- 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.
A menu that appears when the user presses the Control key and clicks an interface item. A contextual menu provides convenient access to frequently used commands associated with the item.
Industry:Software; Computer
The coordinate system for a window, where the origin is set at the upper-left corner of the window’s content region. Compare global coordinates.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, access to the control port allows an object to be manipulated. Also called the privileged port. See also name port, port.
Industry:Software; Computer
A module used by the printing system to convert a document description from one document format to another.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a variable that is available only in the handler in which it is defined. Variables that are defined within handlers are local unless they are explicitly declared as global variables.
Industry:Software; Computer
A data structure used to synchronize access to a shared resource. The most common use for a lock is in multithreaded programs where multiple threads need access to global data. Generally, only one thread can hold the lock at a time; by convention, this thread is the only one that can modify the data during this period. Some lock variants such as read-write locks allow multiple threads to hold a single lock under certain conditions. See also mutex lock
Industry:Software; Computer
For documentation sets, a location within an HTML file. When loading the documentation node’s landing page, Xcode scrolls to the location of this anchor. See also documentation node.
Industry:Software; Computer
A file structure that contains servlets, JSP pages, HTML documents and other resources. This structure can be deployed on any servlet-enabled web server.
Industry:Software; Computer
