Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / October 2007

do you need both a PPC and an INTEL mac to create a universal binary
with xcode, or can i generate one just using my intel mac?

BLAS and LAPACK exist on other platforms i know for sure, but what
about vDSP, vBasicOps, vForce and all the others?  i'd like to
optimize some code to use altivec/SSE, but don't want to re-write it
when i port it to linux/windows.  unfortunately, the functions i need

It's not in Leopard (I just upgraded).
It's not on the ADC any more either.
!!??!

I am trying to build HID Explorer  First I built HID Utilities (though I
don't know whether to use the static or dynamic one) which had no errors.
When I build HID Explorer, I get two errors:
"Command /Developer/Private/jam failed with exit code 1"

I'm looking for a way to play random sounds - in the form of
programmatically-generated on-the-fly tones of arbitrary duration and
frequency, similar to the old cartoon stereotype of "this is what a
computer hard at work sounds like".

can any body know the related task API of
"performSelectoronMainThread" in Carbon ?
What is the alternate API of "performSelectorOnMainThread" in
Carbon  ?

I have created a new package that does compile on my Mac OS X 10.3.9
box (G4), but I like to hear
from someone else that it would compile well. Also I like to get some
tips what could be done better :-)

here's what I'd like to do: I want to take a standard issue external
USB Keypad (like those sold for laptops that come without one) and use
it as programmable function keys.
Now what I've figured is that since the Keypad must have a different

the difference between..
#include
and
#import

i'm trying to get just the response content, not the headers... from
an HTTP GET ... but CFReadStreamRead() seems to just give me the whole
lot... headers and all.....which probably makes sense, but how to I
extract just the content?

I need to open a window in fullscreen mode (no menu bar, window
shouldn't have a title bar and covers the whole screen) for a kiosk
environment. But the window should also have a toolbar (a standard
NSToolbar). Unfortunately a window without title bar that is opened with

I made an wx application with a menu item About, which will display an About
dialog.
The problem is : under MacOSX, there's a system default "About..." menu
item.

How can I do to get printer status.
I don't want to get spooler status like CUPS but the realy printer status.
Example:
My app send a print request to my printer but my printer is out of paper.

Apple has made the iTunes COM SDK so Windows users can access iTunes
via code. It uses COM, which is for Windows platform.
I had an application made on Microsoft Access using VBA and I would
like to do another one in Java, on my Mac. I cannot use this SDK

is there a way to see if a 3rd party framework has been correctly
compiled for embedding...
TIA