- 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 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 connection that is specific to iPhone applications. Events represent different phases of user interaction for a control. Each event connection can also have multiple assigned target objects, each with its own distinct action message.
Industry:Software; Computer
process identifier, see simple statement, a number for identifying a process, certain process
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 process by which an entity such as a user or a server gets the right to perform a privileged operation. (Authorization can also refer to the right itself, as in “Bob has the authorization to run that program.”) Authorization usually involves first authenticating the entity and then determining whether it has the appropriate permissions. Compare authentication.
Industry:Software; Computer
The ability for a computer to understand spoken commands or responses.
Industry:Software; Computer
The matching of the terms in a query string to indexed terms using exact, character-for-character matching. Each term is matched separately. In Search Kit, by default, spaces between terms behave like Boolean AND operators. See also search.
Industry:Software; Computer
In QuickTime, the method by which two overlapping images are blended together to produce a composite image.
Industry:Software; Computer
A value, such as an integer or a constant, that does not contain other values.
Industry:Software; Computer
