Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / January 2004

Is there a CGI library (in C or Pascal) that works with Apache on Mac
OS-X?
I want to make the CGI calls from inside an app written in Pascal (using
many C units).

I'm not doing well with the existing documentation that comes with
Xcode.  I've also found the currency converter app tutorial to be too
trivial as a how to get started for writing cocoa apps in
Objective-C.  I'm wondering if it would be worth my money to invest

I've been experimenting with some fast sorting algorithms in Java on my
PowerBook (MacOS 10.3.2), but the algorithms were posted in C by their
originators, and I want to port my routines to C for direct comparison.
I did this using an old version of CodeWarrior that runs in OS 9, ...

(Please advise if there is a group better suited to this queston).
(Sorry if this double posts, not sure whether it went, and if it did
the first one had no subject).
I am currently trying to get the metrics of text in the default dialog

My PPC 7100 w/ sonnet G3 won't run the new Lexmark Z65n control panel
saying  "NameRegistryLib" is missing.   Is there a work around?  I've
sent Lexmark the advice from Apple about 'weak link' to NameRegistryLib
and asking for a recompiled driver,.. but I won't hold my breath.

Okay, this is annoying. Apparently, when I open a sheet from a thread,
it's not immediately focused by the window, as it would be if it were in
the main thread of execution.
This requires the user to click on the sheet before he can close it or

I have a Cocoa application with a start and a stop button. When I press the
start button a infinite loop should start and run till I press the stop
button. But I only managed that either I can't press the stop button
because the process is still running or I have to restart the ...

I'm having a problem when dealing with my NSMovieView's volume. I'm trying
to find out what the volume of the movie is with the [NSMovieView volume]
call, which works fine if I set the volume myself using [NSMovieView
setVolume], but if the user uses the small volume slider on the

Is there some standard way in Carbon to turn an OSErr number into a
message text in English, rather than have to go and look it up?
All the best,
Roger Pearse

I have identified a problem in some code I have cobbled together to
work out metrics of dialog controls. (Thank you for the help so far).
I use getThemeFont ( ... , smSystemScript , ... ) to get a font name
but then, based on http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1027.html I

I'm trying to implement a window which can switch itself between being a
regular window to fullscreen and back again.
I have a single view that I want visible and interactive when the window is
in both states.

I'm running Xcode under Panther to make three different applications based
on the same source code with the exception that each application's path to
its user data folder is hard coded. I have a #define to change the path for
each app. But when I run each of the three apps from the ...

Hello NG
are there any libs objects  in OS X to support MIME encoding and decoding ?
Thank you

Is there a plug-in environment for iTunes?  Does/can it use AudioUnits?
Where am I not RTFM-ing?
Thanks,
Alexandra

I've Googled and poked around Apple's developer site a bit but have
not been able to figure this out: what's the easiest to develop a
program that plays programatically generated music on OS X?
More specifically, I'm interested in programatically playing specific