by surprise.  Can anyone illuminate me
on why this would happen?

I have been using CW8 both on Mac and PC. On PC, whenever you run the
program a console window opens automatically, and the output of the
program shows up. However, on Mac, when I run the program nothing
happens (at least visually). I have to open a terminal and run the

I'm totally frustrated. I'm trying to debug an iMovie plugin (Shared
Library) on Jaguar first using CW 7 followed by CW 8 (patched to 8.3).
I've experienced all of the symptoms others have reported:
1) Breakpoints ignored

Recently I ran into an unusual problem: when I change something in my
header files, the source code that includes the header isn't marked as
being changed. I have to mark it manually!
Any idea what would cause this?

My automation plugin needs to save a layer to a tiff file. Most of the
time things work fine, but I noticed that if the file's name (without
the full path) is longer then 28 characters, than it get's truncated
of 7.0 and returns error -35 (invalid volume error) on 7.0.1.

I'm working on some code that started life in VC 6. I'm having trouble
with the following (grossly simplified) construct:
template <class TYPE>
class foo

I have seen no information about academic licenses for CW 9.
Metrowerks store lists only academic CW 8. I have academic CW 8, and I
am certainly going to upgrade. I need only MacOS X development tools.
What are my alternatives?