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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 Quartz Composer, the base processing unit in a composition, which executes and produces a result. Patches are similar to routines in traditional programming languages. See also macro patch.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Quartz Composer, the levels in a composition created when macro patches are used. See also macro patch.
Industry:Software; Computer
The “/” character that separates folder names in a raw pathname. A raw pathname should be displayed only to expert users or in a help tag.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Quartz, an abstract space that maps to the default user space by the transformation matrix (the pattern matrix) you specify when you create the pattern. Pattern space is separate from user space. The untransformed pattern space maps to the base (untransformed) user space, regardless of the state of the current transformation matrix.
Industry:Software; Computer
The product or product components contained in an installation package. See also installation package.
Industry:Software; Computer
Pulse code modulation. A lossless encoding technique widely used for working with audio, invented by Alec H. Reeves in 1937. Sometimes called LPCM for linear pulse-code modulation, which distinguishes the process from ADPCM. In pulse-code modulation, an analog signal is linearly encoded to a series of binary numbers by sampling an analog signal at regular intervals. See also encoding, linear, quantization.
Industry:Software; Computer
Portable document format. A file format created by Adobe Systems to represent documents in a manner independent of the software, hardware, and operating system. The format became an open standard in 2008.
Industry:Software; Computer
To examine an event in an event queue (obtaining its class, kind, parameters and so on) without removing it from the queue. Compare pull.
Industry:Software; Computer
Preferred Executable Format. The format of executable files used for applications and shared libraries in Mac OS 9; supported in Mac OS X. The preferred format for Mac OS X is Mach-O.
Industry:Software; Computer
