The Title bar of an application window shows the title of the current document and the name of the application.
The Title bar of an application window shows the title of the current document and the name of the application.
Other kinds of windows may show only the title of the window.
Left
end: At the left of the
Title bar is 
the control icon. Each program has its own picture to put here. When you click on the icon, a menu appears with commands to control the size and location of the window.
Title bars for windows in Windows Vista that show files and folders do not
have a control icon, but right clicking in on the Title bar brings up the same menu.
Right
end: On the right end of the
Title bar are buttons
to minimize the window to the Taskbar, maximize the window to cover the whole Desktop, and close the window.
An application window has a menu bar which lists cascading menus of commands for the program.
Cascade means that a menu can have other menus in it.
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The arrow means that another menu will cascade from it. |
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Three dots means that a dialog box will open, containing choices for you to make. |
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The checkmark means that clicking this item will toggle the feature on or off. |
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If there is a keyboard shortcut shown in the menu, you can use those keys to run the command without having to open the menu. |
A toolbar contains
buttons for the most commonly used commands. The icons are supposed to make it
easy to guess what the button does. Most modern applications use similar buttons
for the same commands.
The toolbar above has icons for the commands:
New, Open, Save, Print, Preview, Find, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Insert
Date/Time
An application might have several toolbars in view at once. A context-sensitive toolbar will appear only when the commands on it apply to what you are doing. For example, if you select a picture in a Word document, the Picture toolbar appears.
The bottom of a window contains the Status Bar. It displays messages about the status of the program. For example, it might say "Saving document" during the saving process and then "Done" when it is finished.
The
diagonal lines in the corner of the Status Bar mean that the window can be
resized by dragging its edges.
Some
dialogs can be enlarged but cannot be made smaller. The corner has only 2
diagonal lines in this case.
Windows that are too small to show the whole document will have scroll bars for the width or the height of the document, or both, if necessary. You change what part of the document is showing by dragging the scroll box or by clicking the scroll arrow or by clicking in the scrollbar itself.
The size of the scroll box in many applications is in proportion to how much of the document is showing. So, if half the document is visible, the scroll box will be half of its maximum length.
The main area of the application window shows the active document. For a word processing program this could be a letter, a brochure, or a report. For a graphics programs it would be a picture. For a browser it would be a web page.
You
can have windows inside other windows. Many programs can have several documents open at the same time
inside the application's window, like the example above from Paint Shop Pro,
which has 4 image windows open in the document area.
In WinXP
and Windows Vista some
applications show a separate toolbar button for each open document.
You can also have WinXP and Windows Vista group similar windows together onto one button with a
cascading list.
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