Introduction to Quartz Display Services Programming Topics

Quartz Display Services is an API that provides direct access to certain low-level features in the OS X window server. Quartz Display Services addresses two important types of functionality: the configuration and control of display hardware.

This document is a collection of short articles that provides an overview of Quartz Display Services and shows how to use this API to accomplish some basic tasks. These articles are recommended reading for software developers working on applications (for example: games and media players) that need advanced control of displays.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following articles:

See Also

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