- 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.
(1) A pattern or model designed to guide development in accordance with a specific predefined format or structure. (2) In Xcode, a structured set of default resources (files, folders, frameworks, and so forth) necessary for a specific type of programming project. (2) In Quartz Composer, a composition file that contains a basic set of patches for a particular purpose. (3) In a WebObjects component, a file containing HTML that specifies the overall appearance of a Web page generated from the component.
Industry:Software; Computer
A kernel resource that triggers an event at a specified interval. The event can occur only once or can be recurring. Timers are one of the input sources for run loops. Timers are also implemented at higher levels of the system, such as CFTimer in Core Foundation and NSTimer in Cocoa.
Industry:Software; Computer
To bring a running application to the front of the screen, allowing the user to interact with it. Compare launch.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, series of characters that identifies a value or handler. Identifiers are used to name variables, handlers, parameters, properties, and commands.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Search Kit, a memory- or file-based sequential collection of the terms in one or more documents. In addition to terms, Search Kit indexes contain context information that specifies which documents each term belongs to, along with term and document metadata useful during display of search results. Search Kit performs its searching and analysis on indexes. See also inverted index, inverted-vector index, vector index.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In Launch Services, an application, document, or URL to be operated on. (2) In AppleScript, a value in a list or record. An item can be specified by its offset from the beginning or end of the list or record.
Industry:Software; Computer
A collection of numbers arranged in a grid. It can be thought of as the mathematical equivalent of a two-dimensional array. Much like two-dimensional arrays, matrices are composed of rows and columns with their elements referred to as cells. See also transformation matrix.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Search Kit, a document name as represented in a document URL object. For documents that are on-disk files, the name should correspond to the actual filename. For other types of documents, your application can assign any name to a document. See also document URL object
Industry:Software; Computer
