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- Windows
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- Every application, whether it is a project for a simple desk
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- accessory or a complicated application, will have at least one
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- window. Windows usually display the user's data (text or
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- graphics), or communicate with the user, such as setting the text
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- format or notifying the user of an unusual situation.
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- For example, a window might contain the specifications for setting
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- up the page prior to printing, or it could contain a warning to
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- the user about continuing the program.
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- .
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- All windows behave according to certain rules that apply to the
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- Macintosh. Although more than one window may be open, the user
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- can only work on or interact with one window at a time. This
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- window is called the active window. All other open windows
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- are inactive.
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- .
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- Marksman‚Ñ¢ provides six standard Macintosh window types; standard
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- document window, document window w/o resize box, box window
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- w/shadow, alert style window, plain box window, and rounded corner
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- window.
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- !Standard Document Window
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- This is a window with a title bar and scroll bars. This is the
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- most common type of window. It is resizable and can be dragged
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- around on the screen. It can have a close box for closing the
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- window.
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- !Document Window w/o resize Box
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- A window without a resize box. This is a standard document
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- window that can be dragged around the screen but cannot be
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- resized. It can have a close box.
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- .
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- !Box Window w/shadow
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- A plain box with no features except a shadow to give it depth.
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- It is fixed in size and screen position. There is no close box.
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- .
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- !Alert Style Window
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- This window looks like an alert but can have all the zones of
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- a window and acts like a window. It is not resizable or movable
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- and has no close box.
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- !Plain Box Window
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- A plain box without features. It is fixed in size and screen
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- position. There is no close box.
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- .
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- !Rounded Corner Window
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- A box with a black title bar and rounded corners usually used
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- for a desk accessory. It is movable and can have a close box.
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