Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / August 2005

I have always programmed in light text on a dark background.  I guess I
started on my Apple IIe 23 years ago and got formed a habit.  I like it.
Less overall brightness, less eyestrain, especially at night when the
screen is the only source of light in the room...that's my theory ...

I try to develop Fox-based application (http://www.fox-toolkit.org) on
my Mac.
On the commandline everything works fine:
       g++ -g -o a.out -L/usr/local/include/fox-1.4/ -lFOX-1.4

I have created a shared memory block used between two processes via
shmget().  Each of these two processes can sends information to the
other in a serial fashion: Process #1, then Process #2, then Process
#1, etc.  I was trying to determine a good protocol for notification so

I was wondering if anyone out there has the Apple XTND 1.3
documentation and/or developer kit? It used to be on their ftp site,
but I can't find it any more.
Maury

I don't know if Gorm/Interface Builder questions are on topic in here, the
FAQ doesn't seem to say.
Anyway, I had an application working fine with its NSTableView (the delegate
was my AppController class). I used Interface Builder to create a NSTabView

I'm interested in capturing images from a usb-camera. Can anyone tell me
where to start? I've never created an application for Mac OS X but I
work as a C++-developer so I just need to be pointed in the right
direction. I've tried searching developer.apple.com but there doesn't

I get an EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION entering qsort() in a program built with
mrc/ppclink, when run under OS X/Carbon. A typical invocation:
int c(const void *a, const void *b){ return (*(int*)a)-(*(int*)b); }
qsort(a, 10, sizeof(int), c);

I want to flush the window an an [NSView -drawRect] routine.  This would
be helpful for debugging because I could easily correlate drawing commands
with *which* object on the screen they produce (I have draw many similar
objects in my present program).  But the window's flushing ...

 I am using g++ 3.3 on os X 10.3.9. I have created my own library
using
ar ruv *.o files
After this I try to compile a test program using,

i want to vertically center a line of text inside a rect, and draw it in a
certain font.
 -(void)drawString:(NSString*)string
  inRect:(NSRect)rect font:(NSFont*)font

Here's a weird one for you. I have a customer that wants to use
portrait orientation instead of landscape for a project. Don't ask.
Remembering the really old days of the Radius Swivel monitors...is it
possible to tell OSX to treat the monitor as tilted? I know I can

The breakpoint window doesn't have any obvious way to put a condition on a
breakpoint?  How do I do this?  It was a cinch in CW.  I assume it's
fairly straight-forward, but I don't see it.
Thanks.

I've been trying to get the Apple sample USB program to compile under
10.4.2 and Xcode 2.1 ... it won't ... there is an error -
AppleUSBCDCSampleDriver.cpp:1259: error: invalid conversion from 'const
IOUSBDescriptorHeader*' to 'IOUSBDescriptorHeader*'

Why does Xcode duplicate header non-Cocoa .h file in Contents/Resource ?

I've got a situation where my software needs to eject a CD even if there
is an open file on it. Is there any way to force all open files closed
and eject the CD?
sp