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- WINDWS,DRAWERS & ICONS
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- What Exactly is a Window?
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- A Window appears when you click on disk icons or most drawers.
- Open CLI,by pressing twice in sucession (or Double Clicking as it's more
- commonly known) on the left mouse button on the System drawer, this will
- open a smaller window (It is smaller than the main Workbench Window,the
- main Workbench Window is called the PARENT Window.As other windows come
- from the main Workbench Window,the smaller windows are known as CHILD
- Windows).Double Click on the CLI Icon (An Icon is a square/rectangular
- shape box usually containing 1 or more programs inside),this will display
- the CLI Window.To activate a window,click once anywhere inside the window
- and the grey top of the window will turn blue (this is how you activate
- any Window),then type the words show window - A picture of a window will
- appear,this will show you the makings of a window.Press the Right Mouse
- Button once to return to the Workbench.
- Now to explain the usage of Windows: Move the Mouse Pointer to the EXPAND
- GADGET (As shown on the WINDOW Picture),Press & Hold the Left Mouse Button
- Down over the small box,now move the Pointer around while Holding the Button
- down - this is how you can shrink or expand the size of the window.
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- Shrinking The Window:
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- Use the SHRINK GADGET (The Location of this is shown on the WINDOW Picture)
- to reduce the size of the selected window. Ideal if you need the Workbench
- Screen to open other windows.To return the Window to it's original size,
- press the Left Mouse Button once over the SHRINK GADGET again.
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- The Front To Back Gadget:
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- If you have opened 2 Windows and the Window you need to use is behind
- another Window,first select the Window you wish to put at the front.
- Next,press the Left Mouse Button once on the Front To Back Gadget (As shown
- on the WINDOW Picture) this will bring the selected window in front of the
- already present Window.
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- Icons
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- To activate an Icon so you can use a menu item,click the Left Mouse Button
- once on the Icon you wish to use.The Icons will slightly change shape.
- Then you can use a Menu Item.
- If you wish to copy an Icon from one disk to another here's how to do it.
- For this exercise we'll just use 1 drive. First put the disk in which you
- want to copy to.Open the Window where you are going to put the Icon and
- leave it open.Take the disk out and put in the disk you are copying the Icon
- from. Open this disk by Double Clicking on the disk icon.Move your Pointer
- over the Icon you wish to copy,Press & Hold the Left Mouse Button down &
- move the Pointer over to the Window where you want the Icon to be.Next you
- release the Mouse Button to "drop" the Icon in place.
- Follow the instructions as you will have to exchange the disks a few times.
- You have now "Dragged" an Icon from one location to another.
- However with this exercise,you will copy the Program within the ICON.
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- *REMEMBER - DON'T FORGET TO KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR DISK DRIVE LIGHT AND DON'T*
- * REMOVE ANY DISKS UNTIL THE DRIVE LIGHT IS OUT *
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- What's a Drawer?
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- A Drawer is an Icon which can be opened to reveal 1 or more programs
- within it.When you Double Click on the Drawer Icon,a Window appears
- containing 1 or more Icons.
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- Using The Arrows:
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- Using the Arrows (Top Right and Bottom Right)you can move the contents up or
- down in the Window. Using the Arrows (Bottom Right & Left) you can move the
- Window contents to the Right or Left.
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