- 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
A representation of a signal chain comprising an interconnection of audio units. Also called an AUGraph or graph. Core Audio represents such an interconnected network as a software object of type AUGraph. Audio processing graphs must end in an output unit. See also audio unit.
Industry:Software; Computer
A system framework that includes and links with constituent subframeworks and other public frameworks. An umbrella framework “contains” the system software defining an application environment or a layer of system software. See also subframework.
Industry:Software; Computer
The white space on the right side of the glyph; this value may or may not be equal to the value of the left-side bearing.
Industry:Software; Computer
A system that requires authorization to perform a privileged operations.
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
In Mach, a value indicating the degree to which a parent process and its child process share pages in the parent process’s address space. A memory page can be inherited as copy-on-write, shared, or not at all.
Industry:Software; Computer
The number that is multiplied to each of the factors in a polynomial equation. For example, in the equation x2 + 2x + 1, the coefficients are 1, 2, and 1.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Audio Queue Services, a software object of type AudioQueueRef, used for recording or playing back audio. There are two distinct types of audio queue. A recording audio queue (sometimes called an input audio queue) typically accepts incoming audio from a hardware device and uses a callback function on its output side. A playback audio queue (sometimes called an output audio queue) has a callback on its input side, and typically sends its output audio to external hardware.
Industry:Software; Computer
