Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / July 2004

Our problem is the following:
We found that if our primary application thread does not use the
"real-time" thread scheduling API offered by the Mach kernel, that is,
if a competing process lauches, for example another application is

This is as much a FreeBSD question as it is a MacOS X question:
How do you get the 'rwho' command to work? I think it _should_ tell you
who's logged in to all of the systems running on your IP subnet, but it
always prints nothing (try it!).

Hello,
i want to start programming for MacOSX. I'm not a beginner. I'm
working 20 years now with more then a dozend different programming
language.  But even i bought a iMac in 2000 i never did some

My thanks to all those who helped me out with my previous problem--it's
been squared away.
I have what I hope is my last question. I'm in the process of trying to
install a program that was written to use GLUT under X11. I know there's a

Hello everyone: Newbie here struggling with initializing an object's
properties using the awakeFromNIB method.
For me this approach will not work under the simplest of circumstances.
After creating a custom sub-class of NSObject, I instantiate it,

G5 fans speed increase when modal dialog appear to the srceen, is it normal ?

I'm currently writing a cross-platform application (Windows, MacOS X) using
Qt library.
Basically, what I want to achieve is to open our application document by
double-clicking on the icon file.

I a newbie in MACOS X programing.
I want to open a new dialog containing PICT ressoure (in .r file as
header) in a Quicktime component (carbon native) under 10.2/10.3.
Due to the fact , this is not an APP application, I can't use NIB

It sure would be nice to be able to print the decimal representation of
a 64-bit number from a C program.  Has  Apple released anything?  
A new printf (libSystem) would be nice, but I'm guessing that it would
be a  headache to integrate a library that Apple hadn't created as a

How many char cna hold a Cocoa TextField ?
What is the max number char in PasteBoard as plain text ?

Forgive the possibly dumb question, but I've been unable to find an
answer elsewhere.
I'm attempting to compile and install the PNG libaries from source. The
installer is quitting because it is not able to create the libpng12

How to get title bar height of a window in Cocoa ?

hey all--
I'm a java/obj-c programmer and i picked up sams "teach yourself c++ in
10 min a day". i can compile a program in project builder, but for these
simple little things i'd much rather compile and run from the command

I'm looking for a free library which is capable of rendering EPS files.
Does such a thing exist for the Mac?

Has anyone an idea or even worked out a solution for using subversion
instead of cvs together with xcode?
Thanx in advance,
Frank