Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / August 2007

I am looking for a web application similar to the one that was used by
Customatix.com (no longer on the net). I found that it was created by
Lutris Technologies, but Lutris isn't around anymore. I would like
information on either how to contact the builders of the application or

We have a windows domain with Mac on them that need to access
networked folders by clicking on HTML links.
The following works on windows machines on the network but not the
Macs:

I've got a problem on porting old App to iMac.
Currently, i can't get code for extracting RGB data from PicHandle.
For Skinning my application (I using background picture and foreground
picture, in foreground not used pixels - same as [0,0] of pict, all

This is probably a silly question, but when drawing within a common
view, drawing various shapes and text, can you draw text at an angle?
I don't see an attribute for angle or rotation but it seems to me that
in order to have text drawn at an angle, its housing view must be ...

I am trying to write out a QT movie to disk. Some track of the
original movie exit in separate files. I would like to preserve this
not-self-contained structure in the movie that I am writing out. Does
anyone know how to accomplish this?

How do people implement this? A SOAP service?
Thx

I'm really not very good at this.  I've written quite a lot of stuff in
Cocoa but it has all been entire Applications and now I need to write a
plugin or a framework or something.  I'm following the instructions on
this page

I'd like to write a library, but I have no idea how to write a library
in Xcode.
I know objective-c.
Can anyone give me a Xcode project with a method which print "hello

I am new to quickTime.I programed to get a m4a file's metadata with QuickTime
SDK on windows .
I called SDK's API:
InitializeQTML

i'm looking for a good example of how to implement the equivalent to a
windows modal dialog box, with an OK and Cancel button. Currently I
have an NSPanel attached to it's own controller and I am using
showWindow to bring it up, but that's not modal. Also, I have actions

I'm currently researching a program that will upload a lot of files in
the background. By a lot I mean: 10+ GB, so the upload process may take
considerable time (anno 2007).
Since this program should truly be a 'background' program, and its

I've encountered a problem with the "closeFile" message of
"NSFileHandle". Whenever I try to close a file using the "closeFile"
message in one of my applications it will crash. I can narrow the
problem down to the following routine (which means, there's nothing else

On a Mac OS 10.3.9 PPC G3 system, using XCode 1.1, I'm attempting
to recompile an app which compiled just fine a few months ago.
But now, at the link stage, I'm getting this error message:

Are there any Cocoa programmers with an MFC background, who would care
to point a confused old-timer toward some advice (docs, tutorials,
design analysis) on shifting ones' paradigm?
A few years back I wrote some stuff in MFC w/Doc-View architecture,

I want to write the equivalent of a windows 'tray application' .. but
for the mac.
So far i've found out that the little icons on the right side of the
menu bar (near the clock) are NSStatusItem's