Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / June 2005

I am having a problem during execution of a plugin (loadable Mach-O
bundle). As soon as the code accesses its static data (e.g. string
constant) it faults with
Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

 How can I catch event of Return key in MLTE pane.
I am trying to catch it by using key code of Return Key. But it's not
catching the event.
Any idead

You have probably had alot of people ask this question but I will ask
again. Were should I start for developing.
Should I start with Unix or C++?
IS there any programs that may help?

Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to respond to this, it's much
appreciated. Apologies for the length, I wanted to be sure all the
information was here. :-)
I have two related questions, which have to do with the user language

Hi, I've written an Interface Builder palette which (seemingly) worked
fine in several projects until now under Panther, but with the Xcode
2.0 toolset and Tiger, it freezes when I click the icon in the palette
window, with the following assertion:

I will be thankful if some one can help me regarding following problem.
I would just like to send email through my application developed using
carbon api. Is there any API available in Carbon by which I can send
mail progamatically. As we can do it through Java Mail API, but i

Mac OS 9.2.2
I'm looking for a MIDI editor, freeware or shareware if possible, but
will take suggestions to paid programs of course.
I've looked at Sweet MIDI Player 2.1.4 and while limited it might do

Installing the latest dev kit, I found that [NSApplication setAppleMenu] was
dropped.
I cannot find any information on this on ADC. Anyone knows why it was
dropped, and how to replace it ?

I am actually a new Cocoa Programmer (I switched recently :) and I use
the book from Aaron Hillegass to learn cocoa programming.
I am stucked at chapter 9 trying the challenge 2 : You have to create a
custom about panel in a separate nib file that you should load

I have gray box , OS 9.1, G3 with 10 meg HD.
I want to develop a program for the mac. ist there a free coding program
that does database,graphic and text stuff for the Mac.
I would like to have something like a rapid application development tool.

This is a philosophical question. . .
I've spent some time learning the basics of Objective-C and Cocoa, and
I like them a lot.  (I'm not so thrilled with XCode, but I can live
with it.)  The one thing that keeps nagging at me is the lack of

Where I work we are currently using Seapine's TestTrack 4.5 on Mac OS
10.3.9 for bug tracking.
We are thinking of upgrading to Mac OS 10.4, does anyone know if
TestTrack 4.5 works on that OS?  Seapine's support is lame, and they

I am using OS X 10.4.1 (Tiger) and I have installed there XCODE 2.0.
I dowloaded the new version of XCODE (2.1) and I am interested to use
it instead  of the old version.
I am new user of Mac so I am not able to make this change without risk.

I'm having some trouble figuring out how to make my program respond to
keyboard events.  I read about the responder chain, and it sounds like
I just need to implement the "keyDown" method somewhere up the chain.
I made "MyDocument" the delegate of my window, then I added this:

I am probably doing it wrong. But when I derive my class from a
SpecificEventDoer class, none of the SpecificCommandDoer inherited in
the same class works anymore. I guess the DoEvent in my class causes it.
Does it mean I have to do the dispatch work if I am to use