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…

Carbon and Cocoa are very different. It's not that one is necessarily less capable than the other, they're just different. To generalize a lot, I would say Cocoa is "easier." Carbo…

I think that Apple originally inteded Carbon to be a "transition" technology from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X. However, this is certainly not the case now. It is not the poor cous…

If you're writing new code, then cocoa is probably the best way to go since you're starting fresh. Carbon does have it's applications though and certainly could be used. IMO, car…

Cocoa is meant for Objective-C, but you can use other languages with it. Java, Perl, Python, Ruby and probably several others I haven't thought of all have Cocoa bridges.

Note that the Java bridge is deprecated, though.

I thought the bridging technology was deprecated (Bridgette or whatever it was called), but Cocoa-Java was still alive. Did they deprecate the whole thing?

They've said that no future API will be added to Cocoa-Java, but existing ones will continue to work.

Definitely go with Cocoa/Objective-C. You can find plenty of information on how to do so in the archives. C++ is a terrible language. Never learn it if you can help it.

Quote: Originally Posted by parallax Definitely go with Cocoa/Objective-C. You can find plenty of information on how to do so in the archives. C++ is a terrible language. Never…

Go to http://cocoadevcentral.com and read C tutorial. It gives you enough C to move on to ObjC. Whatever language you choose to learn, just remember that the languages aren't tha…

Quote: Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff I've started on C, and I plan to go onto Cocoa/Objective-C, but what makes C++ a terrible language? C++ is a strongly typed langu…

In short, C++ is a hack of an object-oriented system. There are places where it's just broken (search the web for details). Debugging errors with templates is a nightmare. MacG33k…

Quote: Originally Posted by MacG33k Go to http://cocoadevcentral.com and read C tutorial. It gives you enough C to move on to ObjC. Whatever language you choose to learn, just…

You are passing registerDefaults: an argument that is a NSUserDefaults object, but it expects an NSDictionary. Look at the API here: http://developer.apple.com/documenta...isterDe…

I don't think registerDefaults: is what you want at all. That sets default settings — what will be used if the user hasn't changed any settings. It won't override preferences. You …

monadnock does a nice very nice recycled sheet. $$$$.

I think the AIGA has info that will be very helpful to you. Also, try calling your local paper reps. They usually know what's new and cool.

FYI: http://www.aiga.org/

make sure you read the fine print descriptions for the paper you come across - many are a lot less environmentally friendly than others - if recycled is it recycled from pre or pos…

google.. first hit for "mysql java" http://www.developer.com/java/data/article.php/3417381 there's no difference in using the technology in OS X or Windows or Linux or anything. …

I know, I've read most of that stuff, but it all talks about installing java and mysql and how to proceed from there. I was wondering if there was any information on using the vers…