Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2009

i work on a Leopard. 10.5.6 and the "Finder" seems every day more
outdated and useless, compard to a couple of very innovative 3-party
solutions/applications like:
.Punakea

hi, I wrote a little 3d plugin for iTunes called Eyephedrine
ok... now the point is: the plugin (entirely OpenGL based) works fine
with iTunes7 EXCEPT when launched in the new "horizontal scroll album
view" where a) freeze or b) recover from crash but the album art in the

Hi NG
How can I set the right values for my app in the packagemaker.
I guess it has to be root:admin and 775 for a normal app.
I'm not able to set these values in the packagemaker.

I'm having a problem with Shared User Defaults. I've got a Check Box bound
to them (with no Value Transformer) and sure enough the value in the prefs
is changing (as read by 'defaults read com.foo.blah'). However, I can't seem
to work out how to read that value back in.

My GoogleFu is weak today - I just can't find out how to properly create an
NSDatePicker object. In fact I can't even see how to even _see_ one as IB
doesn't seem to have NSDatePicker as an object (NSDatePicker Cell, yes,
NSDatePicker no).

I am having a devil of a time trying to figure out how to switch views in a
simple iPhone app.  The app has two UIView Subclasses ... call them View1
and View2.  I went to IB and created two xib files ... View1 and View2 and
populated them with buttons that I want to use to ...

I'm trying to get a value (an NSDate) saved to the Shared User Defaults
every time it changes.
To this end I've made the variable in question (targetDate) KVC complient by
implementing

I am interested in obtaining text from pdf's. If this is not possible,
how can one fill pdf forms or read text from pdf forms? Can somebody
shed some light in where can I find information about this?
Thanks

So I've been working on a project to work with Amazon Kindle's.
These devices show in MacOS as USB Mass Storage devices, and what I
need is the ability to query for how many are attached, the mount
point, and the USB Serial Number values.  I have an exmaple that does

Some xCode projecst use the same sources files. These files are put in
a diectory named Common (outside any project).
But when theses projects (and Common directory) are copied to an other
disk xCode no longer found the sources files in Common directory.

I have an iPhone app and have set-up two views using Interface Builder ...
call them View1 and View2.  Each view has a number of button controls on it
that are used to invoke various functions.  One of the buttons in View1 is
to invoke a function to hide View1 and show View2 (i.e ...

YANQ (Yet Another Noob Question) Alert
I started tinkering with the iPhone sdk and sub-classed this standard
cell sort of like the TimeZoneCell example but I don't want / need the
">" arrow. I do need the accessory view for an icon / counter.

I can create utility window using kUtilityWindowClass using carbon
API.
How can I do same thing using Cocoa ? I searched a lot in cocoa, but
can't find a such way

If this is not the right forum for this, please forgive me.
I am a long time programmer, but have never really gotten into graphics
development (and am a recent convert from Windows to Mac, if that
matters).

Does anyone know where I can find some examples of assembly programs in
'as' for intel OSX