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Guidelines for Specific Scenarios

This chapter lists an assortment of scenarios that relate to a specific technology or API. Although many of these scenarios are uncommon, you will want to at least glance at the topics to determine whether anything applies to your application. The topics are organized alphabetically.

Contents:

Aliases
Archived Bit Fields
Automator Scripts
Bit Shifting
Bit Test, Set, and Clear Functions: Carbon and POSIX
CPU Subtype
Dashboard Widgets
Deprecated Functions
Disk Partitions
Double-Precision Values: Bit-by-Bit Sensitivity
Finder Information and Low-Level File System Operations
FireWire Device Access
Font-Related Resources
GWorlds
Java Applications
Java I/O API (NIO)
Machine Location Data Structure
Mach Processes: The Task for PID Function
Metrowerks PowerPlant
Multithreading
Objective-C: Messages to nil
Objective-C Runtime: Sending Messages
Open Firmware
OpenGL
OSAtomic Functions
Pixel Data
PostScript Printing
Quartz Bitmap Data
QuickDraw Routines
QuickTime Components
QuickTime Metadata Functions
Runtime Code Generation
Spotlight Importers
System-Specific Predefined Macros
USB Device Access
See Also

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