Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / September 2008

I am trying to move my projects from unix/make to Xcode. The projects
have a substantial subset that is common and that is compiled into
a library. Each project links to the library.
I compiled the common code fine into a BSD Dynamic Library (although

The translation of Makefile's
   CXXFLAGS = -I /Users/me/myheaders
into the Xcode idiom appears to be to double-click (or press info)
on the target and add the string

Actually that might be the wrong question. Here's what I want to do:
I want to write a small app that periodically polls my ADSL router and
retrieves the current line speed. In order to do that manually I can telnet
to it, then go through a 'username' and 'password' prompt, then ...

This is weird. I have a couple of directories that are hidden in the
sense that the Finder doesn't show them. (PathFinder does; they look
dimmed, just like "dotfiles".)
Their permissions are weird: an "ls -l" shows

I want to display string with first alphabet as bold in the
NSTableView.
that is if string is "World" the 'W' should be in capital.
How can I achieve this ?

What I hope is a trivial cocoa drawing 101 noob question:
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I have a snippet like this that draws an image correctly:
  { // Undo vertical transform (isFlipped) for image drawing

 I am trying to compile assembly code on Mac Osx  (a remote machine).
The assembly
program contains calls to C library functions, such as functions
defined in <pthread.h> <time.h>..:

I have a curious situation that puzzles me (although happily so).  I
have implemented a 2-way fat (32-bit Intel/PPC) CFPlugin to be used by
some client applications and other plugins.  I expected that no
application running in 64-bit mode would be able to access it (just as

I'm planning on creating a text based game for the mac and wanted to
know which programming language would be best for this?
I plan to use data from an xml file. Which language is best suited for
parsing xml files?

Is it possible to get an NSWindow pointer to another application's
windows?
I am working on an assistive app where I want my application to
overlay some additional information over the window(s) of another

I'm trying to do something very simple with sockets. I'm trying to simply
connect to my router and read the login prompt. To this end I've written
this:
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 I'm new in Objective-C and Mac programming but I didn't find anything
about this issue.
 I have these lines:
-(IBAction)aniadirAlDOM:(id)sender