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2008-04-24 How can I find out what non-RGB pixel formats a codec supports? (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change QuickTime
2008-04-24 Using QTPixelBufferContextCreate with NewMovieFromProperties (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime
2008-04-14 Determining console user login status (HTML)
A complete rewrite to account for fast user switching, and to simplify the code.
 Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin
2008-03-27 How to get a native QuickTime movie object from the QuickTime ActiveX/COM control (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime
2008-03-25 Bonjour Printer Subtype for HTTP (HTML)
Restructured the document to clarify possible ambiguities.
 Minor Change Apple Applications, Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin, Enterprise IT, Networking, Open Source, Printing
2008-03-25 Drawing attributed strings that are both filled and stroked (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa, Text & Fonts
2008-03-25 Supported KPIs (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Darwin
2008-03-17 QTKit Capture - Extracting SMPTE Timecode information from a QTSampleBuffer (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa, QuickTime
2008-03-17 Sample Description Endianness (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime
2008-03-11 How to work around HIMovieViewCreate failing (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Carbon, QuickTime, Tools
2008-03-11 Movie Import Components - MovieImportDataRef Invoked For File Import Operations (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime
2008-03-11 QTKit Capture - Specifying Media Compression Settings (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime
2008-03-11 Suppressing the "unexpectedly quit" alert (HTML)
Updated content for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Fixed a typographical error. "~Library/Preferences/com.apple.CrashReporter.plist" should be "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CrashReporter.plist."
 Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin
2008-03-06 Missing Results in Xcode Project Find Window (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Tools
2008-03-06 QTKit Capture - Setting DecompressedVideoOutput CVPixelBuffer Attributes (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change QuickTime
2008-02-27 Common mistakes with delegation in Cocoa (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa
2008-02-27 Disabling text completion in an NSTextField (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa
2008-02-27 NSDate - Natural language date parsing in early Leopard releases (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa
2008-02-20 Customizing Process Stack Size (HTML)
Updated NSThread section for Leopard.
 Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin
2008-02-08 Re-enabling dragging from NSTableView to other applications (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Updated for resolution of issue in Mac OS X 10.4.
 Minor Change Cocoa, User Experience
2008-01-23 Programmatically causing restart, shutdown and/or logout (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Added information for daemon authors.
 Content Update Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin, Hardware & Drivers, Mac OS X Server, Tools
2008-01-21 Connecting the Font Menu in Interface Builder 3 (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa, Text & Fonts, Tools, User Experience
2008-01-21 Enabling the application menu's "Preferences" menu item on Mac OS X (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa, User Experience
2008-01-15 QuickTime Media Optimization Properties (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime
2008-01-08 QuickTime Audio - Rendering QuickTime Movie audio to a specific Audio Device (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime