- 行业: 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.
Defines, in information property lists, specific characteristics of a type of document, such as extensions and HFS+ type and creator codes. Each concrete type has corresponding abstract types. See also abstract type.
Industry:Software; Computer
A task to be performed before or after an installation. PackageMaker defines several installation actions, including Quit Application and Show File in Finder.
Industry:Software; Computer
The portion of a window’s content region that is visible to the user.
Industry:Software; Computer
A process that Xcode applies when a program is built, by which the static linker replaces references to external symbols with the addresses of the symbols in the referenced libraries or tells the dynamic linker to resolve the references when a program is loaded or when a symbol is referenced.
Industry:Software; Computer
An operation object that does not perform its task in the thread from which its start method was called. A concurrent operation typically sets up its own thread or calls an interface that sets up a separate thread on which to perform the work.
Industry:Software; Computer
A construct used to synchronize access to a resource. A thread waiting on a condition is not allowed to proceed until another thread explicitly signals the condition.
Industry:Software; Computer
An abstract space that indicates where drawing should occur. For example, an OpenGL context specifies where OpenGL drawing should occur. A visual context is typically associated with an NSView or HIView object.
Industry:Software; Computer
In drawing, the repeating series of line segments and spaces used to paint a dashed line.
Industry:Software; Computer
Apple Information Access Toolkit. 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
(1) A term that an information retrieval system considers to be equivalent to another term for both indexing and querying. For example, an IR system could define “car,” “passenger vehicle,” and “automobile” to be synonyms. See also index, information retrieval, query. (2) An AppleScript word, phrase, or language element that has the same meaning as another AppleScript word, phrase, or language element. For example, the operator does not equal is a synonym for ≠.
Industry:Software; Computer
