Explanation SCOPE: (1) The availability of resources such as variables and objects within various parts of a program. In traditional procedural programming, scope is either global or local; however, scopes can be nested. (2) In AppleScript, the range over which AppleScript recognizes a variable or property, which determines where else in a script you may refer to that variable or property. (3) In Core Audio, a programmatic context within an audio unit . Unlike the general computer science notion of scopes, however, audio unit scopes cannot be nested. Each scope is a discrete context. You use scopes when writing code that sets or retrieves values of parameters or properties. Compare element . See also parameter , property
More definitions for Mac OS users such as scope in Dictionary S.
- Help Subpicture:
- Usage A graphic bitmap overlay used in DVD-Video to create subtitles, captions, karaoke lyrics, menu highlighting effects, and so on scope definition.
- Help Style Attributes:
- Usage A collection of values and settings that override the font-specified behavior for displaying and formatting text in a style run scope explain.
- Help Servlet Container:
- Usage that provides a working environment for servlets. It manages the servlet’s interaction with its client and provides the servlet access to various Java-based services. Containers can be implemented as scope what is.
- Help Summarization Object:
- Usage In Search Kit, an opaque data type representing summarization information, including the summary text. A summarization object is of type SKSummaryRef scope meaning.
- Help Scan Direction:
- Usage In DVD playback, a forward or backward direction with respect to the video stream scope abbreviation.