Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / September 2004

I am working on a large Macintosh program that load several libraries
dynamically via dlopen.  Also these libraries get bind completely when
they are loaded as the each need to run a bit of code that will
interact with the program to let the program know that the library is

My Carbon application consists of a few thousand tasks which are
independent except that their results need to be added to an
element in a shared array foo[].
taskA() {

This is a quite silly question but under OSX 1.3.5 I'm trying to compile the
following code:
sprintf(szVar, "%s %s=0x%x;", GetDefaultDataType().c_str(),
strVarName.c_str(), lValue);

I created programatically an mbox for Mail.app.  For example
Test.mbox/mbox,
then launch Mail.app and the Test mailbox appears in a Mail.app
Mailboxes drawer,

I'm working on a C application that does not use an Mac OS X
frameworks just normal gcc -o test test.o compile under Mac OS X. I
would like to compile with libMallocDebug so I can test for some
memory leaks. I've tried:

I have a bit of code for letting the user designate an output file:
if(PP_StandardDialogs::AskSaveFile("\p",'TEXT',theFileSpec,isReplacing))
which works file except when the file is replacing an existing file,
after which the dialog does not become active again. I can fix it by

Having some difficulty in figuring out how to put the Xcode generated
classes into a package.  They get generated under the default package,
and it is not clear to me how or where (or if) they need to be moved.
Thanks in advance,

I want to use vImage library for image processing. This library does not
contain any function to read and write image from and to the disk.
How can I do that?
Thanks,

I want to use vImage library for image processing. This library does not
contain any function to read and write image from and to the disk.
How can I do that?
Thanks,

There's a certain type of operating you sometimes come across in
programs where you take a variable and do lots of things to it
one after another, putting the answer back in the same variable ...
a = 6

Hello, I am using SetCPixel for plotting a graph in real-time for
debugging a game.
Problem is, SetCPixel is really slooow.
Is there something which is equivalent to SetCPixel, only, fast? After

I want to use vImage library for image processing. This library does not
contain any function to read and write image from and to the disk.
How can I do that?
Thanks,

Hi all. Exploring Subversion with XCode. After some fumbling in the
shell, I don't seem to ba able to make XCode do anything useful.
I've installed the subversion package, I've followed umpteen shell
articles on organizing and setting up a repository, I've imported a

Say, does anyone remember how to put in a non-letter menu shortcut in
the menu of my nib file using Interface Builder? I recall doing it once
with the left and right arrow keys, and now I want to do the up and
down, but can't figure it out anymore...

Yet again I'm facing a situation which proves that I don't really
understand Objective-C memory allocation.  I've tried and tried
to read the Objective-C document but I don't seem to learn from
it unless I happen to think the question in the right way.  It