Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / October 2006

Hello, everyone!
I'm a newbie to mac and I'm just learning applescript. I'm currently
writing a script to activate monitor duplication in system preferences,
launching front row, and then changing it back. The part I'm having

i need to create an applescript able to understand if a machine is PPC
or Intel based.
How can i do?
Thanks in advance

I'm trying to compile ImageMagick on OS X 10.4.8 on a new Macbook Pro,
but I can't seem to get it to compile with JPEG support.  I installed
libjpeg, but the configure script for ImageMagick still doesn't pick it
up.  Does anyone have any ideas that might help me with this?

I have an application which consist of some static libraries (*.a) created
either by me or 3rd parties. I often face the problem though that the
libraries are getting out of date. This usually happens if I copy them or
put them into version control.

Currently, i use the following:
[tmp1 setString: [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL: [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://www.SomeWebSite.com/"] encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding error: nil]];
is there a way to set it to a timeout of 1-2 seconds if the website doesn't respond in that period ...

C equivalent of cp, cpmac or ditto ?
Does such thing exist?

    Has anybody noticed an extreme delay (1 month) in receiving any
PGP type encrypted e-mail sent to you or sent out. The situation seems to
be intermittent, as some are quick, and others are well over 1
month,.......while there is no pattern of delay that I have noticed to

I am new to the mac development environment and having problems running
gdb on mac x86. I am trying to step a single instruction with stepi but
it is behaving like continue. Is this a known problem with gdb on mac?
I am compiling with -ggdb and I am able to view the next instruction

I co-maintain a library which uses OpenGL to synchronize screen updates
to the Vertical Blanking Loop (VBL).
I currently have two problems with OpenGL on Mac OS X for Intel.
1) On both Mac OS X (for PPC) and Linux, we observe the following

Sometimes I write tedious wrapper shim C for Mac OS X:
#include <IOKit/IOKitLib.h>

I have a problem with porting to XCode.
In CW code compiles well. But in XCode I've got the following:
error: macro "check" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 1
In code "check" is a macro, and virtual member of class.

I would like to have several executables within the same project. Is
this possible? Two seperate projects with a common library is not too
handy since the purpose of the executables would be to test the common
code in different contexts.

I am a novice programer (Pascal and Basic in HS). I am interested in
creating a card game that is a variationof canasta. I know noone will
make a this game for the mac so If i want it I will need to make it.
The first qauestion is what programing language should I explore?

I am a novice programer (Pascal and Basic in HS). I am interested in
creating a card game that is a variationof canasta. I know noone will
make a this game for the mac so If i want it I will need to make it.
The first qauestion is what programing language should I explore?

I hate the weird ones.  I've got two XCode 2.4 projects.  The two are
identical except that one uses source trees and the other doesn't.
(I'm preparing for SCM).  The original project compiles and links
perfectly.  The second (soure-tree version) compiled and linked a few