I have just got this powerbook from a friend to check whether in working condition. I havent dealt with Mac before and as dumb as it sounds am therefore not able to locate the powe…

Quote: Originally Posted by sudiptrivedi I have just got this powerbook from a friend to check whether in working condition. I havent dealt with Mac before and as dumb as it sou…

Quote: Originally Posted by Voch It's the upper-rightmost key on the keyboard, isn't it? Press it and hold it down until you hear a startup chime. It's been a while... EDIT:…

Quote: Originally Posted by sudiptrivedi thanks a lot that was very helpful... Cool. Does it work? Nifty old notebook, isn't it? Voch

I've got an ML-1710. I'm quite happy with it, but the drivers have been lagging. During the years I've had this printer the driver has only updated once and is still missing a lot …

I was actually wondering about the same thing. I do have a postscript laser, so this will work for sure, but I have just gotten my photo printer yesterday. I guess I will have to…

To my surprise, the ML-1710 does work on the Intel Macs. This is fortunate, as it did not work with the developer releases. I didn't use the Samsung-USA driver though, as Samsung …

Hi, I'm new to software development so I was wondering, which programming language would be the best for Mac development, C++ or Objective-C. I will be programming in xCode, so whi…

Where should I go to learn (for the complete noob) about either one? After reading a few web pages, I kinda leaning towards Objective-C, but I can't find any that don't already req…

In either case you should really learn plain C first. But for Mac-specific programing, Objective-C is the language of choice. It has the best integration with the Mac APIs (eg, C…

Quote: Originally Posted by Brass In either case you should really learn plain C first. But for Mac-specific programing, Objective-C is the language of choice. It has the best…

Yes, Xcode will compile ANSI compliant C code.

Xcode can compile C++, Objective-C and plain old C. So you've got a compiler no matter which you go with. And yeah, a search would probably turn up better recommendations than you'…

Definitely spend most of your time learning C first. It helps to take a class in it. Then Objective-C will come easily.

Good luck making your decision. Like everyone, I agree that you should try and learn C first (or use the Cocoa bindings from a language like Python if learning C isn't your desire…

Quote: Originally Posted by PBG4 User Yes, Xcode will compile ANSI compliant C code. Wow! I thought that there was no way that XCode supported ANSI C, as I can't imagine an…

Quote: Originally Posted by smitty825 Wow! I thought that there was no way that XCode supported ANSI C, as I can't imagine anyone has written anything in ANSI C in at least 10 …

Quote: Originally Posted by smitty825 Wow! I thought that there was no way that XCode supported ANSI C, as I can't imagine anyone has written anything in ANSI C in at least 10 …

Quote: Originally Posted by smitty825 I personally disagree with Brass' statement that Obj-C syntax is far simpler than C++. IMHO, C++ more closely follows the C language behav…

Objective-C has more than one syntactic extension to C. It adds keywords such as @implementation…@end and @try, and the <ProtocolName> syntax for indicating conformance to a …

Quote: Originally Posted by smitty825 Good luck making your decision. Like everyone, I agree that you should try and learn C first (or use the Cocoa bindings from a language li…

Quote: Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff I will defiantly be writing Mac software 99.9% of the time, but if I want to write a Windows (or Linux) program, does a Obj-C compile…

Quote: Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff I will defiantly be writing Mac software 99.9% of the time, but if I want to write a Windows (or Linux) program, does a Obj-C compile…

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit You don't think anything has been written in C89 since 1995? What do you reckon all the C programmers were using in 1996? Whoops...I mis…

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit They do, but it would likely be a lot more than a simple recompile —�but that's true of porting a C++ Mac program as well. The only project…