C.S.M.P. Digest Mon, 13 Feb 95 Volume 3 : Issue 83 Today's Topics: (silly?) Question about "Print" apple event A "better" Random() Any speedup tips for this? Getting an event outside of the Main Loop Help a dumb father help his son with Mac programming How can I tell if a driver (eg MacTCP) is open Quality of Random(…

C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 21 Sep 95 Volume 3 : Issue 112 Today's Topics: Apple Events to open HTML file to specific anchor? How to watch a mem location in Macsbug? MacTcp and TimeManager Patching _Launch (68K) Thread Question When (and how) to use WRefcon The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottie…

C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 18 Jan 96 Volume 3 : Issue 132 Today's Topics: FYI: Web page with info on devloping MacOS Lotus Notes apps How do I do ZoomRects? How do I make finder show new contents of folder? How to get default user name Monitor Numbering Restoring the Color Environment Sprite Collision detection char *pixel…

C.S.M.P. Digest Tue, 07 Mar 95 Volume 3 : Issue 87 Today's Topics: Aliases How to write to same directory as App?? INITGestalt Proposal Information on installer maker companies Sound Manager clicking with sampled sounds VBL, time manager interrupts on PPC anything *bad* about mixing alignment types in CW? custom Clik…

C.S.M.P. Digest Sat, 21 Dec 96 Volume 4 : Issue 30 Today's Topics: A better way to get a window's current position?? Alpha Editor - Tcl Engine? AppleEvent-Script example AppleScript "character count" GameWerks question Getting a unique ID for a Mac Getting name field from an FSSpec Is this a MacOS disk cache bug? LEX…

C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 11 Jan 96 Volume 3 : Issue 131 Today's Topics: (Safely) Drawing directly to VRAM ANSWER: Get dirID from FSSpec Animation Libraries Changing the size of balloon help Need to unlock MF Temp Memory? New Mac games programming web site! Script Editor Apple Events [ANN] Mops 2.7 Macintosh Programming E…

C.S.M.P. Digest Volume 3 : Issue 147 Today's Topics: CGrafPort vs GWorld DSp Gamma Fading (was Re: PageFlipping on 68K) Full Screen Scrolling Getting Partition Info (as opposed to volume...) Getting monitor's scan rate? Is there a "bad" fileRefNum value? Mac Tutorials Here! Overlaying a PICT onto a background Prevent…

C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 21 Jun 95 Volume 3 : Issue 101 Today's Topics: Checking for weak-linked CFM libraries Copying files across volumes? Creating alias files Design flaw of the Drag Manager? How to do a time-to-finnish bar... How to get TCP-IP address? PICS file format? PPC and SIZE resource Pausing SndPlayDoubleBuff…

C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 28 Mar 96 Volume 3 : Issue 142 Today's Topics: "volatile" variables? A Good Random-number Generator (here it is!) Apple Event handlers & C++ CodeWarrior - faster code than MrC? Desktop pattern for a window Direct-to-screen drawing and Copland Shareware Modula-2 compiler for Mac Sharing Name Writi…

C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 05 Mar 97 Volume 4 : Issue 37 Today's Topics: Any books on PowerPC assembly language? Basic and Pascal Compiler Calculating CPU loading time? Can 'clutType" color tables have more than 256 colors ControlList Converting postscript to text CopyBits Disable shutdown key? DrawPicture Embedding a Quic…

C.S.M.P. Digest Sat, 12 Aug 95 Volume 3 : Issue 107 Today's Topics: Clipping controls Is a volume from server X mounted? MDEF and PowerPC Prefs in resource fork TextBox & Transfer Mode?! WOW. Was: Man, is image manipulation ugly in Pascal! [ANN][PTR] Advanced Color Imaging for Toolbox Assistant The Comp.Sys.Mac.Prog…

C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 05 Jul 95 Volume 3 : Issue 103 Today's Topics: Explanation of color palettes MoveControl for Modeless Dialogs Opening Control Panels from within an Application QT2.0 & NewMovieFromUserProc help... Selecting a DA Sound Manager - handling underrun in double-buffered playback ? [ANNOUNCE] MacTCP pro…

C.S.M.P. Digest Fri, 19 May 95 Volume 3 : Issue 98 Today's Topics: Announce: Apple Guide Mailing List BOA Stacks between 2k and 24k Can large disk caches _really_ reduce performance _significantly?_ Font Names: GX versus QD How do I determine whether 'x' is an OSTrap or a ToolTrap? Macintosh Port of STL available Qui…

C.S.M.P. Digest Tue, 25 Apr 95 Volume 3 : Issue 95 Today's Topics: Debugging Memory Manager--Caution DragManager problem [Q] How to launch an application with a file? Offscreenage-Animation-Concepts? Time Manager Puzzle Unsigned Integers? [Q] Byte Reversal [Q] Getting a list of vRefNums __MAC__? The Comp.Sys.Mac.Pro…

C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 16 Feb 95 Volume 3 : Issue 84 Today's Topics: A portable random generator Dlog code snippet request FindWorkBreaks quirky? Looking for Get-Put URL AE suite info Random() replacement anyone? UnloadSeg - unloading code segments Where to send applications I've written? The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer D…

C.S.M.P. Digest Tue, 19 Nov 96 Volume 4 : Issue 24 Today's Topics: Amount ram for dev 8500? AppleScript Commands FindAllResIDsInFileGivenResourceType() ??? Floating Windoids in System 7.5 Help needed to create Mac files on a PC Help!!! Welcome to Macintosh Help: endian conversuin How common is 512 x 342 max res? ML f…

C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 24 Apr 96 Volume 3 : Issue 145 Today's Topics: Asynch SCSI Disk I-O??? Can't read more than 2 keys at once! Converting a string to floating point Files left open Free to download stereo renderer (class project) How to play a selection of a sound? Macintosh Developer Central on WWW Network source …

C.S.M.P. Digest Mon, 28 Oct 96 Volume 4 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: Are SetDialogDefaultItem, etc. supported? Code snippet to find edge of main monitor? Directory Names? Extension woes... Getting-Setting sound volume Info on library formats? Looking for TrueType to Polygon Font Conversion library Mac-hosted UNIX? Math…

C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 08 Feb 95 Volume 3 : Issue 82 Today's Topics: Bit Blitting vs. CopyBits File system persistence HandAndHand Question MacOS SDK quick impressions NIM Routines that Move or Purge Memory Simulating Drag-to-Trash Sprite Animation Toolkit 2.3a2 available StandardGetFile behavior What causes "odd addre…

C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 08 Feb 96 Volume 3 : Issue 135 Today's Topics: Command-Shift-Keys CustomPutFile Puzzle? Detecting QuickTime PowerPlug How can you use 68K MPW .o file in PPC apps? How do I create many menus from one MENU resource? MacApp newbie questions Matching struct definitions to TMPL resources Menu Manager …

C.S.M.P. Digest Fri, 23 Dec 94 Volume 3 : Issue 76 Today's Topics: AEInstallEventHandler Problem How do I keep my program from coming to the foregroud for drags?!?! How do you use the mouse as a relative motion device? How to convert a Picture to a PixPat? Info on BlockMoveData ? Installer advice please? Mac FAQ now …

C.S.M.P. Digest Mon, 20 Jan 97 Volume 4 : Issue 34 Today's Topics: #ifndef-#ifdef problems in my header file (conditional header inclusion) Cross Platform Development Dialog Boxes and Event Filters Find PowerPC native? Free Programming software Help finding ToolsPlus Help! Need TCP-IP, OT Guru's advice... Interproc n…

C.S.M.P. Digest Mon, 04 Nov 96 Volume 4 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: 3d buttons Background computations & threads CW C++ compiler doesn't compile c code??? Custom CIcon Plotter EPS Foreign speech synthesizer for the Macintosh Gestalt check for Drag Manager HFS: copying, etc. Help Engine How To Get The Computer's Name H…

C.S.M.P. Digest Sun, 12 Nov 95 Volume 3 : Issue 121 Today's Topics: 32K code segments? Apple Guide 2.0 Boot Blocks Again Building an FSSpec Drag And Drop for TextEdit Getting file info from file reference number PPC App + 68K module & callbacks (how?) Q: Time Manager vs TickCount for Animation? Q: system heap expansi…

C.S.M.P. Digest Tue, 05 Dec 95 Volume 3 : Issue 126 Today's Topics: AOCE mailing list?? Alternative Developer Tools Code Fragment To Identify Disk types Control Strip Modules Dave Marks and ints Drag and Drop ShowDragHilite problem Picture's Bounding Region? Plugins? How? Programing For Joysticks? Registering File Cr…

C.S.M.P. Digest Tue, 19 Dec 95 Volume 3 : Issue 128 Today's Topics: Apple Multiple Scan Color Modes Best Installer package for freeware software Detecting color video Doubles Vs BlockMove Hiding the menu bar MoveControl and popup menus Non-resource custom PowerPC LDEF OpenDoc lingo Palettes and QuickTime Passing a me…

C.S.M.P. Digest Mon, 11 Dec 95 Volume 3 : Issue 127 Today's Topics: Audio CD related toolbox routines? Changing default directory of StandardGetFile Creating AppleEvents Curious question about process mgr-A4 Determining if a volume is local or not Developer VISE Code Resources? Experience with Zinc-Galaxy-Neuron Data…

C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 02 Aug 95 Volume 3 : Issue 106 Today's Topics: Creating Alias Files Example Creating Finder Aliases without the help of the Finder ... CursorDevices manager broken on PPC? Gestalt Selectors List 3.0 released How to access TmTask structure in PPC interrupt? Source code to limit life of app The Co…

C.S.M.P. Digest Fri, 24 Nov 95 Volume 3 : Issue 123 Today's Topics: Backgrounding during printing? Books on programming in assembly? Getting PC Exchange file names Is this code necessary? Memory move-purge and HLock Question??? Multiple frame buffers and page flipping Photoshop "CLUT" into 'clut' Question: Best forma…