Window is a kind of operating interface, and it is a new operating environment that the eyes can see in the microcomputer system. The display screen of a microcomputer is divided into many frames, which are windows. Each window is responsible for displaying and processing certain information. Users can work on any window and exchange information between windows. There is special window management software in the computer to manage window operation.

The window is the most important part of the user interface. It is a rectangular area on the screen corresponding to the application, and it is a visual interface between the user and the application that generates the window.

Every time the user starts to run the application, the application will create and display a window; When the user manipulates the object in the window, the program will respond accordingly. The user terminates the running of the program by closing the window; Select the corresponding application by selecting the corresponding application window.

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Status of the window:

When the user double-clicks the icon A to open the corresponding window A, the window is active. At this point, the user can see all the elements in window A, and the title bar of the window is high-brightness blue. The application of the activated window runs in the foreground, and it can receive the information typed by the user.

If the user double-clicks icon B to open window B, window B will be activated again. At this time, window A becomes inactive, and window A is covered by window B. ..

Although the window has been opened, it is in an inactive state, which is called an open state. On the Windows desktop, it is allowed to open multiple windows at the same time, but only one window can be active, that is, only one application runs in the foreground and the others run in the background.

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