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WINDOID [5 records]

Record 1 1996-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
  • Office Automation
  • Electronic Publishing
DEF

A small informational window that can provide menus, dialog boxes, or other functions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
  • Bureautique
  • Éditique
OBS

Comparer à fenêtre, carreau et volet.

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
  • Office Automation
  • Electronic Publishing
DEF

A small windoid that appears in the page view pane and displays a page number while the vertical scroll bar is dragged.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
  • Bureautique
  • Éditique
OBS

lucarne : petite fenêtre ronde, ovale ou carrée (Petit Robert).

Spanish

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Record 3 1996-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
DEF

A status bar windoid that indicates the active page view's magnification factor. Clicking the Magnification box and holding down the mouse button produces a predefined magnification level menu. Quickly clicking the Magnification box and releasing the mouse button produces a dialog box that enables you to enter a new Page View pane magnification level.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
OBS

Comparer à loupe.

Spanish

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Record 4 1996-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
DEF

A status bar windoid that indicates the active page view's page number. Clicking it produces a dialog box that enables you to enter a new page number.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)

Spanish

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Record 5 1996-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
DEF

An informational windoid that temporarily overlays the pane Number box and Magnification box during potentially extended operations such as creating note files, rotating pages, cropping pages, and saving files. The windoid displays a horizontal white bar which increases in length to indicate the completed activity percentage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
OBS

Lecture de la barre d'état : Si vous choisissez une commande relativement longue à exécuter (p. ex. l'enregistrement d'un document), la barre d'état affiche un message vous indiquant que la tâche est en cours d'exécution [Guide de l'utilisateur Microsoft Word 6.0, 1994, p. 10].

Spanish

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