Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / July 2009

I have a button cell in a tableview column and have silly question as to
its binding. I want the title of the button to come from the selected
object. There's not a bind for that in the tableColumn itself but there
is in the cell.

I downloaded from the website www.osxfaq.com/tutorials/LearningCenter/
the complete Mac OS X unix tutorial.
The unix described there (which I think is Unix 03 compatible)
differs from that on my Mac (OS 10.5.7).

I have written a desktop application in C++ that talks directly to the
Windows API (win32).
I would like to port it to recent versions of Mac OS.
The features of the Windows API that the application uses (that are

I've been reading through the developer.apple.com docs but I am having
a hard time finding the API documentation I am looking for.
Under the Windows API the main function of a GUI application looks
roughly like this:

I have two NSArrayControllers in my program each bound to their own
NSArrays content array in IB. The program runs just fine under 10.5, but
under 10.4 it displays this message in the Console:
"Cannot perform operation without a managed object context"

I'm probably being stupid here, but I have tried searching the docs,
Googling and fooled around in XCode and IB, and I can't get anything to
work.
I'm porting a game engine from Windows to OS X (using SDL and OpenGL).

What is the fastest way to scan a directory ?
I have try readdir() and lstat(). Is there a better method ?
Thank you.

I'm thinking out load for a new display extending a table view where I'd
override the NSTableHeaderView and NSTextFieldCell in order to do
achieve two things:
  1. use the header view cell for a large (than 1 line) display

I am designing a command line utility in Objective C in XCode. It
automatically generates a foo C.1 man page documentation file for my
utility but it is a bit hard to understand. It's a bunch of tags and
information following them. How do I edit this to reflect what my

I have a Mac Classic II that I've been wanting to do some development
on, and I've been trying to track down a good C compiler for System 7
Macs. It sounds like MPW is the recommended development environment,
but the problem is that the version Apple has available for download

I want to duplicate the function of a couple of keys on the built-in
keyboard of a PowerBook G3 (Pismo) running Tiger (10.4.11).
I located System/Library/Extensions/AppleABDKeyboard.kext file, and
then on the Info.plist file within

Hello Group!
Simple question, hopefully simple answer.
Mac OS X 10.5.7
To perform testing on my Mac prior to uploading to my ISP, how does one

I'm new to obj-c and was hoping for a pointer in the right direction.
I'm working with a calendaring project (SOGo) written in obj-c and it
inter-operates with MS Active Directory.
In order to change a password in AD, the new password has to be

Hello NG
What are the documents I should read if I want to program a app that
uses bluetooth as main port.
Is that still impossible with the SDK. Do I have to use the tool chain