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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 audio, the range, expressed in decibels, between a standard reference signal level and the maximum allowable signal level (the ceiling). See also dynamic range.
Industry:Software; Computer
A rectangle that completely encloses the visual representation of a track in a QuickTime movie. The width of this rectangle in pixels is referred to as the track width; the height, as the track height.
Industry:Software; Computer
The collection of HTML files that provide onscreen help for a particular product.
Industry:Software; Computer
A fill rule that determines when to paint a pixel. The outcome does not depend on the direction that path segments are drawn. Compare nonzero winding number rule.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A constant that notifies an application that some action is occurring, or has occurred. (2) In AppleScript an action an object can respond to. For example, a button click is an event that may result in execution of a clicked handler for the button that was clicked. Compare SMB/CIFS. (3) In Interface Builder, a type of connexion that is specific to iPhone applications. Events represent different phases of user interaction for a control. Each event connexion can also have multiple assigned target objects, each with its own distinct action message.
Industry:Software; Computer
The general category an event belongs to, typically associated with an particular action or user-interface element. Example classes are window events and volume events. Compare event kind.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Quartz Composer, a patch that processes data at specified intervals or in response to changing input values.
Industry:Software; Computer
The UID of a process. Each process has three user IDs: the real user ID (RUID), effective user ID (EUID), and saved user ID (SUID). The RUID is always inherited from the user or process that executes the process. The EUID is normally the same as the RUID but can differ in special circumstances. It is the EUID that BSD cheques to determine permissions. The SUID is used by BSD to enable a privileged process to switch in and out of privileged mode.
Industry:Software; Computer
A callback procedure or function that processes one or more events.
Industry:Software; Computer
An Apple-supplied audio unit used to interface with hardware input or output, so named because it interacts with the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer).
Industry:Software; Computer
