osx-snow-leopard

Prior to OSX 10.6, ATSFontActivateFromFileSpecification/ATSFontActivateFromFileReference were available and could be used to load a font from a file. I can't find anything similar in Core Text. Rob Keniger You can get a CTFontRef from a font file by going via a CGFontRef : CFURLRef url = CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath(kCFAllocatorDefault, CFSTR("/path/to/font"), kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle, false); CGDataProviderRef dataProvider = CGDataProviderCreateWithURL(url); CGFontRef theCGFont = CGFontCreateWithDataProvider(dataProvider); CTFontRef theCTFont = CTFontCreateWithGraphicsFont(theCGFont); CFRelease

I've managed to get my install all screwed up as I'm a newbie and messing up is what I'm good at. 1) Can anyone reference a credible set of setup instructions for this stuff? 2) Can I just uninstall and start from scratch (passwords and all) through macports? I tried and a bunch of mysql directories stuck around after the unistall, WTF!? 3) Where does mysqld.sock need to reside and what file settings do I need to apply to get it playing nice with php5 and apache2 ? Does it live in /tmp or in /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/ ? Do I need to configure /opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini? opt/local/var/db/php5

The IMP type in Objective-C represents a function pointer, as far I as understand. Is there any way to make an IMP from a block pointer? Thanks for your ideas. Since this was written there is now API in iOS and Mac OS X that allows Blocks to be turned into IMPs directly. I wrote up a weblog post describing the API (imp_implementationWithBlock()). A block is effectively a structure that contains a bit of metadata, a reference to the code contained within the block and a copy of the const-copied data captured within the block. Thus, no, there is no way to directly map between an IMP and a Block

I am having Xcode 4.4 on OS X Lion. I'd like to install the Mac 10.6 SDK - also known as macosx10.7 SDK - because I need to compile openFrameworks. I found that I need to download additional tools from this site . However I didn't find any 10.6 SDK there. I also tried looking in Xcode Preferences -> Downloads -> Components, but there is no way. I am wondering how can I install previous SDKs for Xcode? Rob Napier Unfortunately, Apple tends to make this much harder than you'd like. You can't download SDKs by themselves. They come as part of specific versions of Xcode. So you have to download the

I'm wondering how can I write a code to monitor the mouse buttons globally. This would be for OS X, and I'd like to try writing it in Qt/C++. To begin with I don't know how to capture those global events. The monitor application would not display a GUI, it'd simply be a process that runs in the background and detects mouse buttons being clicked. In the second part of the program I would like to launch hot-keys depending of the mouse key pressed. My final idea is make a free program like steerMouse, just to figure out how it could be done. I'm asking for a guidance of where to start - how can I