Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / May 2007

OS X 10.4.9
How do you get the boot time on OS X using C? The getutxent() function
exists, but it doesn't do anything useful since it appears that the
utmpx file is size 0.

I am sending some objects over DO to a thread (server) as shown below.
In setPatterns: I am sending an NSMutableArray of objects over DO and
my encodeWithCoder: is being called, all so far seems correct.
    [server setConfiguration:config];

I'm a developer, mostly linux developer, and I've just ported an
application (Qt based, using OpenGL) to a G5 ppc mac box. It works
without problems, but now I'd like to run the same binary+libs on an
intel-based mac. Based on my limited knowledge, this should be

What is the best freeware Mac OSX installer now?  I have
a Java console application with several subdirectories.  It looks
just like a regular application even though written in Java.
I would like something fairly easy to use but that gives professional

I am going to build an installer for deploying my application on Mac.
During the installation, the installer has to perform some custom
actions (to be specific, it has to run a tool which would install the
application certificates into the Keychain). In Windows, for example,

i was wondering why my code wasn't working properly SOMETIMES (in a
large array, replacing all of say 2176 with 10000123 wouldn't always get
them all.  i'm certain i'm doing everything right and counting every
record but sometimes it simply doesn't get replaced and was thinking ...

I'm looking for an API that would let me access calendar info from
both iCal and Entourage. Is there one? If not, any suggestions on how
to access that data? I've found some articles about doing this with
Ruby, but I am looking for an ObjC solution, if possible.

Sometimes XCode shows me where the compile errors are in the a file by
putting a thin red line in the scroll bar.  Sometimes it doesn't.
This seems to be consistent within a single project.  For one project
XCode either does this or doesn't.  I really like this feature and I

Hello, all!
I have an iBook G3 900MHz that began life as a Jaguar box and then got
upgraded to a Tiger box (skipped Panther entirely).
I have two books _Learning Carbon_ and _Learning Cocoa with Objective-C_

Can any Mac developer tell me if you can process an image in Core
Image whose size is larger than the video card memory can hold? What
is the performance gain vs. CPU in that case? Thanks a lot.

Try and catch a signal!
I have a piece of code that tries to open a file that is supposed to
be on a network mount.
If the server is not mounted my application (Written in C++ as a

I respond to events in my main view and subviews, but now I want my
controller to get notified of mouseDown events, even though the main
view has already handled them.
I thought about making the controller a subclass of NSResponder, but

I write an application in XCode 2.4.1 in C++ (Universal Binary). During
runtim I have to know which processor is installed in my Mac. I mean is it a
Intel or a Motorola processor?
- How can I detect that in C++?

I have a standard Document type of Cocoa application. My document
windows have a TextView that I positioned the way I want it in
Interface builder. I believe that it automatically creates its own
NSLayoutmanager, as well as textContainer and textStorage when the

I start my network thread and detach it using detachNewThreadSelector:
after creating the NSPort's and NSConnection. When I send a command
over my 'DO' from the main process to my new server process, I can
verify that the new command made it and see things happening in the