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FunkyOverlayWindow
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates several window layering, transparency and widget interaction techniques in Cocoa.
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Events & Other Input, Graphics & Imaging, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-05-08
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CubePuzzle
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Models a Rubik's Cube using Cocoa and OpenGL
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Games, Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-04-21
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GLChildWindowDemo
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Shows using Cocoa's child windows and Quartz Extreme to provide 2D/3D overlays above 3D content.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-04-21
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OpenGLCompositorLab
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates using OpenGL to composite multiple sources in hardware. Requires NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti hardware.
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Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-04-21
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CarbonInCocoa
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
How to use Carbon GUI code in a Cocoa application.
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Events & Other Input, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-03-26
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Clock Control
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates creating a custom control by creating a clock control, implemented as a subclass of NSControl and NSCell.
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User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-02-25
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CryptoSample
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Contains sample code showing symmetric encryption and message digest calculation.
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Security |
Sample Code |
2003-02-06
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Image Difference
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates a way to use Quartz's compositing capability to find the difference between two images.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-30
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PDFView
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Shows how to display or print a multi-page PDF document and scroll an NSscrollview's contents by dragging.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-23
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AddressBookCocoa
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates some basic manipulations of the Mac OS X 10.2.x (and beyond) Address Book API.
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Interapplication Communication |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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AnimatedSlider
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates the use of an NSTimer to animate a control in Cocoa.
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User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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CGDrawPicture
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows how to use the QDPictDrawToCGContext API.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Cocoa - SGDataProc
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Uses a Sequence Grabber data function and an NSQuickDrawView to simulate a preview operation for captured video.
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QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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CocoaDragAndDrop
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Implement Drag-and-Drop functionality in Cocoa (uses images; can be extended to support other data types).
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Events & Other Input, Interapplication Communication |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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CocoaVideoFrameToGWorld
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates how to draw each frame of a QuickTime movie into a Cocoa NSQuickDrawView.
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QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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CocoaVideoFrameToNSImage
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates how to create an NSImage for each frame of a QuickTime movie.
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QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Color Sampler
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates one way to sample the color at a given point in an NSView.
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Events & Other Input, Graphics & Imaging, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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ColorBars
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Shows how to enumerate, select, capture, manipulate, draw to, and release displays using the CGDirectDisplay API.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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ColorSyncDevices-Cocoa
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates how to use the new ColorSync Device Manager routines in the Cocoa environment.
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Events & Other Input, Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Cropped Image
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates how to extract a sub-image from another image, and some ways of indicating a selection.
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Graphics & Imaging, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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CTMClip
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows how to manipulate the Quartz 2D Current Transform Matrix (CTM) for image drawing with clipping.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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CTMDemo
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows how to manipulate the Quartz 2D Current Transform Matrix (CTM) for image drawing without clipping.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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DeskPictAppDockMenu
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
How to add a dynamic Dock menu to your Cocoa application
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File Management, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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EnhancedDataBurn
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Objective-C sample which shows how to burn a data disc containing a complete virtual filesystem.
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File Management |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Eraser
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Uses the DiscRecordingUI framework to present the standard erase, selection and progress dialogs.
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File Management |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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GetMACAddressSample
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates how to retrieve the MAC address for each Ethernet interface from the Mac OS X I/O Registry.
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Networking, Security |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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ImagesToQTMovie
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Creates a QuickTime movie from the images of any connected camera.
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QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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JDragNDrop
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates building a simple view to implement Drag-and-Drop functionality in Cocoa-Java.
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Data Management, Events & Other Input, File Management, Java, Resource Management, Tools |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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LayoutManagerDemo
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates the layout manager using rollovers with different colors for lines, words and characters under the mouse.
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Text & Fonts |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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MoreFiles
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Shows various File Manager operations (file copy, etc.) through a collection of high-level routines.
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File Management |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Moriarity
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Implementing a Cocoa GUI that wraps command-line functionality, calling a UNIX task and presenting the results in a GUI.
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Interapplication Communication, Porting |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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MP3 Player
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
How to wrap a command-line UNIX/Linux application in a Cocoa GUI, calling a the command-line app through NSTask.
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Audio, Interapplication Communication, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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NameAndAddress
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
A single window utility that gets a host name from an IP address or an IP address from a hostname.
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Apple Applications, Networking |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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NamingTableAccess
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Digs out the contents of the NamingTable in a TrueType 'sfnt'.
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Text & Fonts |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Polygons
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates the NSBezierPath class, as well as the manipulation of NSView's coordinate space for convenience.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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QTGraphicsImport
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates how to use the QuickTime Graphics Importer to draw an image into a NSWindow using a NSQuickDrawView.
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QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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QTtoCG
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Shows how to create a CGImageRef with the proper ColorSync profile from a QuickTime image on disk.
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Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Quartz EB
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
WWDC 2001 Early Bird Quartz 2D tutorial of vector drawing and PDF import/export.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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RGB Image
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates compositing to separate an NSimage into its RGB components, and how to recombine those components.
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Events & Other Input, Graphics & Imaging, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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RoundTransparentWindow
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Creating (in Cocoa) custom-shaped windows and transparent window content; plus changing the shape of windows dynamically.
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Graphics & Imaging, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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SharedMemory
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Shows how multiple applications can access the same memory using the Unix shmget system call.
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Performance, Process Management |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Simon
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
A simple game demonstrating Cocoa development in Project Builder.
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Tools |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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SimpleCocoaJavaMovie
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Deprecated - A simple movie player showing how to use the NSMovieView and NSMovie Cocoa Java classes.
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Java, QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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SimpleCocoaJavaMovieCocoa
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Deprecated - Shows how to use the NSMovieView and NSMovie Cocoa Java AppKit classes.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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SimpleCocoaMovie
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Shows how to use the NSMovieView and NSMovie Cocoa AppKit classes.
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QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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SimpleCocoaMovieQT
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
A simple movie player showing how to use the NSMovieView and NSMovie Cocoa Objective-C classes.
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QuickTime |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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SimpleThreads
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Uses the Cocoa threading APIs to coordinate multiple preemptively scheduled secondary threads with the non-reentrant Cocoa framework.
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Interapplication Communication, Performance, Process Management, Runtime Architecture |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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SonOfSillyBalls
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Draws a bunch of randomly colored, randomly placed, silly balls in a window on the screen.
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Events & Other Input, Graphics & Imaging, Runtime Architecture, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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SpellingChecker-CarbonCocoa
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Implements procedural C wrapper around the Cocoa NSSpellChecker, exports it as a Mach-O bundle called "SpellCheck.bundle"
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Runtime Architecture |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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SSLSample
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Contains examples showing how to use SecureTransport.
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Security |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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TextViewConfig
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Configuration of multiple layout managers and multiple text container/text view pairs on a single text storage.
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Text & Fonts |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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TextViewDelegate
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates using a text view's delegate to control selection and user input.
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Text & Fonts |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Tinted Image
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates the use of an NSImage as an off-screen drawing destination.
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Graphics & Imaging, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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ToolbarSample
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Demonstrates using the Cocoa NSToolbar/NSToolbarItem API to add customizable toolbars to windows. Includes advanced custom views.
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Events & Other Input, User Experience |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Transformed Image
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Shows the effects of a rendering an NSImage in a transformed coordinate space.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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TrivialThreads
(HTML)
(DMG)
(ZIP)
Uses the Cocoa threading APIs to coordinate a preemptively scheduled secondary thread with the non-reentrant Cocoa framework.
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Interapplication Communication, Performance, Process Management, Runtime Architecture |
Sample Code |
2003-01-14
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Observing Process Lifetimes Without Polling
(HTML)
TN2050: Shows a variety of methods to observe process lifetimes without polling.
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Process Management |
Technical Notes |
2008-09-10
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Mac OS X Code Signing In Depth
(HTML)
TN2206: Intermediate to expert level overview of code signing that details specific options and gotchas
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Security |
Technical Notes |
2008-08-06
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QTKit Frequently Asked Questions
(HTML)
TN2138: Provides answers to many frequently asked QTKit questions.
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QuickTime |
Technical Notes |
2008-04-24
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Managing QTCompressionOptions - An overview of the QTCompressionOptionsWindow sample
(HTML)
TN2219: Introductory overview of the QTCompressionOptionsWindow sample demonstrating one way to manage QTCompressionOptions objects.
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QuickTime |
Technical Notes |
2008-03-11
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Daemons and Agents
(HTML)
TN2083: Describes the most common problems encountered with daemons and agents, and suggests detailed solutions.
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Process Management |
Technical Notes |
2007-11-05
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Thread-safe programming in QuickTime
(HTML)
TN2125: Discusses how to use QuickTime from background threads for applications and component developers.
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QuickTime |
Technical Notes |
2007-09-14
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Using Secure Event Input Fairly
(HTML)
TN2150: Describes the proper use of EnableSecureEventInput.
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Events & Other Input, Security |
Technical Notes |
2007-06-08
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Querying Metadata With Spotlight
(HTML)
TN2192: Describes how a Cocoa application can search Spotlight metadata.
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File Management, User Experience |
Technical Notes |
2007-06-04
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Creating an About Panel in Your Cocoa Application
(HTML)
TN2179: Describes different ways in implementing your Cocoa application's "About" panel.
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User Experience |
Technical Notes |
2007-01-22
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Working Around Incorrect -needsToDrawRect: Behavior in Custom View Classes
(HTML)
TN2107: Describes how to work around a bug in NSView's -needsToDrawRect: method.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Technical Notes |
2007-01-22
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Using AppleScript Scripts in Cocoa Applications
(HTML)
TN2084: Explains how to work with AppleScript scripts in your Cocoa application.
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Scripting & Automation, User Experience |
Technical Notes |
2006-09-19
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Tagging Handle and Pointer Data References in QuickTime
(HTML)
TN1195: The use of data reference extensions used by QuickTime to tag handle and pointer data references.
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QuickTime |
Technical Notes |
2006-08-30
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JNI Development on Mac OS X
(HTML)
TN2147: Discusses use of native APIs and UI elements from Java applications
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Java |
Technical Notes |
2006-04-17
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Making the most of Cocoa bindings in Quartz Composer
(HTML)
TN2146: Describes how to best use Cocoa bindings with Quartz Composer.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Technical Notes |
2006-03-03
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Getting images in and out from Quartz Composer compositions
(HTML)
TN2143: Describes how to efficiently pass images into and out of Quartz Composer
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Graphics & Imaging |
Technical Notes |
2005-10-04
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Frequently Asked Text Services Manager (TSM) Questions
(HTML)
TN2128: Regroups a collection of Text Services Manager (TSM) questions frequently asked by Input Method Developers
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Events & Other Input, Text & Fonts |
Technical Notes |
2005-06-24
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OpenGL Release Highlights - Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
(HTML)
TN2131: Contains a list of bugs along with a short description on a release-by-release basis
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Games, Graphics & Imaging |
Technical Notes |
2005-02-04
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HFS Plus Volume Format
(HTML)
( )
TN1150: Describes the physical layout of an HFS Plus volume.
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File Management |
Technical Notes |
2004-03-05
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Scripting Interface Guidelines
(HTML)
TN2106: Directions for providing a clean and consistent scripting interface for your application.
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Scripting & Automation |
Technical Notes |
2004-03-01
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Understanding and Detecting OpenGL Functionality
(HTML)
TN2080: Discusses OpenGL API design, and how to access the full power of hardware and software renderers.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Technical Notes |
2003-12-29
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The Enhanced Print Apple Event
(HTML)
TN2082: Describes an enhancement to the print Apple event that gives developers more control over scripted printing.
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Printing |
Technical Notes |
2003-12-09
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Guide to Creating Kiosks on Mac OS X
(HTML)
()
TN2062: Discusses techniques used in creating applications which require kiosk-like functionality on Mac OS X.
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User Experience |
Technical Notes |
2003-02-24
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Ensuring Backwards Binary Compatibility - Weak Linking and Availability Macros on Mac OS X
(HTML)
()
TN2064: Ensuring that Mach-O applications built using today's Mac OS X runs on previous versions of the OS.
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Design Guidelines, Runtime Architecture |
Technical Notes |
2003-02-18
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Using collection classes safely with multithreaded applications
(HTML)
()
TN2059: Describes some problems with and workarounds for using mutable collection classes in multithreaded applications.
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Process Management |
Technical Notes |
2002-09-10
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Mac OS X 10.2
(HTML)
TN2053: Describes software development-related changes provided in system software update Mac OS X 10.2.
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Tools |
Technical Notes |
2002-09-04
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Exclusive File Access in Mac OS X
(HTML)
()
TN2037: Covers exclusive file access In Mac OS X
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File Management |
Technical Notes |
2002-05-01
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Mac OS X: v10.1.1 - v10.1.3
(HTML)
TN2043: Describes changes provided by system software updates 10.1.1 through 10.1.3.
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Tools |
Technical Notes |
2002-03-06
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File Manager Performance and Caching
(HTML)
FL16: Discusses traditional Mac OS file system input/output performance issues and the File Manager's volume cache.
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File Management |
Technical Notes |
2000-09-01
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Resolving Alias Files Quietly
(HTML)
FL30: Describes how to resolve alias files on remote volumes without user interaction.
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File Management |
Technical Notes |
1999-11-01
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Driving OpenGL Rendering Loops
(HTML)
QA1385: Using Core Video display links (CVDisplayLink) or Cocoa timers (NSTimer) to drive an OpenGL rendering loop
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Events & Other Input, Games, Graphics & Imaging |
Technical Q&As |
2009-05-01
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QuickTime Audio - Easy Frequency Level Metering with MovieAudio APIs
(HTML)
QA1459: Describes how to perform frequency band level metering using MovieAudio metering APIs.
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QuickTime |
Technical Q&As |
2009-01-29
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Core Animation properties and Reference Counting
(HTML)
QA1565: Describes a discrepancy between the property declarations in Core Animation and the actual behavior.
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Games, Graphics & Imaging, Objective-C Language, Resource Management |
Technical Q&As |
2008-11-24
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Animating the frame of a CALayer.
(HTML)
QA1620: Explains how the frame property of a layer interacts with animations.
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Graphics & Imaging |
Technical Q&As |
2008-10-24
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QTKit Capture - Disabling specific audio channels when recording
(HTML)
QA1617: Describes how to disable specific audio channels when recording using QTKit Capture.
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QuickTime |
Technical Q&As |
2008-10-13
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Programmatically causing restart, shutdown and/or logout
(HTML)
()
QA1134: Describes how to programmatically cause restart, shutdown, sleep or logout.
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Events & Other Input, Process Management, Resource Management |
Technical Q&As |
2008-09-24
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Disabling Processor Cores on a Multi-Core System
(HTML)
()
QA1141: Describes how to disable processor cores on a multi-core system for testing purposes.
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Performance |
Technical Q&As |
2008-09-16
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QTKit Capture - Video Compression Options And Preview
(HTML)
QA1583: Describes how video compression options may influence the resolution of previewed video.
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QuickTime |
Technical Q&As |
2008-09-16
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Determining if an application uses Objective-C Garbage Collection
(HTML)
QA1599: Shows how to determine if an application or executable is using Objective-C Garbage Collection.
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Objective-C Language |
Technical Q&As |
2008-09-08
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Expanding Tilde-based paths
(HTML)
QA1549: Demonstrates how to resolve tilde-based relevant paths.
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File Management |
Technical Q&As |
2008-09-08
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Getting the pixel data from a CGImage object
(HTML)
QA1509: Describes how to access the pixel data of a CGImage object
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Games, Graphics & Imaging |
Technical Q&As |
2008-08-27
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Gathering all PostScript Printer Descriptions (PPDs)
(HTML)
QA1529: Describes a work around for an issue in PMCopyAvailablePPDs on Mac OS X 10.4 and below
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Printing |
Technical Q&As |
2008-08-08
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Registering and unregistering for sleep and wake notifications
(HTML)
QA1340: Explains how applications can register and unregister for sleep and wake notifications on Mac OS X.
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Resource Management |
Technical Q&As |
2008-08-08
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Requirements for Quartz GL
(HTML)
QA1536: Describes the requirements for enabling Quartz GL.
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Games, Graphics & Imaging, Performance, User Experience |
Technical Q&As |
2008-08-08
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Using QTPixelBufferContextCreate with NewMovieFromProperties
(HTML)
QA1443: Discusses using a QuickTime pixel buffer visual context and NewMovieFromProperties to output frames to pixel buffers.
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QuickTime |
Technical Q&As |
2008-08-08
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