Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / November 2004

I've got an Book G4 and a small program that pulls data from a USB
GPS and does a few simple things with it.  It seems that once the
GPS has found a position the fan on the iBook comes on.  A sample
program that doesn't do anything other than a few double precision

I just purchased a new powerbook. I have never had a mac before... I
come from a Linux background.
I am looking to install some perl modules so that I can do some coding
work. Unfortunately, when I go to compile the modules, I find that I

I have a Carbon application which builds and runs just fine on my iBook
under Project Builder under Mac OS X 10.2.8, as well as on another Mac
running 10.3.6 using XCode.
Some users report absolutely no problem downloading and running this

I have been looking for a DVD decoder (to back up my DVD collection)
but so far I haven't found anything.
The ones I have tried claim to be working but after 2 hours of
decoding and processing, then imported into Toast 6... well in  the

We are porting a compiler to OS X (poplog compiler) and have to deal
with a lot of assembly to trace and debug.
We can trace the execution with gdb of the assembly code generated by
gcc with the -g option, but can't see the content of registries as we

Hi can someone help me out. I would like to create alias of all my
apps in a - let's say - "alias folder". All my apps are divide into
groups - but it doesn't matter to you, it's juste an exemple. I have a
games folder containing all my game and many game are in they're own

I am trying to use the real-time Mach scheduler under Mac OS X,
and I have some problems.
I pass thread_policy_set() these parameters:
ttcpolicy.period: 1562500000

i do have an eclipse project including two ui versions (swing and swt),
i'm able to launch on Panther the Swing one without prob but get trouble
with swt.
I should say the swt version is working great either from eclipse or

Hey, I've put together some code to deal with webloc files the way I
want them to be dealt with (turn them into .url files so unix
utilities don't destroy the resource fork, run them through Faviconic,
etc).  It's nice, but I have to manually run webloc files through the

I have an EventHandler callback (which obviously gets a
EventHandlerCallRef, a EventRef, and a void *) and I pass the
EventHandlerCallRef and EventRef parameters along to another function
(which passes it to another function, which...).

When I use ditto to make backups from the terminal, some files get their
creation date changed in the destination. I discovered this running a
backup utility (SilverKeeper) after Carbon Copy Cloner (wich uses ditto
to do the copy), with SilverKeeper configured to ask what to do ...

Let me give some background because I may be going about this all
wrong...
I am writing a simple chat system. To this end, I have put an uneditable
NSTextView in a window to display what has been said so far. This will

I have a resource file from years ago which works perfectly fine with my OS
X app (written in CW 9.3 C) but the .rsrc file is from the days of ResEdit.
I would like to find some program that can convert this file to something
that either Constructor or Interface Builder can use ...

I've been studying the toolbar sample from Apple's website
<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/ToolbarSample/ToolbarSample.sit>
for a couple of nights now and I have some questions about it...
1) Why does toolbarItemForItemIdentifier have to return a copy of the

Does anyone know how to get a list of all the directories that are shared on
the local machine (Irrespective of whether or not they are mounted)?
I'm Using Mac OS X 10.3.5 and CodeWarrior 8 (it's a CFM app). I'm using
SharePoints to create the shares.