- 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.
In AppleScript, a handler parameter that is identified by the order in which it is listed. In a handler call, positional parameters are enclosed in parentheses and separated by commas. They must be listed in the order in which they appear in the corresponding handler definition.
Industry:Software; Computer
A mechanism that controls access to the lock of a work loop, thereby serialising access to the data involved in I/O requests. A command gate does not require a thread context switch to ensure single-threaded access. IOCommandGate event-source objects represent command gates in the I/O Kit.
Industry:Software; Computer
An offscreen graphics context, introduced in Mac OS X v10.4, suited for high-quality offscreen rendering of content that you plan to reuse.
Industry:Software; Computer
Code that makes use of available on-board vector processors. vImage uses vector code.
Industry:Software; Computer
A discrete track of audio. A monaural recording or live performance has exactly one channel. A stereo recording or live performance has two channels. A multitrack recording or performance can have any number of channels. Between audio units, a connexion has one or more channels. See also channel layout.
Industry:Mining
The division of a ligature for hit-testing purposes into regions corresponding to each of its component glyphs.
Industry:Software; Computer
A description of the playback roles for the channels in an audio recording. For example, in a stereo recording, channel 1 has the role of “left front” and channel 2 has the role of “right front.”
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of converting a location within a line of display text into a caret offset in the source text of that line.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In DVD-Video, a division of a title. Technically called a part of title (PTT). (2) A method of organising different scenes of a movie for easy navigation and access. DVDs are indexed by chapter, similar to the way a CD has a track. DVD players allow you to skip to a particular chapter or scene.
Industry:Software; Computer
The full horizontal width of a glyph as measured from its origin to the origin of the next glyph on the line, including the side bearings on both sides.
Industry:Software; Computer
