Apple Mac OS developers glossary letter I

What is Toolbar Ink Definition The toolbar that appears at the top of the Ink window compare
What is Iff Explain chunk-based file format for storing media content. Developed by Electronic Arts, Inc., and the technical inspiration for Apple’s AIFF why
What is Index Inverted What is terms, as keys, mapped to references to the documents they appear in. The index is sorted by its keys. “Inverted” means that the documents how better
What is Guides Writing Ink Meaning In the Ink technology, the lines (alternating solid and broken) that appear when a user is writing directly into an application when
What is Instruments Abbreviation debugging tool. Instruments lets you gather a configurable set of metrics while your application is running, providing you with determines
What is Order Input How to written or entered from a keyboard. The input order of a line of text can differ from its display order. Compare display order comparing to
What is Phrase Ink Help ink data created by the recognition system, based on the timing and spacing of the user’s handwriting. In Roman languages, an Ink phrase is depends on
What is Audio Immersive Crossword Sound reproduction or generation that seems to surround a listener. See also surround sound which
What is Center Dev Ios Examples all the resources needed to develop iOS applications. Access to this developer center requires an ADC membership. See also user focus difference
What is Band In Encyclopedia interface that contains actual data destined for the endpoint (for example, send and recv calls). Compare out-of-band when
What is Data Interleaved Information about dissimilar data that are grouped together, such as vertex data and texture coordinates. Interleaving can speed up data retrieval pros and cons
What is Button Icon Tutorial rectangular edge around it; the clickable region is the graphic (for example, the toolbar buttons in System Preferences windows similarities
What is Application Simulator Ios Error runtime environment and user experience in OS X for testing iOS applications in early stages of development how much
What is Chain Inheritance Answer The hierarchy of objects that AppleScript searches to find the target for a command or the definition of a term how many
What is Requirement Installation Means what volume of an installation must meet in order for the installation to take place. The two types of installation requirements are system compare
What is Builder Interface Description An application that helps you easily create application menus, windows, dialogs, palettes, and other standard Aqua interface elements why
What is Host Installation Definition The computer onto which a package is to be installed how better
What is Object Text Ink Explain An opaque object that contains information about an Ink phrase when
What is Iec What is Commission. An international standards organization, founded in 1906, that collaborates with ISO on defining a wide variety of perceptual determines
What is Genre Icon Meaning A group of icons that share similar visual design characteristics used to designate a particular category of items comparing to
What is Text Ink Abbreviation In the Ink technology, words written in electronic ink depends on
What is Data Line In How to Data that’s included directly in a Mach message, rather than referred to by a pointer. Compare out-of-line data which
What is Instance Help Java and Objective-C, an object that belongs to (is a member of) a particular class. Instances are created at runtime according to the difference
What is Thread Service Interrupt Crossword handling I/O that is triggered by an interrupt, but does not run in an interrupt context. Also called an I/O service thread when
What is Window Inactive Examples other windows. Although some of its controls can be activated (click-through) and it can be a drag-and-drop target, an inactive window is pros and cons
What is Communication Interprocess Encyclopedia See source control similarities
What is Pane Customization Install Information about the Installer application if the package being installed allows the user to customize the installation by choosing the product components how much
What is Window Ink Tutorial The Ink toolbar plus the Ink pad. The window allows the user to control various aspects of Ink and to enter Ink input how many
What is Format Image Error An image encoding standard that specifies the number of color channels and number of bits per channel compare
What is Ipc Answer programming interfaces that enables a process to communicate data or information to another process. Mechanisms for IPC exist in the why
What is Ink Means what In the Ink technology, raw data that represents the input drawn by the user with the stylus how better
What is Index Description sequential collection of the terms in one or more documents. In addition to terms, Search Kit indexes contain context information that when
What is I/O service thread Definition See interrupt service thread determines
What is Handler Interrupt Explain occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system, such as a character arriving at a comparing to
What is Ir What is locating information based on a well-defined information need. An information retrieval system consists of a corpus, one or more indexes of depends on
What is Attribute Inheritance Meaning to which a parent process and its child process share pages in the parent process’s address space. A memory page can be inherited as copy which
What is Filter Ip Abbreviation time it enters the protocol stack. By its very nature, an IP filter can only filter in-band communication difference
What is Method Input Ink How to that takes the user input and then draws the appropriate data on the screen. In effect, converting physical pen strokes into electronic when
What is Ide Help program that typically combines text editing, compiling, and debugging features in one package in order to assist developers with the pros and cons
What is Area Mousing Instant Crossword stylus input is interpreted as mouse input; the system “instantly” interprets the stylus as a mouse in these special places and ink is not similarities
What is Matrix Identity Examples matrix that specifies no change in the coordinates of the source image. The resulting image corresponds exactly to the source image. See how much
What is Track Image Encyclopedia Any track in a QuickTime movie that contains visual images. The term particularly applies to video tracks that contain VR data how many
What is Sleep Idle Information about has been no device or system activity for the period of time the user specifies in the Energy Saver pane of System Preferences. See also compare
What is Executable Operation Install Tutorial Installer during an installation, before or after copying a package’s payload to the installation destination why
What is Isync Error A tool for synchronizing address book and calendar information how better
What is Statement Ignoring Answer specific set of attributes to be ignored when AppleScript performs operations on text strings or sends commands to applications when
What is Indicator Means what The part of a control that visually represents its value. For example, on a scroll bar control, the scroller is the indicator determines
What is Image Description A group of related pixels, often represented with a rectangular array of values comparing to
What is Mask Image Definition A bitmap that specifies an area to paint, but not the color. An image mask acts like a stencil to specify where to place color on the page depends on
What is Transform Identity Explain An affine transform that, when applied to input coordinates, always returns the input coordinates which
What is Queue Audio Input What is See audio queue difference
What is Width Imposed Meaning A control feature that forces a specific width onto the glyphs of a style run, regardless of its text content or other style properties when
What is Server Ink Abbreviation The component of Ink technology that manages the recognizer, the language model, and the Ink window pros and cons
What is Interleaving How to of data streams representing discrete channels into a single stream that retains the capacity to be converted back to separate channels. A similarities
What is Interrupt Help currently scheduled process and temporarily diverts the flow of control through an interrupt handler routine. Interrupts can be caused by how much
What is Condition Ignore Crossword A state that triggers a breakpoint only if the condition is true how many
What is Map Input Examples A QuickTime data structure that describes where to find information about tracks that are targets of a modifier track. See modifier track compare
What is View Browser Image Encyclopedia The Image Kit view class (IKImageBrowserView ) that is optimized for browsing images. The user term is image browser why
What is Area Imageable Information about The part of the paper to which a printer can draw without the image being clipped how better
What is Point Insertion Tutorial data is to be inserted or deleted. An insertion point is specified by a single caret position. Compare caret . (2) In AppleScript, the when
What is Structure Ifnet Error A data structure containing function pointers and data related to a particular network interface determines
What is List Property Information Answer configuration information for bundles such as kernel extensions. A file named Info.plist (or a platform-specific variant of that filename comparing to
What is Instrument Means what the Instruments application. Instruments collect performance information about an application or an entire system depends on
What is Action Installation Description an installation. PackageMaker defines several installation actions, including Quit Application and Show File in Finder which
What is Plist Info Definition See information property list difference
What is Package Installation Explain extension. Installation packages (also known as packages) contain products or product components (known as the package’s payload) and when
What is Identity What is A digital certificate together with an associated private key pros and cons
What is 1394 Ieee Meaning See FireWire similarities
What is Ipl Abbreviation basic synchronization on uniprocessor systems in traditional BSD systems, set using thesplmacro. Interrupts with lower priority than the how much
What is Module O I How to A module used by the printing system to provide a way to communicate with a printer using a standard interface for a transport type how many
What is Password Internet Help as a web or FTP server. Internet password items on the keychain include attributes such as the security domain and IP address compare
What is Iso Crossword International Organization for Standardization in English, that formulates and promotes industrial and commercial standards, including why
What is Database Package Installer Examples System-level database of all the installation packages installed by the Installer application how better
What is Property Installation Encyclopedia that specifies an installation requirement or an installation process detail, such as whether relocation is allowed when
What is Unit Image Information about for distribution as anNSBundle object. Image units contain one or more filters for manipulating image date. See also SIMD determines
What is Subcontainer Specified Implicitly Tutorial specified in an AppleScript script by context, rather than by an explicit reference. For example, explicitly specifying a word object in a comparing to
What is Format Image Interleaved Error alpha) channel, one after the other, for every pixel. In contrast to planar image formats which encode an entire image using one color at a depends on
What is Interpolation Answer The calculation of intermediate values relative to known beginning and ending values which
What is Mechanizm Imaging Means what The system used to render text or graphics difference
What is Window Info Description applications that presents information about and provides settings for a particular entity. In Interface Builder, an Info window has when
What is Inversion Definition In graphics, an operation that produces original coordinates from transformed ones pros and cons
What is Layer Interface Explain A layer above the driver layer containing interface KEXTs, interface filters, and protocol plumbers similarities
What is Adpcm Ima What is ADPCM. A lossy, 16-bit audio compression format that provides 4:1 compression. The format is sometimes referred to as IMA or IMA4. See also how much
What is Kit O I Meaning environment in Darwin that provides a model of system hardware. Each type of service or device is represented by one or more C++ classes in how many
What is Destination Installation Abbreviation The directory in which Installer places a package’s payload compare
What is Method Input How to script systems that converts phonetic or syllabic characters, entered from a keyboard, into ideographic or other complex representation of why
What is Group Index Help indexes; the target of a search. An index group corresponds to one or more aspects of the corpus of documents you want to search. For how better
What is Initialize Crossword audio unit for use. (2) In AppleScript, to create a script object from the properties and handlers listed in a script object definition when
What is O I Image Examples provides opaque data types for reading data from an image source and writing data to an image destination determines
What is Input Inline Encyclopedia enter text directly into a document. In inline input, entry and conversion of characters take place at the current line position—where the comparing to
What is Catalog O I Information about entries for all available drivers on a Darwin system. Driver matching searches the I/O Catalog to produce an initial list of candidate depends on
What is Panel Edit Image Tutorial The Image Kit edit panel class (IKImageEditPanel ), which is optimized for editing images. The user term is Image Edit window which
What is Object Interface Error nib file that is created for your application at load time. Interface objects can consist of both visual objects (such as windows, views difference
What is Identification Answer that a person or entity is the same one it communicated with previously. Identification is in general faster than authentication and does when
What is Buffer Image Means what Video images. Pixel buffers, Core Video OpenGL buffers, and OpenGL textures derive from the CVImageBuffer type pros and cons
What is Record Information Item Description A data structure of type LSItemInfoRecord , used by Launch Services to return information about an item similarities
What is Registry O I Definition collection of driver objects, each of which represents an I/O Kit entity. As hardware is added to or removed from the system, the I/O how much
What is Inactive Explain In iOS, used to describe an audio session state in which playback or recording cannot proceed. Compare active how many
What is Searching Exclusion Inclusion What is simply includes documents that match the query and excludes documents that don’t. Inclusion/exclusion searches tend to be faster than compare
What is Program Developer Ios Meaning A program that allows you to develop iOS applications, test them on devices, and distribute them to your customers through the App Store why
What is Handler Run Implicit Abbreviation the top level of a script except for property definitions, script object definitions, and other handlers. A single script object can how better
What is Framed Internally How to audio format where information about the sizes of the frames is included in the audio data stream. Compare externally framed . See also when
What is Index Vector Inverted Help terms mapped to document URL objects representing the documents that the terms appear in, as well as document URL objects mapped to the determines
What is Choice Install Crossword An option users can select or deselect as part of the installation process to specify whether a product component is to be installed comparing to
What is Result Exclusion Inclusion Examples See inclusion/exclusion searching depends on
What is Form Reference Index Encyclopedia In AppleScript, a reference form that specifies an object by describing its position with respect to the beginning or end of a container which
What is Unit Instrument Information about In Core Audio, an audio unit of type'aumu' that takes sound bank data and MIDI control data as inputs, and outputs digital audio difference
What is Initialize Tutorial In Core Audio, to configure an audio unit for use when
What is Integer Error A positive or negative number without a fractional part pros and cons
What is Filter Interface Answer interface Unicode decomposition . An interface filter alters in-band and out-of-band communication specific to a given interface similarities
What is Item Means what document, or URL to be operated on. (2) In AppleScript, a value in a list or record. An item can be specified by its offset from the how much
What is I/O Kit framework Description and makes the I/O Registry, user client plug-ins, and other I/O Kit services available from user space. It lets applications and other user how many
What is Statement If Definition or more Boolean expressions whose results determine whether to execute other statements within the if statement compare
What is Identifier Explain that identifies a value or handler. Identifiers are used to name variables, handlers, parameters, properties, and commands why
What is O I What is between two parts of a computer system, usually between system memory and a peripheral device. (2) The software- or hardware-based audio how better
What is Well Image Meaning A rectangular, recessed area that displays an icon or picture and that serves as a drag-and-drop target when
What is Sequence Image Abbreviation usually represented by video over time. Image sequences may also be generated synthetically, such as from an animation sequence determines
What is Interlacing How to A video mode that updates half the scan lines on one pass and goes through the second half during the next pass comparing to
What is initializing a script object Help from the properties and handlers listed in a script object definition. AppleScript creates a script object when it runs a script or depends on
What is Receipt Installation Crossword A token that Installer uses to determine whether a component has already been installed on an installation volume which
What is Interface Examples client accesses a service. An interface provides a level of abstraction that hides the implementation details of the service from the difference
What is Kit Image Encyclopedia A programming interface that supports browsing, viewing, and editing images and browsing and controlling Core Image filters when
What is Impedance Information about opposition a circuit presents to an AC (alternating current) signal at a given frequency. Impedance includes both a resistive (frequency pros and cons
What is Source Input Tutorial thread. Input sources can be port-based or manually triggered and must be attached to the thread’s run loop similarities
What is Form Reference Id Error In AppleScript, a reference form that specifies an object by the value of its ID property how much
What is Experience Install Answer The tasks a user needs to perform in order to install a product on their computer how many
What is Application Instruments Means what See Instruments compare
What is Inheritance Description ability of a superclass to pass its characteristics (methods and fields) on to its subclasses, allowing subclasses to reuse these why
What is Retrieval Information Definition See signal-to-noise ratio how better
What is Operation Install Explain Installation activity performed by an executable file that is invoked at a specific point during the installation process when
What is Volume Installation What is The volume (or mountpoint) onto which an installation package is to be installed determines
What is Mode Immediate Meaning commands at the time an application issues them. To prevent commands from being issued immediately, an application can use a display list comparing to
What is Internationalization Abbreviation software product, including its online help and documentation, to facilitate localization. Internationalization of software typically depends on
What is Relationship Inverse How to A relationship that goes in the reverse direction of another relationship. Also known as a back relationship which
What is Metrics Ideal Help Resolution-independent measurements used to describe how a glyph is drawn. Compare screen metrics difference
What is Pad Ink Crossword The part of the Ink window that provides a simple note pad interface where handwritten input is converted into editable text when
What is Ieee Examples Engineers. An organization of electronics professionals that has established many technology and audio-related standards. Pronounced “eye pros and cons
What is Kext Interface Encyclopedia A network kernel extension that provides routines specific to a particular family of interfaces, such as ARP equivalence routines similarities
What is Rectangle Bounding Image Information about The smallest rectangle that completely encloses the filled or framed parts of a block of text. See also typographic bounding rectangle how much

Definitions for Mac OS developers

Apple library, Mac for software engineers.

Apple Image bounding rectangle definition interface KEXT explain IEEE what is Ink pad meaning ideal metrics abbreviation inverse relationship how to. OS Mac.

What is Ink toolbar definition IFF explain inverted index what is Ink writing for developers.