This page lists new and recently changed Technical Q&As.

Items are listed in reverse chronological order by publication date. To see the list sorted by the type of revision, click Sort by Revision Type. Items published for the first time (First Version) will be at the top of the list, followed by items with new or changed content (Content Update), followed by items with small fixes, such as typos and format errors, but no significant content changes (Minor Change).

New and updated Technical Q&As are announced in the bi-weekly Apple Developer Connection News, available as an option to ADC members. See the Membership Overview page for details on joining.
Document Revision Descriptions
On Off
Sorted by
Date
Sort by
Title
Sort by
Revision Type
Sort by
Topic
2008-06-03 Getting a Packet Trace (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Streamlined product descriptions and reorganized the Miscellaneous notes. Restructured entire document and added additional packages. Added additional Hub/Switch information.
Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin, Games, Hardware & Drivers, Internet & Web, Java, Mac OS X Server, Networking, Printing, QuickTime, Security
2008-05-19 Creating Apple TV Media Files Containing Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 Audio (HTML)
Editorial
Minor Change QuickTime
2008-05-19 QTKit Capture - Disabling Audio Or Video When Capturing From a Muxed Device (HTML)
First Version
First Version Cocoa, QuickTime
2008-04-24 How can I find out what non-RGB pixel formats a codec supports? (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Editorial
Minor Change QuickTime
2008-04-24 Using QTPixelBufferContextCreate with NewMovieFromProperties (HTML)
Editorial
Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime
2008-04-14 Determining console user login status (HTML)
A complete rewrite to account for fast user switching, and to simplify the code.
Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin
2008-03-27 How to get a native QuickTime movie object from the QuickTime ActiveX/COM control (HTML)
First Version
First Version QuickTime
2008-03-25 Bonjour Printer Subtype for HTTP (HTML)
Restructured the document to clarify possible ambiguities.
Minor Change Apple Applications, Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin, Enterprise IT, Networking, Open Source, Printing
2008-03-25 Drawing attributed strings that are both filled and stroked (HTML)
First Version
First Version Cocoa, Text & Fonts
2008-03-25 Supported KPIs (HTML)
First Version
First Version Darwin
2008-03-17 QTKit Capture - Extracting SMPTE Timecode information from a QTSampleBuffer (HTML)
First Version
First Version Cocoa, QuickTime
2008-03-17 Sample Description Endianness (HTML)
First Version
First Version QuickTime
2008-03-11 How to work around HIMovieViewCreate failing (HTML)
Editorial
Minor Change Carbon, QuickTime, Tools
2008-03-11 Movie Import Components - MovieImportDataRef Invoked For File Import Operations (HTML)
First Version
First Version QuickTime
2008-03-11 QTKit Capture - Specifying Media Compression Settings (HTML)
Editorial
Minor Change Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime
2008-03-11 Suppressing the "unexpectedly quit" alert (HTML)
Updated content for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Fixed a typographical error. "~Library/Preferences/com.apple.CrashReporter.plist" should be "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CrashReporter.plist."
Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin