Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / March 2007

I am puzzled by this warning in some programs. I am French and use a lot
of accented chars. Worse, although these accented chars get typed
correctly in my source code files, when they are sent programatically
for ex. to some TextField they appear as garbage.

i've got a annoying issue with xcode 2.4 (10.4.8).
I put a number of header files (templates etc.) in a subdirectory of
my project and added that to the project. Everything compiles fine,
but xcode keeps making copies of the files from the subdirectory to

i am new to cocoa programming, so forgive me if this is a bit of a
newbie question. i would like to have a timer in my main application
which would fire after X seconds and would show a new window
displaying some text data, which would hide itself again after another

I'd like to tie keyboard input to my scrolling, so I can create line
scrolling or page scrolling using the arrow keys, page-up and page-down
keys, etc.  It seems like there should be an easy way to do this. . .  
But I haven't yet figured it out.

In my main document window I have a large map in a NSScrollView, and
there's another inspector-type window which shows a smaller
"satellite's eye view" of it.  It draws an outline showing which part
of the main map is currently visible.  When the user scrolls to a

I would like to use my sourceforge.net cvs area for my project but
honestly don't know the first thing about cvs other than it stores
copies of your project and allows others to help working on your project.
i would like to select a menu item or click a button to send my project

I can't seem to figure out how to do this.  What are the Cocoa equivalents
of
i = ascii(s$)
s$ = char(i)

I want to tun Preflight.txt as preflight script using Package maker.
Script contains
sudo osascript -e 'tell appllication "Finder"' \
-e 'open "Macintosh/Users/Test.app"' \

I'm not a programmer, but I have a bit of experience writing short
programs for other platforms.
Basically, I want to write a little program that will allow a user to
run FixupResourceForks (located in /System -> Library ->

I am wondering how to upgrade to gcc version 4.0 or later (without breaking
anything of current version), if I currently have Xcode 1.5 and gcc version
3.3 on os X 10.3.9
I looked around for it, and could not find a solution for it for OS X. I

Currently, i have a routine that when somebody selects a certain menu
item, it sends the finder a request for it to open the file.  should i
need to compile it first or should i not need it?  this routine works on
my machine.

I am trying to learn and use hash maps/sets. I have gcc version 3.3, and
Xcode 1.4 installed on os X 10.3.9, and I have hash_map.h, and other files.
I am wondering if this is up to date, or should I install something else
before I start to use it? I read somewhere  about ...

(I'm posting this here in the hopes that someone here has set up a CVS
pserver on Mac OS X for storage of development sources.)
I'm attempting to set up a cvs pserver on Mac OS X 10.4.
I've installed cvs-1.11.22.tar.gz with the config line:

Really, pheraps some questions are not too usual... :)
I'm a programmer and I created a popular tool for windows platform.
This tool regards level editor for tomb raider games, to create custom
adventure for tomb raider engine.

I am trying to learn and use hash maps/sets. I have gcc version 3.3
installed on os X, and I have hash_map.h, and other files.
I am wondering if this is up to date, or should I install something else
before I start to use it? I read somewhere  about hash_map/set being