• 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 used in Apple Inc.'s operating systems. It was originally based on the theme of...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    language, previously not possible through text or unenhanced graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Gestures can originate from any bodily motion or state, but...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Tooltip (category Graphical user interface elements)
    The tooltip, also known as infotip or hint, is a common graphical user interface (GUI) element in which, when hovering over a screen element or component...
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