Developer Glossary
- Collection Protocol
- The Objective-C protocol (i.e. a set of methods) an object must implement to be treated as a collection in Étoilé. One of the unifying features of Étoilé; used in both EtoileUI and CoreObject.
- Bundle
- A directory used as a container for some resources (anything from object code to themes/graphics)
- Framework
- A bundle containing a library; both the compiled code and header files
- Supercasting
- A type conversion/lookup mechanism, which is leveraged to handle import/export; for a given type and a given operation, supercasting returns a resulting type.
- UTI
- Uniform Type Identifier
- CO
- CoreObject
- LK
- LanguageKit
- EUI
- EtoileUI
Also see the User Interface Glossary
