Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / February 2005

I'm slowly working my way through the Hillegass book ('Cocoa Programming
For MacOSX 2nd Ed') and I've got to the point where I'm on the window
resizer challenge. It's the one where you have to ensure that a window,
when resized, maintains a certain aspect ratio (2:1 in this case).

I have an advanced model I have created in Excel where I use the
buildt-in solver a lot. I want to make this a stand alone program for
OSX, with a neat GUI. What is the best approach? I am aware I have to
learn a programming language, but  what tool is the best for such

Happy Valentine's Day!  My date is the Llama book.
I'm futzing with perl for the first time - some fun! I've been able to
install the MySQL -required DBI & DBD modules, and they work...but I
have no idea what I'm doing. I'm doing the CPAN thing, and some of it

Hey, I have a class on C++ programming that revolves around Microsoft
Visual C++, and although I have Virtual PC, I want to use Xcode to do
my programming. Well I wasn’t able to bring my Powerbook to my lab
class the other day, and I missed out on most of the help I could use

This is my first time posting to this group.
I have a long standing problem with a client of mine. She is running OS
X (Panther or Jaguar--I can't recall off the top of my head). She has
extreme difficulty with the blinking insertion point. People with

is there any way to embed the Mac OS X Preview application into my
Carbon application?
And is it possible to send commands (e.g. AppleEvents) to control it?
I want to show PDFs in my application...

Any recommendations for decent mac oriented developer magazines?
Thanks!

I'm using the low level Keychain API routines to retrieve an AppleShare
password. What is returned as the password from this function,
SecKeychainItemCopyContent (
  SecKeychainItemRef itemRef,

I'm trying to use and re-use a handle (a "sprite graphic" handle in my
example) to a struct which contains an offscreen bitmap (handle), among
other things. My functions already allocates memory for the handle
itself and for its internal BitMapHandle.

I need to install a Framework (specifically NVIDIA's Cg Framework) with
my application. I am learning how to use PackageMaker, and it looks like
I need to write a script to copy the Framework into the /System/Library/
Frameworks directory. Or maybe a better way would be to use a ...

I want to write a Coca binding for Eiffel.
I need some introductional texts that show me how i get things app
without any kind of IDE tools.

I'm designing an uncommon application, and so I want to do a careful
study about its user interface.
I can try to imagine the UI (and the user interaction) in my mind, but
it's hard because the application is uncommon.

I'd like to use in my application a photoshop plugin.
What I need is use the HP ScanJet plugin to scan an image in my
application.
Could anyone give me any hint ?

Here's the sequence:
1) I have a large file (500MB+) to send to a remote XServe.
2) I use "split" to break the file into 1MB chunks. These are then sent
to the XServe via CFFTPStreams.

Is there a simple way to replace the content of a
NSMutableString with a new formated string ?
In C I would simply write:
char buf[32];