Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / July 2005

The function below is the (PowerPC/CodeWarrior) core of a
pseudo-random-number generator which is nearly four times faster than
the best C equivalent I can write.  [The basic operation,
subtract-with-borrow (subfe), is a single instruction that must be

I can't seem to find any sample code on setting transient values. My
entity has an attribute called price, and a transient attribute called
finalPrice.  I want to set finalPrice to be a percentage of price.  I
believe I need to call setPrimitiveValue:forKey: from awakeFromFetch,

I've been trying to follow the QTKitProgrammingGuide from Apple's
website, but am having no luck adding outlets to the QTMovieView.
IB is version 2.5.1, and I have the latest XCode.
The text says to control click on the "File's Owner" instance and

OK,  I've been beating my head on this for a couple of days.  Here's my
question:
In Windows if I want to create a directory path, I can recursively call
a create directory function and build each part of the path using

    I am trying to find a way to get the version of the Xcode installed on
a system. I am looking for something like:
CFBundleGetBundleWithIdentifier( CFSTR("com.apple.Xcode") )
    But it does not seems to work. Any suggestion why ?

How do i link programs against the Carbon API when compiling at the
command line (ie not in XCode or anything)?
I appreciate that this is a stupid newbie question; i am a stupid newbie,
so this comes naturally to me. The precious little C knowledge i have is

I've been studying "Test Driving Your Code with OCUnit"
<http://developer.apple.com/tools/unittest.html>,
and while it basically works, I've got a few questions I'd like to ask
someone more experienced:

Hi. I have a carbonized Mac app. A user of the app has told me (I
confirmed it) that when he does a GET INFO on my app icon or my app's
document icon in the Finder, and clicks the icon to select it, it does
NOT get selected. (Other apps don't have such a problem.) Of course, he

How to access to particular window defined inside the same nib file. I
have one nib but I have there more than one window. It's not
NSDocument, it's NSApplication and only way I found to invoke second
window is :

I have problem working with dataSource of NSTableView.
First, I set my datasource like this:
- (void)awakeFromNib {
    [self setDataSource:[FooDataSource new]];

I want to buy a mac now because I love them. Should i buy or wait
until ma-intel comes out?
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is there a way i can playlist to fill up table in my application?
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Does anyone know where the standard file icons are (the piece of
paper that's used for any document without a type)?
I'd like to modify that icon so that it looks more mac-like than
if I build one myself.

i've got an NSOutlineView that i need to put a really horrific number of items
into, perhaps 20,000 as a worst case.  right after i read them all from disk
and into the data source, i want every item that has children to be expanded.
so i wrote this method, to expand or collapse all ...

i have a button tat do sth for me using applescripit, but after i
connected it to a action, it stopped following the applescript....
so is it possible to let a button do both? :?:
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