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
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Title Bar Icons
A primary window includes the
small version of the object's icon.
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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:
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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:
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Use the icon that represents
its document or data file type in the title bar. |
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Use the data file icon
weather or not the user has saved the file yet. |
Rules for Multiple Window Applications:
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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. |
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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)
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