Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / August 2005

I develop a cross-platform product for Windows and MacOS X.  Windows
is my primary platform and I only have a single Mac (an iBook).  I
recently upgraded from 10.2 to 10.4.  Hoping not to have
backwards-compatibility problems, I did *not* install the new Xcode

Hello, I'm trying to find a way to list all the network sockets being
used by the system. (on linux they would all be under /proc/net/tcp,
but mac os x has no /proc filesystem). My objective is to map the
network sockets to PIDs so I can see which processes are using a given

Hi folks, I'm still developing my book database.
I'd like to implement the possibility of gruping books into collections,
like albums in iPhoto, playlists in iTunes, ecc. Basically, a column on
the left where one can drag and drop entries to make groups...

I am building a bibliographic database with cocoa/coredata.
I am trying to build a flexible user interface.
I would like the interface to change according to the nature of the
record the user is introducing.

I'm trying to write an applescript to launch the application "FileMaker
Pro".  Unfortunately, at the moment the machines I'm writing it for all
have multiple copies of filemaker pro on them (version 6 and 7).  So,
is there a way to tell applescript WHICH copy of filemaker to use ...

Can someone point me to documentation on how to write a graphics card
driver for OS X? I searched developers.apple.com , but could not find
the right thing.
I would like to write a program that uses the screen of a laptop as a

Language issues aside (C++ vs Java vs C), what are the pros and cons of
using wxWidgets for Mac development?

        I want  to catch the font panel events in my carbon applications(in
XCode). I tried  with the code given in the xcode documentations but I am
not able to catch the event. I am giving code bellow. Please look at it
and suggest.  regards sanjay  

I am fairly new to xCode, and it keeps surprising me in various ways.
For example, we have two machines in my lab, both of them G5s (with
the same amount of RAM), one has single 2GHz Power PC processor, and
the other -- dual 2GHz Power PC processor. We are running the same

I'm attempting to learn Cocoa, but in the following code when stopped in the
debugger, and stepping through, I can't see the local variables sh.t & f.ck,
(sorry ran out of imagination and enthusiasm when naming these) - they're
just not there. Have I missed a setting or ...

I am trying to help my boss find a resource for the Washington DC area
with the following skills.  Is there any groups or Mac specific job
boards or other help you can offer as to how we may find someone?
Need Mac publishing consultant with the following:

I am trying to compile the boost libraries (http://www.boost.org) on my
Mac Tiger OS, using gcc-3.3.  But I get errors:
$ ./bjam -sTOOLS=darwin stage
cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-fcoalesce-templates"

I need a small application that would be the equivalent of this Applescript:
on run (theURL)
  tell application "web browser"
    <<event WWW!OURL>> theURL given <<class WIND>>:0