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Mac Terminal.app annoying bug - How to fix it?

Video showing the problem: http://www.mentaframework.org/download/TerminalBug.mov When I am typing on the Terminal.app and reach the end of the line, the next line starts on top of the first line, overwriting everything. Then if I use the delete key everything messes up and disappears. I did a ssh in the same terminal to a different h...

can't install lxml (python 2.6.3, osx 10.6 snow leopard)

I try to: easy_install lxml and I get this error: File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/setuptools/command/build_ext.py", line 85, in get_ext_filename KeyError: 'etree' any hints? ...

how to create new file using python

how can i create new file in /var/log directory using python language in OSX leopard? i tried to do it using os.open function but i get "permission denied" thanks in advance ...

Can I get Xcode for Leopard still?

I just tried to upgrade my xcode tools on my mac running 10.5.8, but I didn't realize that the latest version of xcode will only run on snow leopard. I can't find the older version of xcode that would work on my work machine. Where can I get a leopard compatible version of xcode? ...

Strategies for debugging Objective-C Garbage Collection Crash

I have a pretty frustrating crasher that is impacting a small subset of my users. From my analysis it seems to be isolated to PowerPC users running 10.5. When the garbage collector runs in the background, it will silently kill my application. Here's the relevant snippet from the crashlog. Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) ...

RubyCocoa on PowerPC G5 processor (Leopard 10.5.7)

Does anybody know which version of RubyCocoa runs on this processor (if at all)? ...

Issues instaling MIME::Lite via CPAN on Mac OS X

I am trying to install MIME::Lite using CPAN via Mac OS X Leopard and CPAN just keeps reporting back the following message: cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9304) ReadLine support enabled cpan[1]> install MIME-Lite CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.21) Going to read /private/var/root/Library/Application Suppo...

Unable to use PIL after installing using pythononmac.org package (Mac OS Leopard)

I'm trying to use PIL for a Google App Engine project. I've installed PIL using the installer from pythononmac.org but it doesn't seem to do anything, or at least neither I nor Python can find the files. I'm running Python 2.5.1. ...

Using GWT with Mac OS X Leopard

Hi I'm just starting out with GWT but I can't even run the getting started example without getting the following error: Invalid memory access of location 0x10 eip=0x93624148 I am aware of the "java hosted mode 32 bit" stuff, anyway I tried every combination I could think of and still could not get away with that error. I tried: U...

Contextual Menu Item development for OSX (Leopard and Snow Leopard)

i was wondering what the best practice is for creating a contextual menu item that would work in both leopard and snow leopard and works with a selection of files and/or folders, sending them to a shellscript. i know that the contextual menu items have been deprecated in SL - but does that mean there is no way to create a solution that...

How to build a PyObjC project on Mac OS X 10.6, that runs 10.5?

I have a PyObjC project that I build on Mac OS X 10.6 with XCode 3.2 and I'm not able to run on 10.5. All I'm using is the official PyObjC project templates to create an empty project (that simply opens a window). Then I build the app and copy it over to 10.5. But the app always crashes on 10.5: Application Specific Information: *** Te...

Leopard Console logs for common files reference

Hi, I am using plugins for one of my Mac OS X(desktop) application. These plugins refer to a common file that contains base class implementation of both the plugins. When the application refers to this common base class, the following message is displayed in the console by the system: " is implemented in both and . One of the two wil...

Looking for popUpMenuPositioningItem:atLocation:inView: equivalent for 10.5

I'm working on an application that needs to display a context menu on screen in various scenarios. In the function I'm writing, I don't have access to any NSWindows or NSViews. I'd like to use popUpMenuPositioningItem:atLocation:inView as this function works perfectly for me in 10.6. However, we have a requirement to support 10.5, so thi...

Revert to Leopard

Hi, Ia develop with Xcode C++ programs, before in Leopard and now in Snow Leopard. I am experiencing in SL a lot of new and stupuid problems. You can find a lot of them in SO just looking for "snow leopard". I am considering reverting to Leopard wich worked just fine. I ask you about how many of you would do the same in order to avoid t...

Converting vector image to Quartz 2D code

Is it possible to convert a vector image into Quartz 2D code (mac) so that image can be drawn programmatically? ...

iPad SDK in Leopard

Is there any way to install the iPad SDK on a Leopard machine? ...

Where can I find a version of Xcode 3 that will run on Mac OS X 10.5?

I need to install Xcode 3 on my MacBook Pro (so I can install Haskell Platform). I can't upgrade the MBP to Snow Leopard (10.6), but the Xcode 3 available for download from http://developer.apple.com/mac/ requires 10.6. Is there a version of Xcode 3 that will work with Mac OS X 10.5.8? Where do I find it? My MacBook Pro was provided ...

iPhone team dev, do we all need the same OS?

I´m just starting iPhone development with a small team of (really young and naive) colleagues, we all are fairly new to OS X, my question is: If we are planning to develop for every iPod Touch/iPhone out there (not the iPad, I read that thing requires Snow Leopard), what problems will we encounter when sharing code (and making commits) ...

Detecting when a space changes in Spaces in Mac OS X

Let's say I want to write a simple Cocoa app to make the Spaces feature of Leopard more useful. I would like to configure each space to have, say, different *screen resolutions *keyboard layouts *volume (for audio) So there are two parts to my question: 1) I suppose there are ways to modify these three things independently of Spaces, r...

PHP mail() using Sendmail on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8)

I've been struggling to get a really basic PHP function working on my iMac, the PHP mail() function. I've used it countless times, albeit on a Windows platform and now I'm trying to get it running on Mac. I've installed XAMPP v1.01 maybe because I didn't know any better at the time and I thought it would all just work fine, because tha...