- Отрасли: 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 file in the scripting definition format that provides the scriptability information for an application. A scripting definition file has the extension .sdef and is also called an sdef file or simply an sdef. Compare script suite file, script terminology file.
Industry:Software; Computer
A class that supports a user interface item. The Application Kit provides many of these classes; for example, NSButton and NSBrowser are Cocoa user interface classes provided by the Application Kit.
Industry:Software; Computer
A technology integrated into the lower layers of Quartz that enables many graphics operations to be offloaded to hardware. This offloading of work to the graphics processing unit (GPU) provides tremendous acceleration for graphics-intensive applications. This technology is enabled automatically by Quartz and OpenGL on supported hardware.
Industry:Software; Computer
A pair of related but dissimilar keys, one used for encrypting and the other used for decrypting a message or other data. See also public key cryptography. Compare symmetric keys.
Industry:Software; Computer
A named set of build settings that tells Xcode how to build a product. The typical build configurations are Debug and Release, but you can define additional build configurations. See also build setting.
Industry:Software; Computer
A region maintained by the Window Manager that includes the parts of a window’s content region that need updating.
Industry:Software; Computer
A command that is defined by a scriptable application to provide access to a scriptable feature. An application command must either be included in a tell statement or include the name of the application in its direct parameter.
Industry:Software; Computer
Hardware abstraction layer. An object-like interface between Core Audio objects and hardware. The hardware abstraction layer typically addresses hardware by means of an I/O Kit driver, but this is not a requirement. The HAL gives applications a consistent way to communicate with external devices—insulating them from the complexity of addressing multiple, specialized hardware drivers.
Industry:Software; Computer
