[austechwriter] Re: [old-austechwriter] Terminology - screen or window
- From: Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:52:51 +0800
Mike West said:
> Not sure I agree. I'm from a mainframe terminal background
> (CICS/3270 vintage 1980), but when working in a GUI environment
> I prefer to use the GUI vocabulary.
This is pretty much how it works these days on IBM mainframe systems
also. Mainframe OSes have had GUI-equivalent features for years now.
These features tend to be named after the GUI feature they mimic. The
publications I'm working on at the moment talk about pull-down menus,
pop-up windows, and so on.
The corporate style guide here says:
A screen is the physical surface of a display device, not the
information that is displayed. A window is an area of the screen
with visible boundaries in which an application program or
information is displayed or in which a dialog is presented.
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Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre
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