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W32REPRO
ROM image programming utility which runs on a PC.

wait
A wait for a request to complete. Completion will be indicated by a signal.
See also: asynchronous request, signal

wait loop
The construct used to control response to multiple outstanding asynchronous requests.
See also: asynchronous request

WAP
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. WAP was conceived by four companies: Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Unwired Planet (today called Phone.com). The WAP Forum is an industry association with over 200 members. Symbian is a full member of the WAP Forum.

WAP browser
Used to locate and display WAP pages.

WAP Server
Manages client access to WAP services.

WAP stack
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.

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

WCDMA
Wide-band CDMA: a CDMA protocol originated by NTT DoCoMo and now adopted for third-generation use by ETSI in Europe. WCDMA supports very high-speed multimedia services such as full-motion video, Internet access and video conferencing.

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

whitespace character
A page or line break, space character, tab stop or paragraph delimiter.
See also: paragraph delimiter

wildcard
A special character which acts as a substitute for one or more characters in a file name or extension.
See also: path

WIN32
Win32 system libraries to link to in a WINS build.*WINC*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.

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

window co-ordinate
x,y co-ordinates whose origin is the top left hand corner of the view window.
See also: view window, layout co-ordinate

window group
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

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

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

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

window server
A server which manages the screen, keyboard and pointer on behalf of client applications.
See also: control environment

window server buffer
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

window server session
Session between client and window server.
See also: window server, client, server

window-owning control
A control that directly owns a window.
See also: control, window, non-window-owning control

Windows bitmap
Bitmap in the Microsoft Windows file format (extension .bmp).
See also: bmp file

WINS
Windows-based emulator

wireless information device (WID)
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.

WLAN
A wireless LAN or WLAN is a wireless local area network, which is the linking of two or more computers without using wires. WLAN utilizes spread-spectrum or OFDM (802.11a) modulation technology based on radio waves to enable communication between devices in a limited area, also known as the basic service set (source: Wikipedia).

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

word
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

word delimiter
A character that separates words. All whitespace characters are word delimiters.
See also: word, paragraph delimiter, whitespace character

word justification
Full justification of text by adjusting the gaps between words.
See also: character justification

WSP - wireless session protocol
Provides lightweight WAP client/server transactions, with improved reliability over basic datagram services. *WTP*Provides lightweight WAP client/server transactions, with improved reliability over basic datagram services.

WYSIWYG
What You See (on the screen) Is What You Get (printed on paper).
See also: justification