Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / January 2005

Can someone please answer a Mac newbie programming issue?
I would like to be able to write an application to programmatically
retrieve a specific subset of the information displayed in the System
Profile.  I initially thought that the Gestalt function would give me

When using the Carbon API, what is the last event a window can
receive, and how do I ensure (what type spec do I need) that I receive
it?  Also, do I need to CFRelease the EventHandlerRef I got from
InstallEventHandler, or can I just ignore it?

Anybody see this? I've got a bash script that runs just fine. No errors
- the $? status is checked everywhere. I've got a function that calls
oascript to speak a message if there's a nonzero status, and echo the
status value. Like I said, it all works fine from the shell.

Is there any environment variable that works like LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
I want to set it so that my directory is search first for ".dylib"
files before "/usr/local/lib" and "/usr/lib" is searched.

How do you set the current working directory to the
directory from which the application was launched?
When you run an executable from XCode the current
directory is set to the build directory.  However I

int main(int a, char* av) {
  NSAutoreleasePool* pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
  NSRunAlertPanel(@"Title", @"My Message", @"Okay", nil,nil,NULL);
  [pool release];

I have PowerPlant Carbon application.
I am opening the standard Color Picker Dialog using the Function
NPickColor(NColorPickerInfo)
Color Picker Diaog is opening But It's not closing on OK/Cancel Button.

I have been trying to get this configured for two days...I have a CVS
repository set up on my OS X box.  I want my PC developers to be able
to use Tortoisecvs [http://www.tortoisecvs.org/] to make new modules
and check in/out source from the X box.  We have not used CVS before,

I've been trying to get a set of custom strings in to the Format popup of a
save dialog created with NavCreatePutFileDialog. I've done a bunch of
searches to find sample code on this as the API documentation seems sparse,
but everything I try ends up with the application crashing ...

I'm just new to Mac and I would like to do my first progrmming steps on
the Mac.
Is there something like .Net or Mono existing for The Mac OS X Platform?
Greetings

I'm a Perl programmer and been using  MacOS classic since 1998.
I don't have spending money so I ain't gonna buy Mac X for the moment.
Now, I'd like to code a MacOS9 app that captures audio from an external
microphone and convert the audio in MP3 format then finally streams the

it is straightforward to convert between different audio formats
(m4a, WAV etc.) within iTunes, but how does one do this from the command
line?
i am unfortunately not very familiar with the apple scripting framework,

My jaguar man page states that POPEN can now be used bidirectionally.  
Yet when I try the "r+" mode ("w+" and "a+", for good measure), I just
get an error (invalid arg).
In looking around, I found <http://www.hmug.org/man/3/popen.html>, which

Is there a way to force FileMerge 2.0.4 (part of Xcode 1.5) to ignore
line endings (Mac / Unix / DOS) when comparing files ?
Thanks,
Patrick

I want to use DropDown combo(same as in MFC vc++) in my powerPlant
application. Can u pls suggest the proper control for this in PowerPlant?
-Hemant