- 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 window that applies to the user’s current task. Active windows are distinguished from inactive windows by the look of the title bar and the window controls. The active window is typically the frontmost non-floating window, but multiple windows can be active simultaneously. See also key window, main window.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a view of the state of the files in project. Snapshots allow you to experiment freely with refactoring operations.
Industry:Software; Computer
Small buttons that appear on the scroll control that let the user incrementally advance the scrollers without dragging.
Industry:Software; Computer
A control for one of a set of mutually exclusive, but related, choices.
Industry:Software; Computer
An interface provided by an I/O Kit family, that enables a user process (which can’t call a kernel-resident driver or other service directly) to access hardware. In the kernel, this interface appears as a driver object called a user client; in user space, it is called a device interface and is implemented as a CFPlugin object. See also device interface.
Industry:Software; Computer
A description of the nominal audio signal strength resulting from a given input level and gain in an audio device or system. Level within analog audio circuitry is often measured in dBu. The instantaneous signal strength, for any nominal level, can vary from the noise floor to the dynamic ceiling. Professional “line level” typically indicates a nominal level of +4 dBu, while “consumer level” typically indicates a nominal level of –10 dBu. See also ceiling, dBu, noise floor. Compare volume.
Industry:Software; Computer
Auxiliary data that your application can store in a QuickTime movie, track, or media structure. The user data is stored in a user data list; items in the list are referred to as user data items. Examples of user data include a copyright, date of creation, name of a movie’s director, and special hardware and software requirements. See also user data item, user data list.
Industry:Software; Computer
The simple browser used to display Apple Help HTML files.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Component Manager–based Simulator that adds an audio feature to a Mac OS X application. Audio units can provide effects such as filtering and reverb, MIDI-based music synthesis, audio data format conversions, mixing, panning, sound generation, and audio playback. Unlike application-specific plug-ins, audio units are available systemwide. Multiple instances of a single audio unit can run simultaneously.
Industry:Software; Computer
