Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / May 2007

I have encountered a strange (to me) problem with keyboard loop. I have
several buttons placed as subviews of two NSBox-es, which are in turn
located on a NSView. I set the keyboard loop properly (multiple times
checked) in IB but whenever I reach the last button in one NSBox,

My app looks at the current date and if it's past the registration date
then it shows an alert box and quits. How do I send a quit message to
the app?
Thanks,

Hello group,
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the selection made on the left. Right now I use overlapping NSViews laid

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I use PBGetCatInfoSync to het CInfoPBRec .
i wrote following code
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I looked for information about this question in the net for 3 weeks but with
no result.
Pheraps there is no answer for this question, anyway before resigning I try
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Examining the file results always the same size of 10250 bytes (12
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i have XCode IDE.
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Is PPob resource open with XCode ?
or

My program has to call another program in executation time, how could
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Carbon. May I make a thread to call the other program as it is done in
Unix with a fork?

I just wrote a small application help me use the keyboard to move and
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response to certain key presses. This works fine except that there are

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php/apache server 2 environment up on my MacBook Pro (Intel) with OS
10.4. I am having installation (read:build) problems with libpng.  The

I'm using gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367),
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When trying to develop a portable C99 program using 64-bit ints, I'm
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A link to the complete list of Xcode switches would be nice.