Glossary
- team programming
- Development of a system, program, or application suite by a team of two or
more programmers or application developers.
- tear-off attribute
- An attribute that an application developer has exposed to work with as
though it were a stand-alone part.
- temporary variable
- A variable whose scope is limited to the Smalltalk method or block in
which it is defined. A temporary variable takes an assigned
value.
- thread
- The smallest unit of execution within a process that is not identifiable
outside of its parent process. A process consists of a collection of
threads in various states.
- tool bar
- In the VisualAge Organizer and Composition Editor, the strip of icons
along the top of the free-form surface. The tool bar contains tools to
help construct composite parts. These tools are also available through
pull-down menus of the windows.
- topic
- In Dynamic Data Exchange, a logical grouping of data items within a named
DDE server.
- TrailBlazer
- A loadable feature offering a navigational browser that enables the code
for objects to be displayed based on their relationships to other
objects.
- transaction
- In client/server transaction processing, a business activity or set of
activities that transform a database from one state to another (for example,
making an airline reservation or custom ordering an automobile).
- Transcript window
- The main controlling window in Smalltalk.
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