- 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 user-driven installation process. Users drag a product’s files to a location of their choosing in their file system. Compare window.
Industry:Software; Computer
A value used to adjust truncated factional values for cases in which fractional positioning can’t be used. Device delta values are usually used when anti-aliasing is turned off. However, these values can be used when anti-aliasing is on, to assure that the glyphs in a connected script (such as one that uses the Zapfino font) are connected smoothly.
Industry:Software; Computer
A component of an operating system that deals with getting data to and from a device, as well as the control of that device. A driver written with the I/O Kit is an object that implements the appropriate I/O Kit abstractions for controlling hardware.
Industry:Software; Computer
In BSD, a device file is a special file located in/devthat represents a block or character device such as a terminal, disk drive, or printer. If a program knows the name of a device file, it can use POSIX functions to access and control the associated device. The program can obtain the device name (which is not persistent across reboots or device removal) from the I/O Kit.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the I/O Kit, a mechanism that uses a plug-in architecture to allow a program in user space to communicate with a nub in the kernel that is appropriate to the type of device the program wishes to control. Through the nub the program gains access to I/O Kit services and to the device itself. From the perspective of the kernel, the device interface appears as a driver object called a user client.
Industry:Software; Computer
An Apple developer center that provides all the resources needed to develop iPhone applications. Access to this developer center requires an ADC membership. See also user focus.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, a relationship in which each record in the source entity may correspond to more than one record in the destination entity, and each record in the destination may correspond to more than one record in the source. For example, an employee can work on many projects, and a project can be staffed by many employees. In Enterprise Objects, a many-to-many relationship is composed of multiple relationships. See also relationship.
Industry:Software; Computer
A group of Mac OS managers, extensions, and resources that facilitate multilingual text processing.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the I/O Kit, a process by which an application finds an appropriate device interface to load. The application calls a special I/O Kit function that uses a matching dictionary to search the I/O Registry. The function returns one or more matching driver objects that the application can then use to load an appropriate device interface. Also referred to as device discovery.
Industry:Software; Computer
The coordinate system that defines the position and scale (pixel size) of a specific view device.
Industry:Software; Computer
