- 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) In AppleScript, the evaluation of an expression that contains an operator. (2) In WebObjects, a specific process or task that a web service implements. Much like Java methods, a web service operation can define an arbitrary number of parameters and return values. Operations are invoked by web service consumers and executed by web service providers.
Industry:Software; Computer
An offscreen drawing destination (CGLayerRef) designed for optimal performance. Introduced in Mac OS X v10.4, a layer context is a much better choice for offscreen drawing than a bitmap graphics context.
Industry:Software; Computer
A list in a pane of an application window used to organize and navigate data. The width of the pane is adjustable. The Finder sidebar is an example of a source list.
Industry:Software; Computer
A constant used in DVD Playback Services to specify the speed of play. A scan rate of 1x represents the normal playback speed; other scan rates are multiples of the normal speed.
Industry:Software; Computer
A scripting definition file (sdef) entry that describes a scriptable class, including its attributes and relationships and the KVC keys that Cocoa scripting uses to gain access to its values. When the sdef is loaded, the information is stored in an instance of NSScriptClassDescription .
Industry:Software; Computer
A stored sequence of character codes that represents a line of text. Characters in source text are stored in input order. Compare display text.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of actions that is treated as a single operation that either succeeds completely (commit) or fails completely (rollback).
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In the virtual-memory system, faults are the mechanism for initiating page-in activity. They are interrupts that occur when code tries to access data at a virtual address that is not mapped to physical memory. Soft faults happen when the referenced page is resident in physical memory but is unmapped. Hard (or page) faults occur when the page has been swapped out to backing store. See also page, virtual memory. (2) A type of object in Enterprise Objects that represents a partially formed enterprise object instance. Faults are proxy or stand-in objects that provide performance benefits by delaying the retrieval of data in an enterprise object until it’s absolutely needed.
Industry:Software; Computer
