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>> I'm working on user documentation, and am editing something written
by
>> a developer. I've always called GUI elements that you click to do
>> something "buttons" but this developer (and others) often call them
>> "icons". Which is it? For example, "Click the Save icon at the bottom
>> center of the page to save the record." To me that's a button. Is one
>> right or wrong, or better/worse? Please e-mail me directly as I am on
>> digest.
>>
> From the _developer's_ perspective, a button is a control that is
>generated by providing some arguments to a .dll. Most of these
arguments
>have default values, and they speak to things like border width, shades
>of gray to be used, height, horizontal padding, or whatever, plus the
>text for the button. An icon is a graphic stored in .ico format
>(usually), created in an icon editor (a special-purpose graphic
editor).
>From the _user's_ perspective, if it looks like a button and acts like
>a button, call it a button.
I'm not sure what dlls have to do with buttons or icons from a writing
perspective.
Server-side processing of client HTTP requests on UNIX platforms do not
use .dll files. They use a library accessed through the environment
variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH or SHARED_LIBRARY_PATH, depending on the UNIX
version. Solaris uses libjvm.so.
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