Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2008

What does NS as in NSString and NSObject stand for ?
Thanks,
Aaron

I am porting Mozilla's SpiderMonkey to MacOSX. It has a cpu configuration
program which generates headers for the target machine and uses them in the
main build.
What I am stuck on is how to get the main build either to use these specific

I have some C code that uses open and lseek (and other functions of
course).  I build the C code using XCode as a dylib, I created the
project using the "BSD Dynamic Library" option.  I then created
another project as a "Cocoa Application".

on an iPhone application?
is there a filesystem?
I have an application that reads text files and its failing to open a
file that is bundled with the application.

This is from an advert for a website called TechRadar.com in my latest
MacFormat (UK) magazine ...
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    TOP SECRET Microsoft (c) Project: Longhorn(TM) SP1

My thanks to those who helped me before.
I am new to Project Builder.  I have a project with 4 classes defined in
 separate header files.  They are all used for the build, but only 2
appear in the Classes tab.  What is wrong?

I'm trying to teach myself objective C and was working on the tutorial
from Apple on Cocoa. I tried to add a NSPopUpButton using IB to list
different currencies to choose from. My first issue is that when it
first starts up it lists the default 3 items, but once you hit the

There is a new feature in OS X 10,5 (Leopard) that affects your
application:
Preferences Sync.
Preferences Sync is a new feature of Sync Services manager and .Mac,

Alright, so I have a question on the best way to achieve this. I
realize there are probably many ways (as were pointed out to me
already) but I'm not sure which is the best way to do it, or perhaps
the easiest way. Here's what I've got:

Trying to build an iPhone app...
I am getting an error message:
error:  expected unqualified-id before 'template'
----> On the line below...

I'm trying to get Saturn to work with my C++ code but I don't think I can
make it without some help. I followed the manual, added the compiler flag -
finstrument-functions (I'm on an intel mac) but for some reason the code
takes way too much time to run, and creates a 65GB file that ...

There is an old feature of Cocoa, not well documented, that bit me
recently:
When you create a new project, Apple gives you a main() that looks like
this:

I have noticed with the xCode 3.1 beta that IKImageView is causing
crashes.
If you create a new cocoa app and open up the MainMenu.xib file and
drag the IKImageView into it and build the program in xCode you get a

F7 key do mirror on/off.
I want to disable mirror on/off, when my application is running.
How can I achive this ?
p2

I am a programmer, but not so much a programming question, but I
couldn't find a mac.networking group.
What kind of issues am I going to run in to if I have a program with
an ISAM database, and the database is located on a Windows server, and