Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / June 2004

Has anyone used this?  If so I would love to see a working snip or two.  
Seems to be quite different than LGAFocusBorder.
Thanks ahead of time!

I am trying to write a simple 'Cocoa Document-based App', but with th
exception of the simple part of making the screen, I can't quite get
handle on what to do
It has a text box will the user enters a string

This may seem like a dumb question, but. . .   How can I change the
name of a program?  I tried the obvious approach of renaming and
editing files, replacing every occurance of the old name with the new
one -- but Xcode refuses to build my project, because it's still

i would like to locate the files that store my email msgs from the
Mail app.
i have a form online that, when submited from my site, emails the
content to me. i would like to write a C++ program that would

   From the documentation for Bundle services:
Listing 1-6    Locating a bundle using its identifier
CFBundleRef requestedBundle;
// Look for a bundle using its identifier

In the Developer sample code, there's a project named Quartz/PathDemo,
that looks like a very minimal example of drawing code. It eschews
completely the conventional path (pardon the pun) of calling the
NSBezierPath class method +fillRect:(NSRect) method to draw, instead

Another dumb question. . .   All the apps that I build and run okay on
my Power Mac won't launch successfully after I copy them to my
Powerbook.  What gives?  I've never seen this behavior before.  Both
machines are running the same OS version (v10.3.4).

Can anyone offer any insights regarding development of database
applications on OS X.  I am a developer who is new to Mac development,
and I am looking at producing an OS X version of an existing Windows
product.  The Windows product uses an Access database to store most of

Last September, I posted a question about archiving really big graphs
without crashing:
http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=clund-D1FE69.12090
327092003%40amstwist00.chello.com

If I have gone through several beginner python tuts and understand
basics, what's next?
It seems there are very many very beginning tutorials but after that
there is a large absence as far as tutorials.  Any suggestions for a

I am looking for some titles of good Apple Programming books.
I dump Windows next month in favor of a G5 iMac or G5 Powerbook ;-).
Here is what I am looking for. Do you have any recommended titles which
covers the following subjects?

How am I supposed to use ScrollView in PowerPlant X?
I tried creating a PPx::ScrollView and add that to the ContentView. Next
I create a custom View derived from a BaseView and construct that with
the previously created ScrollView as super view. My own view derives

On my 10.2.6 system I can do a "man malloc" and get the malloc(3)
documentation with no problem. On my 10.3.4 system, though, I get "no
manual entry for malloc". Ditto for calloc, valloc and free. However,
when I do "man malloc_size" I get the page for malloc.

this basic program (simple poetry-generating program) keeps giving me
errors. I'm using the free Chipmunk Basic on OSX. Any help apprectiated..
10 rem hanshan
20 gosub 250 : rem initialize

I really need some advice here.
I am learning the basics of Mac OS X programming and I have learned a
great deal on my own. What I have created so far is a program that
randomly generates a maze, then using IB I have built an interface to