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FOREGROUND PROGRAM [4 records]

Record 1 2012-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
DEF

The program with the lowest priority in multiprocessing. Usually executed from batched or stacked job input.

OBS

Contrast with foreground program.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
DEF

Programme non prioritaire executé par lots ou par piles. Contraster avec programme d'avant-plan.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
DEF

Programa muy específico de menor prioridad que los programas de primer plano o de alta prioridad y que se encuentra detenido y en estado de espera mientras se ejecutan los programas principales.

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Record 2 1995-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

A conventional animation is created in a fairly fixed sequence : The story for the animation is written(or perhaps merely conceived), then a storyboard is laid out.... Next, the soundtrack(if any) is recorded, a detailed layout is produced(with a drawing for every scene in the animation), and the soundtrack is read-that is, the instants at which significant sounds occur are recorded in order. The detailed layout and the soundtrack are then correlated. Next, certain key frames of the animation are drawn-these are the frames in which the entities being animated are at extreme or characteristic positions, from which their intermediate position can be inferred. The intermediate frames are then filled in(this is called inbetweening), and a trial film is made(a pencil test)... Many stages of conventional animation seem ideally suited to computer assistance, especially inbetweening and coloring, which can be done using the seed-fill techniques.... Before the computer can be used, however, the drawings must be digitized. This can be done by using optical scanning, by tracing the drawings with a data tablet, or by producing the original drawings with a drawing program in the first place. The drawings may need to be postprocessed(e. g., filtered) to clean up any glitches arising from the input process(especially optical scanning), and to smooth the contours somewhat. The composition stage, in which foreground and background figures are combined to generate the individual frames for the final animation, can be done with the image-composition techniques....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
DEF

En animation par ordinateur, image calculée par le programme d'animation en fonction du déplacement effectif.

Spanish

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Record 3 1993-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
CONT

... task switchers [like Software Carousel and Headroom] allow you to move directly among several open applications, but freeze all except the foreground program.

CONT

Some utilities provide a kind of virtual memory by swapping TSRs in and out of memory. These are called task-switchers or TSR managers.

Key term(s)
  • TSR manager

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique

Spanish

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Record 4 1991-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising
  • Television Arts
  • Radio Arts
DEF

... any broadcast matter that falls within content subcategory 24, if the matter a) is directly related to the theme or subject of a foreground segment; b) is used in substitution for broadcast matter that falls within content category 8 in network or syndicated program and time is made available during the broadcast of the program for the use of broadcast matter that falls within content category 8, or c) is used in substitution for broadcast matter that falls within content category 8 in a program pre-recorded by the licensee where the duration of the broadcast matter that falls within content category 7 or 8 or content subcategory 24 does not exceed three minutes in any period of 15 minutes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Publicité
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
  • Radio (Arts du spectacle)
DEF

Matière radiodiffusée faisant partie de la sous-catégorie de teneur 24 et qui, selon le cas : a) se rapporte directement au thème ou au sujet d'un segment premier plan; b) est utilisée en remplacement d'une matière faisant partie de la catégorie de teneur 8 dans un émission réseau ou une émission souscrite, lorsqu'une période de temps est offerte pendant la diffusion de l'émission pour l'utilisation d'une matière faisant partie de la catégorie de teneur 8; c) est utilisée en remplacement d'une matière faisant partie de la catégorie de teneur 8 dans une émission pré-enregistrée par le titulaire, lorsque la durée de la matière radiodiffusée faisant partie des catégories de teneur 7 ou 8 ou de la sous-catégorie de teneur 24 n'excède pas trois minutes par période de 15 minutes.

Spanish

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