- 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 Search Kit, for file-based documents, the location of the enclosing folder for a document or for another parent document URL object. Search Kit manages documents using parent-child relationships, not paths. You can construct the path of any document by following its parent document links. See also document URL object.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, an object from which another script object, called the child, inherits properties and handlers. A parent object may be any object, such as a list or an application object, but it is typically another script object.
Industry:Software; Computer
Matching of the terms in a query string to indexed terms, with implied wildcard characters at the start and end of each query term. Each term is matched separately. Search Kit does not currently support partial string searching as an option, but a client application can provide it by adding wildcard operators (asterisks) around each term before handing a query off to Search Kit. See also search.
Industry:Software; Computer
A device driver that performs only basic power-management tasks, such as joining the power plane and changing the device’s power state. See also active driver.
Industry:Software; Computer
A mode that does not modify data. With respect to keyboard-entry, pass-through mode allows users to enter ASCII characters in the context of a 2-byte script, without changing the keyboard script.
Industry:Software; Computer
A standardised mechanism for exchanging data within applications or between applications. The most familiar use for pasteboards is handling copy and paste operations. The equivalent user term is Clipboard.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Quartz Composer, the base processing unit in a composition, which executes and produces a result. Patches are similar to routines in traditional programming languages. See also macro patch.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Quartz Composer, the levels in a composition created when macro patches are used. See also macro patch.
Industry:Software; Computer
The “/” character that separates folder names in a raw pathname. A raw pathname should be displayed only to expert users or in a help tag.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Quartz, an abstract space that maps to the default user space by the transformation matrix (the pattern matrix) you specify when you create the pattern. Pattern space is separate from user space. The untransformed pattern space maps to the base (untransformed) user space, regardless of the state of the current transformation matrix.
Industry:Software; Computer
