Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2007

Im trying to use carbon to make a small app for an image gallery im
working on. All this app needs to do is watch for new images to appear
in a directory, then possibly rotate them and create a thumbnail, then
move everything to another directory. The problem is... I have pretty

I am building a very simple cocoa app for intel and ppc architectures. This
app is linked against a 3rd party libssl.a library. This lirary is added to
the project and included in the target. The library search path is correctly
entered.

has anyone stumbled upon something as per subject?
I need to write support for legacy IFF files and it would be nice not to
have to dig the net for the original EA's C sources (are those still
available somewhere in original form?) and try to adapt them.

I had created a one menu extra and it displaying properly on the menu
extra bar
.
but the problem is after drag and drop it does not remove from the

I have a question concerning CoreData tutorials. All those I found
assume that I have one NIB file with NSAppDelegate (generated by XCode)
and I bind NSArrayControllers to it. Now, when I have several NIB files
taking care of various aspects of the application, loaded as-needed ...

In Cocoa ObjC I can create a string from a file using
'stringWithContentsOfFile', and can then  build an array from it with
'componentsSeparatedByString'.
Is there a way to reverse this, ie write a file based on either a string or an

for a project I need to link in a rather large directory of static
libraries. My question is, what is the best solution to do this? For
now, I manually add -l entries in the "Other Linker Flags" field in
the build options, but this doesnt seem to be very elegant. Is there a

How can I control the name of the output file of a static library
project on a per-configuration basis? I'm using Xcode 2.4.1.
I know the usual way is to use the same name in per-configuration
folders, but I am supposed to put everything in a single folder and use

my database is set up as such (first record only shown, the rest use an
index instead of 0 for objectAtIndex):
     [myRoomArrayData addObject: [[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init]
autorelease]];

I am porting an application from Windows to Mac. I've noticed that a
modal dialog in Mac (i.e. QDialog displayed using exec(); called
"sheet" in Mac, right?) does not have close button in the system menu.
I can still close this dialog by pressing "Esc" or from the dock, but,

i'm not to this point yet but i'll ask now and look up the answers
posted later.
where can i get a simple all-in-one regular expression matcher?  i
downloaded at least ten versions of regex and each one has multiple

This contest is open to everyone who knows C++.  To enter all you need
to do is take the Boyer-Moore String Search Algorithm, as it is
written in C, and make the fastest running C++ program you can out of
it.  I'm going to try to write code myself, and if you can beet me,

Anyone know of one? I tried the Connection framework I found on
Sourceforge, but I can't get it to work and no help from the author. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA

I'm new to programming for the Mac, just started using Xcode, Cocoa
and Objective C. I'm trying to make a task manager like application in
which I want to have a list of all the applications and the SHA1 hash
of their executable.

Anybody know how to make the command key symbol? (I want to label one
of my buttons with the cmd-key equivalent, as per menus.)
I've tried every option and shift-option key, and also looked in the
Special Symbols box.