Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / March 2008

  I want to develop desktop sharing application like VNC on macintosh
plateform. I am new to this development. can anybody tell me that what
are the possible ways to develop desktop sharing application?
Thanks,

I would like to be able to provide my >80 yo mother some remote control
tech support for her Mac, but I am concerned about her ability to manage
the Screen Saving Preferences, particularly remembering to turn it off
(for security reasons) after she's done.

I'm writing my first program in Cocoa with xCode 3.0.
Having written embedded programs for many years, I'm slowly getting used
to not having to code every corner of the world.
I have an array of objects, and from my UI Window I can change various

I need to know a predefined macro that tells me the SDK that being included,
so the question is... am I building against 10.3.9 or 10.4.x or 10.5.x?
Reason being is that I am building a leopard specific version of an app with
extra functionality. I have various build targets to use ...

This must be in an FAQ somewhere, but I haven't found it:
We have an application that needs to determine if a provided path to a file
is on a local drive, network or other removable drive.  This application
needs to run on both Windows and MacOS.  On Windows, I found a very useful

With Mac OS X, I gcc and gprof.
But the result is as follows.
%   cumulative   self              self     total
time   seconds   seconds    calls  ms/call  ms/call  name

I am new to XCode. I want to step my program at assembly level (not
source level).
I get a view window to view disassembled code, but could not step it
(there is

I have an NSButton that needs to remain disabled until a textfield is
populated. Can this be done with bindings? I've looked through the
button inspector in IB3 and can't see how this might be done. Any
pointers?

Being lazy, I downloaded a wireshark .dmg from
http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/WireShark-Download-23340.html
and installed.
I just rebooted and was informed that the wireshark copy in my startup

I'm new to Mac development and need help with the following problem:
Given a window's TITLE, how do you determine what kind of application the
window is (the name of the application/executable)? and how do you move that
window to the front?

This worked on Uwin, but it is blowing up on my Mac.  I just have a
fragment here.
Data prints out a colon separated record of every week in our database
for a stock "$i."  I change the colon to <TAB>, extract the first, third