Apple Developer Connection Technical: Developer Documentation: Q&As

December 7, 1995

  • In this edition, the QuickDraw Q&As highlight grayscale printing, including information on the GrayShare Software Update. Thanks to Dave Polascheck and Ingrid Kelly for keeping QuickDraw up-to-date.

  • If you're unsure how to include a live MIDI-input sequence in your QuickTime movie, you'll find the answer in the QuickTime for Windows Q&A for this posting. Thanks, as usual, goes to the DTS QTW guru, Rand Crippen.

  • For those working on driver development, ATA Manager Events are clarified in a Devices Q&A this month. Thanks to Vinnie Moscaritolo for putting this information together for our developers.


    November 22, 1995

  • Do you have LaserWriter questions? We've got the answers! Check out QuickDraw for some up to the minute information, including the LaserWriter 7.5.2 Printing Update. Thanks to Dave Polaschek for this great showing.

  • This edition also features Hardware, with the source for DDC information. Thanks to Ingrid Kelly for providing us with this info.

  • Lastly, QuickTime for Windows fields a question on CD projects. Thanks to Rand Crippen for keeping the QTW larder well stocked.


    November 2, 1995

  • Not quite sure what AutoStart is all about? This month, in QuickTime P& C, we feature a Q & A on Implementing AutoStart. Thanks to Drew Colace for putting this together.

  • Check out QuickTime for Windows for how to improve movie performance under Windows 95. Thanks to Rand Crippen for this.

  • Visit QuickDraw for some fresh printing Q & A's. Thanks to Dave Polaschek for these contributions.

  • Don't forget to check out the Networking Q & A's for your development needs; provided this month by Vinnie Moscaritolo.

  • Devices is here again. Thanks to Vinnie Moscaritolo for more great stuff.


    September 27, 1995

  • Devices returns to the forefront with a new batch of Q & A's. Thanks to Mark Baumwell for his contributions.

  • Files offers new information for our developers. Thanks to Jim Luther (DTS Emeritus) for this.

  • QuickDraw GX returns to these pages with new Q & A's in both QuickDraw GX Graphics and QuickDraw GX Printing. Thanks to Dave Hayward and Mike Marinkovitch for their contributions.

  • Network is back with a variety of Q & A's. Thanks to Rich Kubota and Scott Kuechle for this great stuff.

  • Operating System is back again, providing up-to-the-minute Q & A's, answering the questions you want answers to. Thanks to Ginny McCulloh and Mark Cookson for their help with these.

  • QuickDraw weighs in with 16 new Q & A's on a wide range of topics. Check them out! QuickDraw 3D also appears with a new batch of Q & A's. Thanks to Nick Thompson and the QuickDraw crew for this great turnout.

  • QuickTime Components makes a good showing with fresh Q & A's in QuickTime Movie Controller Components. Thanks to Rick Evans for his contributions.

  • And last - but not least - QuickTime Movie Toolbox Components rounds out this new edition of Q & A's. Thanks to Kent Sandvik (DTS Emeritus) for these!


    September 1, 1995

  • QuickTime VR returns to these pages with a new batch of Q & A's. Thanks to Pete Falco and the QuickTime VR crew for their contributions.

  • Thanks also to Mike Bitz, Xavier De Leon and Frederique Hauri for their efforts.

    Let us know what you think. Send comments to devsupport@apple.com.


    August 4, 1995

  • Apple Media Tool/Programming Environment weighs in with 22 new Q & A's on a range of topics from defining data structures to preloading media objects. Also included is a cursor.c file , which addresses some of the problems involved when apps freeze during screen switching. Special thanks to Kate Adams for the code snippet and to Rick Evans and Drew Colace for their contributions.

  • QuickTime for Windows is back again with another hot 20 Q & A's on a variety of interesting topics for QTW developers. Check them out! Thanks to Rand Crippen and Kent Sandvik for pumping up these Q & A's. In addition, there are a new batch of QuickTime Performance & Compatibility Q & A's as well as new QuickTime Movie Toolbox andQuickTime Image Compression Manager material.

  • QuickDraw GX also returns to these pages with 11 new Q & A's on a wide range of topics. Thanks to Dave Hayward, Ginny McCulloch and Ingrid vanCleemput for the good stuff.

  • A special bonus this week for PowerPC hardware and PowerPC software developers: Power Macintosh Physical Memory Layout: A Technical White Paper, written by Paul Freeburn and Mark Baumwell, two outstanding DTS engineers who have been addressing PowerPC questions and issues during the whole development cycle. This White Paper, specifically focused on the 6100, 7100 and 8100 series, discusses the physical layout of the PPC motherboard and expansion DRAM, with illustrations of blocks of physically discontiguous memory. Must reading for any PowerPC developer!

    July 27, 1995

  • PCI is the latest, greatest area of recent Macintosh hardware development. If you're actively involved in designing PCI cards or drivers, you'll want to check out these MacintoshTechnical Q & A's. Topics range from PCI Bus Performance to PCI Interrupts. A PCI Home Page, devoted exclusively to the subject, is also in the works. Stay tuned for details.

    For this edition, with the expert and able help of Mark Baumwell, Cameron Birse, Wayne Flansburg, Paul Freeburn, Rich Kubota and Vinnie Moscaritolo, we've added 20 new Q & A's specifically focused on PCI hardware and driver development issues.

  • QuickDraw 3D also returns to these pages with additional Technical Q & A's, thanks to the efforts of Nick Thompson. QuickDraw 3D took the Worldwide Developer Conference by storm and now additional documentation and books are becoming available. Check out 3D Graphics Programming with QuickDraw 3D, published by Addison-Wesley.

    Belated thanks to Mark Bloomquist for ideas and inspiration and to Bill Harris for writing a nifty little AppleScript utility that definitely has made life easier in creating these pages.


    July 1, 1995

  • QuickTime for Windows has earned bragging rights as the most frequently accessed, and hottest page in Macintosh Technical Q & A's for developers. For this edition, with the expert help of Rand Crippen and Kent Sandvik, we've added 20 more Q & A's for you. Check them out.

  • If you need to catch up on SCSI issues in your development efforts, you'll want to see the Devices Folder here. Thanks to Brian Bechtel and Vinnie Moscaritolo, there are 16 new SCSI questions and answers, ranging from ANSI SCSI Standards to Detecting a CD-ROM.

  • Printing and Printer Driver questions... these crop up with some frequency, particularly if you're working with QuickDraw GX and the new LaserWriter 8 drivers. Check out the Printer Drivers Folder here. Thanks to Dave Hayward and Ginny McCulloh for their contributions.


    June 15, 1995

  • Apple's new dimension in Macintosh graphics: QuickDraw 3D comes to these pages with a collection of 20 cool Q & A's. If you're doing any QD3D development and have questions, this is the place to go. Or if you just want to find out more about this new technology, try the QuickDraw 3D home page. Also, check out the latest issue of develop for a nifty Introduction to QuickDraw 3D by Pablo Fernicola and NickThompson. Good stuff, indeed!

  • We've got 10 new Q & A's on QuickTime VR. For a QuickTime VR White Paper, see Apple's QuickTime VR home page.

  • Over 100 commercial titles have been produced using the Apple Media Tool/Programming Environment. Check the What's Up? folder on the AMT/PE page for more details.

  • New links to Macintosh New Technical Notes! So if a Q & A you're reading on Networking, for example, refers to you Technical Note "NW 16 - Borrowed AFP Sessions", you can go right there and get the information you need.

  • Under Platforms & Tools, you'll find a new set of Q & A's on MPW.
  • For the latest information on Networking, see the new set of Q & A's on the Networking page.
  • QuickTime for Macintosh and Windows is hot, hot, hot. Kent Sandvik, DTS's QuickTime guru, has revised and expanded the Q & A's for this edition of the Technical Q & A's. If you're actively engaged in QuickTime development , check out these pages....

  • And lots more new and updated Q & A's on Toolbox, Operating System, and Text matters....


    Special thanks to Kate Adams, Brian Bechtel, Mike Bitz, Joel Cannon, Rand Crippen, Mary Ehrig, Pete Falco, Jim Luther, Virginia McCulloh, Vinnie Moscaritolo, Guillermo Ortiz, Kent Sandvik, Nick Thompson, Merwyn Welcome, Michelle Wyner and the whole DTS Crew...



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