Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / December 2005

In my applications, I need  functions
btowc(), wcslen(), wcscpy() locaed in wchar.h.
Follow is some of test code I just wrote in my header named 't.h',
#include <wchar.h>

A week or few ago, I asked about grabbing and/or stuffing a pixel's RGB
value out of/into a pixmap, and got information on Set|GetCPixel().
Great information. Quite useful. Also got advice that it was likely to
be too slow for my purpose (VMD) due to various steps involved in

Does anyone know of any book or site with sample projects that
demonstrate working key-value coding & observing with an
NSArrayController object connected to a CoreData Entity (i.e, a
"table") using just code, without clicking the bindings flags in

Is there a generic copyFile API available on mac which can take care of
all kinds of FSRefs(network and local) ?
FsCopyFile routine in MoreFilesX.cpp seems to be converting FSRefs to
FSSpecs first.

I would like to compile some open source software on my MacOSX but for
that I need gcc, make and such kind of tools which are not installed.
Where can I find all these tools ?
Thanks

I'm having a problem with the order of initialization of global objects
within my project. All my source is in C++ and I'm using Xcode 2.2.
I have a class which defines only static members and methods. All the
declarations are made in the header and the definitions in the cpp

Most of the time opendir work fine but I get a problem with this
C string pathname (French CD volume name):
Finder-> Un homme dexception 1 de 2
Terminal-> Un homme d???exception 1 de 2

I would announce my new version of lbDMF 0.6.0 - a multiplatform
programming framework.
It contains sample applications and updated documentation. The GUI
sample is aimed to be

I am porting a specialized video plugin to OS/X.  This is a
multithreaded plugin that runs under Safari and Firefox, using the
Netscape API.
To render the video, I have a YUv image that I blit to a graphics port

With X.4, I want use the new NSDateFormatter behaviour (it works better
with user preferences). But I have a problem.
At the nib opening, I'm doing :
dateFormatter=[dateField formatter];

I have a project (C++, OpenGL SDL) that i made with XCode (v2.0).
Although I select Deployment build, the build window reports that it's
using Optimization level "O0" and debug symbols:on.
I tried going to the project styles window and set optimization level

We are developing an application to set proxies. We are using System
Preferences APIs for it. And here is a very surprising problem. If we
compile application (we have tried application and tool targets fo
carbon) on Mac 10.2, it is working very fine on Mac OS 10.2 and 10.3.

I've hit a "need to do it" concept that I can't find an obvious
Toolbox/CarbonLib way to cope with.
Long story short, I need/want to programmatically do the equivalent of
"de-Turnerization" - Turner put color in the black-and-white frames of

I downloaded and compiled pine via Fink.
Everything works, except trying to view an attachment or URL.  When I do,
pine says
RegisterProcess failed (error = -50)

I am in the midst of writing a java servelet that I'd like to
communicate with another process via CFMessagePort or similar mechanism
with reasonable speed.
I'd like to avoid JNI if possible, and wonder if there's already