Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2006

Is there a way to install XCode onto a disk that is not the boot disk for OS
X 10.4.x? I don't have much room on the boot partition yet I'd still like to
get started with XCode on a project I have in mind.
Dan Richardson

I'd like to colaborate with a MAC programmer to port an application I'm
writting onto a MAC platform.  The application's engine is all ANSI C
and the GUI is in QT, so those parts should work fine on Windows, Linux
and Mac.

ok, i may be dense but exactly where can i put in my initialization routine when i start an app?
i'm starting from a new xcode project, cocoa objective-c based project.
i tried once to initialize the stuff in the main.c file and it not only didn't work but it didn't even know the ...

My app creates about 20 to 30 files. As the filenames are generated
within the app is there a way to select a folder in which to save the
files rather than displaying a SavePanel for each file as I'm doing now?
Also, in my OpenPanel I'm trying to limit the selection to only ".pge"

We have some code which when recompiled in 10.4.5
with the same source and makefile as 10.3.9 runs
much slower.
We are interfacing a USB gaming joystick to some

I have an XCode project that runs fine on my system.  However, when I
send the source code to my client, he cannot link it.
He gets the line:
       warning -L: directory name (/Users/bh/SB/isync) does not exist

In my application I m creating a lot of files quickly and I m trying to
remove them just after that with remove(name);
But randomly, remove fails and return errno 89 (MacOS Error).
It seems that if I switch spotlight off either by modifying hostconfig

My app suite includes a background application providing an
NSStatusItem; which is likely to be running when a new version is being
installed. How can I quit and delete this application, so that I can
install and launch the new version later in the install script?

Hello NG,
in my software I use the cocoa WebView to browse message content.
I have recognized that it consumes a lot RAM when images are
displayed. It seems that this memory is not freed when I skip to the

I am new to Objecttive-C and I am trying to write a small app for
pracyice.  I am trying to popup an NSSavePanel and I am unable to type
in a filename.  Can someone help me out with this?  I have looked at
the apple documentation and I don't see what I am doing wrong.

Hi Group!
This sounds really silly to me, but I am banging my head on the wall
for too long now.
I am porting a Plugin (.dylib, Xcode) for a graphics application to

i'm trying to compile linux source on os X.
here's the link of the sources:
http://www.nomis52.net/?section=projects&sect2=artnet&page=libartnet
gcc failed first on an include (after, i don't know....)

i have now managed to get the my application running inside xcode. but
when i try to start it from finder or from the console the icon pops up
shortly and then disappears again.
i tried to add some fprintf debug messages. but they don't appear in

 I am looking for an example of a class who read a file named
"temp.txt" which is composed by rows as
10/12/20060102030405
using NSSTring, NSarray commands.

Does anyone  know of a good extended ascii font to use with Terminal?
So it correctly displsys extended ascii chracters when connected to a
bulletin board for example.
Thanks!