Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / May 2007

Up until now, I've been looping through my drawing animation, and the
logic behind it, from a single NSTimer. But what I'd like to do now is
seperate the two; have my logic update as often as possible from the
event loop (which outside of Cocoa means triggering it from an 'idle'

I'm trying to write an application that retrieves weather info and
displays it in the status bar. But, I'm having trouble finding internet
services that will provide the data. NOAA has a SOAP service, but it's
very unreliable actually, and has been down quite a bit due to ...

In an IB file (NodeIB) I have a self-contained NSBox containing
various controls for editing a particular class (NodeClass). I've also
made a 'NodeController' to handle these controls, and interface with
NodeClass. The object being to be able to easily re-use the class,

I see in packagemaker that you can set a minimum OS version for certain
packages but can you set a maximum somehow?
I want OSX 10.2.0 through 10.2.8 users to install version 1, 10.3.0
through  10.3.9 to install version 2, 10.4.0+ to install version 3,

First off, I am a newbie programmer... well, not even... I am a
"wannabe" programmer, so take it easy!
I am attempting to package an application using PackageMaker. So far
it works just as I want with the exception of adding security. I

Is is possible to use tooltips with NSAttributedStrings? I don't think
so judging by the docs, but I thought I'd ask.
TIA

Is there any other way to ask the compiler to treat .m files as
objective-C++, other than renaming them to .mm?
There's sometimes some confusion with Interface Builder when reading/
writing/merging classes as it only has the option of creating .m

I would like a window event handler to retrieve a WindowRef to the
window the event occurred on.  I'm getting annoying errors.  Can
anyone see what's wrong with the code below?
void foo()