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Variable arguments in Objective-C methods
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QA1405: How to implement methods which take a variable number of arguments.
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Objective-C Language |
2005-01-13
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Disabling Processor Cores on a Multi-Core System
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QA1141: Describes how to disable processor cores on a multi-core system for testing purposes.
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Performance |
2008-09-16
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How do I tell if a particular display is being hardware accelerated by Quartz Extreme?
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QA1218: Describes how to use CGDisplayUsesOpenGLAcceleration to see if a display is accelerated or not.
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Performance |
2002-12-04
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Quartz 2D Thread Safety
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QA1238: Explains the thread-safety issues for the Quartz 2D API.
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Performance |
2003-02-25
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Requirements for Quartz GL
(HTML)
QA1536: Describes the requirements for enabling Quartz GL.
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Performance |
2008-08-08
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Setting environment variables for user processes
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QA1067: Tells how to set environment variables for user processes.
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Porting |
2001-10-25
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CGContext Bounds
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QA1048: Explains how to determine the bounds of a CGContext.
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Printing |
2001-07-02
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CGContextAddLineToPoint, CGContextAddCurveToPoint, et. al.
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QA1049: Explains why the CGContextAddXYZ APIs don't draw anything immediately.
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Printing |
2001-07-02
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CGContextClosePath
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QA1046: Explains when you should call CGContextClosePath.
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Printing |
2001-10-02
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Drawing a Path Multiple Times
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QA1047: Explains that path drawing operations consume the path.
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Printing |
2001-07-02
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Gathering all PostScript Printer Descriptions (PPDs)
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QA1529: Describes a work around for an issue in PMCopyAvailablePPDs on Mac OS X 10.4 and below
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Printing |
2008-08-08
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How to measure CG text
(HTML)
QA1051: Explains how to measure Core Graphics text.
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Printing |
2007-08-02
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Quartz 2D Interpolation
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QA1186: Explains how to control Quartz 2D's image interpolation.
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Printing |
2002-10-29
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Quartz 2D Thread Safety
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QA1238: Explains the thread-safety issues for the Quartz 2D API.
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Printing |
2003-02-25
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Saving the current Core Graphics Path
(HTML)
QA1056: Explains that the Core Graphics save and restore GState APIs do not affect the path.
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Printing |
2001-10-02
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Turning Off Core Graphics Clipping
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QA1050: Explains how to clear the clipping path for a CGContext.
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Printing |
2001-07-02
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Unexpected CG state changes
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QA1045: Explains why the Core Graphics drawing state sometimes changes for no apparent reason.
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Printing |
2001-07-02
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Customizing Process Stack Size
(HTML)
QA1419: Describes methods for setting the stack size of a process and/or thread.
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Process Management |
2008-02-20
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Determining console user login status
(HTML)
QA1133: How to determine whether a user is logged in on the console, and be notified of changes.
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Process Management |
2008-04-14
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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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Process Management |
2008-09-24
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Graphics Exporters - Creating 16-bit-per-channel image files
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QA1354: Discusses how to use QuickTime Graphics Exporters to create 16-bit-per-channel image files.
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QuickTime |
2004-06-03
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MovieAudioExtraction - Ensure a Movie is fully loaded before starting an extraction session
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QA1469: Describes the importance of making sure a Movie is fully loaded before extracting audio.
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QuickTime |
2006-03-29
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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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QuickTime |
2004-09-14
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QTKit Capture - Disabling Audio Or Video When Capturing From a Muxed Device
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QA1607: Describes the use of the setEnabled: method to disable audio or video capture from muxed devices.
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QuickTime |
2008-05-19
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QTKit Capture - Disabling specific audio channels when recording
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QA1617: Describes how to disable specific audio channels when recording using QTKit Capture.
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QuickTime |
2008-10-13
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QTKit Capture - Extracting SMPTE Timecode information from a QTSampleBuffer
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QA1600: Describes how to use the QTSampleBufferSMPTETimeAttribute with a sample buffer.
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QuickTime |
2008-03-17
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QTKit Capture - Video Compression Options And Preview
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QA1583: Describes how video compression options may influence the resolution of previewed video.
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QuickTime |
2008-09-16
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QuickTime Audio - Easy Frequency Level Metering with MovieAudio APIs
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QA1459: Describes how to perform frequency band level metering using MovieAudio metering APIs.
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QuickTime |
2009-01-29
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Using QTPixelBufferContextCreate with NewMovieFromProperties
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QA1443: Discusses using a QuickTime pixel buffer visual context and NewMovieFromProperties to output frames to pixel buffers.
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QuickTime |
2008-08-08
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Core Animation properties and Reference Counting
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QA1565: Describes a discrepancy between the property declarations in Core Animation and the actual behavior.
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Resource Management |
2008-11-24
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Customizing Process Stack Size
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QA1419: Describes methods for setting the stack size of a process and/or thread.
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Resource Management |
2008-02-20
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Finding EXC_BAD_ACCESS bugs in a Cocoa project
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QA1367: Discusses how to find memory protection violations or EXC_BAD_ACCESS bugs in Cocoa projects.
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Resource Management |
2006-10-10
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Obtaining the localized application name in Cocoa
(HTML)
QA1544: Describes how to obtain several versions of the application name in Cocoa.
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Resource Management |
2007-09-21
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Preventing sleep
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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 |
2008-09-24
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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 |
2008-08-08
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Detecting specific ROM-in-RAM Mac
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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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Environment Variables
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QA1255: Describes how a process gets its environment variables.
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Runtime Architecture |
2003-10-29
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Setting environment variables for user processes
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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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What is the "main bundle" of a command-line foundation tool?
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QA1436: Reveals the location of the main bundle of a command-line foundation tool.
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Runtime Architecture |
2006-10-10
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CFBundleIdentifier and user application access
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QA1373: Describes the role of CFBundleIdentifier in limiting a user's application access.
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Security |
2005-02-08
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Programmatically Accessing and Manipulating Multiple Keychain Items
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QA1486: An explanation on what is and is not possible using the SecKeychain API to manipulate Keychain Items.
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Security |
2006-10-03
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Security Framework Error Codes
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QA1499: Explains how to interpret errors returned by the Security Framework with an overview of Security error handling.
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Security |
2006-11-16
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Connecting the Font Menu in Interface Builder 3
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QA1571: How to connect and configure the Font/Format menus in Interface Builder 3.
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Text & Fonts |
2008-01-21
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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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Disabling and Enabling an NSTextView
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QA1461: Shows how a Cocoa application can disable and enable an NSTextView.
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Text & Fonts |
2006-09-11
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Disabling text completion in an NSTextField
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QA1553: Shows how to implement a delegate method provided by NSControl to disable automatic text completion.
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Text & Fonts |
2008-02-27
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Drawing attributed strings that are both filled and stroked
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QA1531: Describes how the value of NSStrokeWidthAttributeName indicates fill, stroke, or both, in attributed strings.
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Text & Fonts |
2008-03-25
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Embedding Hyperlinks in NSTextField and NSTextView
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QA1487: Shows how a Cocoa app can embed a hyperlink inside both NSTextField and NSTextView using NSAttributedString.
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Text & Fonts |
2006-10-02
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How to make NSTextField accept tab, return and enter keys.
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QA1454: Describes how to make the NSTextField control accept tab, return and enter keys by using the control's dispatch delegate method.
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Text & Fonts |
2006-10-09
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Sorting Like the Finder
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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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Connecting the Font Menu in Interface Builder 3
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QA1571: How to connect and configure the Font/Format menus in Interface Builder 3.
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Tools |
2008-01-21
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Getting NSWindow's toolbar actions to show up in Interface Builder
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QA1030: How to add the missing -toggleToolbarShown: and -runToolbarCustomizationPalette actions to Interface Builder.
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Tools |
2001-05-03
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Help Book Caching During Software Development
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QA1409: Development situations that can potentially confuse Help Viewer
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Tools |
2005-03-30
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Including a custom NSWindow in a nib file
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QA1511: Shows how to create a custom NSWindow and instantiate it in a nib file.
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Tools |
2007-03-21
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Setting environment variables for user processes
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QA1067: Tells how to set environment variables for user processes.
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Tools |
2001-10-25
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Adding and removing a submenu from a menu in Cocoa
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QA1420: Explains how to dynamically add and remove menus in a Cocoa application.
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User Experience |
2007-09-10
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Background-only apps with NSStatusItems become active in 10.1 on NSStatusItem clicks
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QA1081: Preventing background-only apps from activating when their NSStatusItem(s) are clicked in Mac OS X 10.1.
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User Experience |
2001-10-30
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Configuring the Recent Searches menu for NSSearchField
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QA1496: Discusses the common problem when adding menu items to the Recent Searches menu.
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User Experience |
2006-11-27
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Connecting the Font Menu in Interface Builder 3
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QA1571: How to connect and configure the Font/Format menus in Interface Builder 3.
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User Experience |
2008-01-21
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Debugging NSTableView's "Action Invocation" binding
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QA1472: Discusses the issues and factors that affect NSTableView's "Action Invocation" binding.
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User Experience |
2006-11-13
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Disabling and Enabling an NSTextView
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QA1461: Shows how a Cocoa application can disable and enable an NSTextView.
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User Experience |
2006-09-11
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Disabling text completion in an NSTextField
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QA1553: Shows how to implement a delegate method provided by NSControl to disable automatic text completion.
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User Experience |
2008-02-27
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Embedding Hyperlinks in NSTextField and NSTextView
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QA1487: Shows how a Cocoa app can embed a hyperlink inside both NSTextField and NSTextView using NSAttributedString.
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User Experience |
2006-10-02
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Enabling the application menu's "Preferences" menu item on Mac OS X
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QA1552: Describes the two things you need to implement to enable the "Preferences" menu item on Mac OS X.
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User Experience |
2008-01-21
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Finding an NSView's current magnification.
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QA1346: How to discover the current magnification (zoom level) of any NSView.
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User Experience |
2005-03-08
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Getting NSWindow's toolbar actions to show up in Interface Builder
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QA1030: How to add the missing -toggleToolbarShown: and -runToolbarCustomizationPalette actions to Interface Builder.
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User Experience |
2001-05-03
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How to create a Cocoa Disclosure Button Control
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QA1485: Explains how to create a disclosure button control in Cocoa, not immediately available in Interface Builder.
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User Experience |
2006-08-01
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How to get custom views to show up in NSToolbarItems
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QA1029: Why custom views may not show up in an NSToolBarItem and how to make it visible.
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User Experience |
2001-05-03
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How to make NSTextField accept tab, return and enter keys.
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QA1454: Describes how to make the NSTextField control accept tab, return and enter keys by using the control's dispatch delegate method.
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User Experience |
2006-10-09
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How to remove the "Open Recent" menu item in a Document-based Cocoa application
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QA1289: Explains how to remove the "Open Recent" menu item in a Document-based Cocoa application.
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User Experience |
2003-09-15
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How to set a custom drag image when doing an HFS Promise drag in Cocoa
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QA1200: Explains how to set a custom drag image when doing an HFS Promise drag in Cocoa.
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User Experience |
2003-09-15
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NSDate - Natural language date parsing in early Leopard releases
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QA1581: Acknowledges a regression in +dateWithNaturalLanguageString: behavior of NSDate which is fixed as of 10.5.2.
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User Experience |
2008-02-27
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NSOpenPanel - Choosing any file and ignoring packages
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QA1468: Explains how to configure NSOpenPanel to filter only files and ignoring packages.
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User Experience |
2007-01-25
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NSProgressIndicator animation and redraw
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QA1473: Discusses why NSProgressIndicator does not redraw during progress loops.
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User Experience |
2006-11-15
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Preventing column reordering in NSTableView
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QA1503: Demonstrates how to prevent column reordering of certain columns in NSTableView.
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User Experience |
2007-01-24
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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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User Experience |
2002-06-03
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Re-enabling dragging from NSTableView to other applications
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QA1220: Explains how to re-enable drag-and-drop from NSTableViews to other applications
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User Experience |
2008-02-08
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Requirements for Quartz GL
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QA1536: Describes the requirements for enabling Quartz GL.
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User Experience |
2008-08-08
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Solving NSTabView drawing problems in Mac OS X 10.1.x
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QA1117: Explains how to work around NSTabView draw problems in Mac OS X 10.1.x
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User Experience |
2002-02-14
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Suppressing the "unexpectedly quit" alert
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QA1288: Describes how to suppress the "unexpectedly quit" alert.
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User Experience |
2008-03-11
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Why aren't my tracking rects working?
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QA1355: Describes a common mistake in setting up cursor-tracking rectangles.
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User Experience |
2004-12-02
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