Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / December 2004

I have one dialog based application.
On clicking one of the button from that dialog I am changing the mouse
cursor with the help of following API's
CursHandle cursorH = ::MacGetCursor(128); ///Global Variable

How can I change the background color of MLTE control?
I am using the SetForeAndBackColors().
 But it is not showing it's effect.
Thanks

We recently put together some small web applications that go over a
secure connection.  When users navigate through the pages everything
goes fins until they get to the free text area where they can type in
their problem.  The MAC users only see dashes or little boxes and are

I am Opening the file in powerplant from Standards Dialogs.
It is filling the FSSpec Structure.
I want to know the full path of that file.
How can I do this?

What would be the best way to accomplish colored syntax while using
NSTextView in a Cocoa application?
In my case, the color is only relevant for displaying text and there is
no need to keep track of it, no need to save the info etc..

I tried to add huge (48x48) and thumbnail (128x128) icons to my Carbon
nonbundled app by putting an icns resource and a plist referencing the
icns in my project.
It seems to work some, and not work some.  In the dock, when the app is

I used HITextViewCreate() create a text view, and I want get the
notification when user input text in the text view,how th get the
notification?
Thanks for you advice!

Hidey-Ho!
Just getting started with MySQL in Panther, and need some advice on
tools & references.
I used to do database stuff in 4D a long time ago, so I know something

10.3 introduced a setting 'isHidden' for all NSViews.  It works
fine for the obvious ones like NSTextView and NSImageView.  I
had assumed it would work fine with NSMovieView as well, but I'm
getting weird results.

Hi, I am new to cocoa programming and have a problem :-/
I want to show modeless window when user clicks a menu item, but this
window should be released from memory after the user closes it.
I wrote the following code:

Im trying to follow specs here for a file format that i need to read
and write out. In the format they have a data type called a "64
double". I though i might be able to just use a regular 8 byte double
and store that in my file, but its wrong. I guess the value that goes

I found the following code which saves the contents of a NSTextView to
a PDF.  This codde handles the paging and gives the user the standard
dialog asking where to save the file.  I am wondering if I can save the
view (in my case a webView ) directly to a filename that I specify