- 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.
A scripting definition file (sdef) entry that describes a scriptable class, including its attributes and relationships and the KVC keys that Cocoa scripting uses to gain access to its values. When the sdef is loaded, the information is stored in an instance of NSScriptClassDescription .
Industry:Software; Computer
An instance of the NSOperation class. Operation objects wrap the code and data associated with a task into an executable unit.
Industry:Software; Computer
A part of Cocoa scripting that uses scriptability information supplied by an application to evaluate an Apple event received by the application. In many cases, an Apple event is translated into a script command object that performs the action specified by the event.
Industry:Software; Computer
An instance of an NSView object that hosts a Core Animation layer tree. The developer is responsible for managing the layer tree directly.
Industry:Software; Computer
A stored sequence of character codes that represents a line of text. Characters in source text are stored in input order. Compare display text.
Industry:Software; Computer
A number that specifies a particular glyph in a font. Fonts map character codes to glyph codes, which in turn specify individual glyphs.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of actions that is treated as a single operation that either succeeds completely (commit) or fails completely (rollback).
Industry:Software; Computer
To click while the Shift key is down. This combination is used to select multiple objects or to extend a selection.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In the virtual-memory system, faults are the mechanism for initiating page-in activity. They are interrupts that occur when code tries to access data at a virtual address that is not mapped to physical memory. Soft faults happen when the referenced page is resident in physical memory but is unmapped. Hard (or page) faults occur when the page has been swapped out to backing store. See also page, virtual memory. (2) A type of object in Enterprise Objects that represents a partially formed enterprise object instance. Faults are proxy or stand-in objects that provide performance benefits by delaying the retrieval of data in an enterprise object until it’s absolutely needed.
Industry:Software; Computer
