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LockPixels and DisposeGWorld with QTNewGWorldFromPtr
(HTML)
QA1007: Clarifies some issues surrounding pointer ownership when creating GWorlds with QTNewGWorldFromPtr
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QuickTime |
2001-02-26 |
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Movies - Saving movie playback hints
(HTML)
QA1366: Explains how to save and load media play hints from Movie files.
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QuickTime |
2004-09-14 |
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Sequence Grabber - Determining the capture resolution of an IIDC device
(HTML)
QA1403: Discusses how to determine the resolution of a captured image from an IIDC device
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QuickTime |
2005-01-06 |
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Determining user login/logout status
(HTML)
QA1133: Tells how to determinine if a user is logged in, and how to get login/logout notification
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Resource Management |
2002-04-08 |
Non Mac OS X Bundled data-fork based Resources
(HTML)
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QA1098: Mac OS X Bundled data-fork based Resources
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Resource Management |
2003-08-20 |
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OTScheduleDeferredTask When Task Running
(HTML)
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NW52: Describes what happens when you use OTScheduleDefferedTask to schedule a task that is running.
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Resource Management |
1997-10-13 |
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Preventing sleep
(HTML)
QA1160: Explains how your application can prevent the system from sleeping.
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Resource Management |
2004-10-22 |
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Programmatically causing restart, shutdown and/or logout
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QA1134: Describes how to programmatically cause restart, shutdown, sleep or logout.
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Resource Management |
2003-02-10 |
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Registering for sleep notifications
(HTML)
QA1340: Explains how register for sleep notifcations on Mac OS X.
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Resource Management |
2004-10-25 |
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Resource forks in Mach-O binaries
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QA1175: Advises against using resource forks in Mach-O binaries.
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Resource Management |
2002-08-07 |
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Setting environment variables for user processes
(HTML)
QA1067: Tells how to set environment variables for user processes.
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Resource Management |
2001-10-25 |
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Temporary Memory
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ME08: Discusses the tradeoff between temporary memory and system memory for short-lived memory requirements.
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Resource Management |
1998-08-24 |
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Timely Issues - 1904
(HTML)
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OPS23: Explains why the beginning of the year 1904 was chosen for epoch of the Time global variable.
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Resource Management |
1999-05-17 |
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The 'vers' Resource and Your Place in the World
(HTML)
TX14: Setting the correct country code in the 'vers' resource to reflect the application's localization.
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Resource Management |
2000-05-01 |
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Detecting Classic and Carbon X Environments
(HTML)
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OV03: Describes how to find out if your application is running in the Classic environment in Mac OS X.
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Runtime Architecture |
2000-10-16 |
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Detecting specific ROM-in-RAM Mac
(HTML)
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Deprecated - HW49: Identifying a Mac by name ("iMac"), and better alternatives for determining specific features ("has Firewire").
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Runtime Architecture |
1999-10-05 |
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Determining user login/logout status
(HTML)
QA1133: Tells how to determinine if a user is logged in, and how to get login/logout notification
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Runtime Architecture |
2002-04-08 |
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Environment Variables
(HTML)
QA1255: Describes how a process gets its environment variables.
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Runtime Architecture |
2003-10-29 |
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How do I use kMPCreateTaskSuspendedMask with MPCreateTask?
(HTML)
QA1055: Describes how to start a task that has been suspended with the ability to resume it later.
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Runtime Architecture |
2001-07-02 |
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How to define a plst resource in a .r file
(HTML)
QA1034: Describes how to include a .plist file in a .r file.
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Runtime Architecture |
2001-05-09 |
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Non Mac OS X Bundled data-fork based Resources
(HTML)
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QA1098: Mac OS X Bundled data-fork based Resources
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Runtime Architecture |
2003-08-20 |
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OTScheduleDeferredTask When Task Running
(HTML)
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NW52: Describes what happens when you use OTScheduleDefferedTask to schedule a task that is running.
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Runtime Architecture |
1997-10-13 |
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Resource forks in Mach-O binaries
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QA1175: Advises against using resource forks in Mach-O binaries.
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Runtime Architecture |
2002-08-07 |
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Setting environment variables for user processes
(HTML)
QA1067: Tells how to set environment variables for user processes.
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Runtime Architecture |
2001-10-25 |
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Static linking of user binaries on Mac OS X
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QA1118: Explains why static linking of user binaries is not supported on Mac OS X, and possible workarounds.
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Runtime Architecture |
2002-02-07 |
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Storing file references in CFPreferences
(HTML)
QA1350: Storing file references in CFPreferences
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Runtime Architecture |
2004-10-01 |
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Targeting DebuggingCarbonLib asserts
(HTML)
Deprecated - QA1033: Describes how to focus DebuggingCarbonLib asserts to a single application.
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Runtime Architecture |
2001-05-04 |
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Converting Simplified Chinese
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TX06: Describes how to convert Macintosh Simplified Chinese encoding into GB2312.
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Text & Fonts |
1996-02-09 |
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Converting to Precomposed Unicode
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QA1235: Describes how to convert a string to precomposed Unicode.
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Text & Fonts |
2003-02-07 |
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dlsDelta field in PRAM's time zone MachineLocation record
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OPS21: Explains how to access and preserve the Daylight Savings state when changing the GMT.
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Text & Fonts |
2001-03-26 |
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Improving ATSUI Text Drawing Performance
(HTML)
QA1027: Talks about one way of improving ATSUI text drawing performance.
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Text & Fonts |
2001-04-17 |
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Installing input methods on Mac OS X
(HTML)
QA1054: Describes how to install and use input methods on Mac OS X.
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Text & Fonts |
2001-09-14 |
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IsCmdChar
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TX12: Describes the routine IsCmdChar, which is useful when testing for Command-period and command-AnyCharacter.
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Text & Fonts |
1998-07-06 |
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Locating a Font's Home File
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Deprecated - TB18: Lists the steps necessary to find the home file of a given font.
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Text & Fonts |
1996-02-15 |
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SetFontInfoForSelection incorrect prototype
(HTML)
QA1375: Describes the incorrect prototyping of the SetFontInfoForSelection API and gives a workaround.
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Text & Fonts |
2004-10-04 |
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Sorting Like the Finder
(HTML)
QA1159: Shows how to sort strings like the Finder's list view.
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Text & Fonts |
2004-10-27 |
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Translating Postscript font file names
(HTML)
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TX09: Describes how to translate a font name to a Postscript font file name.
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Text & Fonts |
1997-11-17 |
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Core Audio & Xcode - Ensuring the latest Core Audio Headers are installed
(HTML)
QA1386: Describes how to ensure you're working with the latest Core Audio Header files with Xcode.
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Tools |
2005-01-18 |
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OTScheduleDeferredTask When Task Running
(HTML)
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NW52: Describes what happens when you use OTScheduleDefferedTask to schedule a task that is running.
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Tools |
1997-10-13 |
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Setting environment variables for user processes
(HTML)
QA1067: Tells how to set environment variables for user processes.
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Tools |
2001-10-25 |
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Changing Size of sfnt Cache
(HTML)
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TX11: Describes how to change the size of the sfnt fragment cache.
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Typography |
1998-04-12 |
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Creating Double-byte Bitmap Fonts
(HTML)
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TX10: Some information about converting to the 'NFNT' and 'sbit' font formats.
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Typography |
1998-02-10 |
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Improving ATSUI Text Drawing Performance
(HTML)
QA1027: Talks about one way of improving ATSUI text drawing performance.
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Typography |
2001-04-17 |
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Clickable Static Text Item
(HTML)
QA1380: Explains how to make a static text item respond to clicks
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User Experience |
2004-10-05 |
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Creating Gray Scaled Images > 8 bits
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Deprecated - QD51: Shows how to create gray-scaled images at resolutions greater than 8 bits for display.
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User Experience |
1997-11-17 |
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Ejecting the Volume on Which Your Program Resides
(HTML)
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FL09: Suggests different solutions regarding ejecting a disk on which an application resides.
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User Experience |
1998-07-06 |
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Error -151 and NewGWorld
(HTML)
Deprecated - QD18: Explains what the error code -151 means when in NewGWorld.
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User Experience |
1995-09-15 |
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HID Manager Event Data Underruns
(HTML)
QA1038: Explains how to correctly handle HID Manager event queue data underruns.
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User Experience |
2001-06-13 |
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Moving the Menu Bar
(HTML)
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Deprecated - TB54: Describes how to move the menubar to another Macintosh Display and why this move is unadvisable.
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User Experience |
1998-12-22 |
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My custom item dismisses my Navigation Services dialog
(HTML)
QA1381: Gives a workaround for dismissive clicks on items in the custom area of Navigation Services dialogs.
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User Experience |
2004-11-22 |
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Problem with PaintRgn on 256-color Screens
(HTML)
Deprecated - QD23: PaintRgn with RGBForeColor and transfer mode addOver doesn't return color to original on 256-color-screens.
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User Experience |
1995-09-15 |
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Securely Erasing, Accessing and Dismounting a Macintosh Partition
(HTML)
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FL11: Set up a disk for secure erasures. Resources with information on magnetic disks, information recovery.
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User Experience |
1999-01-11 |
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SetFontInfoForSelection incorrect prototype
(HTML)
QA1375: Describes the incorrect prototyping of the SetFontInfoForSelection API and gives a workaround.
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User Experience |
2004-10-04 |
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Suppressing the "unexpectedly quit" alert
(HTML)
QA1288: Describes how to suppress the "unexpectedly quit" alert.
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User Experience |
2003-10-10 |
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Using qd and QDGlobals
(HTML)
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Deprecated - QD40: Why a sample program compiled with SC may give the link error: undefined entry qd. Provides a solution.
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User Experience |
1996-02-09 |
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Using Temporary Memory with OpenPicture
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Deprecated - QD20: Provides several techniques of causing OpenPicture to allocate temporary memory for a picture handle.
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User Experience |
1996-02-01 |
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Why isn't my edit text box in my Navigation dialog's custom area working on 10.3?
(HTML)
QA1315: Explains a bug in the Mac OS X 10.3 Navigation Services Custom Area involving the EditText and its work around.
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User Experience |
2003-10-28 |
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Window Manager and EraseRect
(HTML)
Deprecated - QD26: Why WindowManager causes a flicker using EraseRect and provides a solution for this problem.
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User Experience |
1995-09-15 |
