Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / August 2007

OK, maybe I'm dense, but I've diddled around for quite some time trying
to figure this one out, and I've met with zero success. A couple passing
mentions in the documentation, a couple more on apple.com, but nothing
that has worked for me to "fix" this particular "problem" (in ...

I'm new to Cocoa programming and I would like to learn to create
custom UI components. Where can I find resources? Tutorials,
documentation, examples?

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Does anyone know of a tool for Mac OS X that will llow me to examine the
sizes of objects? In particular I'm looking to find the size of
global/static data objects, and functions.
This is easy on OSes that use ELF for object code. I've tried using GNU

Sorry for this question, but I'm not thinking well today. I'm getting
errors like this ...
.../gte-ide.build/Release/GTE-IDE.build/Objects-normal/ppc/AppController.o
reference to undefined .objc_class_name GTEServer

Behavior is the following.
I work with the battery connected, at 99%.
When I disconnect and work outside, very soon the
computer shuts down as if the battery was low, even

I want to transfer Data, between to application (first to second and
second to first)(on same machine).
Also , (first to third & third to first). (second and third will not
communicate).

Does anyone know if there are, and if so where to find, statistics
on the percentage of Macs still in actual use which are booting
into Mac OS 9 or earlier?
I'm still get some number of downloads of Mac OS 9 (and even

If i create local and remote CFMessagePortRef
then
can i send message viceversa ? means ( local to remote )  &  ( remote
to local )..?

Currently, I'm porting an old application from CW to XCode.
And I have some questions.
On PowerPC QuickDraw functions works fine, and on iMac (ub) it works
with bugs.

Are there any gotcha's to taking a Carbon app built on an
old G3 Mac running OS 10.2, another app built from the
same source tree on a new Core Duo 2 Mac running 10.4,
and just using the lipo command on the contents of the

I am developing a Universal Macintosh Application using Carbon Api's.
In my project workflow I need to convert PDF's to JPEG or any other
image file format to display them as previews in the application.
I am aware that GhostScript can be used, but then ghostscript has a

I know import should prevent multiple inclusions of the same file, but
what else? When is one wrong?
TIA

I have a search field item in a toolbar. Is there a way to have it size
itself as the housing window sizes? I'd like to see it stretch a bit
wider as the window is made wider. Is that doable?

How is this pop down list of a NSComboBox done? I'd like to
create such a list for a certain task, but I'm not sure
how to start.
This pop down list has a shadow and can reach out of the window, so