Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / January 2005

I'm still pretty new to programming and Cocoa and I'm just making a
little app that displays file permissions and lets the user change them.
The app is working fine so far, but only for files for which the
current user has write permissions (it *reads* the permissions of other

In the Currency Converter app tutorial project, both of these files
appear.  Why two files?
I tried copying the entire project and deleting most of the build files
(23 megabytes of them!), and then building the project from that depleted

Hello to everyone !
Does anybody know wehere to get those old very, very old
development systems. The older the better.
I'm specially interested in the LightSpeed C 3.01.

I'm using a Mach O application under CW 8.3.
Te two functions are :
extern CGSWindowID GetNativeWindowFromWindowRef(WindowRef);
extern CGError CGSSetWindowWarp(CGSConnectionID, CGSWindowID, int w,

I got the tutorial example app Currency Converter to build and run, but it
doesn't calculate anything.
After clicking on or pressing <return> the third box just contains the
amount input in the Dollars to Convert (Second box).

i figured out how to use NSUserDefaults (easy enough), and after that,
how to get it to read and write to a .plist a file with a non-standard
name, so i can share prefs between apps (harder).  now i want to go one
step further and have it create a .plist file that is in a directory

Just needed advice/guidance.
So far, I have only used PC-Windows, Linus, and some Unix. I
am really interested in trying Mac-Powerbook; however, i don't know
how much does it have for IT peps. I'm a software engineer and

I'm in Chapter 8 of Learning Carbon and have run into an issue.  I'm
actually translating the code into Common Lisp (using OpenMCL) and the
CFBundleCopyLocalizedString function (which the CFCopyLocalizedString
macro expands into) is returning the key argument ("Facts") instead of

I've got several LStaticText objects on top of a Pict in my splash
screen. Can anyone suggest a way to eliminate the white box around the
text?
Kurt

10 Year PC user just switched to MAC 1 months ago. I am interested
in learning how to Programm mac's...I konw basic PHP and Logic Flow
concpets but thats about it. I am interested in writing GNU and
Freeware software for whatever tasks I can't find programs already

I'm using the Developer Tools release of December 2002, running under OS
10.2.8, and building the project described in the tutorial titled:
"Inside Mac OS
X - Developing Cocoa-Objective C Applications: A Tutorial",

I'm using the Developer Tools release of December 2002, running under OS 10.2.8.
The tutorial has filename objctutorial.pdf, and is titled: "Inside Mac OS
X - Developing Cocoa-Objective C Applications: A Tutorial", Dated July 2002.
When I get to the part of the tutorial, on page 54, ...

I'm using the Developer Tools release of December 2002, running under OS 10.2.8.
The tutorial has filename objctutorial.pdf, and is titled: "Inside Mac OS
X - Developing Cocoa-Objective C Applications: A Tutorial".
The main thing that I'm getting out of this tutorial is a tour of

As an experiment I'm trying to use Xcode to build a library from Victor
Shoup's NTL, a multi-precision numerics library source. Xcode does not
recognize
#include <NTL/ctools.h>

I am developing an application with Codewarrior 9 to run on OS X.  The
target is PowerPC, not Mach-0 or Carbon (I inherited the code, so I had
no control over that).
I have a dialog box with an LPopupButton on it.  Some initialization