- Industrie: 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.
In QuickTime, a mechanism for prioritizing the tracks in a movie or the overlapping of sprites. When it plays a movie, QuickTime displays the movie’s tracks according to their layer—tracks with lower layer numbers displayed first; tracks with higher layer numbers are displayed over those tracks.
Industry:Software; Computer
The width, in pixels, of the track rectangle in a QuickTime movie.
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 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
File allocation table. A data structure used in the MS-DOS file system. Also synonymous with the file system that uses it. The FAT file system is also used as part of Microsoft Windows and has been adopted for use inside devices such as digital cameras.
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
An offscreen drawing destination (CGLayerRef) designed for optimal performance. Introduced in Mac OS X v10.4, a layer context is a much better choice for offscreen drawing than a bitmap graphics context.
Industry:Software; Computer
An interactive programming language interpreter that runs in a Terminal window. Mac OS X includes several shells, each with a specialized syntax for executing commands and writing structured programs, called shell scripts.
Industry:Software; Computer
