Technical Q&As


Note: For archived 1999 Updates, check out: What's New 1999.

May 31, 2000

  • USB features a new Q&A on Implementing MacsBug-Compatible USB Keyboard and Mouse Drivers.

  • Platforms and Tools features a new Q&A on Extension Off, Macsbug On.


May 8, 2000

  • Networking features a new Q&A on Receiving UDP Broadcasts While Sending from a Secondary Address. There is also an updated Q&A on Open Transport versions.


May 1, 2000

  • Text features a new Q&A on The 'vers' resource and application localization.


April 24, 2000

  • Java features a new Q&A on Specifying Proxy Settings.

  • Networking features a new Q&A on URLDownload Error Codes.

  • QuickTime Movie Toolbox features a new Q&A on Decompressing individual frames into an offscreen.


April 17, 2000

  • Java features a new Q&A on Defining user properties with MRJAppBuilder.


April 3, 2000

  • QuickTime Movie Toolbox features a new Q&A on Importing image data from memory.

  • OpenGL premieres with a new Q&A on aglChoosePixelFormat, The Inside Scoop.


March 20, 2000

  • Hardware features a new Q&A on Legacy Devices.

  • Java features an updated Q&A on Java File Paths are not Unix File Paths.


February 28, 2000

  • Devices features a new Q&A on Native Disk Driver Debugging.

  • Hardware features a new Q&A on SDRAM Problems with Self-Powered USB Devices.


February 14, 2000

  • Java features an updated Q&A on Using Runtime.exec to open a URL.


February 2, 2000

  • Java features three new Q&As on Moving Files, SSL and Applet Caching in MRJ 2.2, and Using JDK Tools Under MRJ 2.2. There is also an update on Using System.currentTimeMillis().


January 31, 2000

  • Networking features a new Q&A on NSL and Custom Thread Context-Switching Functions.


January 17, 2000

  • Devices features two new Q&As on Serial API Choice, and DriverServicesLib Queue Routines.

  • Human Interface Toolbox features an updated Q&A on CloseDialog and 'ictb's.


January 4, 2000

  • Text features a new Q&A on Maximum number of fonts under Mac OS 9.

Technical Q&As