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DragItemAround (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates creating a custom subclass of NSView.
Cocoa 2006-03-16
SpecialPictureProtocol (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Use a custom NSURLProtocol to create jpeg images in memory for display in a webView.
Cocoa, Internet & Web 2006-03-13
HISimpleList (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates how to create a simple list using the HIView APIs introduced in Mac OS X 10.2.
Carbon 2006-03-03
QTSetMovieAudioDevice (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Create a QT audio context for an audio output device and target a movie to render to the context
QuickTime 2006-03-03
iTunesController (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
iTunesController allows you to control iTunes without having to bring it to the foreground.
Apple Applications, Carbon, Scripting & Automation, User Experience 2006-02-23
QTCarbonCoreImage101 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to render QuickTime Movies using Core Image filters and the new video pipeline.
Carbon, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime 2006-02-14
CheckExecutableArchitecture (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Determine whether a particular Mach-O executable contains a version suitable for executing on a given processor architecture.
Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin 2006-02-07
CDROMSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to find CD-ROM media and read sectors from that media on Mac OS X.
Hardware & Drivers 2006-01-31
SillyFrequencyLevels (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to obtain audio frequency levels from a Movie using SetMovieAudioFrequencyMeteringNumBands and GetMovieAudioFrequencyLevels APIs.
Audio, Carbon, Cocoa, QuickTime 2006-01-25
CFNetworkHTTPDownload (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to download a URL using CFNetworking.
Carbon, Core Foundation, Networking 2006-01-18
filesystem_examples (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Collection of command line tools illustrating filesystem features.
Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin 2006-01-10
QTKitMovieShuffler (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates a simple QTKit movie player application.
Cocoa, QuickTime 2006-01-03
SampleFilterScheme (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates a simple filter scheme which passes all operations through to its provider unchanged.
Darwin, Hardware & Drivers, Mac OS X Server, Storage 2006-01-03
SimpleAudioExtraction (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the QuickTime 7.0 Movie Audio Extraction APIs
Audio, QuickTime 2006-01-03
ThreadsExportMovie (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates movie exporting using the QuickTime movie export component on separate threads of a Cocoa application.
Cocoa, QuickTime 2006-01-03
WebKitCIPlugIn (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
This sample WebKit plugin for Safari demonstrate how to use CoreImage in a HTML page.
Apple Applications, Graphics & Imaging, Internet & Web 2005-11-28
CreateMovie - C# (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Visual C# application demonstrating the QuickTime 7 COM Control creating movies from images and saving them
QuickTime 2005-11-09
CreateMovie - VB6 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Using the QuickTime 7 COM Control to create a movie from images and save the movie to disk
QuickTime 2005-11-09
EventMonitorTest (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Receive notification of all keyboard, mouse, and tablet events passed to other processes.
Carbon, Core Foundation 2005-11-09
MoviePlayer - C# (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Microsoft Visual C# application which uses the QuickTime 7 COM Control to display and manipulate movies
QuickTime 2005-11-09
CocoaDVDPlayer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to use DVD Playback Services to play DVD-Video media.
Graphics & Imaging 2005-11-04
TabsShowcase (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to instantiate and use the Tab control both programmatically and from a nib file.
Carbon 2005-10-28
FileNotification (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
kqueue file notification introduced in 10.3. Notification API to detect file system modifications.
Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin 2005-10-27
GetPrimaryMACAddress (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates retrieving the MAC address of the built-in Ethernet controller. Useful for uniquely identifying a Macintosh system.
Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin, Games, Hardware & Drivers, Mac OS X Server, Networking, Security 2005-10-27
SampleD (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates use of launchd and Apple System Logger.
Darwin 2005-10-27
AuthForAll (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use Authorization Services to create a self-restricted application.
Security 2005-10-26
DelegateOnlyComponent (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Image Codec Component which simply delegates to a real Image Codec (in this case a '2vuy' decompressor).
QuickTime 2005-10-18
HICustomPushButton (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates how to create a simple custom push button using the HIView functions introduced in Mac OS X 10.2.
Carbon 2005-10-17
ImageMapView (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to add Accessibility to a complex custom HIView and the related parts of an application.
Carbon 2005-10-17
LoginItemsAE (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Uses Apple events to manipulate the list of login items (items launched when you log in).
Carbon, Cocoa 2005-10-17
MoviePlayer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
A simple movie player application written in Microsoft Visual Basic 6 using the QuickTime 7 COM/ActiveX Control.
QuickTime 2005-10-13
AudioCDSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to discover audio CDs and access the TOC information presented by the CD-DA filesystem.
Audio, Hardware & Drivers 2005-10-04
CocoaInCarbon (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates using Cocoa GUI code in a Carbon application.
Carbon, Cocoa 2005-10-04
ComboBoxPrefs (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Use CFPrefs to store URLs to images for use in a browser style combo box.
Carbon 2005-10-04
DisplayURL (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Parses a passed in path URL into its various components displaying server information.
Carbon, Core Foundation 2005-10-04
QTQuartzPlayer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
QTQuartzPlayer demonstrates how to render QuickTime Movies and live video with OpenGL and CoreVideo.
Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime 2005-10-04
ElectricImageComponent (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to build five QuickTime Components.
QuickTime 2005-09-21
DialogsToHIViews (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to convert from an old-style resource-based dialog to a modern nib-based window with HIViews.
Carbon 2005-08-24
ImproveYourImage (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the use of QuickTime Graphics Importers and Exporters.
QuickTime 2005-08-24
KillEveryOneButMe (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to terminate all other processes.
Carbon 2005-08-24
WindowFun (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Create window layers and groups. Drawing transparent lines. How to display the "Poof" the toolbar uses.
Carbon 2005-08-24
IOPrintSuperClasses (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Given the name of a class, this tool will print all of the super-classes of that class.
Darwin 2005-08-17
ExampleIPBCodec (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
A video compressor and decompressor component pair for QuickTime 7. Supports IPB frame patterns.
QuickTime 2005-08-16
SerialPortSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to do serial I/O on Mac OS X.
Hardware & Drivers 2005-08-16
BrideOfMungGrab (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the use of overlay windows and CG to draw text on captured video.
Carbon, QuickTime 2005-08-12
CarbonTransparentWindow (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to handle window transparency for compositing, non-compositing, and custom HIView-based Carbon windows.
Carbon 2005-08-10
enetlognke (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Interface filter based on supported Kernel Programming Interfaces for Tiger.
Hardware & Drivers, Networking 2005-08-10
HIObjectThreadController (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how threads can interact with the User Interface handled by the main thread of the application.
Carbon 2005-08-10
MachPortDump (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Dumps out the Mach port name space of a process; useful when debugging port right leaks.
Darwin, Tools 2005-08-10
MemoryBasedBundle (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to execute Mach-O code from memory, much like GetMemFragment in CFM.
Carbon, Darwin 2005-08-10
PasteboardPeeker (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Using pasteboards for Copy and Paste, Drag and Drop, service support and filter services.
Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Text & Fonts, User Experience 2005-08-10
PDFKitLinker2 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates many aspects of PDFKit including navigation, display modes, searching, and PDFView subclassing.
Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging 2005-08-10
QuickTimeMovieControl (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to easily add QuickTime media playback to an application
Carbon, QuickTime 2005-08-10
ScrollAndZoom (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
An illustration of the use of the Context Transformation Matrix (CTM) for zooming and scrolling a HIView.
Carbon 2005-08-10
SimpleVideoOut (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how QuickTime Video Output Components can be used to play video out to hardware.
Carbon, Hardware & Drivers, QuickTime 2005-08-10
SocketCancel (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to safely cancel threads that are blocked within BSD sockets calls.
Darwin, Networking 2005-08-10
SoftVideoOutputComponent (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Software implementation of a QuickTime Video Output Component, includes a companion Transfer Codec.
QuickTime 2005-08-10
SpellingChecker-CocoaCarbon (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to call NSSpellChecker cocoa routines from a Carbon application.
Carbon, Cocoa 2005-08-10
TypeServicesForUnicode (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to use various ATSUI functions and features going from simple to very complex.
Carbon, Text & Fonts 2005-08-10
CIAnnotation (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Image annotation application using Core Image Filters. Demonstrates creation and usage of Image Units.
Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging 2005-08-01
DropDraw (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates automatic ColorSync color-matching when drawing with QuickTime graphics importers in Panther
Carbon, QuickTime 2005-08-01
QTKitAdvancedDocument (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Enhances the QTKitSimpleDocument sample to resize the movie window and limit selectable file types in open panels
QuickTime 2005-08-01
QTKitFrameStepper (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to display each video frame of a given movie
QuickTime 2005-08-01
QTKitProgressTester (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to call the -movie:shouldContinueOperation: delegate method during lengthy movie operations
QuickTime 2005-08-01
QTKitSimpleDocument (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
The simplest document-based Cocoa application that opens and displays QuickTime movies
QuickTime 2005-08-01
VideoViewer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Simple example of video rendering using QuickTime visual contexts, OpenGL, Core Video and Core Image.
Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, Performance, QuickTime 2005-08-01
CFLocalServer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Uses UNIX domain sockets to communicate between client and server programs on the same machine.
Core Foundation, Darwin 2005-07-26
SimpleDial (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates management of dialup connections, such as PPP, using System Configuration framework network connection API.
Core Foundation, Darwin, Networking 2005-07-26
SimpleReach (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates network host reachability testing using the System Configuration framework asynchronous network reachability API.
Core Foundation, Darwin, Networking 2005-07-26
ThreadsExporter (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates importing and exporting still images in different formats on separate threads.
Cocoa, QuickTime 2005-07-26
ThreadsImportMovie (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates importing and displaying QuickTime Movies on separate threads.
QuickTime 2005-07-26
BackgroundExporter (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates techniques which can be used to export QuickTime movies in a separate export process.
Carbon, Cocoa, QuickTime 2005-07-22
ThreadsImporter (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates importing and displaying still images on separate threads.
QuickTime 2005-07-22
QTCoreImage101 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to render a QuickTime Movie using Core Image filters and the new video pipeline.
Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime 2005-07-19
SimpleHIMovieViewPlayer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to use HIMovieView to play QuickTime Movies.
Carbon, QuickTime 2005-07-15
EnhancedAudioBurn (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
This Objective-C sample demonstrates how to burn RedBook Audio CDs.
Cocoa 2005-07-06
Quartz Composer QCTV (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to build a fake TV system using Quartz Composer as the foundation motion graphics.
Apple Applications, Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime 2005-07-06
AppearanceSampleUpdated (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Sample Code for the WWDC 402 Adopting Xcode Hands-on session.
Tools 2005-06-27
QTAudioExtractionPanel (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Enhances the QTKitPlayer to add an Audio Channel Mapping and Extraction panel
Audio, Cocoa, QuickTime 2005-06-27
TextTrack (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates some simple operations on Final Cut Pro XML files
Apple Applications 2005-06-27
CocoaSOAP (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates implementing a SOAP client and server in Cocoa.
Cocoa 2005-06-06
Duplicate Finder Items (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to build an Automator action targeting Finder using AppleScript.
Apple Applications, Scripting & Automation 2005-06-06
FSFileOperation (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
This sample shows how to use the FSFileOperation API which supports copying and moving filesystem objects.
Carbon 2005-06-06
Reducer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Simple utility for rescaling bitmapped images. Demonstrates use of Core Image, NSAnimation, view drawing redirection.
Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging 2005-06-06
SDKExample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to weak-link against the Carbon framework in various SDKs to adopt new OS features in a single executable.
Carbon, Porting, Tools, User Experience 2005-06-06
Sketch-112 (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Sketch is a Scriptable Graphics application. This sample adds certain Scriptable functionality to Sketch, as an example for use in WWDC 2005 Session 112.
Scripting & Automation 2005-06-06
TemperatureTester (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to add a simple Unit Test to Temperature Converter.
Tools 2005-06-06
UnsharpMask (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to build Automator actions using Cocoa frameworks.
Apple Applications, Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, User Experience 2005-06-06
UpdateXcodeSubprojects (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Updates all subprojects of an Xcode project to Xcode 2.1 format. Illustrates scripting techniques.
Porting, Scripting & Automation, Tools, User Experience 2005-06-06
XcodeClientServer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to manage multiple projects using new Xcode features.
Tools 2005-06-06
AutoUpdater (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
This sample demonstrates Cocoa networking using the NSURL loading classes, NSURLConnection and NSURLDownload.
Cocoa, Internet & Web, Networking 2005-06-01
BindingsJoystick (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Illustrates a bindings-enabled subclass of NSView.
Cocoa 2005-06-01
CocoaEcho (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Cocoa example code showing how to write a simple client and server using NSStream.
Cocoa 2005-06-01
CocoaHTTPServer (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
A Cocoa example showing how to write a very basic HTTP service.
Cocoa, Networking 2005-06-01
CoreRecipes (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates the use of Core Data (persistency and object-graph management) with a variety of application projects.
Cocoa, User Experience 2005-06-01
Custom_HIView_Tutorial (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Tutorial presenting a step-by-step custom HIView development. All steps are documented and provided as standalone projects.
Carbon 2005-06-01
DNSServiceMetaQuery (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Shows how to discover Bonjour service types being advertised on the local network.
Core Foundation, Darwin, Networking 2005-06-01
FilterDemo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to write a filter AudioUnit with a custom Cocoa User Interface.
Audio 2005-06-01
Fortune (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Deprecated - Demonstrates use of a widget plug-in
Apple Applications 2005-06-01
FSCreateFileAndOpenForkUnicode (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstartes the use of FSCreateFileAndOpenForkUnicode to create a file with restricted access on disk and a read/write access path.
Carbon 2005-06-01