Chapter 6 - Control Panel Guidelines
This chapter describes guidelines you must follow if you are designing control panels. Specifically, the following are discussed:
- window design
- fonts, menus, and icons
- settings behavior
- control panel access
- assigning keyboard equivalents
- on-screen help and assistance
Chapter Contents
- About Control Panels
- Windows
- Multi-Pane Windows
- Expanding and Contracting Windows
- Icons
- Fonts
- Menus
- Standard Menus
- Contextual Menus
- Keyboard Equivalent Support
- Settings
- Miscellaneous Guidelines
- Persistent Access
- Assistance
- Scripting
- Extensions Manager
- The About Box