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Sony NW-E8P Network Walkman Compatibility 499 Views / 2 Replies  
Fellow Macnners,
I:m on a trip to Japan and have seen the greatest mp3 player. Suffice it to say, it is basically nothing more than a set of headphones. But, the package and store employees claim...
Posted by mxcantor, on Oct 19, 2001 at 06:37 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Getting the 10.1 Upgrade in Japan 390 Views / 2 Replies  
Hey, I'm studying in Japan for the semester without a broadband internet connection. All of the stores that I have checked only hav ethe full version of OS X, none of them have an upgrade from...
Posted by mxcantor, on Oct 15, 2001 at 12:50 AM, in macOS
java bridge and custom java classes 600 Views / 0 Replies  
I'm working on a project which bascially requires the use of a java class in an objc app. I've had no luck being able to use this java class, so I tried a super simple test, just to see if the...
Posted by mxcantor, on May 12, 2001 at 02:18 AM, in Developer Center
C question 538 Views / 8 Replies  
If I want to use simple C functions in a Obj-C/cocoa app how do I go about doing that?

Can I just write the functions in a .c file and import them with #import?

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on May 11, 2001 at 08:30 PM, in Developer Center
I'm actually working on the same thing in Cocoa... 608 Views / 3 Replies  
I'm actually working on the same thing in Cocoa using the java bridge to access the database via some java utility classes. I was wondering if yo uwould be open to a collaborative process.

feel...
Posted by mxcantor, on May 9, 2001 at 12:00 AM, in Developer Center
aqua doesn't offend me like it used to. I'd... 4,196 Views / 200 Replies  
aqua doesn't offend me like it used to.

I'd try to do as much that the old finder did as possible, which, using the cocoa api's should be much easier than it was for apple to do it in carbon. Big...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 27, 2001 at 01:44 AM, in Developer Center
Dont like apple's finder? - Come write a new one! 4,196 Views / 200 Replies  
Ok, I got fed up with some of the limitations of apple's finder and so I sat up, went on source forge and started ChikaraX (Chikara == Power in Japanese). The purpose of ChikaraX is to build a...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 26, 2001 at 07:16 PM, in Developer Center
Ok, i know that this is complete out-of-my-a$$... 401 Views / 13 Replies  
Ok, i know that this is complete out-of-my-a$$ speculation, but I beleive that the reason apple has oversimplified the dock so much is so that when summer comes around, and they do all the common...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 23, 2001 at 01:57 AM, in macOS
commentary on the dev tools 682 Views / 18 Replies  
Something that I think many people have overlooked is that apple is doing something completely revolutionary with the dev tools. For the first time, ever, purchasers of entry level consumer...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 22, 2001 at 09:42 AM, in macOS
i too am a left handed mac user, and would have... 711 Views / 8 Replies  
i too am a left handed mac user, and would have to agree that there is no problem with with the direction of the cursor. But, it would be cool to be able to customize the cursor.

Also, i think...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 17, 2001 at 03:34 PM, in macOS
Actually, java is the same thing. It just hides... 560 Views / 7 Replies  
Actually, java is the same thing. It just hides it from you,

When you do :
String s = "str";
that just makes s a pointer to a "str" wihch is somwehre in memory
its teh same as:
NSString *s =...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 17, 2001 at 01:25 AM, in Developer Center
i vote for fake, at least on the second, but only... 983 Views / 52 Replies  
i vote for fake, at least on the second, but only because there were no shadows under the iDVD or ITunes winows.

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 16, 2001 at 12:29 AM, in macOS
ali, thank you, you're great. next question,... 610 Views / 4 Replies  
ali, thank you, you're great.

next question, is there a way to make an NSTextField send an even to its target on every keystroke, not just a return?

-max
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 13, 2001 at 09:40 PM, in Developer Center
is the build documentation more complete? 567 Views / 16 Replies  
is the build documentation more complete?
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 13, 2001 at 06:40 PM, in Developer Center
are you trying to install to a disk other than... 367 Views / 2 Replies  
are you trying to install to a disk other than your OS X boot disk? if so, this could cause the installer to screw up.

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 13, 2001 at 06:03 PM, in Developer Center
event handling 610 Views / 4 Replies  
Ok, i want to make a NSTextView for an NSScrollView that has special behavior on a keyDown event. To do this, I subclassed NSTextView and put in these three messages:


//factory method
+...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 13, 2001 at 05:06 PM, in Developer Center
thank you Ali, that worked, but is this common to... 555 Views / 4 Replies  
thank you Ali, that worked, but is this common to all functions that take a variable number of args?

coming form java, thats new to me.

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 12, 2001 at 06:16 PM, in Developer Center
ok, heres a stupid question, how do you start x? ... 606 Views / 9 Replies  
ok, heres a stupid question, how do you start x? in XAqua 0.3, you jsut opened XMaster.app, now there is an XDarwin.app, which upon launching promptly quits. If any one can help, thakn you in...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 12, 2001 at 06:10 PM, in macOS
newbie array question 555 Views / 4 Replies  
Ok, for a program that I am doing, which will be open sourced as soon as it works, I need to create a NSMutableArray where each object is a 2 object NSArray or a NSString and an NSButton.

Two ways...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 12, 2001 at 05:46 PM, in Developer Center
and we will see your insurgent dvd player on... 492 Views / 4 Replies  
and we will see your insurgent dvd player on versiontracker when nomo-dvd???
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 12, 2001 at 04:23 AM, in macOS
i vote for fake, my extra little piece of... 731 Views / 49 Replies  
i vote for fake, my extra little piece of evidence is that the menubar clock is in the Skia font, not Lucida Grande. While it is possible that apple amde the ability to switch the font an option of...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 12, 2001 at 04:12 AM, in macOS
simple NSPoint adn NSString question 1,156 Views / 2 Replies  
ok, i guess these are two newbie questions.

For NSPoint - how do you code one? Where is the method to produce them?

for NSString, if a method takes an NSString argument, can you enter a...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 11, 2001 at 12:37 AM, in Developer Center
On the topic of multilinguilism (sp?) - dont stop... 687 Views / 21 Replies  
On the topic of multilinguilism (sp?) - dont stop with browsers. You can save documents in japanese, and we you view their icons in the finder, they dont have jumbled file names, rather perfectly...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 9, 2001 at 04:37 AM, in macOS
Try typing man df and man du in the terminal. df... 783 Views / 17 Replies  
Try typing man df and man du in the terminal. df gives you total free space on every hard disk, and du gives you a break down of disusage in your directory. These tools work instantly through the...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 9, 2001 at 01:55 AM, in macOS
Just a thought, is dialpad.com a java2 system? I... 718 Views / 14 Replies  
Just a thought, is dialpad.com a java2 system? I know its PC only, but most of windoze friends can get on it.

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 9, 2001 at 01:52 AM, in macOS
I have a question to hte poster, yo usaid that... 623 Views / 19 Replies  
I have a question to hte poster, yo usaid that the Army was switching to OS X server -do you have a source on this? I'd love to read/have it if you do.

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 9, 2001 at 01:46 AM, in macOS
How to make OW my god of browsers: Right... 583 Views / 30 Replies  
How to make OW my god of browsers:

Right now, I love it, but on my PBG3 bronze, it crashes more than I'd like, can get bogged down spawing too many threads, and lastly, cannot, at all, log on to...
Posted by mxcantor, on Mar 9, 2001 at 01:38 AM, in macOS
royal flatbreads aside, if the different systems... 585 Views / 9 Replies  
royal flatbreads aside, if the different systems are on different partitions how could one change those boot variables to get the new disk?

-max
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 22, 2001 at 10:33 PM, in macOS
Switching Startup Disk from the Command Line 585 Views / 9 Replies  
Is there any way to switch the startup disk from the command line instead of using apple's incredibly buggy startup disk pane in the system preferences?

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 22, 2001 at 07:25 PM, in macOS
Dont worry. Apple outright said that they are... 483 Views / 4 Replies  
Dont worry. Apple outright said that they are not putting any power management functionality in the Public Beta. PB inhales my Bronze-Keyboard PBG3, but it will be much better with the release. ...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 16, 2001 at 11:22 AM, in macOS
Actually, if you go to macweek.zdnet.com and go... 354 Views / 4 Replies  
Actually, if you go to macweek.zdnet.com and go to their "quick links" section, the have a link to a page on sourcefouge which claims to have rootless x-windows working.

p.s. thank you OW for...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 13, 2001 at 04:46 AM, in macOS
rootless X-windows not working :(... 319 Views / 2 Replies  
Has anyone been able to get XAqua0.3 working? It claims that it gives you rootless x-windows side by side with aqua. However, running Xmaster.app doesnt do anything. If anyone had any advice, that...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 13, 2001 at 12:32 AM, in macOS
rootless X-windows not working :(... 354 Views / 4 Replies  
Has anyone been able to get XAqua0.3 working? It claims that it gives you rootless x-windows side by side with aqua. However, running Xmaster.app doesnt do anything. If anyone had any advice, that...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 13, 2001 at 12:32 AM, in macOS
I am sure that I will get flamed for this, but I... 3,666 Views / 57 Replies  
I am sure that I will get flamed for this, but I beleive that you are all wrong. Much of Cocoa is based on the OpenSTEP API, which is not just availalbe, but free and open source for the PC. Since...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 11, 2001 at 09:31 PM, in macOS
aaroncsmith - what are the current bugs in your... 480 Views / 34 Replies  
aaroncsmith - what are the current bugs in your implementation? is it stable enough to replace rooted x-windows ala Xmaster?

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 8, 2001 at 01:15 PM, in macOS
"ClearType In a thoroughly buried option... 1,103 Views / 51 Replies  
"ClearType
In a thoroughly buried option somewhere in Display Properties, you can enable ClearType to smooth the display of fonts (Figure). This is a wonderful option for laptop users and other with...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 4, 2001 at 03:50 PM, in macOS
force quit vs. quit 1,590 Views / 17 Replies  
has anyone noticed that when you double click an app in process building you can either quit it or force quit it, I'm pretty sure that this refers to the different kill messages, but could anyone...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 4, 2001 at 02:52 AM, in macOS
getting running apps in cocoa 384 Views / 1 Replies  
First of all, I'm sorry to keep asking such newbie questions to this bb, but I dont really know any other good resources aside from apple's API documentation, so if someone could point me to them,...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 4, 2001 at 02:49 AM, in Developer Center
accessing CLI apps (as in renice etc..) 476 Views / 3 Replies  
I am wondering how one accesses the unix CLI tools from a Cocoa or Java application, I am trying to build a gui wrapper for some tools as a way to start learning cocoa (in java or obj.-c)

-max
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 3, 2001 at 06:55 PM, in Developer Center
i've found that if you simply run disk first aid... 388 Views / 2 Replies  
i've found that if you simply run disk first aid (the classic one that came with the beta in OS 9 it fixes the problem. The only problem is that to switch os'es, I have to restart, hold down "c" to...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 2, 2001 at 05:17 PM, in macOS
changing the boot disk via command line 388 Views / 2 Replies  
I've been experiencing a bug that I've heard a lot of other people talking about, that if the boot disk is at all dirty, then going to "startup disk" in the sys. preferences causes the pref. app to...
Posted by mxcantor, on Feb 2, 2001 at 05:05 PM, in macOS
osx, decss 600 Views / 6 Replies  
First of all, let me state that I have no intention of implementing this, and I am only asking for intellectual purposes...

In light of the absence of a dvd player for OS X, how hard would it be...
Posted by mxcantor, on Jan 25, 2001 at 12:29 AM, in Developer Center
how stable is 4k17? would anyone recomend... 496 Views / 11 Replies  
how stable is 4k17?
would anyone recomend installing it on a bronze keyboard, pre firewire pbg3?

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Jan 23, 2001 at 12:33 AM, in macOS
I'm talking about the apps from OSXS 1.2 They're... 456 Views / 2 Replies  
I'm talking about the apps from OSXS 1.2 They're written in NextStep, which is basically a subset of cocoa. granted there might be some interface problems, but I think that it would be worth a try....
Posted by mxcantor, on Jan 20, 2001 at 03:49 PM, in macOS
osx server on client 456 Views / 2 Replies  
Just a thought, since OSX server is essentially osx client DR2 with the server packages on top, would it be possible to install the server packages onto an osx client?

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Jan 18, 2001 at 03:20 PM, in macOS
just tested it, works like a charm 735 Views / 19 Replies  
just tested it, works like a charm
Posted by mxcantor, on Jan 10, 2001 at 03:23 PM, in macOS
I'm having the same problem, asu.info.apple.com... 3,940 Views / 11 Replies  
I'm having the same problem, asu.info.apple.com seems to be dead. In a completely unrelated note, apple's idea of distributing software via the iDisk is a great idea, and for the first time it...
Posted by mxcantor, on Jan 9, 2001 at 08:26 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
hope is not lost. I remember someone writing... 517 Views / 18 Replies  
hope is not lost. I remember someone writing back in DP4 days that since quartz uses PDF technology for the display, the instructions for drawing the display are much smaller than in mac os 9 or...
Posted by mxcantor, on Jan 8, 2001 at 06:06 PM, in macOS
preemptive multitasking and protected memory in classic 474 Views / 3 Replies  
Just an idea, and know that it is not that practical, but if one were to create a hack with would spawn a new TruBlueEnvironment process for each application running in classic, wouldn't that...
Posted by mxcantor, on Jan 7, 2001 at 02:09 PM, in macOS
locking OS X 526 Views / 6 Replies  
Does anyone have any idea if it is possible to lock os x like in Win NT/2000? There are a lot of times when I'd like to secure my computer, but without quitting all of my open applications.

-Max
Posted by mxcantor, on Dec 24, 2000 at 01:28 PM, in macOS
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