Apple Mac OS developers glossary letter H

What is Adaptor Http What is A process (or a part of one) that connects WebObjects applications to a web server
What is Server Http What is See web server
What is Hal What is like interface between Core Audio objects and hardware. The hardware abstraction layer typically addresses hardware by means of an I/O Kit
What is Handler What is one or more script statements that are executed by calling its name. (2) A Java class used by Axis to process a SOAP message or a part of
What is Chain Handler What is In WebObjects, a group of handlers that can be viewed as a unit
What is Atom Reference Handler What is specifies the media handler to be used to interpret a media structure. See also media , media handler , QT atom
What is Baseline Hanging What is The baseline used by Devanagari and similar scripts, where most of the glyph is below the baseline
What is Glyphs Hanging What is that typically extend beyond the left and right margins of the text area and whose widths are not counted when line length is measured
What is Hangul What is blocks of component glyphs called Jamo, which are characters different from typical character clusters in that they are treated as singular
What is Layer Abstraction Hardware What is See HAL
What is Hash What is Number derived from a string such that any change to the string produces a different number
What is Algorithm Hash What is See cryptographic hash function
What is Node Head What is graph in terms of signal flow; the output node of a graph. See also audio unit , shared workgroup build
What is Head Related Transfer Function What is See HRTF
What is Headroom What is decibels, between a standard reference signal level and the maximum allowable signal level (the ceiling). See also dynamic range
What is Book Help What is The collection of HTML files that provide onscreen help for a particular product
What is Button Help What is A button that opens Help Viewer to the help content appropriate for the context. A help button is a round button with a question mark
What is Tool Helper What is application’s functions as a separate process. In the case of security, a helper tool performs privileged operations for the application
What is Menu Help What is A menu that provides access to the onscreen help documentation for an application
What is Tag Help What is A brief text explanation that appears when the user leaves the pointer over an interface element for a few seconds
What is Viewer Help What is The simple browser used to display Apple Help HTML files
What is Hfs What is Standard file-system format, used to represent a collection of files as a hierarchy of directories (folders), each of which may contain
What is Hfs What is OS Extended file-system format. This format adds support for filenames longer than 31 characters, Unicode representation of file and
What is Browser Hierarchical What is The area in the Quartz Composer window used to view and navigate from one level to another in the patch hierarchy
What is Menu Hierarchical What is which a submenu descends. Submenus offer additional menu item choices without taking up more space in the menu bar. Hierarchical menus are
What is Highlighting What is with a colored background. Highlighting in display text corresponds to a selection range in source text
What is Hints What is Information provided with a font that can be used to scale glyphs to various sizes
What is Track Hint What is A track in a QuickTime streaming movie that contains information for a packetizer about the data units to stream. See also stream
What is Histogram What is occurrences within a data set. In the graphics domain, histograms can be used to plot the frequencies of certain pixel intensities
What is Hitoolbox What is of procedural APIs that apply an object-oriented model to windows, controls, and menus for Carbon applications. The HI Toolbox supplements
What is Testing Hit What is The process of converting a location within a line of display text into a caret offset in the source text of that line
What is Reflect Horizontal What is A type of geometric operation that reflects an image about its y-axis
What is Shear Horizontal What is In image processing, a filter that shifts pixels along the x-axis to create an effect that’s similar to physical shearing
What is Host What is host to) a particular program or service. The term is usually used to refer to a computer on a network. (2) In debugging, the computer that
What is Application Host What is A Mac app that loads and uses audio units. See also audio unit
What is Processor Host What is application program resides. When an application is running, the host processor may call other, peripheral microprocessors, such as a
What is Time Host What is The clock time used by the computer running an audio application
What is Spot Hot What is must be positioned over a screen object for mouse clicks to have an effect on the object. (2) An area, typically in a VR presentation, that
What is Zone Hot What is The area of an onscreen object that the pointer’s hot spot must be within for mouse clicks to have an effect
What is Hrtf What is called Anatomical Transfer Function, or ATF. A mathematical description of the frequency and phase filtering that takes place when an
What is Http What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The client-server TCP/IP protocol used on the web for the exchange of HTML documents
What is Metapackage Hybrid What is distribution script. This type of installer package behaves as a distribution package when installed on computers running OS X v10.4 and
What is Hypertext What is Action media that contains a URL and takes the user to a website
What is Point Hyphenation What is An entry in an array of edge offsets in source text at which it is appropriate to break a line of display text

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