Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / May 2005

Hi, I got a really cool idea, but dont know how its done - do you?. I
want to save a finder window's view style for my photo album, then
burn it onto disc, and when the disc gets mounted i want it to auto
open a finder window showing previews of the images. I've seen

I am looking for some general programing advice.  I am a newbie to PHP
and I have offered to help a friend with a project he is working on.  
He is not much for the technical side of things and I have been a ACTC
for some time now so I figured what the heck, might be fun.  I have

How would i go about comparing two characters together that are both in
a nsstring object/ I don't quite understand the characterAtIndex call.
Example:
string1 = "word"

I'm learning C from a book that uses the getche() function from the
<conio.h> library. However, the preprocessor/compiler (gcc 3.3 on
Panther) doesn't recognize the function nor the library. The getchar()
function only works line-buffered.

On my dual-monitor computer, my screen saver runs in two instances,
independent of each other, one on each monitor. Since it's a bit
animation heavy, I only want it to run on one of them, but I haven't
been able to find a way for an instance to detect whether it's on the

How do I use an NSFontPanel to change all the cells on an NSTableView?
I know that a NSTableView will not respond to changeFont:, so should I
have the NSDocument object respond to changeFont:?  If so, how do I
change the font on the NSTableView?

I'm new to Mac, and I would like to know couple of things. I hope you
can help me.
I'm student, studying to be programmer and would like to get one Mac.
So, I don't know are .net, data bases, delphi, c++ and other

I wrote a program using cocoa recently and have been having trouble
getting it to open on a machine running 10.2.x. I used xcode 2.0 and
tiger to write the code and it works fine in that enviroment. Do I need
to do something special to make it work for early versions.  there are

Dear Group,
I am interested in modifying my current Carbon program that
communicates with a serial device via a USB to serial connector to
automatically launch the application what the USB device is connected.

I'll be switching my development platform from a Windows machine to a
Mac, so I thought this might be a good time to revist the available
Java IDE options.
I have been using JBuilder and prior to that VisualAge for Java.

I'm currently working on a little porting project based on a simple
Java application which communicates with another Java application based
on sending strings through socketstreams.
I have ported most of the application to Cocoa/Objective-C, but I'm

I am running Mac OS X Tiger with XCode 2.0.  I am facing a strange
problem.  I have a group of .cpp and .h files performing some
engineering calculations.  I build these files into the XCode's
CommandLine C++ Tool Project.

Hi Techies,
                     Can we insert column in LListBox, to segregate
the data. There is LDEF ID in property of LListBox Whats that mean for
?

Does anybody want to share experience on using QT or/and wxWidgets
targetting OSX? What are strong and weak points of both (except for
the price)?
Thank you!

I am working on an application that is going to programmatically create
new windows.
After futzing around a while, I think I almost understand how this
should work but