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Synonymous with global file-name character.

(1) A portion of a display surface in which display images pertaining to a particular application can be presented. Different applications can be displayed simultaneously in different windows. (A) (2) An area of the screen with visible boundaries within which information is displayed. A window can be smaller than or the same size as the screen. Windows can appear to overlap on the screen.

The grouping of windows whose processing needs conform to the services provided by one window procedure.

A set of coordinates by which a window position or size is defined; measured in device units, or pels.

Unique identifier of a window, generated by Presentation Manager when the window is created, and used by applications to direct messages to the window.

Code that is activated in response to a message. The procedure controls the appearance and behavior of its associated windows.

The means by which the size and position of a window is described in relation to the desktop window.

A read-only data segment stored in the .EXE file of an application o the .DLL file of a dynamic link library.

The set of properties that influence how events related to a particular window will be processed.

In SAA Advanced Common User Access architecture, the area in the title bar that contains the name of the application and the OS/2 operating system file name, if applicable.

The OS/2 object-oriented, graphical user interface.

(1) A display screen together with attachments such as a keyboard, a local copy device, or a tablet. (2) (D of C) One or more programmable or nonprogrammable devices that allow a user to do work.

A device-independent Cartesian coordinate system used by the application program for specifying graphical input and output. (I) (A)

Coordinate space in which graphics are defined before transformations are applied.

What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get. A capability of a text editor to continually display pages exactly as they will be printed.