IBM 3000 manual Symbols and Visual Cues, Explanation

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Symbols and Visual Cues

The Display Touch Screen windows contain several symbols that act as visual cues. These symbols represent conditions or actions. They can help you understand and use the windows. Table 5 shows and explains the symbols that are used on the windows.

Table 5. Symbols and Visual Cues

Visual Cue

+

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Explanation

The plus sign appears under your ®nger when you touch the monitor screen surface. It moves with your ®nger if you move your ®nger across the screen surface. The + sign is used to point to items to select them (by removing your ®nger from the screen surface).

This is the system menu symbol. Every procedure window contains a system menu symbol. When you select this symbol, a pull-down menu appears allowing you to close the window, print the screen, or switch to other active windows.

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Information often appears on the procedure windows in boxed areas called ®elds. This three-dimensional outline signi®es a selectable ®eld. You can select any ®eld with this three-dimensional outline. A pop-up window, a keyboard, or a keypad window appears when you select a ®eld that you can change.

This two-dimensional outline signi®es a ®eld that you cannot change. You cannot select any ®eld with this two-dimensional outline. Text in the two-dimensional box is for your information only.

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Grayed out text

This is the scroll bar. It appears next to some ®elds that you can change. Use the scroll bar to view additional information that cannot ®t in a ®eld. You can scroll up and down in the ®eld by selecting the up and down arrows of the scroll bar.

This is the scroll box. The scroll box varies in size and location within the scroll bar, which indicate how much more information is available in the corresponding ®eld. If the scroll box ®lls the entire space between the scroll bar arrows, then all text is currently displayed and the scroll bar is not active. If it does not ®ll the scroll bar, scrolling up or down reveals more information. The scroll box moves down within the scroll bar as you scroll down within the information.

Text that is grayed out signi®es that the procedure or pushbutton is inactive. You cannot select a grayed-out item.

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