Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / May 2006

is it possible to create FILE TYPE (such as "TEXT") and CREATOR CODE
metadata on HFS+ for a bunch of files using command-line tools? I have
this question since I often download a lot of ASCII files from an FTP
server which appear as generic documents on the mac, since they have

I need to display a message when the user quits
"applicationShouldTerminate" seems to be what I need but how do you use
it?
"windowShouldClose" works OK for the red traffic light.

I'm working in Mac mini.
trying to find the correct path of an application that i have created.
I used FSSpec() function to find the Application Path produce an
error code -35 ie. volume not found . How i can pass the parameters

I am developing a document-based cocoa application. I want my
application not to launch (& display a error message) when a user trys
to launch the application, if it is already launched by some other
user. Is there a way to do this? How to do it ?

When I Copy/Paste Rich Text into a awt TextArea it behaves differently on
Windows XP as compared to Mac.
For eg. visit the following webpage
http://www.javacoffeebreak.com/java108/java108.html

I'm building a C++ binary, and I'm wondering whether the 'dead code
stripping' feature of GCC is safe enough to enable by default.
Since it isn't on by default, I guess Apple thinks it's not. (but those
project templates are moldy anyway)

I've pretty much given up on my old standby, OS/2, and now a devoted
and very happy Intel iMac user - but I miss a few things such as a
comprehensive all-in-one easy to use graphics viewer and editing
program like PMView (pmview.com).  This product comes in an OS/2 native

Is it possible to get mouse down event on a vertical scroll bar of a
NSScrollView and how?
Thanks

I am new to Mac's and fink, but I'm trying to install some software
that is supposed to be OK for OSX 10.4.  The ./configure script works
until it checks the version of GLib and complains that V2.0.0 is
required as a minimum.

I'm creating a 3D game and want to embed textures, sound files etc.
into the application bundle. My bundle looks like this:
MyGame.app
  Contents

In my application (cocoa objective-c) i have 2 main menus. (Say
MainMenu1 & MainMenu2). When no files are open, MainMenu1 is the
application main menu. When one or more files are open MainMenu2 is the
application main menu. I am able to switch between menus but the

What's the easiest (i.e least amount of code) way to generate an
NSImage with black text on a transparent background? It needs to be
done in code, as the text will be constantly changing.
(The last time I did any 2D graphics programming was in QuickDraw, not

I am attempting to communicate with bluetooth enabled scanner device,
for which i did try the following code to start communication with
device using bluetooth adapter. I did receive acknowledgement when i
run the same program from device but could not able to open the device

Everytime I open a pdf. file, it automatically saves it to my desktop.
I can't figure out how to stop it automatically saving files I don't
want saved.
I'm using an iMac with OX 10.2.

I'm reading data from the middle of a file and not sure which is correct
but both seem to work. (I've already moved the file pointer to the
offset - 'file' is the NSFileHandle*)
NSData* data = [NSData dataWithBytes:[file readDataOfLength:mylength]