- Industria: 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 feature that allows users on a multiple-user computer to access their desktop, documents, and applications without requiring other logged in users to quit their applications.
Industry:Software; Computer
An operation that changes the scale of the coordinate space by the specified x and y factors, effectively stretching or shrinking coordinates. The magnitude of the x and y factors governs whether the new coordinates are larger or smaller than the original. A negative factor flips the corresponding axis.
Industry:Software; Computer
A button with a beveled edge that gives the button a three-dimensional appearance.
Industry:Software; Computer
An instance of an NSView object that uses a Core Animation layer to cache its drawing content. The view is responsible for managing the layer tree; the developer should not manipulate the layer tree directly.
Industry:Software; Computer
A high-level operating-system event that conforms to the Apple Event Interprocess Messaging Protocol (AEIMP). An Apple event typically consists of a message from an application to itself or to another application.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a group inside a project group in the source window that contains references to actual files somewhere on the hard disk.
Industry:Software; Computer
The edge of a glyph that is encountered last when reading text of that glyph’s language. For glyphs of left-to-right text, the trailing edge is the right edge; for glyphs of right-to-left text, the trailing edge is the left edge.
Industry:Software; Computer
In DVD playback, a forward or backward direction with respect to the video stream.
Industry:Software; Computer
(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
A cubic equation originally developed by Pierre Bézier. In typography, used to define the shape of a glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
