Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / December 2004

I updated only recently to the last versions of XCode and IB.
After this upgrade, I recompiled one of my former Cocoa program.
Unfortunately, it now crashes.
The error message is:

I have a C program (cross-platform) in which I'd like to embed a small
window message in MacOS X (just to say "You have no X server running").
I don't know much about Apple-specific programming, and the only thing I
found from my web research is that the part of MacOS X I want to ...

Okay, I'm stumped. My first Php test script, consiting of basically a
call to phpinfo(), doesn't work on Safari.
- Untouched Panther
- Personal Web says it's working

tried googling, browsed apple-script dictionary, read apple-dev mailing
lists for this, but couldn't find yet: how can I determine the current
filename (that is, the file currently in the editor) in XCode? I need
it either internal in XCode, but preferrably external to XCode as I've

I am trying to show a new window, calling:
- (IBAction)openTestWindow:(id)sender
{
  if (nil == testWindow) {

I am working on a program which has a variety of text fields to be filled
out like a form. When completed, the presses the "Add" button, &  when
they do, the initial text field should be selected.
This works correctly if you click on the button, however if you use the

I'm still a newbie to programming, I made only programs yet that read
plain text files and work with them.
But now I'd like to load an AIF file and do some calculations with its data.
I already have good ideas how the calculations and everything should

how can i control Safari from an X11 application.
I must show a webpage inside the browser and resize the window.
Also i must be sure that the browser does not open a new window every
time i show an URL.

I wrote a dynamic library which contains a set of public functions. Under
windows this gets compiled into a *.dll, under linux into a *.so and a
*.dylib under OSX.
By default all internal function names are present in the file and I need to

I have a file path in char*.
How can I find whether the file is present or not from the
given path?
-Hemant

I am trying to install an Acrobat Reader plugin.
The manual way would be to invoke the information dialog for the Adobe
Reader bundle and add the plugin there. But how can I achieve that
programmatically?

I'm having trouble retrieving the CPU usage value. From what I've seen,
I should  be using something like this:
int main()
{

Our company distributes an application that is tri-platform, Windows,
Mac OS X and Linux.  The components are mostly in Java and we use ant
to automate the packaging process since it will run on any of the
platforms.  Currently we build zip bundles with the appropriate files

I'm running into some issues with functions in the iTunes for Windows
SDK and am hoping someone here will be able to help.  There are a few
functions in the API/SDK that just don't seem to work, no matter how
many different ways I try them.  The one that is making my life the

I want to subclass NSString but it is not working.
I am doing this to make [NSString-cString] faster by storing cstring pointer
in initWithCString when encoding conversion is not required.
This is not working because NSString+alloc returns NSPlaceholderString.