Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / March 2004

I'm working my way through Aaron Hillegass' Cocoa book, and where
he starts using the NSTableView class he points out the
cooperative relationship between a TableView and its DataSource.
Now being an awkward cuss I like to try figuring things out for

Hi...I would appreciate some suggestions...here's my problem...
I have an app which used to be a pure OS9 app, created in CW8.
Recently, I've learned the rudiments of carbon, and carbonized the app.
So, now my app runs (relatively) nicely in OSX without needing

I've created some pretty wonderful & wacky sounds I have a small
recording studio) which I would eventually like to use in place of the
ever present and obnoxious "Daaahhhh!" sound...
How can I accomplish this? Is this sound normally accessible or do I

I'm using Jaguar, PB and IB.
It was all working fine but recently when I build I get a stream
of warnings about gcc3 automacros not having the same time as
precomp? (There are also some messages in the middle pane that

Whenever I try to run the debugger in Project Builder 2.1 on OS X.3,
it fails to start, and I get the following message:
dyld: /usr/libexec/gdb/gdb-powerpc-apple-macos10 can't open library:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/bfd.framework/Versions/A/bfd  (No

A newbie Mac OS X user has installed a command-line executable "myapp" in
directory /usr/local/bin and the man page "myapp.1" for it in
/usr/local/man/man1.
He has set the search path by putting the line:

I'm porting a Unix program to Mac OS X.  I've made a bundle for the app,
and I'd like to be able to have the executable run with some command
line arguments.  I was hoping there was a way to specify the arguments
in the Info.plist or something like that.  But I couldn't find any ...

I need the ability to write some simple C code which would create a window
and fill it with dots of different colors (basically, I need to be able to
call plot_dot(x,y,c) where x,y are the coordinates of pixel (x,y) in the
window, and c is the color. I'm happy programming from the ...

I have a program that checks if a file is an MP3 by looking for the ID3
tag. After reading the ID3 specification, I wrote a program that seeks
to the end of file and then moves back 128 bytes, the point where the
tag should begin. Then I read 3 bytes (the "ID3" tag should be ...

It seems as though I used to know how to find the UUID for a disk image,
but I can't find it now, despite searching everywhere I could think of.  

I am writing a backup program that creates UDZO images from sparse

I have installed the latest aaronfaby.com release of mysql and it just
won't initialize the mysql database that is required for GRANT
permissions.
Installing all prepared tables

We have a CBT product for the windows platform that uses windows system
level programming (specifically uses hooking APIs) to understand user
interactions with a program. We check if the user chose the right menu
option, entered the expected data value etc.

I've started using disk images for drag and drop software
distrubution.
If I create a disk image with a background picture (you know - "drag
the icon to Applications" etc) the picture is not shown upon mount if

Am I going COMPLETELY nuts or are large chunks of the standard C++ library
STILL missing?!
valarray: No such file or directory
limits: No such file or directory

I'm a real neophyte when it comes to Mac programming, so please
forgive me if I make a few blunders here.
I want to add some custom functionality to windows in OS X. I've
gathered that to do so I need to create a custom window definition.