Quote: Originally posted by mattmarshall: [b]i know not a scrap of programming, but am interested in learning SOMETHING.[b] As someone already suggested you s…

I started with bying MetroWorks Discover Programming and read the books Programming i C on the Macitosh and Programming in C++ on the Macintosh both written by Dave Mark (I think).…

Try using "cc" in the terminal. It's a c and objective c compiler (at least that's what the man page says). A good idea is to look at the developer forum for more info on compilers…

I'm going move this one to Mac OS Developer. Click through to find the post.

Hmmm...not sure what you mean..."cc filename"? That gives me "OK? wc filename?", which then defaults to "NO" no matter what I do. Anyone else know what I'm doing wrong???? I'm i…

What they forgot to ask was if you had the developer's tools installed. If not, you can sign up to be an Apple developer and download them. The basic membership is free (web only) …

You mean I need the developer's tools just to write any program at all? Ah. That MIGHT be my problem.... Thanks...... greg ------------------ Though the day's been really lo…

BTW: more info on the carbonated Emacs... It's version 19.14 and is *DAWWWG* slow. I love emacs; but, I'll stick with the Terminal.app-bound, fast, v.20.7.1 version.

You mean there's another, faster program included in the terminal? How do I access it???? I'm new to all this stuff...especially Unix, so it's confusing sometimes... greg -----…

I think he refers to the version of emacs that you run "inside" the terminal. Just write "emacs" without the " in a terminal and emacs will start. Good luck /Gabbe

Quote: Originally posted by jguidroz: On a unix machine, you type gcc (cc for X) filename. At the next prompt, you type a.out(the file that was just created) and it s…

Thanks! Now I wonder is there is a way to fix this so I don't have to type ./

Quote: Originally posted by jguidroz: Thanks! Now I wonder is there is a way to fix this so I don't have to type ./ There certainly is. But please DON'T DO IT!! …

You can add the current directory to your path by adding the following line to your .tcshrc file (in your home dir): setenv PATH {$PATH}:. This causes the shell to search the pat…

matt vaughn already made a installer for apache-mysql-php 4 do a search on this section of the site. it was a whole lot easier than installing trying to compile. lou

Thanks Lou, But Matt package is for Mac OS X Public Beta and doesn't work with Mac OS X Server. Do you know if there a pre-compiled package for Mac OS X Server? ---------------…

nope. sorry.

Quote: Originally posted by gabrielf: How do I access and change the text in a NSTextView? I've looked in the java browser and on Apple's cocoa pages but I can't find it…

Quote: Originally posted by gabrielf: String s = new String(10); Is a perfectly valid java statement Thanks, /Gabbe I don't know WHAT version of the JDK you are…

Hahaha, how embarrassing! I was so sure you could do that so I didn't check the API docs I thought it was pretty logical since you could write things like myString = "Hello" + 5;…

The Cocoa and BSD APIs use the UNIX convention, a bare linefeed only -- chr(10). I think this is the most typical case you'll find on the system, at least at the lower levels. I'…

FYI. In Java, you can inspect the line.separator environment variable to determine the return character(s) of the host operating system. Use this to avoid hard-coding a certain con…

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 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-…

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