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Java File Paths are not Unix File Paths
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Deprecated - JAVA11: Describes why Java File Paths are not Unix File paths on Mac OS Classic Java.
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Java |
2000-03-20 |
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JBound App Results in -35 OSErr
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Deprecated - JAVA03: Resolving error -35 on Mac OS Classic JBound applications.
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Java |
1998-02-22 |
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Keyframes and AddMediaSample
(HTML)
QTMCC20: Describes setting flags correctly for AddMediaSample to mark keyframes and difference frames.
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QuickTime |
2000-12-01 |
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Launching the Default Internet Browser
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NW60: Shows with sample code how to invoke a user's default browser to open a specific URL.
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Internet & Web, Networking |
1999-10-11 |
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Legacy Devices
(HTML)
HW84: Discusses why legacy devices with hard-wired I/O addresses may not work properly with Open Firmware.
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Device Drivers, Graphics & Imaging, Hardware, QuickTime |
2000-03-20 |
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Library naming conventions for proper building and linking with the Mac OS X Developer Tools
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QA1101: Describes the library naming conventions required by the Mac OS X Developer Tools to properly link against your libraries.
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Tools |
2001-12-20 |
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Limiting the component list in SCRequestImageSettings()
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QA1062: Describes the scCompressionListType flag, which limits the list of compressors shown in the standard image settings dialog.
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QuickTime |
2001-07-24 |
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Linked Movies with Different Color Palettes
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QTMRF07: Explains why a QuickTime movie shouldn't contain subMovies that have different color palettes.
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QuickTime |
1996-02-15 |
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Loading Scripting Additions without initializing AppleScript in Mac OS X
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QA1070: Explains how to load scripting additions so you can call them using Apple events.
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AppleScript, Carbon |
2001-09-13 |
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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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Carbon, Text & Fonts |
1996-02-15 |
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Locating the 1275-1994 Standard Document
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HW85: Alerts that the Open Firmware (IEEE 1275-1994) document can't be found at the IEEE Standards Association site.
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Hardware |
2000-07-17 |
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Locking an Area Using PBLockRange
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OPS09: Describes the behavior of PBLockRange.
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Carbon |
1996-05-14 |
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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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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime |
2001-02-26 |
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Mac OS X and root access
(HTML)
QA1013: Describes how to enable root access in Mac OS X.
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Darwin, Hardware, Security |
2001-03-13 |
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Mac OS X OpenGL Interfaces
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QA1269: Describes the Mac OS X specific APIs to set up and use OpenGL.
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Graphics & Imaging |
2003-06-19 |
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MACE Restrictions
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Deprecated - SND16: MACE algorithms only support the compression of 8-bit offset binary sound.
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Carbon, Music & Audio |
1999-06-08 |
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Mach Absolute Time Units
(HTML)
QA1398: Describes how to convert Mach absolute time units to real time, and vice versa.
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Darwin |
2005-01-06 |
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Make sure your PPD Plugin calls ppdCloseCompiledPPDFromTicket
(HTML)
QA1275: Avoid a potential PPD Plugin bug that can cause problems with the print dialog and applications.
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Printing |
2004-02-19 |
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Making Input Gain Setting Changes
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Deprecated - SND01: Changing the input gain setting on older Power Macs before recording.
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Carbon, Music & Audio |
1996-06-01 |
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Making sense of IOKit error codes
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QA1075: Explains how to interpret I/O Kit error codes.
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Darwin, Device Drivers, Hardware |
2002-02-07 |
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Managing custom drawing code in a compositing world
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QA1162: Explains why any custom drawing code must be handled by the kEventControlDraw handler of a custom HIView
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Carbon |
2004-10-14 |
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Mapping kernel memory to user space on Mac OS X 10.2
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QA1197: Describes a change to mapping kernel memory to user space affecting Mac OS X 10.2 and later.
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Darwin, Device Drivers |
2002-09-13 |
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Maximum Memory for the "Firewire" PowerBook
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Deprecated - HW83: Discrepancies between PowerBook Developer Note and TIL articles 14870 and 58582, regarding maximum memory configurations.
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Hardware |
2000-03-13 |
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MCSetClip and Clipping with the Movie Controller
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QTMTB18: Tells why the movie controller ignores the clip set by SetMovieDisplayClipRgn and shows a correct clipping technique.
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QuickTime |
1995-05-01 |
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Menu Bar Clock and NVRAM
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QA1102: Explains why booting with the Command-Option-P-R keys doesn't reset date and time preferences.
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Accessibility, Hardware |
2001-12-21 |
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Menus & Hardware Accelerated OpenGL under Mac OS 9 Carbon
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QA1042: Explains how to handle correctly Mac OS 9 menus when there is hardware accelerated OpenGL blitting.
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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging |
2001-07-10 |
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Missing ColorSync Profiles
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CS13: Describes ColorSync profiles, focusing on the desc tag of the profile and the results of incorrect tags.
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Graphics & Imaging |
1999-05-03 |
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Mixing AWT/Swing and Cocoa Java
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QA1342: Recommends an alternative to mixing Cocoa Java and AWT/Swing.
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Java |
2004-02-26 |
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Movie Drawing Complete Procedure with C++
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QA1150: Demonstrates a static class method which can be used as a QuickTime movie drawing complete callback.
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QuickTime |
2002-06-18 |
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Movie Export Components - Supporting a MovieProgressProc
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QA1230: Explains the steps needed to support a movie progress proc in a movie export component.
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QuickTime |
2003-01-31 |
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Movie export with AAC or AMR audio formats
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QA1347: This QA discusses use of the QuickTime AMR and AAC audio compressors on Macintosh and Windows
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QuickTime |
2004-05-20 |
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Movie Import Component Selectors
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QTMCC09: Explains why there is no documentation on the movie import API selectors: kMovieImportGetFileTypeSelect and kMovieImportDataRefSelect.
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QuickTime |
1996-08-21 |
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Movies - Saving movie playback hints
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QA1366: Explains how to save and load media play hints from Movie files.
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Carbon, Cocoa, QuickTime |
2004-09-14 |
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Moving Files in Java
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Deprecated - JAVA21: Moving files in Mac OS Classic Java.
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Java |
2000-02-02 |
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Moving the Menu Bar
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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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Carbon |
1998-12-22 |
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MPEG Compression in QuickTime
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QTICM16: Describes extracting information from an MPEG movie file and placing it in a specific MPEG track.
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QuickTime |
1995-08-01 |
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MPRemoteCall Contexts
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QA1122: Describes two recently introduced options for the context parameter of MPRemoteCall.
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Carbon |
2002-02-18 |
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MSVC++ link error LNK4098 When Building QuickTime 3 for Windows Apps
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QTW94: Avoid MSVC++ link error LNK4098 when building QuickTime 3 for Windows applications.
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QuickTime |
1998-09-21 |
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Multiple Resources with the Same Type and ID
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TB30: Explains why Resource IDs should be unique within a given resource type within a given resource file.
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Carbon |
1996-11-27 |
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Music Player Sequence Destinations
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QA1330: Provides clarification on MIDI Endpoints and assigning MIDI data flow.
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Music & Audio |
2004-01-15 |
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My custom item dismisses my Navigation Services dialog
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QA1381: Gives a workaround for dismissive clicks on items in the custom area of Navigation Services dialogs.
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Carbon, User Experience |
2004-11-22 |
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My ListBox control works fine on Mac OS X but I get a crash on Mac OS 9 when I click in the scrollbar
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QA1156: Explains the requirements for the use of the Listbox Control on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.
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Carbon |
2002-07-12 |
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New PPD keywords available in Mac OS X version 10.3
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QA1352: Describes the new PPD keywords available for CUPS filters in Mac OS X 10.3.
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Device Drivers, Printing |
2004-05-26 |
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Non Mac OS X Bundled data-fork based Resources
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QA1098: Mac OS X Bundled data-fork based Resources
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Carbon, Mac OS X Server |
2003-08-20 |
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Notifying the Finder of changed or newly created files
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QA1260: Recommended approach to notifying the Finder to update its open windows of a file creation or change.
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Carbon |
2003-04-15 |
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NSL and how it relates to Rendezvous
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QA1299: Explains the relationship between NSL and Rendezvous.
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Carbon, Networking |
2003-09-18 |
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NSOpenGLView redraw problems after a window is closed and re-opened.
(HTML)
QA1353: Workaround for NSOpenGLView failure to draw after its window is closed and re-opened.
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Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging |
2004-12-03 |
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NSTimers and Rendering Loops
(HTML)
QA1385: Using Cocoa timers (NSTimer) to drive a rendering loop
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Cocoa, Games, Graphics & Imaging |
2004-10-04 |
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Numerous Small Packet Exchanges Resultin Poor TCP Performance
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NW26: Explains why numerous small package exchanges result in poor TCP performance.
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Carbon, Networking |
1998-05-25 |
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Obtaining the name of an external MIDI Device from a MIDI Endpoint
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QA1374: Get the names of external MIDI Devices from MIDI Endpoints.
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Hardware, Music & Audio |
2004-12-01 |
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Open File Limits on Mac OS X
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QA1005: Explains how many files an application can open simultaneously in Mac OS X.
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Carbon |
2001-02-08 |
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Open Firmware and the devalias node
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HW95: Describes why the contents of the Open Firmware devalias node varies between Macintosh models.
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Device Drivers, Hardware |
2000-09-05 |
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Open Firmware device tree nodes
(HTML)
HW86: Explains the usage of the "@n" notation in Open Firmware device tree nodes.
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Device Drivers, Hardware |
2000-09-05 |
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Open Firmware Memory bus speed
(HTML)
HW97: Describes a method to display memory bus speed for G3 or G4 Macintosh in Open Firmware.
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Darwin, Device Drivers, Hardware |
2000-09-22 |
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Open Firmware version number
(HTML)
HW96: Discusses the unique values of Open Firmware version numbers.
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Hardware |
2000-09-22 |
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Open Transport Error -3208: kEBADFErr
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NW21: Explains why a call to OTSnd may result in a kEBADFErr -3208.
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Carbon, Networking |
1996-03-04 |
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Open Transport Errors -3151/-3160 and Option Management
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NW54: Gives possible causes of errors -3151 and -3160 when making an OptionManagement call to set an endpoint.
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Carbon, Networking |
1998-04-12 |
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Open Transport Libraries
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NW18: Lists the Open Transport libraries and what to link with for PowerPC and 68K.
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Carbon, Games, Networking |
2000-11-03 |
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Open Transport T_DATA Event Queuing
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Deprecated - NW30: Explains the Open Transport T_DATA event handling for multiple endpoints.
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Networking |
1996-05-14 |
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Open Transport Versions
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NW64: Lists the current versions of Open Transport and their features.
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Carbon, Networking |
2000-05-08 |
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OpenGL and 3D Graphics Changes in Mac OS X v10.2.3
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QA1229: Mac OS X v10.2.3 OpenGL and 3D Graphics improvements
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Graphics & Imaging |
2003-01-03 |
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OpenGL and 3D Graphics Changes in Mac OS X v10.2.4
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QA1239: Describes the changes made in OpenGL and 3D graphics for Mac OS X v10.2.4.
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Graphics & Imaging |
2003-02-18 |
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OpenGL and 3D Graphics Changes in Mac OS X v10.2.5
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QA1258: Describes the changes made in OpenGL and 3D graphics for Mac OS X v10.2.5.
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Graphics & Imaging |
2003-04-29 |
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OpenGL Driver Monitor Decoder Ring
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QA1334: Describes what each of the parameters available in the OpenGL Driver Monitor measure.
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Graphics & Imaging |
2004-01-30 |
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OpenGL Sample Code
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QA1166: Describes new naming convention for OpenGL sample code
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Carbon, Cocoa, Games, Graphics & Imaging |
2004-12-01 |
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OpenGL Texture Sharing Between Contexts
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QA1031: Describes the process of creating shared OpenGL contexts and sharing textures between these contexts.
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Carbon, Games, Graphics & Imaging |
2001-05-01 |
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OTScheduleDeferredTask When Task Running
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NW52: Describes what happens when you use OTScheduleDefferedTask to schedule a task that is running.
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Carbon, Core Foundation, Device Drivers, Games, Hardware, Internet & Web, Networking, Performance, Porting |
1997-10-13 |
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OTScheduleSystemTask Cleanup
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Deprecated - NW37: States the proper way to clean up any pending system tasks scheduled with OTScheduleSystemTask.
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Carbon, Networking |
1996-07-03 |
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PackageMaker's NeedsAuthorization value causes install to fail
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QA1283: Provides a workaround when PackageMaker's NeedsAuthorization value causes a Mac OS X 10.1 installation failure.
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Tools |
2003-08-25 |
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The "packages" node in the device tree
(HTML)
HW90: Describes the "packages" node in the Open Firmware device tree.
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Accessibility, Device Drivers, Graphics & Imaging, Hardware, Mac OS X Server, Music & Audio, Networking, Performance, QuickTime |
2000-09-05 |
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paramErr returned from ConvertMovieToFile when exporting to .wav
(HTML)
QA1313: Avoid a paramErr returned from ConvertMovieToFile by setting up a Sound Description when exporting to a .wav file.
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QuickTime |
2003-10-06 |
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Parsing the PICT File Format
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Deprecated - QD56: Explains where to find information on the PICT file format and warns against parsing a PICT file.
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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging |
1998-02-10 |
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PBLockRange with a zero-length range
(HTML)
FL13: Describes the afpRangeOverlap error and a work around.
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Carbon |
1999-11-22 |
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PC100 SDRAM DIMMs on the Flat Panel iMac
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QA1130: Describes PC100 SDRAM DIMM limitations on the "original " Flat Panel iMac.
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Accessibility, Hardware |
2002-03-18 |
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PCI address/data stepping
(HTML)
HW94: Explains that Apple does not support PCI address/data stepping.
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Device Drivers, Hardware |
2000-09-05 |
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PCI bus on the iMac
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HW42: Explains that the iMac has a PCI bus even though it has no expansion slots.
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Device Drivers, Hardware |
1999-02-15 |
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PCI Bus?
(HTML)
QA1104: Answers the question, "Do all Macintosh computers have a PCI bus?"
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Accessibility, Device Drivers, Hardware |
2001-12-21 |
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PCI class codes
(HTML)
HW91: Explains why PCI class codes are important.
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Hardware |
2000-09-05 |
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PCI Header types
(HTML)
HW78: Describes the three required types of PCI headers to be provided in its configuration header space.
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Device Drivers, Hardware |
1999-11-15 |
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PCI Macintoshes and CardBus controllers
(HTML)
HW87: Explains why older PCI Macintoshes do not recognize a Cardbus controller.
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Hardware |
2000-09-05 |
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PCI SIG
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HW55: Describes the meaning of the acronym PCI SIG.
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Device Drivers, Hardware |
1999-03-29 |
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PCI Type 1 Cycles
(HTML)
HW26: Describes the circumstances when the PowerMac generates a Configuration Type 1 command.
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Graphics & Imaging, Hardware, Mac OS X Server, Music & Audio, Networking, Performance |
1995-07-15 |
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PCI/PCI-X slots on the Power Mac G5
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QA1307: Discusses installing PCI/PCI-X cards of different speeds in the Power Mac G5.
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Darwin, Device Drivers, Hardware |
2003-09-30 |
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PICT, QuickTime-Compressed Testing
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QTICM09: Details how to determine whether a picture's QuickTime-compressed, contains QuickTime-compressed images, and type of compression used
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QuickTime |
1995-05-01 |
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Playing a sound using QTJ
(HTML)
Deprecated - QTJ01: Explains how to play sounds in Java using QuickTime for Java.
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Java, QuickTime |
1999-10-25 |
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Playing memory-resident WAVE data using QuickTime 4
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QTMTB52: Explains how to play memory-resident WAVE data in QuickTime 4 or later.
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QuickTime |
1999-07-21 |
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Playing QuickTime 3 Movie Sound Data
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QTMTB50: Explains why a movie's sound data can continue to play longer than video data.
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Music & Audio, QuickTime |
1998-11-09 |
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Pop-up Menu CDEFs: The Real Story
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TB42: Explains why you should never allow the pop-up menu CDEFs to create a menu for you.
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Carbon |
1998-07-30 |
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Power adapter Sensing for the 17" PowerBook
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QA1266: Details Design and detection considerations for 17-inch PowerBook power adapters
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Hardware |
2003-06-12 |
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Power Management; Policy Maker vs. Power Controller
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QA1121: Describes the differences between a Power Management Policy Maker and a Power Management Power Controller.
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Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin, Device Drivers, Hardware, Networking |
2002-02-13 |
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PPPoE Server for Testing
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QA1252: Describes how to configure Mac OS X as a PPPoE server for testing purposes.
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Carbon, Cocoa, Networking |
2003-04-11 |
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PrepareMemoryForIO in the NewWorld
(HTML)
DV33: Explains the correct use of PrepareMemoryForIO on DMA buffers when writing a device driver for DMA software.
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Hardware |
1998-12-07 |
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Preroll Movies
(HTML)
QTMTB42: Lists the advantages of calling PreRollMovie to improve the performance of QuickTime movies.
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QuickTime |
1995-05-01 |
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Preserving embedded ICC profiles when using QuickTime Graphics Importer/Exporters
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QA1145: Shows how to preserve the embedded ICC profile when using the QuickTime Graphics Importer/Exporter routines
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AppleScript, Carbon, Games, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime |
2002-09-04 |
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Preventing crashes when using multiple disabled but editable NSComboBoxes
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QA1142: How to prevent a crash when using multiple disabled -- but editable --NSComboBoxes in a view.
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Cocoa |
2002-06-03 |
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Preventing sleep
(HTML)
QA1160: Explains how your application can prevent the system from sleeping.
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Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin |
2004-10-22 |
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Preview image quality of DV capture
(HTML)
QTMCC12: Describes how to get full resolution preview image quality when capturing DV.
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QuickTime |
2000-10-25 |
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Printer Queue vs. Printer Name
(HTML)
QA1407: Explains the difference between a printer queue and a printer name.
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Carbon, Printing |
2005-01-27 |
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Private HITheme APIs in Mac OS X 10.2 should not be called
(HTML)
QA1377: Explains why weak-linked API common runtime check is not good enough for the HITheme APIs.
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Carbon |
2004-10-27 |
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Problem Getting PICTS to Display in Correct Colors
(HTML)
Deprecated - QD24: Using a custom color table to get PICTs to display with the right colors in an offscreen GWorld.
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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging |
1995-09-15 |
