Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / August 2008

I'm pretty new to Mac programming and XCode. I have an Intel mac
running Leopard, purchased this year.
I built a small test app in XCode (just a window and a couple buttons)
and it runs fine on my computer, but when I tried to give it to a

I'm new to objective-c and cocoa and try to access a XmlREST webservice.
Unfortunatly the service requires namespaces.
Here is what I've done:
I'm creating a xml document from scratch using elementWithName.

Is there a way to use Applescript to change the page setup/orientation
(portrait or landscape) of a document in an application that doesn't
have this built-in??

Hey folks!
I'm having a little issue here! I'll explain what I'm doing
first  ;-)
When I start editing my tableview (using the "edit" button) I have a

Is there a way to use Applescript to change the page setup/orientation
(portrait or landscape) of a document in an application that doesn't
have this built-in??

Guys/Gals,
I am trying to complete the challenge in Hillegas book, chapter 6. I
need to create a delegate to a window that constraints its resinzing.
I have the following code:

According to Amazon Hillegass's 3rd Edition of "Cocoa Programming for
Mac OS X" is out. Anyone got it and want to share their thoughts on it?
I'm particularly interested in how it deals with the most recent
InterfaceBuilder, which I'm finding slightly awkard to use.

I'm looking for help compiling the audio program SoX (http://
sox.sourceforge.net/) on OS X 10.4.  Using XCode 2.5 and following the
standard Unix build instructions, the program compiles and runs just
fine, but the resulting binary file seems to work only on the system I

Just learning how to use Xcode 3.0
Im working on some Unix Command line tools in C and I'd like to get a
listing of all the functions in my project, a la the eclipse outline
view, so that I can easily navigate between functions regardless of

I'm going back and re-learning stuff using X-Code 3 and have hit a
barrier. I'm trying to add a Font Menu in Interface Builder. When I did
that previously in X-Code 2 everything just worked automatically and
adding the Font Menu added NSFontManager to the nib. Now this doesn't

Quick question about creating an NSString (or NSMutableString) with a
number in the middle i.e.
    int file_num = 6;
    NSString* first_part = @"start_of_path";

What appears to be my last memory but is proving to be challenging. I
have my Framework setup so I can debug it, and all my tests run
sucesfully but I get this message when some of them run:
otest(3245,0xa0857fa0) malloc: *** error for object 0x132eb0: double

I'm new to OS X programming and using Interface Builder.  I'd like to
know how I can get the following two layouts in my window:
 http://mcc.id.au/temp/2008/layout.html
I am used to using layout managers (e.g. like in Java) to encode this

Is there a cocoa api or some other simple way to get the text out of a
html file? In real life I can open a html file in Safari and copy the
text to the clipboard then paste it into a text editor. But how would I
grab only the text programatically?