Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / December 2004

I've seen that there is a langage hybrid called Objective C++.
Do anyone know of available text books on this language?
This could be useful to use C++ code together with Cocoa.
Tommy Nordgren

Would anyone know how to build and access LAttachment objects that reside in
separate files?
I want to add features (optionally installed) to my program, maybe using
something like plug-ins.  But I really do not have the man-hours to learn

How can I get characters from CFStringRef so that I can make  my char
pointer or char array?
Thanks
-Hemant

It looks like LArray's FetchItemAt is the routine that takes up the most
processing time in our application. In fact, if you discount the time
spent waiting for user input, it's definitely #1.
Our app uses it extensively, unfortunately, so the places where things

I am currently porting a Linux application which make use of PAM and
NSS modules to do authentication, authorization and identification to
MAC OS X.
The good thing is PAM is available on MAC OS X, thus porting of our pam

I pulled some sample applescripts from the Apple Web sites for
scripting the new Image Events Ap (SIPS) that comes with Panther.
I get uneven results, and I am trying to decide if it is my system
install, my poor understanding of Apple script, or expected behavoir.

Hi.  My father bought an LCII in the early '90s along with an Apple IIe
card and a floppy drive so that he could program in BASIC.  He still
has the computer, which is working quite well.  However, he would like
to buy a new computer, and he is wondering if there is a way to do

Apple states the following (in
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2071.html):
"The brk and sbrk functions are historical curiosities left over from
earlier days before the advent of virtual memory management. Even

I'm still having problems when I need to be sure that all my documents
are saved before the program continues executing:
The example method says it all.
I need to be sure that all documents are saved before I continue but

Currently I am doing some porting from linux to OS X 10.3 (.6).
However, my application is also need to support 10.2, 10.1 10.0 and OS
X Server 10.3.  And now I need to do an estimation for my future task.
So I would like to ask,

I am using mlte control with black background and text color as a white.
When I am opening RTF file in the control,file contents are there in
control but It is not showing. I have to select the text after that only
it is showing the contents.

For some reason, if I put an NSPopupButtonCell in a table column of an
NSTableView, and set the size of the cell to "small" or "mini", and
compile and run the program that uses this interface, the
NSPopupButtonCell acts as if the size of the cell is "regular".  How

I'm a very new mac user. I started using an old blueberry imac,
tray-loading, and soon discovered that it had all sorts of
advantages over Windows. Jumped to a new powerbook, and the
powerbook has firewire, but the imac has only USB and Networking. I

I drag an image of size 700 x 900 pixels to the "images" tab of my .nib file
in Interface Builder, to add it to the project. Then I drag the added image
to an NSImageView. It looks a lot smaller, maybe about 300 x 400 pixels.
Even though the size of the NSImageView is set to the ...

i'm trying to understand why GetControlByID return -30584 while i'm find a
progress bar item in a ressourse based DITL.
i'm find to get the item number and set it to a new value.
the item number is rigth, is set to 1, but for the famous signature , hmmmm, i'm not