Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / June 2005

I'm primarily a system programmer, unix one. Currently I have to implement
the following logic:
On Mac OS X enumerate all running application only those that are displaying
windows.

Hi Pals,
             I am having .html help file. And i want to show them
using apple help viewer.
My application suppose to open help viewer on click on some menu

Trying to program a PPC RB plugin using MPW. I have the SDK and
Tempelmann's MPW docs & files.
I can compile everything but when I try linking I end up with an
unresolved reference to .CallUniversalFunction, from REALplugin.o and no

Well, I've been playing around a little bit with getting URLs in my
NSTextView to actually become clickable links. So far, so good. I set the
attributes for my attributed strings that get inserted into the text view:
NSLinkAttributeName for the link URL and NSCursorAttributeName ...

I have been doing some experiments with Carbon programming
and I have run into a problem with kEventMouseDragged.
A web search turns up the same problem, but no solutions.
When my window is the front window, it is not sent any

I am new to XCode and like to have it for debugging purposes. Until
now I am using simple makefiles.
The makefiles, I am using are 'platform' independent (GNU make), but I
have no GUI debugger under

I'm trying to build a database with Xcode, taking advantage of the new
features of core data.
I am puzzled by the way core-data SEEMS to deal with many-to-many
relationships.

Hi i am wanting to customize the gui on an OSX 10.3 application,
instead of using aqua, but can't find much info on the subject. I
have looked at some apple references - NewThemeButtonDrawUPP, but i
can find out how to actually set my image(s) to become or customize

This might better be placed somewhere else, but as it's for a Mac
application I thought this might be okay.
I have a HTML page with a form. That form has a submit button and a
textfield. The textfield is named 'query'.

I'm trying to create a class cluster.
First is my super class -- this is the init method
DataHolder.m
- (id)initWithData:(NSData *)someData {

I'm looking for ways to fine-tune a program that is designed to run on
a Mac Plus/SE. Trying to speed this program up will surely give me
insight on how to perform other animation tasks as fast as possible for
these machines. I'm not looking for compatibility with System 7+ or

I'm attempting to open the file "myfile.txt" which lives in the application
directory. All the Apple sample code features esoteric sh.t which I don't
want to know just now. This is what I have so far but it's no-go. It just
seems far too complicated just to open a file. Any help ...

Stupid question #2 of the week.
I'm trying to avoid writing a printer driver for a barcode label
printer. It responds to reasonable commands, and I want to embed a
command in a page that tells the printer to cut the paper.

Apple wants $USD999.00 for the transition kit! OK, it includes a
*returnable* PC but for little developers in Australia it's simply no-go.
Anyway, developer support here sucks big time. Apple Australia should have
one of there boxes available at each capital city office for ...

I'm taking a java class that is requiring me to write a program convert
euros to us dollars. all this program requires is to PROMPT the user to
input euros to be converted, READ/EXCEPT the euros entered, do some
calculations, then display the result. to prompt the user, i just used