Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / February 2005

I feel compelled to edit /etc/profile to add ${HOME}/bin to PATH and
maybe export some other stuff but then I remembered I'm a newbie. So I
suppose I should ask - how is one supposed to modify their environment
properly w/ OSX?

   I have an XCode project which build a DLL called xyzdll.dylib.
   I have another XCode project which builds an app that need to find and
link to xyzdll.dylib.
   I am getting the error:

I have been using a program called Address Book Plus 2.0 for many years!!!!
It was written by someone named David Phillip Oster. I got to talk to him
on the phone once many years ago about the program, and I got to ask him a
question about its proper operation. The company got sold ...

I'm hoping someone here can stop me before I plunge into
the murky waters of OpenTransport and Windows networking...
Has anyone here ever programmed anything like this - a small
"network browser"-type app that will allow me to keep tabs on

In the olden days, I programmed in Fortran and QuickBasic, plus a little
Pascal and Cobol. (Yes, that long ago. Now I want to learn C and its
extensions, and I want to program on the Mac. There doesn't seem to be
any resources (books) on learning to program in C/C++/Obj-C on the ...

All right. I need to provide a means for users of my application to
select a couple of fonts for output text. How do I (a) launch a
dialog that the users can select a font from, and (b) retrieve the
particular NSFont representing their selection for later use? The

According to many magazine the first action to do
when a Mac got a problem is to Repair Disk Permissions with
the Disk Utility.
How permissions can be corrupted ?

I do a lot of C development on Linux but I just bought a Mac Mini (mainly
to hook up to the TV) and I'd like to ssh in and compile my libs for
Mac too.
So ... how does one go about installing gcc et al?

The new version of XCode uses the same terminal window for output.  How
do I clear this screen?

(this line is here because UPC is being difficult - ignore)
I'm working on a project that uses the SDL and SDL_net frameworks:
  http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
  http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/

Is there some simple way of figuring out where my bus cycles are going?
 Like:
#include <accessingthesystemclock.h>
int a = clockticks();

was doing a quick script that would secure delete files and noted
something
secure delete seemed to hang on my dual g4 machine.  runs fine on my g4
400, and ibooks.

I have a window that among other controls contains a custom subclass of
NSImageView for displaying an image.  NSImageView has been subclassed so that
it will respond to respond to double clicks and, more to the point, copy, cut
and paste commands.  The copy, cut, and paste ...

I'm trying to wrie a file in another directory using ofstream but no
matter what combination of forward, backward and quotes I try on Mac OS
X the path I write in the filename parameter always ends up as part of
the *filename* (i.e. I can't write the file into another directory). Is

I'm embarking on a (daunting) senior project for my CS degree which is
a tool that (among other things), creates an admin account on a Mac as
part of the setup process before deploying them on campus. I know
there's a UNIX command niutil that I could shell script with, but I was