15. Design Issues in Windowing Systems/Window tasks
Mouse is the basic tool for controlling window systems
Mouse Methods
- point
- click
- press
- drag
- double click
Changing Window Focus
In most systems only one window is active at a time. Changing the focus can happen in several ways. Typically pointing at the window and clicking. (In unix x-windows pointing)
Problems
- Locating the windows
- Activating windows
- Remembering the windows
Managing single windows
- Moving
- Resizing
- Scrolling
- Marking
- Hiding
Managing multiple windows
- Iconification - shrinking the window to icon.
- Tiling - arranging windows side by side
- Overlapping - windows can be arranged on top of each others even outside the screen area