Most somewhat modern programming languages have a standard library? It is my impression is that there isn't a decent sized standard library for Obj-C , rather that it relies mostly/all on Cocoa and that (plus people not wanting to use GNUstep) is why Obj-C is only used on macs)? Is this true/to what extent? Are there any standard obj-c...
Hi, I need to edit a Flash movie that somebody else developed in Adobe Flash CS3 on a Mac. I'm using Adobe Flash CS4 on Windows (Vista). However, the font that shows up on my computer is much bigger than on the .SWF that he produced. He used a custom font, which I had to add to my system Fonts folder. Because Adobe Flash now detects th...
Is there any software/script that will allow me to cd (change directories) into .jar/.ear/.zip files and edit the contents of the files it contains? I'm working on a large EJB project (yuck), and I frequently find myself in situations like the following: something.ear/ |-- something.jar/ | `-- fileINeedToEdit.xml I work primarily v...
Hi Folks, What is the Difference between a Hash and MAC (Message Authentication code)? By their definitions they seem to serve the same function. Can someone explain what the difference is? Thanks ...
I'm trying to put a development environment on my Mac, and to do so I need to install several packages which require db46. When running sudo port install db46 I get the following error: ---> Computing dependencies for db46 ---> Fetching db46 ---> Attempting to fetch patch.4.6.21.1 from http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/be...
I'm talking specifically about the kind you get if you click and hold on an app in the dock, or a folder if list view is enabled. Is it a menu style, or a window flag I can set like the brushed metal-style? Lots of little free apps seem to use it. http://bambooapps.com/free-stuff/ is a good example. ...
I know Ruby right now, however I want to learn a new language. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 right now but I am going to get a Mac later this summer. Anyways I want something more for GUI development. I was wondering if I should learn C on Ubuntu right now, and then learn Objective-C when I get an iMac? Will learning C give me an edge? Or sh...
I have installed the latest Haskell Platform for MAC OSX and I get the error "Setup: failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump'" when I do anything with Cabal. So I looked at my versions: ralphtq$ ghc-pkg list Cabal /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/612/usr/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d Cabal-1.8.0.2 ralphtq-mac-mini:cabal-...
I'm trying to set the text in an NSTextField, but the -setStringValue: and -setTitleWithMnemonic: methods are not working. Any ideas? Rgds / a² ...
I'm getting peppered with * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1961180 of class NSEvent autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking warnings during run-time and have no idea what the cause is. Cursory Googles indicate that this is a symbol I can break on with Xcode, but adding it as a symbolic breakpoint via Run>Manage Breakp...
I am trying to run a headless test for a web application using WebDriver on Mac OS X 10.6.3. My plan is to run firefox-x11 with Xvfb, but WebDriver is unable to launch firefox-x11. My code is: System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin", "/opt/local/bin/firefox-x11-devel-standalone"); WebDriver browser = new FirefoxD...
I tried to install the following dependencies for PyGTK 2.16.0 (the Python GIMP Tool Kit) on Mac OS 10.6.3: glib 2.25.5 gettext-0.18 libiconv-1.13.1 When I tried to install glib, I got the following error message: gconvert.c:55:2: error: #error GNU libiconv not in use but included iconv.h is from libiconv The libiconv web page tal...
I have seen the iPhone equivalent of this question here and I'm wondering... is there an equivalent for bringSubviewToFront: for OS X development? I need something to send an NSImageView "to front". ...
I'm using Netbeans to add a JToolbar to my window which also has a JMenuBar. Here is the design-time look: .. but during run-time I get this: With the toolbar seemingly partially hidden under the menu names. This is on the Mac, btw. Is there something stupid I've forgotten to do or some layout trick I should be using? EDIT: I'll ad...
I am writing a program that will need to measure time in minutes. To be exact, it will wait 10 minutes, execute some code, wait 2 minutes, execute more code and repeat this 5 times (anyone guess what I'm trying to do?) and I am wondering how to do the breaks. Thanks in advance! Oh, and by the way, I'm on Mac. ...
I've got to write some code for a legacy application that is still running JDK 1.5. Unfortunately, it looks like OSX doesn't actually have a 1.5 JDK installed, it just links to 1.6: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions $ ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Apr 26 11:53 1.3 -> 1.3.1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Feb 11...
Hello all, I am really looking for implementation advice as I have entered a new realm that I am not familiar with. At the simplest level, I would like to find a way that I can read/write to a users machine from my web server. For this to work, I think I will have to install some sort of "plugin" on the users machine which can receive ...
I'm using a custom font and the @font-face tag. In Windows, everything looks great, regardless of whether it's Firefox, Chrome, or IE. On Mac, it's a different story. For some reason, the Mac font renderer thinks the font is a lot shorter than it is. For example, consider this test code (live example here): <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "...
Hello! I would like to create an application in Qt that uses poppler to display pdf documents. I could manage this on Windows however I cannot make it work on MAC (which is also important for me). I used this but I cannot compile this example in Qt Creator, because it needs the poppler library to be linked with the project but I can't f...
Hi there, is there any idea for getting the text under the mouse cursor? I'm trying to build a dictionary app, that pops up a panel of translates when mouse hangs over a word. I took a look at the accessiblity apis, and it only can find the current ui element, but not the current word... my last choice will be makeing screenshots freq...