- 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 dialog that does not require the user to dismiss it before interacting with anything else onscreen. The “find and replace” dialog in many word processors is an example of a modeless dialog.
Industry:Software; Computer
In object-oriented programming, a type of object that contains the data of an application, provides access to that data, and implements logic to manipulate the data.
Industry:Software; Computer
A 4 X 4 matrix used by OpenGL to transforms points, lines, polygons, and positions from object coordinates to eye coordinates.
Industry:Software; Computer
A key the user can hold down to alter the meaning of another key being pressed simultaneously or to alter the meaning of a mouse action. The Option and Command keys are examples of modifier keys.
Industry:Software; Computer
In QuickTime, a track in a movie that modifies the data or presentation of other tracks. For example, a tween track is a modifier track. See also tween track.
Industry:Software; Computer
WebObjects application used to administer deployed WebObjects applications. It’s capable of handling multiple applications, application instances, and applications hosts at the same time.
Industry:Software; Computer
Describes an instrument that plays only one note at a time. Compare polyphonic. See also monotimbral, multitimbral.
Industry:Software; Computer
A kernel architecture in which all pieces of the kernel are closely intertwined. A monolithic kernel provides substantial performance improvements. It is difficult to evolve the individual components independently, however. The Mac OS X kernel is a hybrid of the monolithic and microkernel models. See also microkernel.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, describes an instrument unit configured to produce sounds of only a single timbre. Both monophonic and polyphonic instrument units can be monotimbral. Compare multitimbral.
Industry:Software; Computer
