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Technical Q&As: Carbon
Applications often need to load specific resources in addition to their executable code. Carbon includes support for distributing, locating, and loading these resources, which include memory allocations, feature availability information, power and energy resources, and application-specific images, sounds, and localized strings.

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Determining user login/logout status (HTML)
QA1133: Tells how to determinine if a user is logged in, and how to get login/logout notification
2002-04-08
Non Mac OS X Bundled data-fork based Resources (HTML) ()
QA1098: Mac OS X Bundled data-fork based Resources
2003-08-20
OTScheduleDeferredTask When Task Running (HTML) ()
NW52: Describes what happens when you use OTScheduleDefferedTask to schedule a task that is running.
1997-10-13
Preventing sleep (HTML)
QA1160: Explains how your application can prevent the system from sleeping.
2004-10-22
Programmatically causing restart, shutdown and/or logout (HTML) ()
QA1134: Describes how to programmatically cause restart, shutdown, sleep or logout.
2003-02-10
Registering for sleep notifications (HTML)
QA1340: Explains how register for sleep notifcations on Mac OS X.
2004-10-25
Resource forks in Mach-O binaries (HTML) ()
QA1175: Advises against using resource forks in Mach-O binaries.
2002-08-07
Setting environment variables for user processes (HTML)
QA1067: Tells how to set environment variables for user processes.
2001-10-25
Temporary Memory (HTML) ()
ME08: Discusses the tradeoff between temporary memory and system memory for short-lived memory requirements.
1998-08-24
Timely Issues - 1904 (HTML) ()
OPS23: Explains why the beginning of the year 1904 was chosen for epoch of the Time global variable.
1999-05-17
The 'vers' Resource and Your Place in the World (HTML)
TX14: Setting the correct country code in the 'vers' resource to reflect the application's localization.
2000-05-01