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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.
In an information retrieval system, a process that attempts to locate documents that match a query, and that may assign relevance scores to the found documents. Upon a successful match, a search system returns references to the found documents. Search Kit supports a variety of search types, some of which can be combined. These types are simple, Boolean, ranked, unranked, phrase, similarity, prefix, suffix, and substring.
Industry:Software; Computer
The Ink toolbar plus the Ink pad. The window allows the user to control various aspects of Ink and to enter Ink input.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, a set of zero or more Mach ports. A thread can receive messages sent to any of the ports contained in a port set by specifying the port set as a parameter to msg_receive().
Industry:Software; Computer
A scripting definition file (sdef) entry that describes the characteristics of an AppleScript command, including argument names (if any), command result type (if any), AppleScript command name, and name of the Objective-C class Cocoa instantiates to perform the command. When the sdef is loaded, the information is stored in an instance of NSScriptCommandDescription .
Industry:Software; Computer
An object that represents an array of Unicode characters ( UniChar ) along with a count of the number of characters. Unicode-based strings in Core Foundation provide a solid basis for internationalizing the software you develop. Unicode makes it possible to develop and localize a single version of an application for users who speak most of the world’s written languages, including Russian (Cyrillic), Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese. Although conceptually CFString objects store strings as arrays of Unicode characters, in practice they often store them more efficiently. The memory a CFString object requires is typically about the same or even less than that required by a simple UniChar array.
Industry:Software; Computer
A range of values used to produce different type styles for a font. For example, a font that has a weighting axis could be displayed with weights that range from 0.7 point (light) to 1.3 points (bold). It is possible to combine variations. For example, font width variations can be combined with weighting variations to produce font variations ranging from light, narrow to bold, wide.
Industry:Software; Computer
The prefix used for functions in the Quartz API. See also Core Graphics.
Industry:Software; Computer
The breaking up of a ligature into its component glyphs during justification so that the individual glyphs may more evenly occupy the space allotted to the ligature.
Industry:Software; Computer
Human Interface Toolbox. A collection of procedural APIs that apply an object-oriented model to windows, controls, and menus for Carbon applications. The HI Toolbox supplements older Macintosh Toolbox managers such as the Control Manager, Dialog Manager, Menu Manager, and Window Manager from Mac OS 9.
Industry:Software; Computer
