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;…

I'd like to use rdist from my Linux machine to synchronize with my iMac running Mac OS X. I am experienced with rdist. However, the iMac always rejects requests to connect using …

I just took the perl code from the dockling ideas thread, and inserted it into another dockling I had lying around to make a dockling that checks the baseball scores and puts them …

Has anyone here tried to download Launch Pad from gnustep and tried to construct an objC based Cocoa app that will run on any platform supported by gnustep?

Hi. My problem is very simple. I don't have MacOS X so I ask you : on macos X is return character : -> chr(13)+chr(10) (Like Windows or UNIX) -> chr(13) (like MacOS …

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 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…