Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / February 2008

I want to connect to a USB device via the I/O Kit functions.
Unfortunately, this does not work.
Actually my device has got basically a serial interface with an internal
USB - RS232 converter from Prolific. When using the BSD functions and

I have simple client server application using BSD sockets.
Client is connected to server using LOCALHOST using TCP sockets.
I have used SetSockOpt - SO_REUSEADDR before bind function.
In particular case i am getting SetSockOpt functions completes with No

I just began to code a Cocoa application and I already met some
problems...
Just for the try I want try to bind some values in my controller to a
NSSlider.

I'm trying to make a gradekeeper program using Xcode Tools that has
been compiled successfully many times on both Solaris and Linux using
their default compilers, but getting a slew of error messages.
I'm using gcc from one of the most recent Xcode Tools distributions,

i asked in comp.sys.mac.system and received no response
i'm getting the following error messages and yes, it's a fresh boot
after a fresh re-format and re-copy the files back over and the file
permissions have been repaired (seems like thousands needed to be

I have the following definitions in a header file:
/*
       Declarations for database variables
*/

By clicking outside the View area, How can we get mouseDown event in
NSView?
p2

Is NSPanel get NSWindowDidResignKeyNotification or
NSWindowDidResignMainNotification ? how ?
p2

I'm new to Mac, but have some experience using gcc with Linux and
Windows.
Which version of gcc is best to use on a Mac if my goal is to compile
open-source, nonvisual apps which are not Mac specific? I've installed

I need to debug a C program and am at a loss how to do it short of
sticking debug print statements in it.  I used to use sdb to get a quick
stack trace or to single step through a program.  Is there anything like
that in OS X?

How to get compiler step using Gnu C compiler to find the X Window
header files?
I am trying to compile some older Unix code that uses X Windows (X11R6).
I installed the X11 files using the optional install on my system CD for

Hi, I've been living in the Windows world for year. But recently
iPhone opens the door for me to enter the Mac world. It's wonderful
and amzaing!
I am not sure if this is the right place to post my question.

i would like to do something but first off let me explain why then i'll
explain what i've done and what i'd like to do.
when i made a bootable disk image of my os-x, i wanted to compress it.  
it didn't compress very much which is surprising since over half the

Does anybody have any idea why this works:
IFS='   '
exec 0< "db/s.d"
while read line

My java application is given a list of image files.  For each image, it
creates an image thumbnail and displays this thumbnail in a separate
JFrame.  The creation of these thumbnails is very slow compared to the
Mac Preview application.  Is there a way to speed this up?