GUI names: forms vs. windows?

Subject: GUI names: forms vs. windows?
From: "Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:32:01 -0400

Mark Baker is <<... currently reviewing/updating our in-house style guide
and would like to know how others have answered the "Are these called forms,
windows, or something else?" question, as in "Click OK to open the XYZ
form/window.">>

Depends on the audience. Pretty much anything that opens a new screen on a
modern computer is technically a "window", but that's thinking of things
from the programmer's perspective. From the user's viewpoint, you should
name the window based on what the user will do with it; thus, if the window
lets the user enter data in something that resembles a form, then you should
call it a "form".

--Geoff Hart, FERIC, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."--Goethe

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