Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / October 2007

I am trying to port a linux program to OSX. As part of the OS-specific
portion of this porting, i noticed that OSX (BSD) does not support
backtrace() and has no execinfo.h.
I have tried the following code (found somewhere on the net) as an

I need to do something really simple - create a new TXT  file, write
bytes to it, close it.
I looked at FSCreateFileUnicode but it looks like a pain in the
butt..

my debug build links fine .. and runs...  it has zerolink ON
my release build has all sorts of linker errors, and zerolink is OFF.
xcode tells me that zerolink is not for release builds...
what is going on here...?  how do I get it to link in the release

I just took over a team, and have found that many of the basic software
engineering practces, well, need a little help.
Got the source code management under control. I am now looking to see
if there is any basic automation that I can do around static source

I have a cocoa NSPanel that pops up... but it is often hidden behind
other windows on the desktop ... how do I make it 'always on top' of
other windows?
TIA

Can anybody offer me some suggestions for transitioning into
programming for Mac?  Language, editor, software, etc.  I'm very
familiar with VB and want to begin a few projects on my Mac at home.
The easier the transition the better.

I have just a question.
How can I get bundle size ?
(like Finde's Show Infomation does..)
Is there any API? Or should I count all file's size in the bundle

I got this working, but I have a followup question:
Does finalImage receive a retain message?
Looking at the docs in AppKido, it doesn't say at all, although it makes
sense that it does get a retain.

is their a "top" for the traffic on the memory bus?  kinda like
"netstat" for IP packets, but monitors the transfer rates to/from RAM
instead?
i'm trying to optimize the performance of a custom memory-intensive

I just took over a team, and have found that many of the basic software
engineering practces, well, need a little help.
Got the source code management under control. I am now looking to see
if there is any basic automation that I can do around static source

I'd like to take two images and create one image from them both. To be
clear, I don't want to mix them in any way, just 'paste' them together, ala:
1 + 2 => 12
I've looked at NSImage and Core Image, but I don't think those are the

I asked this on the cocoa-dev mailing list and only got reply, so I
thought I'd ask here just to see if there anymore ideas. To wit:
I'd like to animate the image I use in my NSStatusBar. A fade-out of the
old and a fade-in to the new. I looked at NSAnimation and that only

When a WebView object loads a web page I can use the
WebResourceLoadDelegate methods to get all the resource requests for the
web page and this way it's even possible to filter out requests by
manipulating/redirecting the requests in the method...

              Currently i am trying to improve performance of my
window while drawing on that window.i am storing my each points into
one buffer on mouse down and mouse move event.and after that i am
calling [self setNeedDisplay:YES] method from mouseDown and