Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / March 2007

C++ is different from C, because C was built to execute algorithms and
solve mathematical problems quickly.  C++ is designed to work with
special data types that hold strings of abstract information.  It can
take abstract data types and hold them in containers, that allow you

I just got my first mac (a macbook), after using Linux for many
years.  Seems like it takes a lot of effort to get up an environment
that can build things, such as open source packages.  I've downloaded
Xcode and installed some packages that looked like they made sense,

Im not very experiencede with Mac. I have a windows app (written
withQt/C++) that I want to port to Mac Os X.
As far as I can see all the (best?) current programming tools
(compiler, linker, make utility etc )for the job are included in

I look in the internet and some printed documentation for a example
using NSOutileView/NSTreeController, but i cant find nothing that help
me.
In past proyects  I has been using NSTableView/NSArrayController, but

We currently use some code like this:
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   InetInterfaceInfo   myInetInterfaceInfo;
   OTInetGetInterfaceInfo( &myInetInterfaceInfo, adaptorInterface );

I am trying to incorporte this handler into an Applescript studio
application using X code. I understand from the documentation that
this is a low level handler and that the Plain Text Editor sample uses
the hook.

I want to add automaticaly my last current svn version to my
CFBundleGetInfoString.
Ex: 'v1.1 build 101' for the 101 version of my app.
Because the last version is adding AFTER commit operation : how can I do ?

I have the position and the 16bits pixel value of an image and I would
like to draw into a window. I´ve read about Quartz but I don´t
understand how use createimage from the pixels and so draw the image.
Can you show me a way to do this. I´ve read that printing pixel by

I have tried to implement the 'save file' action in a simple
calculator program to no avail.  The program works fine, but when the
encodeWithCoder method is called the variables used all have their
initial values - not the current value of the variable.  Anyone know

this may not be an appropriate place to ask but does anybody have a
pre-made library or routine to download a file from a user?
i'm writing a file upload routine to be installed into my
cgi-executables folder temporarily for somebody in alaska to send me a

I've used both sliders and level indicators but when I try to use them
in a table/outline view, I always get zero for the value; Initially I
set them up as this in a subclass of NSTableColumn:
  NSLevelIndicatorCell * cell = [[[NSLevelIndicatorCell alloc]

I've added ClickInTitleBar method (overloaded) in order to catch click
in title bar to my view class. But nothing happens.
Could you please let me know how to hook this type of click correctly?
I'm using Power Plant and user interfaces (NIBs) created in Interface

I have a Mac Powerbook (Al, Mac OS X 10.4.8) and I cannot get VPATH to
work in make so I wonder what I am doing wrong.  I am trying to compile
a file (general.c) in a directory listed in VPATH, but I get an error
that the file cannot be found.  loulibs.mak is my makefile in a

I've encountered a strange problem. I've laid out a small GUI (window
with several buttons), connected things in IB, added a little code to
override the keyDown: so that I can take control over what keys are used
to cycle the focus/firstResponder, made the first button the

I'm in the process of trying to create a tie in for Mac of a library
I've written for Windows and Linux.
The purpose of the API is pretty simple, it just wraps up the platform
specific details of instancing a window, creating an OpenGL context