wildcard character -

      Synonymous with global file-name character.
    window -
      (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.
    window class -
      The grouping of windows whose processing needs conform to the services provided by one window procedure.
    window coordinates -
      A set of coordinates by which a window position or size is defined; measured in device units, or pels.
    window handle -
      Unique identifier of a window, generated by Presentation Manager when the window is created, and used by applications to direct messages to the window.
    window procedure -
      Code that is activated in response to a message. The procedure controls the appearance and behavior of its associated windows.
    window rectangle -
      The means by which the size and position of a window is described in relation to the desktop window.
    window resource -
      A read-only data segment stored in the .EXE file of an application o the .DLL file of a dynamic link library.
    window style -
      The set of properties that influence how events related to a particular window will be processed.
    window title -
      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.
    Workplace Shell -
      The OS/2 object-oriented, graphical user interface.
    workstation -
      (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.
    world coordinates -
      A device-independent Cartesian coordinate system used by the application program for specifying graphical input and output. (I) (A)
    world-coordinate space -
      Coordinate space in which graphics are defined before transformations are applied.
    WYSIWYG -
      What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get. A capability of a text editor to continually display pages exactly as they will be printed.

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