- Industry: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
An atom that contains other atoms, possibly including other container atoms.
Industry:Software; Computer
A hierarchy of event targets that determines which handler is to be called to process an event. Events are initially sent to the innermost (or lowest) relevant target in the hierarchy. If the handler associated with that event target does not handle the event (or if no handler exists), then the event is propagated to the next target in the hierarchy. If no handler in the hierarchy processes the event, the default handler is called.
Industry:Software; Computer
A sequence of actions to accomplish some task. In cryptography, refers to a sequence of actions, usually mathematical calculations, performed on data to encrypt or decrypt it.
Industry:Software; Computer
In either browse mode or search mode, a view that displays category information or a document page.
Industry:Software; Computer
A token that Installer uses to determine whether a component has already been installed on an installation volume.
Industry:Software; Computer
A test that compares the value of a volume property (such as free space) with a value. Volume requirements determine whether the user can choose a particular volume as the destination volume of a product package.
Industry:Software; Computer
The portion of the window below the title bar. The content region can contain document content or controls.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mac OS X applications, the view object that acts as the root for all other views in the window. In iPhone OS applications, the portion of an iPhone window that displays the application’s custom content. Each content view may be represented by one or more actual views and typically presents a single screen’s worth of application content.
Industry:Software; Computer
A lightweight reference to files and folders in Mac OS Standard (HFS) and Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file systems. An alias allows multiple references to files and folders without requiring multiple copies of these items. Aliases are not as fragile as symbolic links because they identify the volume and location on disk of a referenced file or folder; the file or folder can be moved around without breaking the alias. See also symbolic link.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In OpenGL, a set of OpenGL state variables that affect how drawing is performed for a drawable object attached to that context. Also called a rendering context. (2) In the Mac OS X printing system, a pointer to a custom data structure that contains state information shared among the functions in a printing dialog extension.
Industry:Software; Computer
