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Obtaining the name of an external MIDI Device from a MIDI Endpoint
(HTML)
QA1374: Get the names of external MIDI Devices from MIDI Endpoints.
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Audio, Hardware & Drivers |
2004-12-01
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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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Hardware & Drivers |
2000-09-05
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Open Firmware Memory bus speed
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HW97: Describes a method to display memory bus speed for G3 or G4 Macintosh in Open Firmware.
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Darwin, Hardware & Drivers |
2000-09-22
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Open Firmware version number
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HW96: Discusses the unique values of Open Firmware version numbers.
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Hardware & Drivers |
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 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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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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Opening a Web page using an HREF track in QuickTime Player
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QA1621: Opening a Web page using an HREF track in QuickTime Player
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Internet & Web, QuickTime |
2008-11-05
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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, Games, Hardware & Drivers, 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
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HW90: Describes the "packages" node in the Open Firmware device tree.
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Audio, Graphics & Imaging, Hardware & Drivers, Mac OS X Server, Networking, Performance, QuickTime |
2006-02-22
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paramErr returned from ConvertMovieToFile when exporting to .wav
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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
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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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Hardware & Drivers |
2002-03-18
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PCI address/data stepping
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HW94: Explains that Apple does not support PCI address/data stepping.
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Hardware & Drivers |
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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Hardware & Drivers |
1999-02-15
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PCI class codes
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HW91: Explains why PCI class codes are important.
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Hardware & Drivers |
2000-09-05
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PCI Header types
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HW78: Describes the three required types of PCI headers to be provided in its configuration header space.
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Hardware & Drivers |
1999-11-15
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PCI Macintoshes and CardBus controllers
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HW87: Explains why older PCI Macintoshes do not recognize a Cardbus controller.
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Hardware & Drivers |
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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Hardware & Drivers |
1999-03-29
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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, Hardware & Drivers |
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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Playback of QuickTime movie audio through a multi-channel speaker system
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QA1627: Specify a specific pair of channels for QuickTime audio movie playback through a multi-channel speaker system
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Audio, QuickTime |
2008-11-05
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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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Audio, QuickTime |
1998-11-09
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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 & Drivers |
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, Hardware & Drivers, 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
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DV33: Explains the correct use of PrepareMemoryForIO on DMA buffers when writing a device driver for DMA software.
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Hardware & Drivers |
1998-12-07
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Preroll Movies
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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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Carbon, Games, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime |
2002-09-04
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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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Cocoa, 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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Cocoa |
2002-06-03
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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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Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin |
2004-10-22
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Preview image quality of DV capture
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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
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QA1407: Explains the difference between a printer queue and a printer name.
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Carbon, Printing |
2007-04-26
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Private HITheme APIs in Mac OS X 10.2 should not be called
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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
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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
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Problem with PaintRgn on 256-color Screens
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Deprecated - QD23: PaintRgn with RGBForeColor and transfer mode addOver doesn't return color to original on 256-color-screens.
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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging, Performance, User Experience |
1995-09-15
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Problems Creating a Mask for a Picture
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Deprecated - QD27: Demonstrates creating a mask where the mask is 0 for pure white pixels and 1 everywhere else.
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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging |
1995-09-15
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Problems getting Bonjour TXT record information
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QA1389: Explains why you might have problems retrieving TXT record information from a CFNetServiceRef or NSNetService.
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Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Networking |
2005-07-06
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Problems recording CopyBits into a PICT on Mac OS X 10.2
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QA1189: Identifies a problem with CopyBits and PICT on Mac OS X 10.2 and gives a simple workaround.
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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging, Porting |
2002-11-19
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Process Carbon Events Not Delivered in 10.2
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QA1181: Work around for a bug in Mac OS X 10.2 that prevents the delivery of process Carbon events.
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Carbon |
2002-08-27
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Programatically retrieving field and frame information
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QA1547: Discusses the use of the kICMImageDescriptionPropertyID_FieldInfo property to retrieve Field/Frame information.
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QuickTime |
2007-09-13
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Programmatic configuration of a Movie Export Component
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QA1147: Demonstrates how to programmatically configure a movie export component without showing the Movie Export dialog.
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QuickTime |
2002-06-18
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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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Cocoa, Enterprise IT, Mac OS X Server, Security |
2006-10-03
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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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Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin, Hardware & Drivers, Mac OS X Server, Tools |
2008-09-24
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Programmatically Performing an Open Directory Search
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QA1462: A short guide on how to programmatically search Open Directory for matching attribute values within records.
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Core Foundation, Enterprise IT, Internet & Web, Mac OS X Server |
2006-09-11
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Project Builder 2.1 needs projects to be checked into CVS to enable CVS support
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QA1245: Explains how to workaround a bug in Project Builder that blocks CVS functionality.
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Tools |
2003-03-20
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Providing QuickDraw with a Known Good Port
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Deprecated - QA1237: How to use SetPort( NULL) to provide QuickDraw with a known good port.
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Graphics & Imaging |
2003-09-29
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PSetSelfSend in Classic AppleTalk vs. Open Transport AppleTalk
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NW23: Describes the relationship between PSetSelfSend in Classic AppleTalk and Open Transport AppleTalk.
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Networking |
1996-05-14
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Public UTIs supported by Mac OS X v10.3
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QA1406: Lists the public UTIs (Uniform Type Identifiers) used by the Pasteboard in Mac OS X v10.3.
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Carbon, Cocoa |
2005-02-08
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QDFlushPortBuffer
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QD65: Describes a possible solution for window update problems under Carbon.
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Carbon, Games, Graphics & Imaging, Mac OS X Server, Performance, Porting, Text & Fonts, User Experience |
2000-11-08
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QDSwapPort
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QA1128: Explains when to use QDSwapPort.
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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging, Porting |
2002-11-06
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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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Cocoa, 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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Cocoa, 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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Cocoa, QuickTime |
2008-03-17
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QTKit Capture - Setting DecompressedVideoOutput CVPixelBuffer Attributes
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QA1582: Describes how to configure a DecompressedVideoOutput objects CVPixelBuffer attributes.
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QuickTime |
2008-03-06
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QTKit Capture - Specifying Media Compression Settings
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QA1586: Describes how to configure a file output object to save compressed captured media.
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Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime |
2008-03-11
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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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Cocoa, QuickTime |
2008-09-16
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QTML, c2pstr and Pascal strings
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QA1112: Describes how to avoid headaches when dealing with Pascal to C string conversion with QTML.
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QuickTime |
2002-01-21
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Quality of QuickTime video effects
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QA1089: Describes some of the factors affecting QuickTime video effects quality.
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QuickTime |
2001-10-26
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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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Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, 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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Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, Performance, Printing |
2003-02-25
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QuickDraw Text Anti-Aliasing using Quartz 2D
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QA1193: Describes APIs added to Mac OS X to allow applications to draw QD text using CG anti-aliasing.
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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging, Porting |
2002-10-29
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QuickTime & Noise Problems
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QTPC02: Talks about ways to reduce noise in movies created with the CinePak codec.
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QuickTime |
1995-05-01
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QuickTime & PutMovieIntoDataFork, Offsets
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QTMTB34: Explains restrictions on moving movie data around in a file after creation; also gives work arounds.
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QuickTime |
1995-05-01
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QuickTime .qtx/.qtr/.qt/.mov files defined
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QTW99: Definitions for the QuickTime for Windows .qtx/.qtr/.qt/.mov files.
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QuickTime |
2000-09-05
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QuickTime 6.4 & AvailabilityMacros.h on Mac OS X 10.2.x
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QA1316: Fixing compilation issues when upgrading to QuickTime 6.4 on Mac OS X 10.2.x systems.
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QuickTime, Tools |
2003-10-21
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QuickTime 7.1.5 Security Enhancements
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QA1520: Discusses the security enhancements and other changes contained in the QuickTime 7.1.5 Update.
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QuickTime |
2007-04-02
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QuickTime and Carbon Events
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QA1090: Discusses how to ensure smooth movie playback when using Carbon Events in an application.
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Carbon, QuickTime |
2001-10-26
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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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Audio, Carbon, Cocoa, QuickTime |
2009-01-29
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QuickTime Audio - Muting and GetMovieAudioFrequencyLevels
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QA1556: Discusses the change made to the GetMovieAudioFrequencyLevels API with QuickTime 7.2.
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QuickTime |
2007-09-28
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QuickTime Audio - Rendering QuickTime Movie audio to a specific Audio Device
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QA1578: Describes how to render Movie audio to a specific audio device.
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QuickTime |
2008-01-08
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QuickTime Audio - Retrieving the correct audio format bit depth value
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QA1477: Discusses how to retrieve accurate audio format bit depth.
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Audio, QuickTime |
2008-11-05
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QuickTime DirectDraw Surfaces
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QTW96: How to make QuickTime 4 for Windows draw onto a surface using your custom DirectDraw object.
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QuickTime |
1999-11-01
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QuickTime Effects - How to set up parameter description values when using kParameterTypeDataImage
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QA1326: Setting up an effect parameter description when using kParameterTypeDataImage as the parameter data type.
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QuickTime |
2003-12-09
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QuickTime Error -2127 qtNetworkAlreadyAllocatedErr Explained
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QA1244: QuickTime qtNetworkAlreadyAllocatedErr error code (-2127) occurs when the user's Connection Speed preference setting is too slow.
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QuickTime |
2003-03-20
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QuickTime for Windows resource files
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QA1132: Describes resource file extensions supported by QuickTime for Windows.
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QuickTime |
2002-04-08
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QuickTime for Windows returns bdNamErr (-37) error with long Windows file names
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QA1413: Describes how QuickTime may return bdNamErr (-37) error on Windows if file name is > 63 characters
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QuickTime |
2008-08-08
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QuickTime Media Editing
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QA1110: Explains the term "Media" as used in QuickTime and how it relates to media editing APIs.
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QuickTime |
2002-01-16
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QuickTime Media Optimization Properties
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QA1579: Discusses the kQTMovieImporterPropertyID_AllowMediaOptimization and kQTMovieInstantiationPropertyID_AllowMediaOptimization properties.
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QuickTime |
2009-03-30
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QuickTime movies require a valid graphics port
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QA1345: The QuickTime Movie Toolbox requires a valid graphics port for all movies.
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QuickTime |
2004-03-19
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QuickTime Music Architecture Header Update
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QTMA06: Explains missing and changed items in QuickTime 2.5.
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QuickTime |
1996-08-21
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QuickTime Preview Behavior
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QTMCC10: Describes the expected behavior of the create/update preview button in the SFPGetFilePreview dialog.
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QuickTime |
1996-11-27
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QuickTime Sound
(HTML)
QTMRF04: Explains what the sowt and the twos format is in QuickTime.
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QuickTime |
1995-05-01
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QuickTime Supported YUV Pixel Formats
(HTML)
QA1060: Describes which YUV pixel formats are supported by QuickTime.
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QuickTime |
2001-07-19
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QuickTime Texture Visual Context - kQTVisualContextNotAllowedErr with non-accelerated graphics cards
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QA1542: Discusses how to create a display mask and avoid a kQTVisualContextNotAllowedErr when using a non-accelerated graphics card.
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Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime |
2007-09-18
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QuickTime Toolbox GetMovieTime Call
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QTMTB38: Provides the calls to change the current time and to reposition a movie to play from the start.
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QuickTime |
1995-05-01
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QuickTime Visual Context - Setting the kQTVisualContextOutputColorSpaceKey Attribute
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QA1550: Describes how to configure a QuickTime OpenGL Texture Visual Context with the kQTVisualContextOutputColorSpaceKey attribute.
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Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime |
2007-09-28
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Raw IP and Open Transport 2.5.x
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Deprecated - NW63: Discusses Open Transport 2.5's change to the behavior of raw IP endpoints with IP_HDRINCL set.
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Carbon, Networking |
1999-10-25
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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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Cocoa, User Experience |
2008-02-08
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Receiving UDP Broadcasts
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Deprecated - NW53: Explains why UDP endpoints may never receive UDP broadcast messages.
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Carbon, Networking |
1997-11-17
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Recording Compressed Sounds
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Deprecated - SND14: Sound Manager and sound input driver compression options are limited to allow interrupt time recording.
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Audio, Carbon |
1998-04-12
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Reducing the size of Physical Memory in Open Firmware
(HTML)
QA1099: Describes how to configure the Power Macintosh so less memory is recognized than is actually present.
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Hardware & Drivers |
2001-12-20
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Registering a Bonjour service multiple times
(HTML)
QA1311: Explains why registering the same Bonjour service twice on the same machine doesn't cause a name conflict.
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Carbon, Hardware & Drivers, Networking |
2003-10-23
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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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Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin |
2008-08-08
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Registering custom pixel formats with QuickTime and Core Video
(HTML)
QA1401: Discusses how to register custom pixel formats with QuickTime & Core Video with QuickTime 7.
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Carbon, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime |
2005-09-06
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