Technical Q&As

December 22, 1998

• Devices features a new Q&A on Secondary Interrupts on the Page Fault Path.
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
• Human Interface Toolbox features many new Q&As on Menus.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.

December 14, 1998

• Human Interface Toolbox features an updated Q&A on Reserved Key Combinations.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.

December 7, 1998

• Java features two new Q&As on Simulated Click on AWT Button and
  Using stdin on the Macintosh.
  Thanks to Levi Brown.
  
• QuickDraw features a new Q&A on grayishTextOr and Mac OS 8.5.
  Thanks to Tim Carroll.
  
• Human Interface Toolbox features a new Q&A on Drag Manager: Promising and Tracking.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.
• Devices features a new Q&A on PrepareMemoryForIO in the NewWorld.
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
  

November 16, 1998

• Universal Serial Bus features a new Q&A on Understanding USB Error -6911 (kUSBNotResponding).
  Thanks to Rich Kubota.
  

November 9, 1998

• QuickTime Movie Toolbox features a new Q&A on Playing QuickTime 3 Movie Sound Data.
  Thanks to Scott Kuechle.
  

November 2, 1998

• Files features a new Q&A on Ejecting the Volume on Which Your Program Resides.
  Thanks to Jim Luther.
  
• Overviews features a new Q&A on Test What You Ship.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.
  

October 19, 1998

• OS Utilities features a new Q&A on Detecting Control Strip at Startup.
  Thanks to Mark Cookson.
  
• QuickTime Components features a new Q&A on Decompressing IMA WAVE files.
  Thanks again to Mark Cookson.
  
• QuickTime Movie Toolbox features a new Q&A on SetSoundMediaBalance balance parameter clarification.
  Thanks to Scott Kuechle.
  
• Hardware features a new Q&A on why UpTime's values are consistently slow.
  Thanks to Timothy Carroll.

October 5, 1998

• High-Level Toolbox features an updated Q&A on Appearance Versions.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.

September 28, 1998

• Universal Serial Bus features four new Q&As on the following topics:
  • Composite Class Driver loads via both Driver/InterfaceInitialize entry point
  • USBGetNextDeviceByClass Requires deviceRef
  • Supporting multiple USB devices with a single class driver file
  • Using Custom creator code for USB Class Drivers
  Many thanks to Rich Kubota.

September 21, 1998

• QuickTime Windows features nine new Q&As on the following topics:
  • Using Mac-style Resources.
  • Using Mac Toolbox Routines Under Windows 98/95/NT
  • Checking For Presence of QuickTime 3 for Windows
  • Calling InitializeQTML from DLL Main
  • QuickTime MCI driver
  • CreatePortAssociation And WM_QUERYNEWPALETTE Message
  • 2GB File Size Limit
  • Using Custom Color Tables
  • MSVC++ Link Error LNK4098 When Building QuickTime 3 for Windows Apps.
  Many thanks to Scott Kuechle.

• Devices features an updated Q&A on Calling ataManager on a Power Macintosh
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
  

September 14, 1998

• Files features an updated Q&A on Determining Volume Size.
  Thanks to Mark Cookson.
  

September 7, 1998

• QuickDraw features a new Q&A on Text Mask Mode and QuickDraw.
  Thanks to Ingrid Kelly.
  

August 31, 1998

• Files features an updated Q&A on Determining Volume Size.
  Thanks to Mark Cookson.
  

August 24, 1998

• Human Interface Toolbox features an updated Q&A on Appearance Versions.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.
  
• Memory features a new Q&A on Temporary Memory.
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
  

July 30, 1998

• Files features an updated Q&A on PBXGetVolInfo Glue.
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
  
• Human Interface Toolbox features a new Q&A on Pop-up Menu CDEFs.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.
  
• Human Interface Toolbox also contains a new Q&A on Reserved Key Combinations.
  Thanks again to Pete Gontier.
  

July 20, 1998

• Networking features an updated Q&A on a Workaround for PLookupName Bug.
  Thanks to Rich Kubota.
  

July 13, 1998

• Networking features a new Q&A on a Workaround for PLookupName Bug.
  Thanks to Rich Kubota.
  
• Hardware features an updated Q&A on Gestalt Values for Recent Macintosh Models.
  Thanks again to Rich Kubota.
  

July 6, 1998

• Toolbox features a new Q&A on Navigation Services and memFullErr.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.
  
• Files features a new Q&A on Ejecting the Volume on Which Your Program Resides.
  Thanks again to Pete Gontier.
  
• Text features a new Q&A on IsCmdChar.
  Thanks to Mark Cookson.

June 29, 1998

• Toolbox features a new Q&A on Appearance Versions.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.
  

June 15, 1998

• Toolbox features a new Q&A on Navigation Services Versions.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.
  
• Hardware features an updated Q&A on Gestalt Values for Recent Macintosh Models.
  Thanks to Rich Kubota.
  

June 8, 1998

• Devices features a new Q&A on PrepareMemoryForIO and Execution Levels.
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
  
• Sound features a new Q&A on MACE Restrictions.
  Thanks to Mark Cookson.
  

June 1, 1998

• Networking features an updated Q&A on Determining if a Volume is a Network Volume.
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
  

May 25, 1998

• QuickDraw features a new Q&A on LaserWriter 8 Support for *JCL/PCL.
  Thanks to Ingrid Kelly.
  
• Networking features an updated Q&A on Numerous Small Packet Exchanges Result in Poor TCP Performance.
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
  

May 18, 1998

• Sound features a new Q&A on Capturing Speech Manager Output.
  Thanks to Mark Cookson.
  

May 11, 1998

• Hardware features a new Q&A on Making the ADBOp call from CFM-68K.
  Thanks to Rich Kubota.
  

May 4, 1998

• Networking features an updated Q&A on Using Open Transport with CFM-68K.
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
  

April 20, 1998

• QuickDraw 3D features 8 new Q&A's on the subject of RAVE, plus new Q&A's on Triangle Strips, and errors in QADrawContextNew.
  Thanks to Timothy Carroll.
  

April 13, 1998

• Files features two new Q&A's on PBXGetVolInfo.
  Thanks to Mark Cookson.
  
  
• Text features a new Q&A on large 'sfnt' fonts.
  Thanks to Ingrid Kelly.
  
  
• Toolbox features a new Q&A on the AppendDialogItemList function.
  Thanks to Pete Gontier.
  
  
• Sound features three new Q&A's. Subjects are siOSTypeInput selectors, the siMonitorSource selector and recording compressed sounds.
  Thanks again to Mark Cookson.
  
  
• Networking features a new Q&A on Open Transport errors -3151 and -3160.
  Thanks to Rich Kubota.

February 10, 1998

• Memory features one new Q&A: Finding the VM Backing Store.
  Thanks to Quinn "The Eskimo!"
  
  
• Quickdraw features another new Q&A: Parsing the PICT File Format.
  Thanks to Ingrid Kelly
  
  
• Text features another new Q&A: Creating Double-byte Bitmap Fonts.
  Thanks to Ingrid Kelly
  
  
• Toolbox features another new Q&A: The Improper use of FSClose.
  Thanks to Mark Cookson
  
  
• Sound features the last of our new Q&A's: Setting Audio Input Gain.
  Thanks to Mark Cookson.

Technical Q&As