Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / May 2004

I love my mac! I can do anything on that I can do on a PC except for
programming it. when I used Windows (i still shutter at the name) I
could make applications via Visual Basic. It was an easy and friendly
language. When I switched to the Mac though, I was lost. eventually I

Both myself and my company are new to Mac development, but I have
nevertheless been charged with developing a Mac version of an existing
Windows application.  I have a nice G5 Mac with OS 10.3.4 to do the
development on, and I have a few basic questions about how to get

When I try to burn CD in itunes, the program freezes and error
message, "the program is not responding".
I have rebooted, redownloaded and reinstalled itunes without any
success. Perviously, I was able to burn with no problem.

Is there a "newfangled" structure for representing regions in Quartz,
or should I still use the QuickDrawvariety? Apple's description of QD
as "the legacy two-dimensional drawing engine" and Quartz as " the
native two-dimensional drawing engine" leaves me a bit leery of QD.

I'm working a lot of time around this problem: displaying a text,
scrolling from right to left, in a window on the screen smootly (like
titles on Bloomberg channel) while a qt movie is displaying, on mac OS
X.

I'm building a menu programmatically (not from a nib file). When I set this
menu as the menu bar using [[NSApplication sharedApplication] setMainMenu].
However, doing this the menubar looks very strange with items being 50
pixels high and titles not fitting.

I'm not sure this is the right place to post this:
I'm trying to use the iTunes COM SDK for windows. Is it possible to
access the music store songs using this SDK, like get the listed
albums and songs info? I couldn't find such interfaces in this SDK,

I am in deep doo doo and am wondering if there are any gods here who
can save me. The short story is that my G4 MDD will only boot into Open
Firmware, and I can't get past it.
Here's how I got into this mess. I had not used my machine for some

I recently started learning C on the Mac.  I wrote a short program
that is supposed to output an ansii character code and its
corresponding character.  However, when compiled with gcc, I get a
garbled output.  Can someone look over my code and tell me where I

Dear group
I do have a 20+ year backround in developping all kind of C software
on various platforms including Unixes and Windows. However, I now have
to port a little tool to the Macintosh world and so far never touched

What package provides /usr/lib/crt1.o and /usr/lib/dylib.o on Darwin?
I need to build the amanda backup client for OSX (G5).  The machine in
question lacks these two libs, and the link fails.  XCode has been
installed by others; I presume that something didn't make it into the

The PPx Doc stationary makes a doc with a popup and a slider. The popup
draws about 100 pixels below where it should, but responds to an initial
click in the 'correct' position. Once the menu has appeared, it seems
normal.

I want to write an application native on OS X in Objective C which receives
data over sound input. (sound card or internal microphone for example). That
means I don't want to record sounds I just want to analyze the incoming
sound into two frequencies. That means low frequency means ...

I've recently entered an intense bout of nostalgia and digged up my old
Mac Plus at my parents' house. To my great horror, I saw that I missed
about 20% of my disks, sometimes it would be only one of a series of
multiple disks for some games. Really frustrating.

I need help me with the syntax for using the 'defaults write' terminal
command to add/modify a value in a .plist file that's nested within
multiple dictionaries/arrays.
For Example: