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Conventions
Those users already familiar with Windows
®
will feel quite at home
with the graphical aspects of CEC/IMC Manager for Windows NT. For
those users who are not very familiar with Windows, or are a bit rusty, a
brief review follows.
– An application window contains a running application, has a
title bar, menu bar, and status bar.
– A document window may appear inside an application
window, this type of window may contain documents, data
files, groups, or directories.
– A window can be moved, changed in size, and reduced to an
icon.
– The title bar shows the name of the application.
– The menu bar contains the available menus from which you
can choose commands.
– The status bar displays various status updates such as the
current time, or a description of the currently selected menu
option.
– Selecting (single-clicking) an item usually means marking it
with the selection cursor, which can then appear as a highlight,
a dotted rectangle, or both; selecting alone does not start an
action.
– Choosing (single-clicking) an item carries out an action;
starting an application, opening a window, or carrying out a
command, i.e. you choose an item from a menu and choose a
command in a dialog box.
– A dialog box appears when you need to supply additional
information to complete a task.
– A text box requires typed information by the user.
– A list box displays a list of choices, if there are more choices
than can fit in the box scroll bars are provided so you can
move quickly through the list.
– A drop-down list box appears initially as a rectangular box
containing the current selection, when the down arrow in the
square box at the right is selected a list of available choices