User:Jwmh/Class Drafts/UI Conventions

UI Conventions

• Keyboard conventions (e.g. cursor)
  • what happens when there's a blinking cursor? what does that mean?
    • a) you can type (ready to accept typing input)
    • b) it will insert characters at the point where the cursor is
    • c) it will backspace/forwarddelete from the cursorpoint

• Mouse conventions (e.g. arrow/cursor icon change)

• blinking cursor
• three dots (...)

• active/inactive; "focus"

• parent/child
  • parent/child windows (incl. dependent vs independent, or tied vs not-tied)

• mouse(cursor) pointer (tip of arrow)
• cursor icon changing (e.g., at the edge of a window, to resize; vs on the title bar, to move)
• window minimize/maximize/resize/restore

Module 7: Extras

Status bars, Workspaces ("a second window to look thru"??)

(Interacting w/ the computer)

Parts of a UI:

• windows
• menus
• status bar