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MonoDevelop compiling options

Hi! I'm developing applications in MonoDevelop for the first time today, and I just need to know how to compile my projects for mac, NOT windows. When I click "Compile" after right clicking on my project, I always get an exe file. (Which, when tested, DOES work as programmed) That's all fine, and good, but being a mac user, I could real...

diskimages-helper problem when mounting on a mac

Hi guys, Ive got a program that runs on Mac OS 10.5.8. The program runs a continuous cycle where it mounts an image, installs a browser plugin and unmounts the image again. If I leave this program running I eventually end up in a situation where I get the following error "fork: resource temporarily unavailable". In the activity monitor ...

Mac Qt4: PyQt 4.8 installation error (Need help)

Hi everyone, hope someone of you can help me. I'm new to mac and qt, so please forgive me if I ask some dumb questions. So to the problem. I want to install PyQt 4.8 on the macbook (Mac OS X 10.6.4). First I installed Qt 4.7 like in this description http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/install-mac.html. Then I installed sip 4.11.2 (without --...

List the details of a network directory with a shell script.

This is new to me a little. But my objective is to run a script that will display the directory of a network drive. I am on a mac and the network drive is a local SMB connection. I have been able to use ls ~/Documents and that lists a specificed local directory, but I am unable to get it to show contents of a network directory. BTW...

Mac OS with KVM Switch - few seconds delay fix ?

I'm running Mac OS X with KVM Switch and when I switch to Mac OS, I have to wait few seconds until the system wakes up. I used InsomniaX but it didn't fix this issue. Do you know any fix for this delay ? ...

Access another Application's window/views objective-c Mac

On mac OSX, using objective-c, is it possible to access another applications window and its views? So if I have one application with just a label which says Hello World, can I create another application that will be able to access the first application's view hierarchy and get the text "Hello World"? I have relative amount of experience...

Does wxwidgets use rosetta in Mac?

Hi, While deciding for a cross platform language for a desktop application I want to do, I came across "wxwidgets" for C++. After testing a demo application in Mac 10.6.4 I noticed the application needed "Rosetta" to run. My concern is: Will I always need "Rosetta" for a C++ application with wxwidgets to run on a Mac? Note: Latest new...

Where can I get a complete reference on Mac OS X's CoreWLAN?

Googling for CoreWLAN brings a mere 701 results -- Apple's own shallow reference isn't even there, at least not on the first pages. For instance, I would like to know what are the possible values of kCWScanKeyScanType when scanning for networks. Apple will only say it defaults to APScanTypeActive, but doesn't explain what that means or ...

Is there a Mac alternative to Visual Studio Express?

I've just started programming in VB.Net and don't want to use Dreamweaver to do it all. I use a Mac for all my other work like design work and coding in Dreamweaver but would like to know if there is an alternative to Visual Studio Express so that I can do all my vb.net stuff on the mac too. Any suggestions? ...

Mac OS X - bash default pathname expansion or bug

I'm trying to run the following line of script in bash on Mac OS X 10.6.4 (from this question): $ export EDITOR='mvim -f -c "au VimLeave * !open -a Terminal"' Alas, what I get is something unexpected: $ echo $EDITOR mvim -f -c "au VimLeave Desktop Documents Downloads Library Movies Music Pictures Public Sites bin !open -a Terminal" ...

Mac OSX PackageMaker: how to install multiple packages and post-processing

I find myself in a unique scenario -- it has to be, because no searching I do seems to turn up any answers. But maybe there's a MacOS X guru out there that can answer this for me? I'm using PackageMaker to create an install process for my company's application. It's a cross-platform app and my home base is Linux and Windows, so please...

Duplicate Symbol _OBJC_METACLASS_$_myClass

Hi, I am newbie into MAC objective Programming. I developed a simple class with few functions. The files are something like follows. myClass.h, myClass.m and main.m. I am getting the linker error : Duplicate Symbol _OBJC_METACLASS_S_myClass. I tried all possibilities like removing/adding header and .m files. But is not going. Any h...

jqmodal not scrollable on a Mac with latest Firefox?

Any idea why a new Firefox (latest version) would not show scrollbars on a JQModal? Worked fine in every other browser: Called like: $('#HTMLPreview').click(function(){ var a=document.getElementById("txtStudentWriting").value; b=a.replace(/[\r\n]/g, "<p><p><p>"); $.modal(b,{maxWidth:500,maxHeight:600,minHe...

Best method for running distributed processing on Mac OSX

Hi, I am currently attempting to run a rather CPU intensive application for a research project on a computer running OSX 10.4. There is no way that even a fast MacPro could handle this amount of processing. I'm fairly new to the concept of distributed processing, but it seems to me that I have two options: 1) try to set up a cluster of...

running android emulator in eclipse

Hey guys, Does anyone know how to run the emulator within eclipse without using ADT. All I want to do is run the emulator with -partition-size option of the emulator and you cant do this by default. Im sure there might be a tricky way of doing this but googling doesn't give me any clues. does any one know ? I also thought about runnin...

CoreMidi.framework sending midi commands

there is an app called FreeStyler, that you can control using midi commands. In my mac app I want to send midi signals. Can someone show an example of this? Elijah ...

Open source tools for testing purpose in Mac OS X

Hi all, Currently i am using Mac OS X 10.6.4 and i want to know what are the tools(automated & manual) that i can install in my mac for testing purpose.Generally i need this for different kind of Website & Mobile platform testing. ...

check how much network traffic is consumed by each process

I want to know how much network traffic is consumed by each process. I would prefer for a crossplatform solution but I guess this is not possible, so I am searching for a solution which works on MacOSX right now. The solution should be lightweight. I want to run it in background and it should analyse all running processes. (Stupid dis...

Importing from Photoshop

Hi all, is it possible to import a merged picture from photoshop using scripting bridge and use it as an NSImage? ...

Mac app UDP data over its own IP

Is it possible for an objective-c mac app to send UDP data to its own IP address? If so, can someone show me an example? code? Thanks! ...