Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / January 2006

Im trying to get a list of files within a specified directory and
keep getting a file not found error whenever I try to get the ID of th
directory. Any ideas anyone? Heres the code...
short vRefNum=0;

There seems to be several serial port monitors available under Windows
(http://www.hhdsoftware.com/sermon_details.html), but I am having
trouble finding one that will run under MacOSX 10.3.9 or 10.4.x.
Any suggestions?

can i do image acquisition in carbon.. i want to know whether i can
do image acquisition in mac os x with carbon...
please help me with an answer as soon as possible...any one
Jana

Is it possible to compile libstdc++.a for 10.4 from source?
I find it a BIG limitation that Apple stopped shipping it and only supports
libstdc++.dylib.
I have an application which contains a static library that users must link

I am moving some of my tools to Mac OS X from OS/2.  I have figured out
how to make them work with as a Cocoa application by using XCode and
the Interface Builder and writing a glue code class extending NSObject.
Amazed at how simple that was.

Is there a way to measure a processor speed? Say if I knew I were using
an  'x' mhz system, this could be used to provide consistent behavior
across systems.
I ask because in a hack I'm writing, using animation, its performance

I was wondering if anybody could give me some advice on how to start
learning to program for the Mac OS, starting from scratch. Meaning, I
have absolutely no programming experience at all.
I have XCode and Webobjects installed, and have purchased about 5 books

It's well known that a number like 0.1 cannot be represented exactly
using a binary respresentation so i wonder why i get the following in
gcc 4.0 under 10.4
float f;

I have a TIFF image in my nib file's Images tab, and I can acquire that
image and "composite" it into an NSImage object.  But what I really
want to do is copy it into an NSBitmapImageRep that I have pre-created
and defined to my own specifications.  This seems to be impossible,

The advice we've received on this topic from recent posts
has been very helpful and I have made some progress.
I got a sample display program going on Mac OSX 10.4.2
with a Radeon 9600 Pro 256 MB, with OpenGL calls to

I'm fiddling with screensavers and in my "animateOneFrame" method I'm
using "m_string = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:" So I'm initializing
the member variable m_string each time. Should I be doing this? Do I
need to dealloc somewhere - when the screen saver quits perhaps?

I need something like finder plugin to make Macosx Finder to navigate
my own file system (zip file system?)
In Windows XP, when you double click zip files, you can explore the
contents of the zip files without 'mounting' really. It is just windows

Apple has an article (sample code? technote? MacTech article?)
describing their assertion mechanism -- Check, NCheck, Assert, etc. Does
anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't seem to find the article.

Is there any sample code to make a full screen app? No menu bar and no
dock. The only code I found is 3 years old and doesn't seem to work
under Tiger.
Thanks,

I wrote applications for Mac from 1985 till 1999, at which point the
dot-bomb forced me to redirect. I have been on the Dark Side for the
past 6 years.  I finally have a chance to get back into Mac programming
again, and plan on working through "Learning Cocoa with Ojective-C" this