Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / February 2005

Dear Sir or Madam
I'm looking for software consulting work. If you can't hire me, you could still
help me out by forwarding this message to your colleagues.
I have seventeen years experience as a developer, with the last seven years

Where can I find the instruction sets for G4/G5?  In particular, I want
to find out whether the instructions exist for, and the timings of:
32 bit integer * 32 bit integer = 32 bit integer
32 * 32 = 64

Alright, I admit, I did something stupid.
I accidentally typed a unicode character into the editor while working
on a text file, and when I tried to save it the editor gave me a choice
"save as unicode". In my ignorance, I typed "Yes". Ever since then when

I have a dilaog which has two edit text fields and an 'OK' button but none
of the controls has focus when it launches. I would like the first edit text
field to have focus but can't find any such option in Interface Builder.
Have I missed something?

TIA for any help.
I'm playing with Cocoa, using the Vermont recipes book. I'm trying to create
an additional .nib file to hold an extra window. Perhaps i'm
misunderstanding, but it appears to me that the VR instructions are a little

Does anyone have some practical experience with 64-bit apps on Tiger?
The Apple page <http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/64bit.html>
mentions a strange limitation: no GUI in a 64 bit address space.  Does
this mean that Apple just hasn't gotten around to updating the

I had read somewhere that Tiger would allow application developers to
add their own entries to the Software Update tool. Is this still the
case? If so, what is the procedure necessary to accomplish this?

I am new to powerplant. I am to localize an application in polish,
greek etc. I’ve almost done 90% of the code adaptation to use CFString
in all the text control using SetCFDescriptor.
The probleme remains when I want the text to be displayed in the right

I downloaded and installed Speex (www.speex.org/) by following the
instructions:
Download http://www.speex.org/download/speex-1.0.tar.gz
     (1.0 Source Code)

I must be doing something dramatically wrong here, but how could the
following Java snippet
NSTimeZone MyTimeZone = new NSTimeZone();
produce the following

This is probably not the proper venue for this question, but I'm not
sure where it goes.
A friend of mine is experiencing problems with her iBook (G4 1ghz I
believe). It's running sluggishly in general, and Appleworks, in

First, let me apologize my rookie questions, but I am a rank beginner at
Macintosh coding. I'e got quite a few years of C coding experience, but
never attempted Java or anything object-oriented. I'm laid-up after
surgery and to amuse myself and learn I'm trying to write a simple ...

  What is the best way to handle mouse events inside of a view? For
example, I have an array of objects of various shape, size and location
which I draw in a view. I'll need to assign actions for mouse-overs and
clicks inside of the various objects. Does the view 'know' the

When I ssh into my web hosting service from the Terminal application in OS X,
the window gets all screwed up in the elm email client.  It looks just like
things do when the $TERM environment variable is set wrong.
echo $TERM both locally on my Mac and shelled into my hosting ...

When I step into templates I get stuck there.
Step over, into, out of and continue no longer work.
Here is one of hundred of places this might happen....
template<typename S>