Quote: Originally posted by Rickster: <STRONG>For more sophisticated command line GUI-wrapping, you'd do well to use either Cocoa (ObjC/Java) or REALbasic.</STR…

Ok....so I've set up some shell scripts and they work ok. Now I want to make them pretty by attaching a GUI via Applescript. I've done this nicely with one line UNIX commands which…

in the current version of AppleScript, the do shell script command only works for non-interactive programs (i.e. ones that run, print something, and exit; not ones which run contin…

Quote: Originally posted by BostonMACOSX: <STRONG>Ok....so I've set up some shell scripts and they work ok. Now I want to make them pretty by attaching a GUI via A…

one thing you can do if expect is installed on the system is write an expect script to interact with your shell scripts. Then you can use studio as a front end to write a text fil…

I am a beginner programmer and I have a decent version of a document based java app I am working on. However, I would like it make it so that the user can save the document. To b…

The developer tools come with a sample Cocoa Java version of a text editor that can save files. Have a look at it.

Hi, sorry if this is trivial, but I am just starting out. How do I make the Finder rename a file with a script? I can duplicate, move, but I can't find a way to change the name of …

Quote: Originally posted by AJM: <STRONG>Hi, sorry if this is trivial, but I am just starting out. How do I make the Finder rename a file with a script? I can dupl…

Alright, Mr. AppleScript smarty-pants (I grovel before your greatness...) explain this one... I have a script that takes a URL, parses it down, and attempts to create a folder str…

You need to coerce dlDir into an alias for it to work correctly as a location reference for the make new folder command. So, you need to change this line: <blockquote&gt…

Interesting, thanks... any idea why it always allowed the top level folder to be made though, and not subsequent folders?

Im trying to figure out how the program "CDCoverTool 1.0B5 OSX" (available on version tracker) is getting its album covers. I downloaded a packet-sniffer (MacSniffer) to aid in my…

Quote: Originally posted by 3R1C: <STRONG>Im trying to figure out how the program "CDCoverTool 1.0B5 OSX" (available on version tracker) is getting its album cove…

Hello, I'm very new to this, so please be patient. I know I will probably make someone mad, but it's not my objective. As a way to get to know some of the development underpi…

Okay, does anyone know how I could display text in an NSView such that it as closely as possible fits withing a given NSRect (always being inside, not touching sides)? I want to b…

Look at NSGraphics.drawAttributedString() and maybe NSGraphics.sizeOfAttributedString().

Quote: Originally posted by Jan Van Boghout: <STRONG>Obviously , this is not what I want it to do , I want a custom image for the window in the Dock. Does anybody …

I have a problem with the minimized image property of a window in AS Studio : it doesn't work . This is the code that I use in the will open and will miniaturize events of a windo…

By the way if anybody knows a Cocoa method around this , please tell me. edit: spelling [ 04-05-2002: Message edited by: Jan Van Boghout ]

I bought a book ("Teach Yourself C") to learn ANSI C. How do I set up a project in PB so that I can follow the book. Printf works fine - prints out in the console - but I can't get…

When you do a new project select "Standard Tool".

Hallo, I remember sometimes ago here I read something about how to make a WinTV-PCI-Card working with Mac OS X by compiling open source code but now I can`t find it. Could som…

I was in the support discussion of OSX. I'm going to try this myself very soon. Here's the URL: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Foru...ML/002953.html

Hi, I need to do a presentation to help make OS X our choice for Java dev against Wintel. I'd like to ask if somebody can post a trivial howTo (if possible) for direct PDF printin…