Category: Technology
Company: Apple Inc.
Created by: Karl Schaeffer
Number of Blossarys: 9
English (EN)A launch operation in which control returns immediately to the calling program, without waiting for the launched application to complete its launch sequence.
The principle of organizing an application around blocks of code that can be run concurrently with an application’s main thread or other threads of execution. Asynchronous tasks are started by one ...
In Audio Queue Services, describes one of two ways to stop an audio queue. Asynchronous stopping happens after all queued buffers have been played or recorded. (2) In digital communications, a ...
A pair of related but dissimilar keys, one used for encrypting and the other used for decrypting a message or other data. See also public key cryptography.
An AppleScript statement that assigns a value to a variable. Assignment statements use the copy or set commands.
The width-to-height ratio of an image. For example, a 4:3 aspect ratio means the horizontal size is a third again wider than the vertical size. Every title on a DVD is authored for one of two aspect ...
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A 7-bit character set (commonly represented using 8 bits) that defines 128 unique character codes.
