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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference
Window Frame
Reference
Description
A window frame includes the following:
- Window frame
- The outer area of a window, which supports window management functions.
The window frame includes the title bar, minimize button, maximize button,
window menu button, and sizing borders.
- Title bar
- The area at the top of each window that contains a window title; the
window menu button; maximize, restore, and minimize buttons, if needed; and
any other buttons as appropriate.
Figure 73. Window Frame.
When to Use
- Required
- Provide a window frame and title bar in all windows, except those that are
part of the workspace.
- Required
- Do not place any window control outside the boundary formed by the sizing
border.
Guidelines
- Required
- The window menu button should represent a cascading choice that leads to
the display of the window menu.
- Required
- Support moving a window when the user presses either the SELECT or
TRANSFER button on the title bar and moves the mouse.
- Required
- Align the bottom of the title bar with the top of the client area.
- Required
- Place the window title in the title bar.
- Required
- If you provide a maximize and a restore button (only one of which is
displayed at a time), align the button's right border with the right
border of the client area.
- Required
- Place the right border of the minimize button next to the left border of
the maximize or restore button.
- Required
- Align the left border of the window menu button with the left border of
the client area.
- Required
- If you add more buttons for window manager functions on the window frame,
place the buttons directly to the left of the minimize button or directly to
the right of the window menu button. Design each button to correspond to a
choice in the window menu.
- Recommended
- Display the window menu button with a bar graphic.
- Recommended
- Display the minimize button with a small raised square.
- Recommended
- Display the maximize button with a large raised square.
- Recommended
- Display the restore button with a large indented square.
Essential Related Topics
For more information, see the Maximize (Choice), Minimize (Choice),
Window Menu, and Window Title reference pages.
Supplemental Related Topics
For more information, see the Input Focus and Workspace reference
pages.
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