Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / February 2005

I would like to write, or buy, a simple utility that I can use to
manipulate windows on the screen. Basically I want to break my screen
into rectangular areas and move the focused window to one of these
areas with the press of a key. I have implemented a little app in

How do I set the intitial window position before the window is displayed for
the first time?
If I got it right, one should call:
NSPoint p;

I'm completely new to Mac - just purchased my iBook and studying
development. I'm doing quite a lot of that for Windows, all C++, and
it seems that XCode supports C++ too. However all documentation
refers to C or ObjC.  What am I missing?

I'm going to buy an iMac G5 and I'd like to begin to program
with Xcode. I know that there are severals Xcode programmings books
on the market but I wonder if Tiger will deeply change Xcode and so
if thoses books would be obsoletes ?

trying to compile sth called ThoughtTracker on OSX+fink I ran into the
following error:
configure:3709: checking if C++ environment has working string class
configure:3730: c++ -o conftest -g -O2 -I/sw/lib/gtkmm/include

int* p_MyPointer;
p_MyPointer = new int;
error: 'new' undeclared
Do I have to use malloc?

as you see, the question is the subject.
I have problems to test building my software on sf's compile farm.
I am porting my software to Mac OS X and I stuck at the linking
part of building my ODBC wrapper module.

I wish to write an algorithm in C++.  My intention is to run it on a Mac
G4, however it would be nice to have the same program compile and run on
a Pentium 4.
The program will have to do a lot of the following with 32 bit integers:

I have a project I am working on in cocoa. It has to do a lot with
safari webkit and loading in html files (that contain embedded SWF
files).
There is also an installer I created using PackageMaker.app

Hello, I have 2 mac connected to the net via a router. One is running a
server which host my site and the other I use it for viewing the site.
If I call the site with a local address http://192.168.0.2/index.html 
the site load very fast but if I call it via

I'd like to program a screen saver, similar to the one apple provides
which randomly displays photographs from a selected folder.  I have
about 6000 pictures in my folder which results in a very slow startup
time for the screen saver.  I assume that it's looking at the pictures

Just a short question:
I have a small program for which I have C, C++, and Cocoa/Foundation
implementations. It's just a simple program to find the largest
palindrome in a text file. I want to evaluate the performance of each

Hi All...
This is going to sound like the DUMBEST question out there, but maybe
it wont be.  I use both PCs and Macs, has been mostly PCs but now I
really hate them and want to switch to macs completely.  I have a

I'm using XCode on OSX.  I want to insert a line that makes my program
stop at a point, to allow me some simple debugging.  For example:
printf ("The code runs to this point");
wait_for_kbhit();

i am very new to programming in c with xcode. i made some 2 very simple
source codes and one gives me an error and the other doesnt even though
they are almost identical. after i write, build and debug a source
code, how do i make it executable under osx? thanks for your input.