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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Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple Inc.'s macOS and iOS operating systems. It was originally based 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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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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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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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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and more user-friendly alternative to the non-interactive mode available with punched cards. For a long time, a CLI was the most common interface for software...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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introduces several new features and improvements, mainly focused on the user interface: The UI has been completely redesigned for the first time since macOS...
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3D human–computer interaction (redirect from 3D user interface)
devices for 2D interaction. 3D user interfaces, are user interfaces where 3D interaction takes place, this means that the user's tasks occur directly within...
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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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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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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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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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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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methods including an interactive curses user interface and programmable text output for scripting. bmon allows the user to see: Network bandwidth real-time...
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Hit-testing (category User interfaces)
process of determining whether a user-controlled cursor (such as a mouse cursor or touch-point on a touch-screen interface) intersects a given graphical...
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Common User Access (CUA) is a standard for user interfaces to operating systems and computer programs. It was developed by IBM and first published in...
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