Ericsson LBI-39224 manual Conventions, Xiv

LBI-39224

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

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