Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / November 2003

Apologies for this being slightly off-topic (it's not CW question, but is a
Mac Programming question!), but I wondered if any PPC programming gurus here
could explain why my Mail application crashed with a breakpoint exception?
I'm used to seeing EXC_BAD_ACCESS in crash logs, but ...

Carbon programming question:
I can form an FSRef from Dialog outputs (Open and Save) using code from
Learning Carbon (O'Reilly), but I cannot find how to get the file name
(hopefully in char data) associated with the FSRef.  Can anyone point to

I'm about to decide which developer tool to use for porting my huge WinXP
GUI to Mac OS X.
The first things I'd like to see working easily in Codewarrior:
1. I put down a progressbar in a visual editor, then I go to my code and I

Is it possible to programmatically issue command line instructions from
within a C++ program? If not, is it possible to automatically open the
terminal and get my app to instruct it?
Thanks

I tried to create an framework from some ancient sources.
They compile OK, but with CW 9.1 I get the following link error:
Link Error   : undefined: 'environ' (non lazy ptr IL)
Referenced from 'pvmputenv' in pvmcruft.c

I'm writing a mac/windows app.  Got QT going on mac.  Got it compiled,
linked and running on Win, but whenever I step over *any* function in
the qtml.lib, it throws.  CopyCStringToPascal, NewHandle, not to
mention ImageComponent calls.  They all just cause an exception and

I have tried to find out how I can upgrade to CW 9 here in Switzerland.
The store at www.metrowerks.com does not allow orders but from very few
countries, the first distributor in Switzerland (Innoware) does not have
CW 9 (only CW 8), and the Swiss Metrowerks office

Where is WindowUpdateDoer::DoWindowUpdate() located?  I have noticed other PPX
methods that seem to be in a library.  Why?
Jeff

To Ron,
I have tons of code formatted as follows:
while (x < y) {
  Blah();

A summary of the problem is as follows:
I have been working with wxWindows and CW 8.3 on OS X 10.3 (linking with
the 10.2.7 SDK).  When I debugged one of the wxWindows sample programs
(menu.cpp), I found that the debugger had a significant mismatch between

Everywhere I look they all point me to this page:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/REF/refImporter.3.htm
This is as of QT 4.  Is there one that is updated to QT 6?
I want to know what other still formats the latest QT supports.

I'm trying to compile a Carbon application that will run in OS 9 and X.
From reading Apple's docs, it seems I should be putting resources in a
data file in the application bundle, not in the resource fork of the
executable. However, Apple gives no indication of how to do this in

Is it possible to link a C++ based CodeWarrior lib to GCC ?
I don't care what type of lib it is, or linker it uses, just as long as
it is static.
Thanks.

I'm sure I'm just missing something basic here.  I haven't done much
with Carbon, nib files, or code resources, so this is probably a
newbie question.  My apologies.
I am making a code resource in CW8.  I am using a nib file for a

I am still getting the error "Can't copy resource file" in a new Carbon
project under CW 8, but have some new information that may be relevant.
It seems to happen at a certain point in the link process; if I open the
Link Order tab and rearrange the .rsrc files there, the file CW ...