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ROM image programming utility which runs on a PC.

A wait for a request to complete. Completion will be indicated by a signal.

See also: asynchronous request  signal  

The construct used to control response to multiple outstanding asynchronous requests.

See also: asynchronous request  

Wireless Application Protocol is a secure specification that enables users to access information instantly using devices such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smart phones and communicators.

Used to locate and display WAP pages.

Manages client access to WAP services.

Is a set of protocols that covers the whole process of wireless content delivery: from the definition of WML and WMLScript for creating and layout of the actual content, the specification of security measures in the WTLS to the lowest parts of the stack dealing with the actual transport of content.

A system restart that preserves the state of RAM disks. It will occur if any critical thread dies.

Provides the WAP general datagram transport services above the various data capable bearer services.

A page or line break, space character, tab stop or paragraph delimiter.

See also: paragraph delimiter  

A special character which acts as a substitute for one or more characters in a file name or extension.

See also: path  

Win32 system libraries to link to in a WINS build.

On EKA1 versions of the OS, an implementation of the non-GUI parts of Symbian OS. Its chief purpose was to allow the Symbian application engines to be used to access application documents from programs running on a PC.

An area of the screen for displaying part of the GUI of an application.

x,y co-ordinates whose origin is the top left hand corner of the view window.

See also: view window  layout co-ordinate  

An invisible window that acts as the parent window for all other windows in an application. Typically, each application has one window group. In the window server, window groups are also the unit of keyboard focus.

See also: window  keyboard focus  

An event that occurs whenever a window group is destroyed, and whenever a window group name changes.

Priority that allows a window group to override ordinal position of windows in the system.

The top left corner of a window, from which all co-ordinates are measured.

A server which manages the screen, keyboard and pointer on behalf of client applications.

See also: control environment  

A client-side buffer maintained by window server clients, containing requests to the window server. The buffer is only flushed when necessary. This greatly speeds the operation of the system.

See also: window server  flush  

Session between client and window server.

See also: window server  client  server  

A control that directly owns a window.

See also: control  window  non-window-owning control  

Bitmap in the Microsoft Windows file format (extension .bmp).

See also: bmp file  

A small, portable computer-telephone with wireless access to both voice and information services. Devices such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smart phones and communicators.

An XML language used to specify content and user interface for WAP devices; the WAP forum provides a DTD for WML.

A sequence of characters delimited by one or more word delimiter characters. A word delimiter is a paragraph delimiter or a whitespace character, but not a punctuation mark.

See also: character  paragraph  whitespace character  

A character that separates words. All whitespace characters are word delimiters.

See also: word  paragraph delimiter  whitespace character  

Full justification of text by adjusting the gaps between words.

See also: character justification  

Provides lightweight WAP client/server transactions, with improved reliability over basic datagram services.

Provides lightweight WAP client/server transactions, with improved reliability over basic datagram services.

What You See (on the screen) Is What You Get (printed on paper).

See also: justification