Category: Technology
Company: Apple Inc.
Created by: Karl Schaeffer
Number of Blossarys: 9
An Apple-supplied audio unit used to interface with hardware input or output, so named because it interacts with the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer).
Audio Video Interleave. A chunk-based, container file format defined by Microsoft Corporation in 1992. AVI is a specialization of the RIFF format, which in turn is based on IFF.
A modeless window that displays an application’s version and copyright information.
An object specifier that has enough information to identify an object or objects uniquely. For an object specifier to an application object to be complete, its outermost container must be the ...
A specific position, given in coordinates, for the origin of each character or glyph in a line of text. Compare absolute object specifier.
In information property lists, a type that defines general characteristics of a family of documents. Each abstract type has corresponding concrete types.
The process of separating the interface to some functionality from the underlying implementation in such a way that the implementation can be changed without changing the way that piece of code is ...