Window Components
    Window Frames
    Title Bars
    Title Bar Icons
    Title Text
    Title Bar Buttons

Window Operations

Secondary Windows

Controls

Menus

Toolbars & Statusbars

Property Sheets

Dialog Boxes

Message Boxes

Pallette Windows

Popup Windows

Title Bar Icons

A primary window includes the small version of the object's icon.

The icon appears in the upper left corner of the title bar and represents the object being viewed in the window.





If the application is a tool or utility:

Use the small version of the application's icon in its title bar.


If the application loads and saves documents or data files and the window represents the view of one of its files:


Use the icon that represents its document or data file type in the title bar.
Use the data file icon weather or not the user has saved the file yet.


Rules for Multiple Window Applications:


If the application uses multiple windows, place the application's icon in the parent window's title bar, and place an icon that reflects the application's data file type in the child window's title bar.
When a user maximizes the child window, and you hide its title bar and merge its title information with the parent, display the icon from the child window's title bar in the menu bar of the parent's window.



The Windows Interface Guidline for Software Design (p.97)