Hello again, well, the login app is just loginwindow.app located at /System/Library/CoreServices I can open the application's nib file in Interface Builder and muck around with …

Sounds like more trouble than it's worth. Ho hum... Just feedback it to Apple and hope

There is a drawback, and this may explain why it's not there. Typically under Unix, sysadmins don't want the names of all the users available to anyone... this is part of the logi…

The OSX system admin. should have the a preference panel that gives him an option between a 'home' and 'pro' login window: 1. a "home" login window would basically look like the O…

My question is about obtaining the current path the user is in when a command is executed. For example, if the user executes the following in the terminal: cd /some/path ./ myPro…

Try getcwd().

I am working on a system preferences prefpane, and I'm thinking that storing my prefPanes preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist is a bad idea. Usu…

this should answer your question: <a href="http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/AdditionalTechnologies/PreferencePanes/Tasks/Sample.html" target="_blank">http://develo…

Your preference pane is a bundle loaded into the System Preferences App - so defaults don't work normally. See here: <a href="http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/tutorials/showpage.…

Hello all. I am making an app using cocoa w/ objective C in project builder. I am getting the following warning, and don't understand what it is getting at. Can someone explain …

Before all of your cString calls, stick this: (char *) e.g.: (char *)[myString cString]; Not sure exactly _why_ cc makes this a big deal, since (const char *) is declared as the…

The -cString method is declared as returning (const char *), which indicates the return value should not be modified. The method in question is declared as taking (char *), which …

Or, you could just use NSString values :-) That's probably easier than dealing with the c-string memory management...

Quote: Originally posted by lindberg: Or, you could just use NSString values :-) That's probably easier than dealing with the c-string memory management... Excelle…

Hi, In cocoa, is it possible for my program to read a file's icon resource? Ultimately, I'd like to make a program that changes the icons of files. Thanks for your help, David

Hi, Actually, I was able to get the icon using the NSWorkspace iconForFile method. Anybody know how to "Set" (ie, change) a file's icon??? Thanks, David

hmm, i dunno.

Someone directed me to this link when I asked for this information. I haven't had a chance to try it yet but it looks like it could work. It seems to be some sort of cocoa wrappe…

Hi, I have noticed a major issue with menus and IB. Environment : - Mac OS X 10.0.3 - Developer Tools from Mac OS X retail CD - PowerBook G3 Lombard 333MHz (bronze keyboard) The…

I might've misunderstood the question, but for your localized nib, make sure you put it in a French.lproj folder, and call it MainMenu.nib

Angus, The localized nib file is where it is supposed to be. All things are OK, except the menubar items name. I always have "AppName" File Edit Window Help Nor in English.lproj,…

I have found a way to correct the problem, however, it should be a bug that corrupts the nib file or Idontknowwhat. If I create another File menu submenu into the Edit menu for exe…

hi everybody, i think the topic says it all... is there a way? i thought about doing a "ps" from an nstask and see whether "/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versi…

I think you're probably going to have to do that, yeah, but you should probably use Carbon's Process Manager or sysctl to determine if it's running or not. I think that's a nicer s…

sysctl sounds fine, thanks for the tip. sounds feasable after having read some documentation.