that will respond to input, such as a text cursor or a mouse pointer. Cursor is Latin for 'runner'. A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved...
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In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals...
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Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme used in Apple Inc.'s operating systems. It was originally based on the theme of...
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curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. The name is a pun on the...
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cursor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cursor may refer to: Cursor (code editor), an AI powered integrated development environment Cursor (user interface)...
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A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual...
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a line of text. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals, as an interactive and more user-friendly alternative to the non-interactive...
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The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span...
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Point and click (redirect from Tap (touch interface))
To move to another area, the player will move the cursor to one point of the screen, where the cursor will turn into an arrow. Clicking will then move...
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Menu (computing) (redirect from Menu shell interface)
the cursor. Touch user interfaces and menus that accept codes to select menu options without navigation are two examples of non-linear interfaces. Some...
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term insertion symbol has more than one meaning,, when using a cursor (user interface), it is (usually) a vertical bar indicating where text being typed...
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context-sensitive user interface offers the user options based on the state of the active program. Context sensitivity is ubiquitous in current graphical user interfaces...
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Graphical user interface elements are those elements used by graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to offer a consistent visual language to represent information...
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Scroll Lock (redirect from Copy Cursor (K3PLUS))
freely move on the screen using the cursor keys or the mouse, even outside the area reachable by the standard cursor in the running application. Once invoked...
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Windows Aero (redirect from Aero (user interface))
icons. The Vista User Experience Guidelines also address the issue of "tone" in the writing of text used with the Aero user interface. Prior design guidelines...
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vertical bar indicating where typed text will be inserted when using a cursor (user interface) Caret navigation (or caret browsing), a blinking vertical bar in...
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In computing and user interface engineering, a selection is a list of items on which user operations will take place. The user typically adds items to...
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Caret navigation (category User interface techniques)
navigation where a caret (also known as a ‘text cursor’, ‘text insertion cursor’, or ‘text selection cursor’) is used to navigate within a text document...
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human interface device that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer. Graphical user interfaces (GUI)...
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Mystery meat navigation (redirect from Click here (user interface message))
navigation user interface whereby the target of each link is not visible until the user points their cursor at it. Such interfaces lack a user-centered...
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In computing, 10-foot user interface, 10-foot UI or 3-meter user interface is a graphical user interface designed for televisions. Compared to desktop...
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Focus (computing) (redirect from User focus)
user interface elements, one that becomes focused and one that is "blurred" (in the computing, not visual, sense). The concept is similar to a cursor...
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Cut, copy, and paste (category User interface techniques)
interaction and user interface design. They offer an interprocess communication technique for transferring data through a computer's user interface. The cut...
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Apple provided the standard interfaces for animating cursors: originally the Cursor Utilities (SpinCursor, RotateCursor) and, in Mac OS 8 and later,...
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Computer terminal (category User interfaces)
with an addressable cursor that gave them the ability to paint two-dimensional displays on the screen. Very early VDUs with cursor addressibility included...
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Ncurses (redirect from New curses)
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library for creating textual user interfaces (TUIs) that work across a wide variety of terminals; it is written...
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Acorn MOS (redirect from Copy Cursor (Acorn))
To activate screen editing the user moves the hardware cursor to the text to be read and the OS displays a second cursor in software at the original position...
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to move a computer cursor. The process was slow, requiring more than an hour for patients to write 100 characters with the cursor, while training often...
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Computer mouse (section Serial interface and protocol)
motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer. The first public demonstration...
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following editors can either be used with a graphical user interface or a text user interface. Sources: Editors that are specifically designed for the...
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