Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / August 2004

Ok, I know this has to be one of the most religiously debated subjects
on the planet (at least amongst programming types), but I'm looking
for some recommendations for a nice programming editor for the Mac.
I'm quite used to CodeWright for Windows at my workplace.  Among other

Hi, whenever I access a network share on a Windows or Linux machine,
or a USB harddisk (fat32) which is also used on other machines, my Mac
OS X seems to create these .DS_Store files on every folder it
accesses.

i wrote an application in cocoa-java(thank you for your help in my last
thread)...it compiles without errors, but when i try to run it... :
ObjCJava FATAL:
****  CANNOT CALL -init ON NSJavaObject OR ANY OF ITS SUBCLASSES

I'm looking for a good introductory book on c++.
I am an above average Java, C, and Obj-C programmer (if I say so
myself...). The book I'm looking for should assume prior knowledge of C,
so I won't spend most of the time 'relearning'.

I have just some general questions...
I'm curious about developing Microsoft Windows or Linux applications
using a Mac. I currently have access to a Mac only (poor penniless
student here...) and I'm wondering if it's possible, or rather,

Hello, I've been here some months ago with my questions about System-6
compatible C programming, on various topics.
I'm currently very close to having a very useful function which sets a
BitMap memory space and draws graphics in it, off the screen, so that

Does any one have any pointers or ideas how i might start off on
writting process emulation within an application. I would like to load
shared libraries and run them and be able to schedule between them.
thanks!

I have an CW8 app that calls  the SequenceGrabber functions in exactly
the same way as in the HackTV sample of apple (thist works fine and
secure).
Sometimes my app  works fine several times, then I get access fault

Now that I successfully tested my Carbon app on various versions of Mac
OS X, I'm wondering if it works on Mac OS X Server. Unfortunately I
don't have a licence of it. Are there any differences to the "ordinary"
Mac OS X relevant to a Carbon app? Can I safely assume that my ...

I have downloaded the iTunesCOMSDK here:
http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunescomsdk.html
What I need to know is, how do I play tracks WITHOUT having
an instance of iTunes open? I can play tracks fine but it opens

i now got two  small "Hello Worlds" programs up and running, one with
cocoa and one with carbon. But now i must decide which framework is
the best for my purpose.
This is not easy because

i want to port my application from Unix (written with the FOX X11
toolkit) step by step to MacOSX.
Is it possible to mix carbon calls for non visual things like file
notifications, url services etc. with X11. I only want to support

What's the easiers (and preferably cheapest) way to make a Mac OS X package?
One that 'looks' like an applicaton in the Finder but contains all the
necessary libs, resources and executables?

I would like to have "Copy and Paste" functionality in a NSTextField object.
My text field oject is in a NSPanel. I simply want to be able to copy a
short text into my text field.
Is it already implemented somewhere? (I have seen that NSText has a "paste"

i have made a programm in Java. This programm must run on a iMac under
Mac OS 9.
I would like to make a file, as an .exe under windows, with an icon
and which runs the JVM and load the .jar file after double clicking on