Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / February 2004

I have some OSX/Java questions. What's the best newsgroup? Not a lot of
Mac people on the Java newsgroups.
One question is: My Java GUI app (built with javac, no xcode or Mac
classes involved) doesn't show the FruitMenu menu when the Java app has

I am working on a Carbon Application & I want to place an image on a
window. But the problem is I need the image to be transparent. Please
any one guide me in this regard. the method I followed:
     Created an image in photoshop & saved in TIFF ( I suppose TIFF

I need to write some data to a file. Rather than either (A) Asking the
user where to put it, then not being able to find it again later without
user intervention, (B) Arbitrarily dumping it someplace, or (C) Stuffing
it into "program support" or one of the similar folders (even ...

I have the following problem:
- my Cocoa app creates a NSThreads
- this threads needs to sleep periodically, this is done using usleep
- the app and the thread share a NSLock

I want to use Xcode with a Perforce SCM. Did anyone do that? How?
When I create a new project and open the project's info dialog (select
the first group and type command-i), I see a popup at the bottom under
the 'General'-tab labelled 'SCM System'. When I switch that to

  What would be the best way to find out when my app is brought to
the foreground on OSX?
  Should I just poll & check if i'm the foreground app?
  Or is there some type of signal i can register for?

I'm using cocoa and objective-C to write a front end to some command
line tools which need to run as a different user (either news or root).
I can sucessfully use NSTask to run the tools in a different thread, and
have set up pipes so I can read the output from the tools back into ...

How can I determine whether the user has selected blue or graphite appearance?
Thanks a heap,
Glen

I am trying to build a plst resource by concatenating a bunch of string
constants in Rez.  Everything is fine expect that I have a literal
#define creatorCode 'tmnC'
which I wish to include in the string.  I presume that I need a $$format

I was under the impression that re-setting the modification date on a
folder would trigger the Finder to redraw its contents.  This seems
not to be the case (OSX10.3.2).  When my app adds a new file to a
folder, it will not show up until I click on the Finder window showing

I write an application (carbon), both for OS9 and OS X. By the way, I'm
still looking for an IDE
able to produce the two executables on a single plateform. I'm currently
working alternatively with

I'm trying to connect to a local server (128.0.0.1) using Open
Transport lib on my eMac (OS X 10.3 Panther).
The code comes from the same app in MacOS 9 in which it works very
well.

What is the equivalent of  the old package version resource under OSX?  
If I put one in, it overrides the plist version, so I was hoping that
there was a way to stick it in the plist.
TIA,

I read various statements in google but...
Is it now possible to use c++ in "traditional" obj-c cocoa applications?
Tschau - Robert

I am trying to display an NSProgressIndicator in an NSTableColumn.
Since the NSProgressIndicator is not an NSControl, there is no obvious
way I can see to get it's cell, if it even has one.  Is what I am
trying to do even possible?  Why the inconsistency among how the