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 Fri, 02 Feb 96 Volume 3 : Issue 134 Today's Topics: Announcing TransSkel++ AppleScript : date to string ? Does the DriverInstall trap really exist? Extending Finder Drag and Drop How to set the job name when printing? How to think about Undo Landmass Algorithm? Print Jobs again - naming & copy control…

C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 06 Mar 96 Volume 3 : Issue 139 Today's Topics: Bizarre trap patching problem FastRandom() source Hi ho, Hi ho, STR#ing we will go. How do I switch printers without the Chooser? On obtaining rowBytes... (Was Re: Video Memory Access) PEF (Preferred Executable Format) Info Needed Reconnecting Mounte…

C.S.M.P. Digest Fri, 06 Jan 95 Volume 3 : Issue 78 Today's Topics: 64-bit math: "Int64Bit"? "comp"? "wide"? wtf?? Accessing &qd.arrow from a Power PC code resource? How do I output a hairline line to the printer? Introduction to object-oriented programming? Memory management in C ? Recordable applications Transparent…

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 Mon, 15 Apr 96 Volume 3 : Issue 144 Today's Topics: 68K or PPC struct alignment? Apple's Game API CopyBits-Yet again I ask Determining Memory Size Needed by GWorld Direct-Optimized Access to PixMap Display Manager Fast writes to disk? How should data be organized for read-write to files?(beginner) How…

C.S.M.P. Digest Mon, 11 Sep 95 Volume 3 : Issue 109 Today's Topics: C to Pascal FAQ (1 of 2) C to Pascal FAQ (2 of 2) Can't Deactivate Default Item?? MacTCP Question The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier (pottier@clipper.ens.fr).

C.S.M.P. Digest Mon, 10 Apr 95 Volume 3 : Issue 92 Today's Topics: AI & New music option from Apple Computer Flicker-Free animation OpenResFile() doesn't follow aliases? QUICKTIME: codecNothingToBlitErr - what it is it ? Question about UPP's QuickTime VR Info needed TCL classes Tool for examining Mac memory usage Th…

C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 24 Aug 95 Volume 3 : Issue 108 Today's Topics: Asynchronous File I-O Saving and restoring current drawing port - necessary? Where are my command line arguments? The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier (pottier@clipper.ens.fr).

C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 20 Mar 96 Volume 3 : Issue 141 Today's Topics: Async. Driver IO Questions - Need Help Code For Changing Monitor Resolutions? Do all functions -procedures allocate memory? Drawing behind TE fields How Often Do I Lock a Handle? Limiting the mouse region MOVE 16 Making sense of memory management Mor…

C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 14 Nov 96 Volume 4 : Issue 21 Today's Topics: Ejecting an empty CD Caddy HELP: Circular Definition Help in programming game!!! How do you get the pixel depth of the Main Device? PPC Trap Patching... Think Reference vs Mac Programmers Toolbox Assistant [ANN] Metrowerks CodeWarrior IDE 1.7.2 i [Q] …

C.S.M.P. Digest Tue, 18 Feb 97 Volume 4 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: 1-bit depth GWorld has colour?(!) 3D Info? Application-like CPs Controlling freePPP Determining if serial port in online? Faster line drawing routines? Floating palettes Is LINUX available for Macintosh? Is palette animation w- > 256 colors possible? …

C.S.M.P. Digest Sat, 04 Nov 95 Volume 3 : Issue 120 Today's Topics: Adding a Gestalt Handler Adobe Portable Document Format (Acrobat) Info Bug (memory leak) with NewGWorld? FPU and non-FPU comptuers in C How do I call a UPP? Q: name of file dropped on application STL Tutorial? Writing to Boot Blocks B-) grays vs. col…

C.S.M.P. Digest Sat, 21 Oct 95 Volume 3 : Issue 117 Today's Topics: Can I use my own values in the windowKind field? Changing monitor resolution on the fly. Confessions of an LDEF writer Drag Mgr. Question: Confining drags to a window Drag and drop on Finder aliases Find vertical extent of call to TextBox? Gestalt Se…

C.S.M.P. Digest Mon, 25 Nov 96 Volume 4 : Issue 25 Today's Topics: Anyone doing a GNU gcc port to the CW IDE? C++ Memory Questions Determining current "enterable" object in dialog? Drag Manager question FSpGetFInfo for directories? Forcing EPS font download GIF conversion GWorlds and Graphic devices GetResource and t…

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, 11 Mar 96 Volume 3 : Issue 140 Today's Topics: "Apple's 3-D interface guidelines" ?? 'sysz' resources (Q) How to find local hard disk volumes only AppleEvents to-from an extension? Control panel code? DDP Listener Broadcast Problem Is C++ OK? Make yourself heard! Removing a Gestalt entry - possib…

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 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 Tue, 19 Sep 95 Volume 3 : Issue 111 Today's Topics: Difference between BlockMove() and BlockMoveData()? Easiest way to get vRefNum of startup volume? Pointers to functions on the PowerPC? Preferences Database project discussion QuickTime volumes Random Numbers [Q] Gestalt to determine number of serial…

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 Mon, 25 Sep 95 Volume 3 : Issue 113 Today's Topics: Deselecting Edit Text Items in Modeless Dialog Durnit... mouseMoved events... Mac Game Gurus: Need For Errata Mac Game Programming Gurus Book Mac Help Systems Programming MacTCP and Other Forms of Masochism Using two different fonts in a dialog box? …

C.S.M.P. Digest Fri, 24 Mar 95 Volume 3 : Issue 90 Today's Topics: CW5, ansi C, and 68k vs. PPC vs. SG Copybits trouble. NEWBIE: Saving Popup Menu Selection Recommend: A better List Mgr. Resources and header files Temporary Memory question... The State of MPW [Q] FSSpec --> dirID The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest i…

C.S.M.P. Digest Sat, 14 Dec 96 Volume 4 : Issue 29 Today's Topics: 'ictb' resources Accessing Volumes directory? Drag Manager in IM? Is it OK to distribute Sprocket Libs with shareware? Opening folders in the Finder Playing Sounds PrintDefault fails for certain printers Question about Updating Scroll Bars (include co…

C.S.M.P. Digest Sat, 01 Jul 95 Volume 3 : Issue 102 Today's Topics: AE source --> address descriptor (?) AESetData events to Finder Are AppleEvents efficient? COMP.LANG.PASCAL.MAC - New Macintosh Pascal language newsgroup Changing current printer without user intervention Error checking calls to NewRgn & GetClip GWor…

C.S.M.P. Digest Fri, 31 Mar 95 Volume 3 : Issue 91 Today's Topics: Communications Toolbox Displaying INIT icons (followup) Help with Macintosh Serial Driver How to write-read files Large Resource Files Making an Edit Text Inactive Need help learning Handles -- Pascal OSAExecute and AS subroutines [Ann] FREE QuickView…

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 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 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…