Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / May 2006

I'm getting an 'Undefined symbols' link error in xcode and i'm trying
to figure out why this is the case for this particular project.  The
specific functions listed as undefined in the Xcode Build Results
window are included in the project in an included c file.  They are

Hello NG,
can someone explain me ( a non graphic professional) how I can get the
glossy effect for the default.png for a dashboard widget ?
I would like to make the graphic with gimp if that is possible.

I'm porting my UNIX Motif applications to wxWidgets, but I've some
users who are asking me for an early access to the OSX version of my
apps. I didn't finish the port to wxWidgets yet, but I can compile them
with OpenMotif. However, the look is too old-fashioned.

Instead of being cautious like usual, I just went ahead and upgraded my
version of Xcode to the new 2.3.  Now my debugging is essentially
non-existent.
I have a dylib project which I debug using a custom executable (a

   I've recently updated a component (an audio plug-in) to compile under
XCode on the new IntelMac machine.  The resulting bundle looks just like the
version I have on my PPC Mac (as far as bundle structure and names are
concerned, at least).  But when the plug-in runs, it fails ...

First post on this board with a question relating to my first venture
into xcode, I have a little bit of programming experience on the
windows side, im new to macs as well so please go easy on me..
I have system 10.3.9 and am using xcode version 1.5, the question

I'm having a recurring problem when moving several Xcode projects from
one Mac (and username) to another - Xcode complains it can't access the
Frameworks folder in the user's domain on the old Mac.
The problem is, I'm not (any longer) linking against any framework or

I am not a C/C++ developer, so apologies if any of this is total newb.
I represent a company which is looking to compile some legacy Mac
source. It appears that this source uses Cafederic BasePant. It also
appears that these libraries are no longer available.

i'm writing a routine that determines sunrise and sunset in an online game
but i need to know the user's local time zone to offset the calculations by
yes, u saw "systemtimezone" but no sample code that shows how everything's supposed to work.

Hello NG,
I'm wondering why I can not create a dashboard project in XCode ?
Is there a special reason why there is not such a template or am I
blind ? It would be nice if I could create a blank widget here.

I'm searching for technical notes about MacDraw II file format, because
I've to write a converter to translate file into dxf.
But nobody knows the MacDraw II format, only the MacDraw (1) Format
Somebody can help me?

Hi all. I've been away from development for quite awhile and am looking to
brush up my programming skills (unix, C++, Java) so as to reenter the job
market.
Rather than muck up the windows system I use for everyday tasks, I was

Folks,
I recently put up a new C tutorial on my web site. It's still missing
a few chapters, but if any of you are new to Mac programming and want
to learn C, it may be of interest to you. It's intended to eventually

can anybody recommend me a tool that will automatically detect
memory leaks in my c++ code compiled with g++. i'm looking for
something similar to what bcheck or dbx does [when you do
'check -leaks']. if it can identify actual lines in code where

My app has a window with a myView, an AppController and my own class to
read and write my data files.
The AppController has buttons to open the data file and manipulate the
data and has myView as an outlet to display the data. It's similar to