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How to Open a Finder window showing the folder from the BSD directory path in Cocoa

I am new to the mac, what are some good sites / documents or books to
read.
What are c++ compilers are there for programming desktop apps the mac?

I want to show column separator lines in listview databrowser using
carbon. Is there any property in Interface Builder which turn on column
separator lines or is there any API in carbon through which this can be
accomplished.

I am building a plugin for a product with Xcode. In my code is a source
file with some symbols in it, which I link with into my bundle. I also
link with some Frameworks from the host application. One of those
Frameworks also happens to have the same symbols that I am linking with ...

I'm getting the error '#include nesting overflow' when trying to
compile a project in Codewarrior. I've read other posts about this
problem and have checked over and over again that every single one of
my header files has a '#pragma once' at the top. I've looked for

I see that the QuickTime player will recognize and play ".3gp" video
files from cell phones. However, when I try to open such a file with the
QT SDK, it doesn't recognize it as a valid video file.
What is the trick to reading these files using QT?

Quick question:
How do I compile a C++ source code into a .cgi using Project Builder?
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I have a Mach-O program that uses GetDiskFragment to load Carbon CFM
shared libraries and call functions in them. This all worked perfectly
in Panther and OS X versions before that. But in Tiger, GetDiskFragment
is actually throwing an exception when I attempt to load one of ...

How do you use processor specific compiler options when building a
universal binary?
For example the option: -mpowerpc-gpopt is giving me errors whenever
xcode starts building the i386 architecture.

     I have inherited class from CViewColumn. I placed An Add button
over the dialog, When I press Add button,  I am adding some new values
to the CLIstView
Say "Tom" and " 20year"

Xcode 2.2, Carbon Bundle app:
I just took a project that had been slowly growing, and had thus
accumulated many functions in one file, and broke it into a number of
files with functions grouped by similarity.  I have noticed now that when

MacCompanion online magazine has a series on Cross-Platform Frameworks
from a Mac programmer's perspective, and so far they have covered Qt,
wxWidgets and CPLAT.  Has anyone actually done a direct comparison of
these?  Are there any others?  I seem to recall hearing of one named

I'm trying to use a protocol class as a template parameter. The
protocol class defines its own types and methods for working with them.
The template class uses the types defined by the protocol and various
methods, however I get errors when trying to compile this in Xcode

I have an Applescript XCode project based on the Assistant sample. It
used to run fine on 10.2.8, but building it with XCode 2 seems to break
that.  It still runs fine under Tiger.
Any clues?  The part that won't run is the stub objective c

I have an Applescript XCode project based on the Assistant sample. It
used to run fine on 10.2.8, but building it with XCode 2 seems to break
that.  It still runs fine under Tiger.
Any clues?  The part that won't run is the stub objective c