Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / August 2005

Trying to write my first bit of OS X code, a very simple command-line
utility to enable or disable display mirroring. I can turn mirroring
on, but can't seem to to turn it off again.
Here's the routine. Passing mirroringOn in as TRUE works as expected,

Hi, I am trying to understand the right way to bind a table in a core
data bibliographic app.
I have two tables. The 1st one is a table with my books, and it works
allright, diplaying all entries, etc.

Hi...I have a couple of Mac programs that I've written a while
ago...they do NOT do anything Altivec-related, and are NOT very
processor-intensive (no real time fourier transforms, or anything like
that.) THUS...I THINK...my programs would be a good example of that

I'm (still) new to Cocoa programming and I would really appreciate some
help about the following topics :
- Who is the goddam file's owner  ?
Read from ADC article "WindowControllers and Nib files" :

I am hoping some fellow shareware author can help me out.
I need to upload a .sit or .zip archive of my application distribution
disk image to my web site. Unfortunately when downloaded the archive in
either format is mangled. (When I move it across my LAN, everything is

I am new to OS X and I want to use my Happy hacking Keyboard Lite 2
together with my newly Mini (Tiger).
Problems (so far):
* Switch 3 does not convert my DEL to BS (which I prefer)

          I am localizing my application, for that i am searching how
to put/replace CFString
into anyone ppob dialog control say LStaticText.
         Can anyone provide me a snippet of the code for doing the

I have made good progress in learning how to structure and organize Obj-C
Cocoa apps in Xcode.  However, my build seems to depend on "project"
stuff.  For example, if I take the built bundle (what would normally
represent a self-contained app) and move it somewhere else (say on ...

I am finding it difficult to design-as-I-go, by which I mean, make up the
design as I go along instead of laying everything out in crystaline
perfection before I get started.  For example, in IB, I create a class and
its various outlets and actions.  I save the files.  I go to ...

We have been trying to make kind of static binary for MacOS and
encountered ld error:
ld: Undefined symbols:
_CFArrayGetCount

It has happened more than once that I'm trying to post to a forum,
explain sth in detail and just before I can hit "Submit", the browser
beachballs. I may have spent an hour on that post, the last paragraph
still laughs at me from the website's text box - but I can do nothing

I am looking around for any reporting posibility to bring SQL query
results to any kind of printable report format.
One way would be using separate libraries that do the hard work. The
other may be using AppleWorks

I've encountered a strange bug where occasionally, NSTask's
launchedTaskWithLaunchPath:arguments: method launches two instances of
an executable instead of just one. (I'm using NSLog calls to ensure the
method isn't being called twice). I'm using that method instead of

How do I add rows to an NSForm?  There is no "number of rows" attribute.
The default from the palette has two rows.
________________________________________________________________________
Keith Wiley         kwiley@cs.unm.edu         http://www.unm.edu/~keithw

Needing to massage some data.
Went with the "get it to the clipboard, then double-click this icon,
then click back to where you want the massaged version and paste, and
there it is" UI. Everything's hunky-dory, 'cept for one small detail: