Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / November 2004

Does anyone know exactly what the "faults" statistic is that you see
if you inspect a process in the OSX Activity Monitor?  I assume this
is counting page faults?  When I monitor my application under certain
conditions I see this incrementing at about 500 per second.  I would

hi
this is niket .
i'm developing an application in a carbon environment.
i'm using Xcode 1.5.

I know this has been discussed before, but...
I'm looking at using a service like Kagi to sell a small shareware
program, and wondered if anyone would like to share their
opinions/experiences.

Apple isn't porting the Application or Foundation Kits for windows anytime soon, right? Probably never?
They used to have ports a long time ago, I think. Now there is GNUStep which is the OpenStep spec on X11 but eh, X11 blows.
Anyway, this is part of a broader pipe dream to ...

Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes:      KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000020
Thread 4 Crashed:
0   com.apple.CoreFoundation           0x9019ea38 _CFStringAppendFormatAndArgumentsAux + 0xd30

This probably sound like a trivial question. I recently upgraded from
10.2 - 10.3, and I use the Terminal a lot.
I always set the key bindings to 'vi' mode with 'bindkey -v' in the
.cshrc file. Normally, I can use the vi movement keys, but also the

Hi, I am porting an application to the Mac that prints. I need to know what
margins the printer has, so that I can print right up to that line. In
windows I have used GetDeviceCaps to find out the margins of the user's
printer. How can I do this on the Mac? I am using realbasic, but ...

Hey-hey hey Raj!
I'm a Carbon person hoping to move primarily to Cocoa, and looking to
do a standalone app that requires a database engine that supports lots
of datatypes. It's really just an excercise to build something

How to generate Mac Standard Font Dialog in Using Power Plant?
Thanks
-Hemant

I am new to power plant.
I have to use RTF control in my application.
I got the control MLTE but strugling for how to open the rtf file edited
in text edit in that control.

I've got a popup menu which I always want to hear from (via
ListenToMessage) when it's chosen. Even if the user chooses the
currently-checked item. It looks to me like there's lots of code which
is preventing this from happening.

I have a windowcontroller and coded a
- (void)windowDidBecomeKey:(NSNotification *)aNotification
What I do want to know is which window had the focus before my window
gets the focus. How can I do that?

Is there cheaper Fortran compilers to Mac Os X
than Absoft Pro Fortran v9.0 for OS X
or
IBM XL Fortran Compiler 8.1 for OS X

Anybody know the magic incantations to get DocoaBrowswer 1.0 to work
when XCode 1.5 is installed?
I try to point it to /Developer/ADC Reference Library/documentation and
it appears to index, but I get nothing when I click on the "classes"

I'm looking for some kind of utility that can tell me what files/paths a
program/process attempts to open/create. Something like the way Filemon
works for Windows. Does anyone know of such a utility?