The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide

In the narrow sense, an object is an instance of a class.

A programming style (often with specific programming language support) that features encapsulation of data and algorithms, inheritance, and polymorphism.

1. The distance, in bytes, between the start of a data structure and a certain field in the data structure. 2. In a GtkTextBuffer object, the distance between two positions in the text, in characters (not bytes).

Open Metadata Framework. A standardized XML format for document metadata. ScrollKeeper uses OMF to describe help files.

See object-oriented programming.

Object Request Broker. The CORBA server that manages the message transfer between clients and servers.

The ORB implementation in GNOME.