Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2004

I am learning to program under Cocoa, and would like to be able to store a
local copy of developer documentation on my hard drive.   The copy that came
with Xcode is getting old, and Apple has added a lot of new articles since
mine was installed.  Is there a canonical way of getting ...

Since DIBadmount etc... Were not proted to carbon, I'm looking for the new
way to do this.
Currently I'm using popen("diskutil ..."), but it's EXTREMELY slow.
Aplle says diskutil was built on top of the Disk Management Framework.

I have an app which from time to time polls the contents of a folder.
The folder is typically populated through ftp (but it could be through a
shared folder on the LAN), so I need to wait for files to be completely
uploaded/copied before handling them.

I have an Open Source Unix/Linux program I'm trying to get working for a
Mac OS X user.  When configured for FreeBSD, the program worked on older
Macs which had an actual RS232 serial port but there's a problem with the
USB-equipped Macs and a USB/Serial adapter.

I am trying to get a good image quality from the sequenz grabber
component while playback/preview.  I found the "SGSetChannelPlayFlags"
function and called it with the "channelPlayHighQuality" constant. The
result is pretty nice but now I have the interlace problem. I was not

I have been gnarring at this for a few hours now
so time for asking. At this stage I have a drawer
attached to a window (more or less - the draw cat get
left behind if the user moves the parent window at

Hello everybody, sorry for crossposting but I don't know where post this
message.
I am trying to compile some stuff code in 32 and 64-bit mode but I am
only successfull to compile it in 32-bit mode.

Boy Cocoa is truly fun and I am enjoying learning how to program in it.
(I find Objective-C easy and the Objective-C Language manual of Feb 2004
is extremely well written - one of the clearest I've ever read).
But enough of that - my current question is this:

I upgraded to 1.2 and have noticed that attempting to step into a
function call acts as if I told it to continue: it doesn't stop at the
first instruction of the called function, but proceeds apace with
execution. Anyone else noticed this, or have I messed up my installation

How do you hide, and later show, the title bar for an existing window
when running under OS/X 10.1?
I'm working from Java using JNI, so I don't have the luxury of
creating a new window.

I've begun to look at Powerplant for OS X, and I've got a few
minor quibbles, mostly with the PPx document stationery.
Some minor bugs:
1.) With the PPx document stationery that ships with Codewarrior 9,

Is there any equivalent to DragGrayRgn for Cocoa - ie something where the
user can drag the mouse and a rectangle will appear?
Thanks

I am running 10.3.3  from developers seed.  When a program crashes, a
dialog comes up saying so, and asking if I want to send a bug report
to Apple.  I want bug reports for *my* program to send bug reports to
*me*, not Apple! :)

Working from Java using JNI, I have hidden the menu bar and dock using
HideMenuBar(). I want to position my window at 0, 0 to get a full
screen presentation mode. Think PowerPoint; the need is pretty
similar. The window gets bounced down to give the menu bar space, even

But can someone hazard a quess why my router's RxD LED and the
computer's port LED keep blinking briefly. The computer gives 3 half-sec
blinks, then the RxD one blink about 10 sec later. If the Airport Base
is connected its port  blinks in sync with the computer.