Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / November 2007

I have a collection of very short audio clips (mostly numbers and
names of people) that I would like to be able to play entirely from
within a Perl script running on OS X; i.e. without invoking, e.g.
iTunes.  I would like to be able to play selections consisting of

Perhaps someone here can help me. I am currently injecting mouse
events in with the Quartz events (CGPostEvent). Now I have an event
tap that is listening for it but it does not seem to pick up the mouse
events created with CGEventCreateMouseEvent but it does pick up

Currently I'm working with project ported from classic.
And on iMAc I have a probem of getting picture from screen.
I'm using GetScrapFlavorData function and get pict handle. Later I
convert it to the QDPictRef, for drawing to the CGBitmapContex...

Every time I always disable ZeroLink option in all my projects.
Does anyone knows how it can be done for global XCode options, for
every new project this option would be disabled by default...
Thanks!

I wonder if someone might shed some light on the way dependencies work
in XCode 3.  I've found that I can drop either a statically compiled
library file itself into the External Frameworks group of an
application project and it links correctly.  However this does not

I'm porting a Win32 application to the Mac using C++ and the Carbon
framework.
The application must display a window in a non blocking way, i.e.
when a specific object is constructed a window must pop up on the

My Java documentation has disappeared, and I think since installing
Leopard but am not positive.  I downloaded the Java Reference for Mac
OS X 10.5 from the ADC and ran the install, but still can not find my
Java documentation.  Any clues would be appreciated.

Can anybody tell me how to access the internal mic on the Macbook from
C code? It doesn't seem to appear as a standard unix device.
Malcolm

Hallo NG,
my mdimporter is not working anymore and I can't find the reason.
Testing with /usr/bin/mdimport -d2 gives the output below and is
looking fine to me. If I search with spotlight, non of my application

In Xcode, it has a project configuration setting for 'SDK Path'; but
it's not set in the 'Header Search Paths'. While I can cut-n-paste
what's there to the latter so that I can find these headers for
inclusion, can I enter something like '${SDK\ Path}' in the header

How do other Mac programmers and end users view software written in
SmallTalk on a Mac? I noticed that Cincom's version of SmallTalk is
available for Mac too. I am wanting to get into more Mac development
and I am not really sure the route I want to take. I have posed this

I'm a C++/Windows developer at a small (well, tiny) company, and I've been
asked to explore what it would take to create an application that could be
built for both Windows (XP + Vista) and Mac.
I've never done any Mac programming, so I was hoping people could send me

Hello NG
OSX has changed the keyboard shortcuts consumed by the system.
Some of them like alt-q and alt-n are not working anymore in my application. How
can I prevent this for the forthcoming updates.

I need to overlay for emphasis onto an existing window and considering
using a sheet. However the information contains in the underlying window
is fed via notifications which appear lost while the sheet is visible.
I had considered a drawer instead, but it seems you cannot have it ...

I'd been wading through the docs trying to do this; I've already gotten
dragging into my tv/outline fine now need to go the other way.
If I read this right, this routine implemented in the tv/outline:
  - (NSDragOperation)draggingSourceOperationMaskForLocal:(BOOL)isLocal