Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / September 2004

In /System/Library/Extensions there is a file AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext,
which I believe is Apple's drivers for the RealTek 8139 chips.
I've looked at http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.3.5/
for the source code, but am not really sure which file it is in.

Has anyone heard anything about if the Cocoa-Java libraries will take
advantage of the new features found in J2SE 1.5 (or do they take
advantage of any of the J2SE 1.4 features at all)?  For example,
whether NSArray could take advantage of generics, and so on.

My company distributes the software it develops on CD-r disks. I've thought
about purchasing a CD duplicator for the company but I'm not sure if it's
worth it. The good ones are quite pricey. So...
Is it possible to hook up a USB CD-R writer to a Mac, running OS X,

What file contains the code
that we use when we include dns_sd.h ?
I mean, i'm trying to findout what library,
framework or whatever contains code

I seem to have lost a bunch of the manpages in man3.
(And probably others, as well.)
Any suggestions on how to get them back?
I'm running 10.3.5, with the dev tools installed.

How do I embed a Quicktime 'object' in my Mac OS X app, quickly a easily?
TIA

Hidey-ho.
I'm thinking of getting into database development in Cocoa, after a
decade-plus hiatus from authoring apps like 4D. Open-source and Unix
seem like the way to go, obviously, and there are lots of tools to help

In one of my projects I have a NSOpenGLView and a NSScrollView in the
same window. In the scroll view I have lots of checkboxes. Changing
the state of the checkboxes works ok, but I can't intercept the mouse
downs in this view to do the necessary adjustments after clicking a

According to the subject, I suppose I have some questions about audio
programming on OSX..
I've been reading up on CoreAudio, which sounds pretty promising; I like
the idea of a single interface with pluggable effects and generators

I am working for the versioning of the product(application bundle) in
Mac OS 10.3.2. There is an entry "SourceVersion" in the version.plist
of every application.What does that means? How this number is
determined first and how it is changed later on in coming versions?

i have a huge number of icons (around 500) that i must convert from
GIF/PNG format to ICNS. Of couse i don't want to do this by hand.
Is there any commandline tool (!!) that can do this or a scriptable
version of Icon Composer ?

I'm anxious to start learning Cocoa and Obj-C after about 10 years of
not touching C programming... but I have some questions before
jumping-in head first.
First off, the type of applications I'd like to write will require

The following code causes an exception when I try to establish a
channel for photo capture.  This has worked for years on OS9 and now
is failing in carbon in OS 10.3.5:
    gSG = OpenDefaultComponent( SeqGrabComponentType, 0 );

I'm wondering if there is a preferrred method for dealing with large
amounts of data that needs to be displayed. In days of yore (C++,
roll-my-own, PowerPlant, et al), I would sometimes use an intermediate
object that stored a nice, flat copy of the data to improve