atw: Re: Terminology for wizards

Howard
In wizards you have a window within a window, and I presume that's the issue you have. I tend to use the word 'pane' because it fits the Windows metaphor and readers seem to accept it. At one workplace we used 'panel' and I don't have a problem with that. 

Allan

Howard Silcock wrote:
This post isn't directed at Harry Potter's mates. It's about documenting a Windows procedure that uses what Microsoft calls a 'wizard', in which you are taken through a series of displays, at each of which you enter information, then click a Next button to go to the next one. I'm reviewing some documentation in which the successive displays are referred to as 'screens'. I may be picky, but I really don't like to use 'screen' except to refer to the piece of hardware in your monitor. I don't think 'window' sounds quite right, though, in this case - and nor does 'dialog box'. Has anyone else had to document this kind of stuff? Howard 

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