Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / December 2004

After having not written any code for a Mac since the 8.1 days, I'm now
working on my first Carbon app.  And it's made me feel pretty stupid
several times already.  Here's my latest conundrum: I want a simple,
one-line text edit box.  I don't want to do anything fancy; I just want

New to Cocoa here (well, and to programming in general), sorry if this
has been posted before.
I'm writing an Objective-C class that compiles correctly, but I'm
getting exit errors when I use an autorelease pool for the following.

i've done a lot of cocoa programming, but have so far managed to
completely avoid interface builder, making windows entirely in code.
now i have to do some ib stuff for the first time for a particular
project.  my problem concerns figuring out how to get separate nib files

I created a dylib using the following command:
g++ -framework Cocoa -framework IOKit -o
temp/darwin/my.dylib -exported_symbols_list unix_exports.txt -dynamiclib
temp/darwin/my.o

I'm interested in learning to develop plug-ins for iCal, and I'm
wondering if there are any sources out there that teaches one how to
do this? I've looked at the Apple website, but there are only SDKs for
audio and iTunes, none for iCal.

I'm looking for recommendations on a PHP IDE. The ones I have found so
far are:
Navicat: http://www.navicat.com/mysql_php_ide/index.php
Zend Studio: http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio.php?home

I have the following problems making Subversion and Xcode work together:
1. I cannot find a way to configure Xcode to manage my code using
subversion. The binaries are in place and it works fine on commandline.
I use a remote Subversion repository that is accessible via svn+ssh

I want to make a conversion function between std::string (or some other
std::basic_string) and NSString.  What is the best way to do so?
Should I use operator overloading like so:
operator std::string(NSString*);

I'm looking for a copy of the old Toolbox Assistant, specifically the
file "Text and Imaging.qv". I have an ancient classic program I'm
redesigning for Carbon, and not only is my on-disk copy of this file
corrupted, but so apparently is my CD copy. Also, if people have various

The error message is:
Dependency analysis: warning: unable to precompile header 'Perso/err.h'
and err.h is:
#define NO_ERROR           0

I'm trying to have an AS-script deliver the currently selected text in
Xcode (that is, the text is selected by mouse, not followed by cmd-c,
so not in the clipboard yet); I googled for this question and it came
up with the following solution, which was made to do the same for

I m trying to use a library file which is stored in /usr/shared/eg1/lib
and the filename of the library file is test.dylib
I have tried with different setting like,
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/shared/eg1/lib"

I've been using PowerPlant to program for MacOS 9.
Since I've recently upgraded to MacOS X, and don't currently have the
funds to purchase a CW upgrade, I wonder wether there are any free
Application frameworks written in C++, that includes a User Interface

I compiled a small C program in Terminal, and running it from Terminal,
the first thing that appears is
"warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe."
The program then runs correctly.  What is unsafe about using gets()?

I have created a NSFormatter object that will format a double vaue into
an hour minute second display.  So far I have test the object and it
works.
Now i have to determine how to attach it to the column. Can the custom