Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / November 2004

I know it's possible in OS X 10.3 to cross compile for older versions of the
OS. I remember reading somewhere that there are even specific headers for
elder OS versions included with Xcode. Can someone point me to some
information on how to do succesful cross compilation and linking ...

Hi, I've written an IBPalette (which basically consists of a subclass
of NSMovieView and some decryption classes) which works fine - apart
from archiving/dearchiving. If I add my BOOL variables (representing
checkboxes in my IB inspector view), then an exception is thrown when I

Does anyone know anything about the multiprocessinglib?
Is this part of CarbonLib or is it a separate Library.
The apple documentation says a function I want to use is: "Available
in CarbonLib 1.0 and later when MultiprocessingLib 1.0 or later is

 I'm stuck trying to use my platform independent C++ "engine" code
with Objective-C.
Here is the problem:
In my C++ class I need to have a member variable that references an

I'm using a precompiled header file (.pch) where I only included all OS
X/STL libs that are need for my mixed ObjectiveC/Cpp Cocoa project. That
part works great - but what is not working great, is that the .pch file
is always recompiled when I change a line in my project files ...

I'm trying to port a program to Mac OS-X ...  This program was
developed on
Linux and I've ported it to FreeBSD and OpenBSD without much of a
hassle. I thought the

(Objective C/Cocoa)
I have a modal panel on which I have a couple of UI elements including
a NSTableView. Unfortunately, the panel is activated by and stays open
while a fairly long-running function continues to run. I'm able to

What is the tool for examining the entry points ('functions contained')
in <libraryname>.dylib Mach-O object library files?
I'm trying to resolve unsatisfied externs while linking, and although I
can use "ar -t <objectfile>.a" for static libraries, I don't know the

I've got two GWorlds.
The first is a color GWorld containing the picture I want to place into
an IconRef.
The second GWorld is the mask I wish to use.

I'm writing a script for work and to finnish it, I need two bits of
information which I'm having trouble finding.
1) How can I programatically find the MAC address of the machine? Is it
stored in a file I can look into? (MacOS X)

since I dont like how the PopupButton menu works and I strongly need a
ComboBox, i chose HIComboBox.
Now, I am able to populate the box by using HIComboBoxAppendTextItem
successfully.

In my DataBrowser I have a kDataBrowserCustom type Column,when I click one
Item,It should select whole row,but the kDataBrowserCustom Column will not
Hilite.Do I lose some Property of the custom column or I must Hilite it
myself?

I am new to Mac programming.
I am writing an application using Carbon API. I also use some of the
Multiprocessing API's.
I know the program will work on OSX, but will it work on OS8 or OS9?

I admit, I'm trying to take a shortcut, here. Ask you guys, and get a
head start to figuring this out.
My current project connects a client to a remote server over a VPN.
Both the client and the server are guaranteed to be running OSX, 10.3

I am looking for a simple way to display RTF or HTML files in Carbon.
No graphics needed, just formatted text.
All I found for RTF is limited to 10.3 and above. I need at least 10.2
as a minimal configuration, the lower the better.