owner

Type

glossary

Description

The object that contains another object; the next object in the object hierarchy. A card control is owned by the card it's on; a grouped control is owned by its group; a card is owned by the stack it's in; and substacks are owned by their main stack.

Also, the application that will open a file when the file is double-clicked.

Also, on OS X and Unix systems, the user who owns a file.

Related

glossary: card, stack, object, file, OS X, main stack, object hierarchy, substack, group, card control, Unix, grouped control