Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / July 2005

I need some assistance.  Please understand I'm not asking for specific
details (though they are helpful) but rather, I just need some general
considerations.
I've been engaged to redesign a stock-ticker to look like whatever I

I'm trying to create a daemon for Mac OS X.
Apple documentation says "If you need to provide user-specific
services, you should create an agent application instead of a daemon"
(http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Artic
les/DesigningDaemons ...

I have a simple static library, and a directory containing a test
program (on Mac OS X).
The make run is as follows:
make libfoo.a

I am using the carbon library in my application to display a native
file choose dialog. Works fine so far, but when the dialog displays it
prints a lot of warnings to the console like:
_NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x136b320 of class NSImage autoreleased

I'm writing in Carbon using Xcode 2. I use several push buttons (created in
Resorcerer) on each of several views in a single window (I use tabs to
transfer from view to view). Each view has a different color background and
contains editable fields set up via Text Edit for user input ...

I'm finishing up developing a speech control jukebox.  I've scoured
"iTunes COM Interface Documentation 4.9.0.17" (for windows) and cannot
determine a way to tell the browser to select a genre, artist, or
album.  I am using Microsoft Visual C++ to develop a windows mfc

I'm very new to programming on the MAC but have a problem I hope people
here may have a solution for..
I would like to build a device that has a USB interface using the
PIC16C765. Basically, I want the electronic device to monitor conditions

 Hey all.
 As part of a larger project, I want to be able to exit a script with
a certain item selected.  However, I can't seem to get even TextEdit
to select something for me.  This:

I have a program on Windows which automates routine work. It makes use
of different applications through COM technology (e.g. converting
Postscript files to PDF through Acrobat Distiler) and it doesn't
actually launch the application.

I decided to go for Tiger and the installation went fine on my
powerbook G4. But  :(  when I tried to recompiled my own c/c++
software I got the following error:
ld: Undefined symbols:

I wanted for an experiment to build a fat binary using XCode 2.1.
(Hello world command line test).  So I created a test project (command
line utility -> Standard Tool).  I then picked the target and under the
Build tab, I selected Architectures and picked both both Intel and

Wow! An hour with CoreData, and already a working app. Pretty impressive.
I'm looking at the XML store file, and the date format is confusing. I
thought it would be base-64 encoded NSDate in iso 8601. There's something
else going on. The content of the attribute seems to vary with ...

I can't use gcc. It's so slow i always give up working on my projects.
Isn't there anything better.
On Linux i have TinyCC (9x faster) or LCC (5x faster) and on Windows i
get a huge 15x increase in compilation speed by Borland C++.

Does anybody know a way to override the name that's baked into an
application at runtime?
We have an OEM application that needs to have a different name for each
OEM and it's almost impossible to manufacture it with different names

can someone help me, y do i get this error?
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2005-07-27 09:55:19.605 tryXML[345] An uncaught exception was raised
2005-07-27 09:55:19.610 tryXML[345] *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: