Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / September 2007

Sorry, this is a stupid question, but I just cannot seem to get it to
work right. I'm trying to have the unix command line tool Mencoder work
from my cocoa application. I am using the TaskWrapper.m from Moriarity.
This was my original attempt, which didn't work :

I need to implement the equivalent of
NSMutableURLRequest::sendSynchronousRequest but in Carbon/C++ ..
are there any good examples out there? code snippets?
TIA

where is the recommended place for a mac application to store user-
specific data and files? Which API do I use to determine the path from
a c++ app ?
TIA

During searches in Internet, I found That there's a graphkit private
library in Os X.
Has anyone more informations about this lib?
Are there some examples which use this lib?

i'm trying to write a small piece of code in C and Carbon to do some
HTTP requesting ...
following the sample code for CFNetwork, I #include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
but the compiler is complaining it can't find 'ansi_fp.h'

The scenario:
My application has a window open. The app/window needs to know about
keys being hit - It's not using them as data, storing them, etc - the
keys are controlling program behavior, so it's not actually "text

How can i quit Application from other application ?
I have following details
->application path
Is there any API to send quit event to other application ?

I frequently copy my source code to and from my mac-formatted disks to
disks formatted with NTFS...
in earlier days I heard that you can loose 'resource forks' if you do
this sort of thing...

Is it a way to read a plist file from the Carbon app, that is using
Carbon API and maybe lower-level API, but not Cocoa API?
To be specific I need to know the default browser. I det retrieve this
info from ~/Library/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist file. The problem

Is it a way to read a plist file from the Carbon app, that is using
Carbon API and maybe lower-level API, but not Cocoa API?
To be specific I need to know the default browser. I det retrieve this
info from ~/Library/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist file. The problem

Hello NG
A very basic question.
Is it "thread save" to have constants like:
static NSString * xyz = @"xyz";

     I need to create a window which is default minimized. Right now
what I am doing is first creating window and then minimizing it by
miniturize but as I am doing it for 7 to 8 windows it dosent look good
first they are created and then automatically minimized.

I have an NSNotificationCenter used in a method where I start a thread.
This is done inside the following class method (I show the following
because it seems to be a pretty standard example for doing threads):
[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(_connectWithPorts:)

HI, I've been trying to do a batch converter for images. The problem
is the memory is not being released properly. When the for ends the
memory is ok, but during the for it continues increasing. I have a
function with a for loop:

Is it possible to overwrite or exchange the global NSHTTPCookieStorage
object that is used by the Cocoa URL loading system. I would prefer to
use my own private Cookie storage object so that the global cookies of
the default global Cookie storage are not deleted when my own