Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2005

Hi hi hi
I have a problem with my Perl CGIs that seems to be out of the scope of
the gang on the
Perl lists/groups. I haven't been able to find a Mac/Apache group,

looking for either programming software...
anyone?
TKS -
Rick

If I have the Firefox source code, is it possible to compile it for an
Apple running on Mac OS 9?
Any idea how this can be done?
Thank you.

My objective was to install gcc 3.3, finks requires 3.3.  Installing
Xcode Tools1.5 release for Mac OS fails with error: There were errors
installing the software please try installing again.
I delved into the packages and then Xcode Tools packages and double

I have a project that requires that a bundle be read and converted into
a single data resource to be inserted into a single-file (data/resource
fork) Mac application. Can anyone share ideas on how they would do
this? My thoughts are:

is there a reason that NSImage always converts bitmaps to 32bpp when loading
from a file?
I created an example: a bitmap with 8bpp, a bitmap with 16bpp and a tiff
with 8bpp. The bitmaps are always 32bpp, the tiff remaisn 8bpp.

I'm very new to MacMini (and MacOSX).
I'm looking at running something else than MacOS on the MacMini (but no
Linux nor BSD nor this kind of Linux derivatives).
How does one create a binary executable that can be run directly from

I have a Pontech SV203 servo controller that I use for robotics hobby
projects.  It uses RS232 serial.  In the past, I have had success
interfacing with it from a nonserial mac (as all modern macs are) using a
USB to serial converter.  I have one by Belkin and one by Keyspan.  My ...

I have an assignment that needs to be finished by tomorrow, an assembly
program for intel-architecture. It's quite simple (a scheduler), but,
there is the problem that things are written to the screen.
How can I make and test this assignment, using Mac OS X, or using an X11

This morning I've been trying to add a help page to Sea Battle.  The
documentation I found was pretty sparse, so I dug into TextEdit's
bundle for an example.  Here's what I ended up with:
1. A help file named: Sea

Sorry for that prior post...
I am trying to dither a snapshot of the screen to 4-bit grayscale.
This is the code I'm using, but all I get is a complete white image (in
my grayscale GWorld).

Has anyone successfully worked with XMLRPC AE object with base64
params?
I am making a XML-RPC call using Apple Events on Mac OSX. I use
AEPutPtr to add params to my paramlist which I create using

I'm trying to decide which is more appropriate: an NSTextView or a WebView.
I need to display text to the user that will include hyperlinks and tables
and CSS.  The HTML will generally be constructed dynamically while the
program runs and the user interacts with it.  I do not need ...

I'm trying to learn a bit of opengl with a custom opengl class, and
here's a strange problem I found. All the tutorials I find use these
code to setup and/or resize the opengl view:
glViewport(0, 0, w, h);

If I have NSString* foo that I may or may not have gotten from a routine
that returns a CFStringRef, is [foo release] safe? I think yes, but I
couldn't find anything that screamed yes in the docs.
G