Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / October 2003

I'm new enough to Cocoa programming and since Panther, every time I
launch IB (opening a nib or not, new or not) I get this :
Unable to load palette /Developer/Palettes/MSFFormatterPalette.palette.
Indeed I only have ASKPalette.palette and Sherlock.palette

I just upgraded to Panther (on a Power G4 2x1,25 Mhz one yr old). Glad I
did, the interface is much improved (faster etc) on Mac OS X 10.2.6. But I
am having trouble with Xcode.
While Panther  will run all right the Cocoa apps I did with PB, if I ask

I have an event handler for mouse down events in the content region of a
window (under Carbon).  To set up the handler, I have used the following
code:
  EventTypeSpec  mdEvent = { kEventClassWindow, kEventWindowClickContentRgn };

since a few weeks I have strange warnings during compilation in PB with
a Cocoa based application. For each file I compile, I have at lest 10
warnings like:
Mail_Watch_Prefix.h:17: warning: could not use precompiled header

I notice that my app uses a lot of CPU when I check with Activity Monitor.
I'm not sure what to do to get this down. There are some timers, but they're
not running when I check. When I close all windows the CPU usage goes down
to near 0 but when some are open there is around 56% CPU ...

Where are vec_free and vec_malloc?  Which header file and which
framework?  I'm using ProjectBuilder version 2.1 on OS X 10.2.8 to build
the FFT sample program described in vDSP_Library.pdf.  I'm getting
errors saying that the compiler doesn't recognize those symbols and the

Firstly, I hope no-one's offended by the crossposting, but this is valid
in both groups.
I'm writing a program to run on a NeXT that needs to be able to write to
the NetInfo database.  It's going to be run sUID 0, and will be called

Hiya. I used to use Voodoo Server with CW, and I really liked it a lot.
I'm not so hot for Perforce or CVS; even tho Voodoo Server is closer to
CVS than the older Voodoo (whatever it's called now), it still seems
prettier and more fun to me. I especially like the way that you can

Is the editor in Xcode replaceable with something decent, such as Emacs?
Sure it's possible to start a terminal window, but then the integration is lost.
I mean something like double click on a cpp file and then Emacs starts...
Is it possible?

The kext code used in Xcode is the same as the one using PB (in Jaguar)
but "sudo kextload -v Test_K.kext" complaint "not authentic"
  kextload: extension Test_K.kext appears to be valid
  kextload: loading extension Test_K.kext

I am working on a command line tool which outputs data in the form of
columns (5 to 9 columns, and many lines).
I use the fprintf() command to put the data onscreen, but as every
entry has a different size, it makes the table ugly, and very hard to

I working on a app that changes type & creator codes, among other things.  
I would like to know what you consider the 3 most common type codes and
the 3 most common creator codes.  I need this info to give my users a
quick way to make common changes.  Thank in advance.

On Mac OS X, using MacCvs Pro and a linux CVS I have been unable to add
files to the repository and get them back with the same unix file
permissions (in my case execute permission for shell scripts)... I think
it's a bug/limit of MacCVS Pro, can anyone confirm this?

I have been experimenting with converting Project Builder targets to
Xcode, and have been having problems building targets that use my own
frameworks.  
In the Project Builder version of this project, I was able to drag my

Hi all. I've just installed Xcode and started a little project. I want
to write a little shell program that will use socket and curses.
I create a new tool (I am using C). For using sockets there are no
problems (standard include works quite fine, but sometimes