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Paintbrush Picture PBrush PBrush Windows 3.1 Charles Balch, Spring 96, Ver 1.0 Since they share common commands and menu structure Windows applications are easy to learn. It is also easy to exchange information between applications by copying and pasting. Mouse Mouse gestures select and/or activate and/or resize objects and/or areas within Windows. Windows applications use common gestures. Mouse Notes When pointing, place the tip of the arrow in the object; do not place the whole arrow in your destination. Pay attention to the shape of the mouse pointer. The mouse pointer changes shape as it becomes capable of various tasks. Hold the mouse perpendicular to the edge of the table. Do not hold it on a slant or it will move in unexpected ways! Let the heel of your hand drag as you move the mouse, this will give you better control. Mouse Gestures Single Click: Move the mouse pointer to the desired location, and click the LEFT button. Selects a location/object or “presses” a button. Double Click: Move the mouse pointer to the desired location and press the LEFT mouse button twice rapidly without moving the mouse. An invocation. I. E. You might run an application by double clicking on it's icon. Common problems with this gesture are moving of the mouse while double clicking or not clicking fast enough. Click and Drag Point at a starting location then press and hold the LEFT mouse button, move the mouse to the end location then release the button. Selects an area, moves or resizes a Window/object. I. E. To delete a large selection of text, select the text, then press the DEL key. A common problem with this gesture is not starting at the beginning or end of the area of the area you wish to select. You can’t move in two directions at once! Mouse “Tricks” A button or object that is emphasized is activated when the Enter key is pressed. I.E. Instead of double clicking, click once to select then press enter to activate an icon. Select an area or group of objects by clicking at the beginning, moving to the end, then clicking with the shift key down. Select non-contiguous areas/objects by pressing the control key while clicking. If your mouse movement is sticky, the mouse may need cleaning. Scrape the junk off the rollers. Parts of the Window At the top of all windows is the Window Title Bar. The application name and/or current data window name is shown in the title bar. Non-maximized Windows are moved by clicking and dragging in their title bar. On the right of the Window’s title bar are the Maximize and Minimize Window buttons. Maximize windows by pressing up triangles. Minimizing a window makes it become an Icon, minimizing is a trick for power users who know how to convert the icon back into a window. Double triangles restore the window to it’s previous non-maximized size. It is possible (but cluttered) to have multiple applications windows which in turn may have multiple data windows. While it is a good habit to keep most Windows maximized, it is occasionally useful to have two data windows I.E. In File Manger to copy/move a file. To left of the Windows title bar, is a minus called the Control Menu box which is generally used to exit the current window. Clicking on the minus lists basic functions of the associated application. Other minuses may be in the active area of the application. These minuses control the application’s data windows. Directly below the Title Bar are menu headings and perhaps a tool bar specific to the given application. File, Edit and Help menus headings are common. Along the edge of non-maximized windows is a border. Click and drag on the Windows Border to change the size of the Window. Unless you really need to be looking at two windows simultaneously (perhaps to view data while writing), I recommend that you keep all your windows maximized. Along the right side of some windows there is a Vertical Scroll Bar. This bar appears when there is more information than you can see on a single screen. I.E. A long word processing document. Click on the Up and Down Arrows to scroll. Move to the beginning or end of a document by using the double triangles (not all applications have this feature). Move to a specific location by clicking and dragging the location box in the scroll menu. In the example to the right, the box is located about two thirds through the document. The Horizontal Scroll Bar is similar. Program Manager From the program manager, applications are launched by double clicking on their icon. The icon for Microsoft Works is shown to the right. Another type of icon is the Group Icon. Group Icons represent a logical group of applications and files. Open a group icon by double clicking. You can get “back to” the program manager (or any active application) by tapping ALT-Tab until the name of the desired application appears on your screen (keep the ALT button depressed as you press TAB). Due to memory limitations, more than about four active applications will probably place a burden on your system. Quitting or exiting the Program Manager quits Windows. As Windows does a bit of “house keeping” upon exit, it is a good idea to exit Windows before turning off your computer. File Manager The File Manager is an extremely useful program that performs common file and disk tasks. The File Manger screen looks something like the figure below. The current drive is H: and the selected/current directory is EUDORA. Eudora is a subdirectory of WAPPS. There are 13 files in the Eudora directory. No files are selected. Files are selected by single clicking on its name. The largest file is WEUDORA.EXE which uses about 717K of disk space and was last changed in October of 1994. The symbol to the left of the name means the file is an application launchable by double clicking. The symbol next to the file README.TXT indicates that the contents are available by double clicking on it (Windows would launch the appropriate application then load the file). The three files at the top with blank pages are used by Eudora but a not directly readable. Open additional data windows by double clicking on one of the disk images below the menu bar then select cascade from the “Window” menu to arrange the data windows. A & B are floppy drives; C-E are local hard drives, CDROMs or Tape drives; letters past E: usually indicate network drives. Common File Manager tasks include: Arrange screens by Tiling them from the Windows menu. Copy file(s) by clicking and dragging their icons to a new location. If the new location is on the same disk, hold down the Ctrl key as you click and drag or the document will be moved. Some people find it easier to use the Save As option from within applications to copy files. Delete file(s) by selecting their icon, then pressing the DEL key. To Format a disk put the disk in the drive and pressing the appropriate drive letter at the top of the screen. Usually A. Rename a file by selecting it’s icon and choosing rename from the file menu. Create a directory by pointing to the directory the new directory will be a subdirectory of and choose Create Directory from the File Menu. The first directory or root directory is represented by the drive letter and a slash (i.e. H:\). Select multiple files by using the Shift or Control keys while clicking. Arrange files in a different order by making the appropriate selection from the View menu. 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