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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 property list file, in a specific format, that provides AppleScript terminology—the English-like words and phrases a scripter can use in a script—for the class and command descriptions in the corresponding script suite file. A script terminology file has the extension .scriptTerminology. Together with a corresponding script suite file, it declares the scriptability information for a scriptable application. See also script suite file.
Industry:Software; Computer
The addition of a digital signature to an application or block of code.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In object-oriented programming, the ability of a superclass to pass its characteristics (methods and fields) on to its subclasses, allowing subclasses to reuse these characteristics. (2) In AppleScript, the ability of a child script object to take on the properties and handlers of a parent object.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In key-value coding, a property that is a simple value, such as a scalar, string, or Boolean value, or to immutable objects such as NSColor and NSNumber objects. (2) In AppleScript, one of the two main descriptor data types that make up an Apple event. Not commonly used by scriptable Cocoa applications. (3) In an XML file, a name-value pair that specifies a single property for an element. (4) In Keychain Services, One data item, such as the name, type, date modified, account number, and so on, for a keychain item, other than the secret. The attributes associated with a keychain item depend on the class of the item. (5) In Entity-Relationship modeling, an identifiable characteristic of an entity. For example, lastName can be an attribute of an Employee entity. An attribute typically corresponds to a column in a database table. See also entity, session.
Industry:Software; Computer
In QuickTime, an atom that contains only data and no other atoms.
Industry:Software; Computer
A fill that varies radially along an axis between two defined ends, which typically are both circles. Points share the same color value if they lie on the circumference of a circle whose center point falls on the axis. The radius of the circular sections of the gradient are defined by the radii of the end circles; the radius of each intermediate circle varies linearly from one end to the other.
Industry:Software; Computer
A collection of key-value pairs giving information about an application, stored in a file named Info.plist in its application bundle.
Industry:Software; Computer
The capability of many programs and operating systems to display advice or instructions for using their features when so requested by the user, as by a screen button or menu item or a function key.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, a software object of type AudioFileStreamID, which represents data obtained from a TCP stream and supports manipulation of that data. See also TCP/IP.
Industry:Software; Computer
