- 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 cubic equation originally developed by Pierre Bézier. In typography, used to define the shape of a glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
The Mac OS X API for creating and sending Apple events, and for receiving, extracting information from, and responding to them.
Industry:Software; Computer
An offscreen drawing destination (CGLayerRef) designed for optimal performance. Introduced in Mac OS X v10.4, a layer context is a much better choice for offscreen drawing than a bitmap graphics context.
Industry:Software; Computer
A list in a pane of an application window used to organise and navigate data. The width of the pane is adjustable. The Finder sidebar is an example of a source list.
Industry:Software; Computer
In audio data format conversion, frames of audio data that follow, in time, the nominal ending frame for an input stream. See also priming. Compare leading frames.
Industry:Software; Computer
A constant used in DVD Playback Services to specify the speed of play. A scan rate of 1x represents the normal playback speed; other scan rates are multiples of the normal speed.
Industry:Software; Computer
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
