Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / November 2005

When you hit an RSS feed with Safari it does a redirect to a feed: URL.
But something funny's going on. If I serve a static page from my machine
at http://localhost/~ratkins/example.xml, Safari tries to redirect it to
feed://example.xml/. Anyone know what's going on?

I will try to make small application for POS with MySQL in background. What
is best to use for client part? For the first time everything is on just
one MACMini.
1.    Apache+PHP, and web access

I have a doubt using Xcode with CVS. Is it possible? I'm looking for a
way to do this for days, but all that I found need to use the
Terminal.. So, if The Xcode is really a great IDE it should do this by
itself.. Need I do as I was doing when working in Linux console?

Context: 68k C programming. Target platforms: System 6, 7 and later if
it happens to work.
Compiler: THINK C
I've been trying several methods to accomplish a simple goal which uses

I am writing a simple game.  I would like to let two (or perhaps more)
computers hook up into a network to play the game human against human
instead of merely human against computer.  I did this once with a game I
wrote a while back, but that was OS 9 and I used Open Transport, ...

This is another point where no matter what I do, I feel as dumb as dirt...
Graphics on the Mac is certainly not my strong suit, and the client's app
is OS8.5.1, using MacApp. As always, any pointers greatly appreciated.
The challenge:

I'm porting some C++ code to the mac (and linux, but doing the port on
the Mac, thank goodness) that uses a lot of references, especially
passing const references to functions. I'm making some headway getting
used to Xcode, but one thing has me stumped - how to display the value

I have detected a different behaviour between Windows and Mac OS X
shared object unloading order.
Using a static class object for each shared object showed me the order
of loading and unloading,

I am really new with Mac OS X and been running it for almost a year now
but have noticed a spike in Kernel Task in the Activity Monitor and
know that isnt supposed to be doing that I dont think and it holds onto
about .80 of my CPU usage at most times.  Is this normal or what can I

I'm trying to port some code to the Mac - but it's years since
I last used a Mac, so I can't RTFM until I find out *which*
manual to start with. Honestly, I expect to be doing a lot of
reading/catching up - but I haven't a clue where to start.

I have written a Carbon bundle, which should be loaded by a any app.
The bundle displays a StandardAlert with
OSStatus err = CreateStandardAlert( ..., &dialog );
...

In my Carbon app, I have a window with a bunch of buttons and other
controls, and an area which I want to be a user pane or custom control,
so that I can draw into it and get mouse moved and mouse up/down
events.

I hope someone can help me, I believe this is probably a simple
question for someone knowlegable. I am using the transcript scripting
language to transfer files to and from  an memory  card. I have
complete my app except one troubling piece. I want to manipulate the

I had in mind a fairly straight forward string replacement app,
substituting phonetic for alphabetic spellings.
I've done this with applescript and a couple of text editors, but the
execution time was horrible.

The last time I did any programming it was on dos or university
mainframes ( Multics, Univac 1100 ). One of the great truths that
helped me then was that memory is always a single dimensioned array of
byte.