Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / January 2007

I'm very new with Objective-C, cocoa and programming altogether. I was
just wondering if there is a way you can do an if, else statement to
test if a stored variable has an integer assigned to it.
I want it to do this:

Hello NG,
is there a smooth way to invert the opening/closing motion of a
NSDrawer in a way that not the drawer changes its position but the
parent window changes its size?

I've been looking at Apple's developer site for hints on how to build
FTP support within an application. I was directed to CFFTPSample and the
CFFTPStream class, but I'm finding this inadequate. I need to be able to
carry on a dialog with the FTP server and send commands like ...

Hallo NG,
I ask myself how to select a item with a level > 0.
If the item is not expanded -indexOfItem will give you a -1.
In my app I go up in the structure to the parent items until it

I'm debugging a project written in C++. It comprises six dylibs and an
executable. The dylibs are not loaded dynamically, they are linked to
at compile time, and hence alll loaded everytime the executable is
debugged.

Is there some command I can use to open Safari (or anything else) from
within a Java app? [for the record, here is how it can be done in
*nux: Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd); which typically
opens the default browser]. Thanks in advance if anyone knows.

I'm fairly new to Cocoa programming, but so far I've been impressed on
how much can be accomplished with just a little code.
I'm writing a document based application using CoreData. When the user
fills in a field (callsign) I'd like to have a quick query run against

is there any xgettext (or equivalent) program with a GUI for the Mac
available?
Hartwig

I've transitioned an NSTableView to an outline; it displays just fine
and is 'rootless' so far so good.
But what about sorting, is there an NSOutlineView equivalent for my
existing (which ain't being called btw) method

ok, i found out that all sounds MUST be played in the main thread for
some reason so here's what i've done
detatch a thread that scans for the sound file and then loads it into an
array

I want to add a popup menu to an NSTableView, like what's in mail.app
when one right clicks on an email. Are there any specific tutorials for
this available? Or any suggestions about the basics on this.

is there a way to detect the window position of a window on a second
monitor or for that fact, detect that it's on the second monitor at all.
i got this in an im from one of my users
also got to figure how to get YASSE to remember a window is on a second

I have created a smart group that is valid for all projects. Now, I
would like to get rid of this smart group from the drop down menu. How
do I do that?
Hartwig

If I've scribbled on the the screen and want to force a redraw of
everything, is there a way I can do that from within a program?
A CG call, or a carbon call?  Under OS9 it's something like
PaintBehind().

I´m developing a Carbon app but I need to use QT libraries, is it
possible include the QT´s frameworks in the Carbon project like I do
with Quicktime.framework or something like that?
Thanks.