Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / December 2007

MI5 Persecution Update:. Friday 7 April, 2000
22,544 + 837 =. 23,381
Last weekend I delivered another 837 faxes to politicians. and the media on
the subject of the security service. conspiracy which has destroyed my

I'm trying to draw a "building block" like view of a process that my
application will perform. Basically, what I'm trying to do is stick
together some different icons in an NSView that when they're all
connected, would look like the process I'm trying to define.

Is Microsoft COM all that is available?

Do people use FileMaker to develop custom applications on a Mac? It
seems to be a popular database tool for both the Mac and the PC and I
was just wandering if Mac users accept FM developed applications very
well.

Hallo NG,
I wonder why a simple expression dose not work for me.
I want to filter a array of managed objects with like this:
NSArray * subArray = [totalArray filteredArrayUsingPredicate:

In the info.plist file there a line that reads:
       <string>${PRODUCT_NAME}</string>
Where do I set the value for PRODUCT_NAME ? I've got a project that's
giving the executable the wrong name and I need to reset it.

What happened to WebObjects builder? Where did it go? Where is
EOModeler? Ever since I downloaded Xcode 3, those apps are gone. Has
apple abandoned Webobject builder for Eclipse WOLips?

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I appreciate that there's a lot of similarity between programming OSX's
AppKit and the iPhone's UIKit, but I'm wondering if there's a newsgroup or
discussion on iPhone/Touch programming (that I can't find or don't receive)?

My application creates a new thread which does quite a bit of
processing once it starts up. I did this processing in a thread because
of the need to free up the UI so that the user could continue working
with the interface.

I notice that some of my items, based on a subclass of an NSControl
don't show up properly in the toolbar config palette.
I subclass NSControl so that I can use either a pre-built or program
controlled image to act as a button.  I had tried just sub-classing

I'm quite new to xcode and mac and I need to write a small app for
some vision impaired people. The app should be able to do the
following:
1. Find an object on the screen /  desktop. Maybe by looking for

Dear Mac programming heroes:
I'm developing a cross-platform C API for communicating with the Lego
NXT via USB and Bluetooth.  The code is mostly functional on FreeBSD,
Linux, and OS X, with the exception of Bluetooth on OS X, which is

I've been fighting with this for quite a number of hours now. I'm
looking to retrieve the full path of a file that I drag in my window.
Everything works for this block ultimately returning the filename in
the targetFile without a path:

Hello NG,
I can't get my breakpoint to become active (or better I can't get the
debugger to stop there). I mean, they are dark-blue (checked) and
become orange when I start to debug. I'm not sure if the orange state

WTF! Interface Builder is completely changed, how do you drive it?
I can't even get an AppControler (NSObject) and a CustomView to work.
The  generated the files were not added to the project and when I added
them manually they didn't work anyway.