Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2006

In XCode 1.5 I could set breakpoints in the source code windows of
library modules and they would work.  IN XCode 2.0 they no longer work.  
I set them, but they are ignored.  Breakpoints in the source code for
the executable work fine.

Hi, everyone:
 I use CFReadStreamCreateWithFTPURL function to create a
CFWriteStream,so that i can upload file to ftp server.
 But,the is a problem,when i call CFWriteStreamWrite function to

I would like to start programming for the Mac OS X environment, and in
particular with Cocoa and Objective-C using XCode. Being a
newcomer/newbie to the Mac world (I have bought a Mini a month ago) I
would like to ask you your suggestions about what books are worth to

Find is finding (in project and in single file find) but not displaying
where it found it. What pref or option did I accidentlly mess up to do
this? It's really p*ssing me off.
Thanks,

I need to re-package an application which I have the CD for and make it
available as a download.  What I would like is something similar to a
self extracting exe but of course exe for MAC.  What's the best way to
do this?  I'm currently testing DropDMG which will create it into a

Hello. I am an experienced programmer (www.chc-3.com) but have run into
a problem I need help with. I am programming on my new Mac Mini after
many years on Wintel. I am using the latest OS X and Xcode versions. I
am trying to compile/link a small program that dynamically links to an

This is somewhat off-topic, but I couldn't think of a better place to
ask the question...
I've been trying to get some command-line software working under
10.4 (latest version).  Most of it runs happily in terminal/bash.

i would like to list all files in a diretory that are of an image type.
So I get myself a NSDirectoryEnumerator like this:
NSDirectoryEnumerator *enumerator = [fileManager enumeratorAtPath:
pictDirectory];

I just got done reading Apple's documentation of Cocoa multithreading,
but I didn't find an answer to this basic question:
Are local variables re-created automatically for each thread?  In other
words, if I have an object method, or for that matter a plain, old, C

I am using table view to display the contents of my data source.
The table view has a check box.  When the user makes changes, my
underlying data source does not get the change.
What do i need to do to make the underlying data source update from

I'm using:-
data= [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[openPanel filename]];
In the Finder the file's length is 121,064 bytes but my data length is
47,692. After much messing about trying to find where I went wrong I

I'm writing a console application for Mac OS X and I would like to
expose some of my application objects for applescripting.
Are there any good examples, that shows how this could be done? The
only one I have found is MoreOSL (

I'm porting more code over to Xcode from Codewarrior and have run into
a new problem with template classes. I have a template class that is
derived from a template class derived from another non-template
class... so it is 3 levels deep. The first derived template class works

I am writing a program that works on files. I have added a service which
does show up in the services menu, but what I'd really like to do is add
it to the finder menu (e.g. the one you get when you click on the right
mouse button or hold ctrl and click on a powerbook). Both ...

I have an application bundle I created with an older version of
InstallAnywhere.  It almost works!  It looks like its loading, briefly
shows the application name on the menu bar, then quits.
Is there someway to trouble shoot this?  Can I start the app from the