Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / July 2005

i'm new in Cocoa and I can't figure out how to set initial elements for
menu with NSPupUpButton, how to do it using Interface Builder or code ?

How do I, change the data format of my model form XML to SQLite?
Thanks,
Charles

When using Core Data, is there a way to make the value of an entity
attribute unique? I can't seem to find an option for "unique" values when
using the data modeler. Is this something I have to code by hand? If so,
what's the best way to do it?

I've been away from Mac programming since OS 8.x days and just recently
began learning about OS X.  Building the simple Carbon app in OReily's
"Learning Carbon" with XCode 1.5 and Mac OS 10.3 has mostly been
straight forward even though the book example is a bit outdated WRT

I need to design a Comment page in a site where
1- visitor will enter their comments
2- comments are stored
3- the display wil have to seems being 'handwritten' (using a specific

Hi I need to create a gui using custom butttons and controls made
from graphics, but don't want to use pre os x tools like rez edit.
Any thoughts on whats the best tool/way to do that?
(BTW:I'm using carbon and xcode on a 10.3 platform.)

I always thought aliases were symlinks, because opening a symlink
in Finder-Info says it's an alias.
Now I created an alias in Finder with cmd-L, but my
commandline-tool can't read it.  It points to a directory, but

Hi, I'm appending text to an NSTextView.  How can I autoscroll it?

I m working on Tiger (but I have the same problem on the other OS
version) and I have a problem with the C function 'remove'.
I m opening, closing and removing a lot of files and sometimes (quite
often though), remove doesn t remove the file and return with the error 89.

I have many CFBundle projects which were developed last year in September.
Now when I tried to load them again, they don't load in neither XCode 1.1 nor
in XCode 2.0. I get an error message upon load, which says that it's something
with a toolbar which cannot find itself.

For some reason I get a runtime errors when I call a routine that is
defined in another source file.   Some do work some don't.  Still trying
to find the pattern.  Anyone know what would effect this.  Below is what
I see in the stack window or whatever the window is that shows ...

Not sure if I'm in the right group. Helping a friend with his website.
He has OS10 on an iMac. Is there a text editor likely to be on board
for html? Something to put and get files by ftp and mangage a site? I
see that Navigator/Composer offers some of that though viewing the file

the main window of the app i'm working on is primarily composed of two
NSOutlineViews and an NSTextView.  as you tab from view to view, the outline
views display a focus ring, but the text view does not.  it seems kind of
disorienting: tab -> blue focus ring, tab -> blue focus ring, ...

hi, do xcode provide qiuck-fill? meaning like in jbuilder, when u are
typing, u can ctrl + space to pop out a list of "helping words".....
cos with i typing, xcode will like underline my word, but then no
helping word came out....

How can I use gcc 3.4 on Xcode 1.5?
gcc 3.4.4 is installed @ /usr/local/bin
But, There is no gcc version setting option in Xcode 1.5.
someone...