Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / July 2005

one question: I know how to create a CFStringRef from a CString. But
is it possible to create a CString from a CFStringRef?
Thanks in advance!
Till

one question: I know how to create a CFStringRef from a CString. But i
it possible to create a CString from a CFStringRef?
Thanks in advance!
Til

I have had this problem before.  My bundle shows with a generic icon
(pencil, brush, ruler lieing on top of two sheets of paper).  The
Bundle/Contents/Resources directory has a .icns file and an Info.plst file
that desginates the icons file as the bundle icon, but no luck.  I ...

i subclassed NSTextView so i could add a number of extra things to it, one of
them being a rot13 method.  to complete the task, i had to modify my
NSTextView subclass so that it can conform to the menu validation protocol, so
that the rot13 item on my edit menu will be enabled and ...

i just registered a couple of creator codes with apple.  but their website
says they don't keep track of type codes anymore.  why not?  isn't the whole
point of that exercise to prevent conflicts?  i'm pretty sure it would be
unwise for me to try to claim, say, TEXT, but other than ...

Some time earlier, I wrote my first major programming project (The
Minstrel's Song, http://jonathanscorner.com/tms/download/ ) and am
trying to get the stable version to work under Mac (FAT, as it needs to
run under 68k) as a birthday present for my brother. An earlier,

This is more a question of philosophy than programming, but this is
the group that seems most appropriate for it.
I've used a toolbar for the first time in a proper program.  It works
fine in terms of the programming, but one aspect of the user-interface

what is the exact Voodoo one has to perform in Tiger to get the Finder
to recognise new document types for a new created XCode Cocoa
application?
I already tried

When I load some of my old XCode projects on Tiger, then I get the
following error message:
Reason: *** -[PBXToolbar _notificationPostingEnabled]: selector not
recognized [self = 0x50f5ac0].

My XCode projects don't load on Tiger. I get an error message which says that the
PBXToolBar can't find itself. What's going on? This is important for me. These
are commercial projects which have over one thousand paying users.
Mike

I have been working in Macromedia Director Xtras development for
Windows.
In few days I'm going to start working with a Mac and I must
translate some Xtras.

I have added two breakpoints to my my cpp file but it does not stop
during debug mode.  When I ran info br in the console it list them but
they have pending as the address.  The break is in what is essential my
main.cpp file not some library file.  It is compiled with -g and with

I am catching keyboard event of MLTE.
I want to get the value of event parameter coming from keyboard event so
that I can
compare the value with Return key.

I want to convert screen coordinates to local window coordinates in Carbon
I am using following code for that
static OSStatus MainWindowEventHandler ( EventHandlerCallRef
nextHandler,EventRef event, void *userData)

I originally made a project under Linux and migrated to (Macintosh)
CodeWarrior. It is mostly C, with Macintosh menus etc. implemented in
C++.
Now I am trying to incorporate changes and compile under it MPW. I have