- Industri: 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.
The part of Mach that determines when each program (or program thread) runs, including assignment of start times. The priority of a program’s thread can affect its scheduling. See also task, thread.
Industry:Software; Computer
The event handling interface used in Mac OS applications before the Carbon Event Manager. The Classic Event Manager often required a certain amount of polling of the event queue.
Industry:Software; Computer
The combination of text with both left-to-right and right-to-left directions within a single line of text.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Classic Mac OS, an object-oriented information access engine that contained a collection of tools for indexing, searching, and analyzing large volumes of documents. Search Kit is the Mac OS X implementation of the AIAT. AIAT was formerly known by its code name V-Twin.
Industry:Software; Computer
A pane in the Print dialog that lets the user set the number of pages per sheet and the type of border on a page.
Industry:Software; Computer
The manipulation of audio signals to create perceived localization of sounds within a sound field. Compare panning. See also sound field.
Industry:Software; Computer
The order of a glyph in a line of display text. The leftmost glyph in a line of text has a glyph index of 0; each succeeding glyph to the right has an index one greater than the previous glyph. Compare edge offset.
Industry:Software; Computer
A 3-by-3 matrix that defines how to map points from one coordinate space into another coordinate space.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the Finder, a user-specified list of disks, volumes, and other directories that allow users quick access to specific locations.
Industry:Software; Computer
A window state where the user cannot do anything else within the application until the window is dismissed. Compare document-modal, system modal.
Industry:Software; Computer
