- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
- Number of blossaries: 7
- Company Profile:
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 stored sequence of character codes that represents a line of text. Characters in source text are stored in input order. Compare display text.
Industry:Software; Computer
A number that specifies a particular glyph in a font. Fonts map character codes to glyph codes, which in turn specify individual glyphs.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of actions that is treated as a single operation that either succeeds completely (commit) or fails completely (rollback).
Industry:Software; Computer
To click while the Shift key is down. This combination is used to select multiple objects or to extend a selection.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In the virtual-memory system, faults are the mechanism for initiating page-in activity. They are interrupts that occur when code tries to access data at a virtual address that is not mapped to physical memory. Soft faults happen when the referenced page is resident in physical memory but is unmapped. Hard (or page) faults occur when the page has been swapped out to backing store. See also page, virtual memory. (2) A type of object in Enterprise Objects that represents a partially formed enterprise object instance. Faults are proxy or stand-in objects that provide performance benefits by delaying the retrieval of data in an enterprise object until it’s absolutely needed.
Industry:Software; Computer
A QuickTime atom that contains no other atoms. A classic atom, however, may contain a table. An example of a classic atom is an edit list atom, containing the edit list table. Compare QT atom.
Industry:Software; Computer
An instance of the NSOperationQueue class. Operation queues manage the execution of operation objects.
Industry:Software; Computer
A script system in which text is generally right-aligned with most characters written from right to left, but with some left-to-right text as well. Arabic and Hebrew are bidirectional script systems.
Industry:Software; Computer
The component that enables applications to display HTML files in Help Viewer, a simple browser.
Industry:Software; Computer
A cache that contains all the information ATSUI needs to draw a range of text associated with a text layout object. This includes caret positions, the memory locations of glyphs, and other information needed to lay out the glyphs.
Industry:Software; Computer
