In this day of networks and files of relatively unknown origin (PC, Mac, *nix) shouldn't we write software that doesn't make assumptions about what line break characters are used? …

I was wondering a few things: 1) How hard is it to write a service, and waht language must it be in (C, Objective-C, etc...) 2) Would it be possible to write a service that would …

I think you're looking at quite a daunting task, but I'll give you a short answer. Only Cocoa (ObjC or Java) programs can use services. Services are possible because of Cocoa's OO-…

Does anyone have a applescript that I can use to automate a file copy process from one machine to another every night?

maury who hosts railheaddesign has a nice backup applescript in his software section maybe you check it out railhead design -arnold

Alternatively, you could write a shell script and have cron run it every other night. You could use "scp" to transfer the file (unless it has resource forks, then I think it has to…

I'm interested in setting up an Application for which a third party could create plugin code to add or modify the abilities of the program. I know that the very core of this in Ob…

I too am trying to do this, and what I've determined is that bundles are used for this functionality. You can put the object code in a bundle and load the bundle dynamically. Eac…

There are two basic ways to do it. One is to define a generic class for plugin makers to extend by subclassing, much like how the NSView architecture in Cocoa itself works. Another…

I've been trying to get the Gimp installed.. and most has been going smoothly. I'm using fink and it just stopped with an error. I redownloaded the library and tried again but it …

There is actually a fink users list for discussion of these problems. But to me it looks like you have installed Tenon's Xtools, which installs a bogus /usr/local/include/malloc.h …

My girlfriend is interested in a tech career. Would you guys recommend a career in tech? She's already taking CS, but she is mulling over what to specialize in. I'm hoping your fee…

Quote: Originally posted by NeoMac: Programming? Web application development? Databasing? Networking? System admin? etc..? Well, I've done most of these at one t…

Agreed, it seriously depends on her personality. Is she good at seeing the whole picture, making creative leaps, and quickly understanding new ideas? If so, go for programming or…

I've also done most of these things at some time and I would agree with the others here. Being a sys admin gives you job security but can be hell in that you often have to force yo…

Alrighty, so I made a nice Custom NSWindow in Coca-Java that I could drag around and resize. There's only one catch: after dragging it a around enough, I will eventually get it to…

Hmm... that looks like a stack trace of native code, and you probably want a Java stack trace. Have you set your executable target in Project Builder to use the Jav debugger instea…

Quote: Originally posted by Rickster: <STRONG>Hmm... that looks like a stack trace of native code, and you probably want a Java stack trace. Have you set your exec…

This must be a very serious problem, cause it even crashes the java debugger! And I just found out that using the QT API's likes to make my interface totally unresponsive. How ca…

I added a new window to my app by subclassing NSWindowController and creating a new nib file. I connected everything up and then I created a method in my main controller file that …

The interesting lines are a bit further up, but probably got lost under all the jam crap.

Do these mean anything? warning: <CocoaMed>CocoaMed.app depends on itself ...updating 10 target(s)... BuildPhase CocoaMed.app Completed phase <CopyHeaders&am…

Well, I figured it out. Those two definitions of reference were because I unintentionally did this: #import "reference.m" instead of: #import "reference.h" kman

I would like to learn a bit more about the plain C language and then hopefully start to learn OS X programming using Carbon. I installed the OS X 10.1 developer tools and looked a…

Try /usr/include. Most non-framework stuff can be found by rooting around in there. (If you want to use the finder to navigate instead of the terminal, you can type "open /usr/incl…