Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / November 2006

How can detect a file without extension is font file or not in cocoa?
or any other
I tried with
CFStringRef fontNam=CFStringCreateWithCString(NULL,[getfile

I'm trying to port some code from BSD to OSX, and I'm wondering if
anyone can help me with something.  This code relied heavily on the BSD
SCSI interface in camlib.h (as well as cam/scsi/scsi_message.h and
cam/scsi/scsi_pass.h) to work with a CD drive.

Hey all,
i'd like to add a build phase into my target.
in case of build success create a dmg archive of the resulting app and
put that in the dist folder of the project.

Hi, I'm trying to have a text label (i.e. NSTextField) display an URL
that should be clickable.  I found several examples and explanations on
how to do this for a textview.  I even tried to override the field
editor for my textfield, but it seems the field editor's text storage

I'm using an X11 app (Sylpheed) and instead of lauchning it by xterm,
i'd like to design a tiny wrapper clickable from Finder side.
Do you know of such example ?
I think this could be done using AppleScript ?

Can anybody tell me where __va_start is declared in the Unix headers
used by XCode and which of the more common higher level headers
would be the most likely ones to bring in this declaration? I am in the
process of porting all my CW code over to XCode (yeah, yeah, I know

Hello world,
I have written a program, which uses QT as GUI and which runs happily
in OS X and Linux. I can start the program in Ubuntu using
./myApp

Is any way  to capture mouse event from a NSOutLineView
What r to be done to get right mouse click event in textview
Can somebody give me some hint ?
Excuse my language

I want to base64-encode a username and password (i.e. I want it as a
string), and I thought it would be cool to do that with CF functions
(so I don't have to write the whole base64 stuff, or download some
hacked-together library for that).

It must be a full moon or something.  GCC keeps throwing bus errors.  I
restart compiling and it continues but a while later it throws it
again.  And LD throws segmentation faults.  Does anyone know why this
is happening?

I´m using some cammeras (at this moment isigth and usb cammera) which
I preview their captures. I would like to be able to change the imput
source of each sequence graber asocite to a graphic world where I
preview the imput videos. How can I do this? I´ve tryed  video

I have codewarrior 8.0 installed on 10.4.2 OSX G5 machine. Codewarrior
compiles applicaiton successfully, but cant debug it.Is shows error
message
"Can't debug this executable because no appropriate debugger nub can be

is there an API to create a XCode project ?
I need a way to hold my makefile based project in sync with XCode.
Or is there another way to create a XCode project out of a makefile ?
Thanks, Lothar

I'm trying to find a way to reliably find the full path of a running
process. Currently, i'm sending a sysctl down (mib = {CTL_KERN,
KERN_PROCARGS, <pid>, 0, 0, 0}) to get the args the process was started
with to find the path, but that is not always reliable. For example, a

Hi, There!
I've ported some sources of project to XCode, but when I trying to
launch in debbuger GetCursor returns NULL, I've learned that it
deprecated now...