Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2007

I'm tinkering with some Genetic Algorithm stuff, and in order to see
what's happening at the most basic level, I'd like to look at some
assembler. Could anybody show me a simple line of code that I can
paste in to Xcode?

i would like to know what is the most popular way in the Mac world to
protect/licensing a commercial software
What i need a 3rd part software to
protect/licensing my product (not just the installation process),

I'm obviously missing something here. but I have a simple Objective-C
program which is generating a bus error on the line with the [pool
release] command.
/* upbcopy.m */

The only reference I could find on this was here:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2003/Aug/msg01381.html
But when I do this, it crashes. I have an NSDictionary only containing
CFStrings. This should work, correct? The docs say objects conforming to

I'm trying to learn Objective C, and am running into a problem I don't
seem to be able to solve by myself.
The following test code compiles OK, but when I run it, it gives me a
bus error.  I've indicated where it prints, and where it seems to

Using intel assembler I can create a jump table also to call procedure in
this way:
       mov  eax, 2    ;progressive number of procedure in jump table
       call dword ptr [MyProcTable][EAX*4]

the question: what would be the most efficient method for
saving/reloading windows positions and dimensions so that the next time
the application is run, the windows would be reloaded with the saved
dimensions and positions?

I am trying to read pixels from a quicktime movie on windows. I am aparently
loading the movie and creating a matching 32 bit per pixel gworld and
finding an interesting time, but the pixels are white.
I am very new to this and may have overlooked something important. It seems

How could we set the maximum lenght of a TERec structure.
We want to set the maximum lenght for extended-edit type in mac to suppose
32767,
How should we do it ?

MACOSX.Application is build in COCOA C. We are using WebView object to
load a .swf file.Now, one third party application is used for desktop
sharing .
When the actual desktop sharing happen memory of our application is

Is there a way to have a pane in my app that works just like the
finder? I've seen that you can bundle TextEdit-like features into your
program with ease. I know Finder is carbon, not cocoa, but is it
possible to do this with Finder as well?

(hope i hit the right newsgroup...) i wrote a shellscript to convert
indesign xml-code to html. as i don't want to confront our users with
the terminal, i'm now looking for a way (droplet?!) to integrate it into
finder. any hints are appreciated.

I'm trying to compile the code below and I'm getting the following
error.
PatternWrapper.mm:57: error: request for member 'str_pattern' in 'self-

Other than using NSProcessInfo and using 'HOME' env key, or the 'USER'
key to use the unix getpwnam() routine, isn't there an object method
that can return this more directly?

Bonsoir,
The doc in INSTALL-SOURCE says :
" 1. Add a login user and group for `mysqld' to run as:
         shell> groupadd mysql