Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / October 2004

(Sorry for the cross-post, I realized after posting that c.s.m.p.misc
was probably not the best place for this... also, I'm using CW 9.3 on OS
10.3.5, if that makes any difference.)
I am writing the Mac OS side of a Windows/Mac application, and I'm

I am using NPickColor (as opposed to PickColor or GetColor) because IM
suggests that it is the most recent and most preferred).  The first time I
call it, works perfectly.  The second time, every time I run the program,
the program crashes.  This is what I've got:

is there any notification when th content of the pasteboard changes?
Or is there any other way to get informed?
Bye - Robert

When I try to open my project I get the following error:
2004-10-27 17:57:59.007 Xcode[441] ** INTERNAL ERROR: Uncaught Exception **
Exception: Invalid parameter not satisfying: (index >= 0) && (index < (_itemArray ? CFArrayGetCount(_itemArray) : 0))
Stack:

[Repost, first attempt got eaten somehow]
Somewhere in the E.U., le 7 Brumaire de l'An 213
  Bonjour
     I am trying to ensure that my part of the Boost library works

in my application I start running a modal session for a dialog using
[NSApplication runModalForWindow]. This works fine, but when I click on
a button in this dialog, another modal dialog comes up and here  is my
problem. The second modal dialog is the only dialog the accepts user ...

I try to do a PowerPlant Application.
I overwrite the LApplication.HandleAppleEvent method, but, when i send
e Script to my app a recive only a "ae_OpenApp" event and never
"ae_SetData".

I've got some code based on Apple "SoundPlayer" sample code that uses
SoundConverterFillBuffer to extract the sound track from a movie and
convert it to a new format.  It works fine on the Mac, but on Windows
I just get white noise.  Any ideas?  I've tried setting the output

I am trying to access the bitmap/pixmap of the port of a window.  I've
done this thousands of times with offscreen graphics worlds, which I then
copybit to a window, but in my present application I would just assume
write directly to the pixmap for a window.  The program has no ...

I'd like to get a DATEL Max Drive XBOX USB storage key working on the Mac.  
This is a standard USB key that the Mac can understand just fine, the file
system on it is FATX which Mac OS X does not understand.   FATX has a driver
in Linux kernel 2.4 , and I can use the key on that ...

In a Carbon application I would like to use a control similar to the
red, yellow, and green button in the title bar of a floating window,
that is very small, colored buttons.  Is this control generally
available?  What is it called?  Where is it documented?

Is there a well-contained overview of the string objects
and methods associated with FSSpec and Str255?  I am having
a terrible time just trying to find out how to convert
a char * to an FSSpec.  It appears that some string services from

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HyperCard, Programming, Early Web, etc. Fun gift idea for Apple Fans.
Enjoy!
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I'm wondering about converting my Carbon app to Cocoa but there's two big
problems (for me). My app reads several data files created by another
application and within a data file lurks image and AIFF files. That is a
data file can be comprised of several PCX and AIFF files ...

I ported a Windows program to my mac and realised the program that took
around 5 seconds to run on Windows now takes atleast 1 minute on my mac. It
uses alot of STL (string, vecor, map, list) but I cant imagine the STL
implementation to be that slow. So I wonder if there are any ...