Examples of Window System Standards
The examples below illustrate GUI features that should be common to all
Windows'95 applications.
Other windowing systems have similar but different requirements.
- menus:
The order in which menus appear is fixed, at least for the standard
menus File, Edit, ..., Help:
- buttons:
Several dialog boxes show an OK, Cancel, and Apply
button.
These must always appear in the same order:
The following order, in Java Workshop 2.0 (beta build 165), is wrong:
- resize/close buttons:
The top righthand corner of most windows contains the following buttons:
Although this is very poor design
(it is easy to close the window by mistake)
every Windows'95 user-interface must follow this convention.