Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / November 2004

I need to transfer chunks of data from one process to another on Mac OS X,
at audio rate (that's at least 44100*4 bytes per second).
Since two processes may reside on different processors (say a computer
with 2 CPUs), then I don't know how to achieve this. Obviously I cannot just

I'm attempting to get an FSSpec for a given c-style path name.  For
some reason, I keep getting a -35 error (no such volume).  I
double-checked, and my volume is called "Untitled".  I can't figure
this one out.  I could use the group's insight on this one.  Thanks!

What would you all recommend as a book to learn Carbon API for someone
with good (but not excellent) C++ knowledge, who has dabbled in some OS9
API stuff and wants to continue dabbling with Carbon?  I really just
want a few things:  File Navigation, some keyboard event capturing, ...

I'm trying to send photos over the internet using fotowire software.
It worked about 2 months ago, but now I get an HTTP 400 bad request
message.  I've tried re-installing the software, but with no luck.
I'm using MAC OS X and the proprietary fotowire software to send the

I am trying to compress a bundle into a tar file. tar -cvvf new.tar
old.txt works fine to get a single file.
Unfortunately, the bundle may be *very* large, and has to be uploaded
over the 'net. We're talking up to 100MB. This can be problematic to

Hello,
I am using a library that has a function call in it that requires me
to pass a char* to it.  This char* is getting its memory address
changed with in this function when another function is called inside

I want toggle a special item to a special row,such as Toggle the special
item to the first row,when DataBrowser sort any column,there should no
effect to the first row,How can I do that?
Thanks for your advice!

  I am trying to write a USB Device Driver for MAC OS X.
Is there any sample code or guide to help me start with it.
thanks,
Amit

i use NSButtonCell to draw a lot of button in a window. I don't know
what's wrong but the title isn't vertically centered into the button,
but lay on the bottom edge.
This is a snippet from my code:

After installing Palm desktop software aned Hotsync software on my
iMac v 10.1.5 I cannot do name resolution. I can ping and browse IP
addresses on the internet but not names. ie. http://www.apple.com
"Host not found", http:// 17.254.0.91 OK.

I'm still not sure if I'm going to use this structure and way of doing
things.
Basically, I want to declare a structure that will allow me to put all
the information I need to deal with a game sprite. I'm not using an

it's getting tiresome to scan past offensive material to find the
worthwhile traffic in the csm.x groups these days.
Is there a service that somehow will pre-filter a group for you (for a
fee of course) ? I'd gladly pay to not have all this noise.

 I've implemented some custom databrowser items that I would like to
drag around. The dragging itself works ok, data is added to the drag and
it can be received elsewhere.
The only problem is that I can't work out how to actually get the

I'm working on a Cocoa app which includes Flash playback; but using
QuickTime to play the Flash content isn't an option as Flash 6
Actionscript isn't yet supported.
So, I'm using the WebView component instead; but haven't yet found a

I want to move selected row on some position programmaticaly
(say, cell from row 10 at row number 4),
I think I should use :
err=GetDataBrowserTableViewItemID