1.1 Glossary
This document uses the following terms:
Application Desktop Toolbar: A window (anchored to an edge of the screen) that is similar to the taskbar and that typically contains buttons that give the user quick access to other applications and windows.
balloon tooltip: A tooltip displayed inside a balloon-shaped window. It usually has an icon, a title, and the tooltip text.
caret: A blinking line, block, or bitmap in the client area of a window. The caret typically indicates the location at which text or graphics will be inserted.
client area: The area of the desktop that is available for a window or notification icon to paint on.
desktop switch: The act of switching from one user desktop to another, or to the Windows Secure Desktop.
display-required power request: A power request that indicates whether the display of the device should remain in the powered-on state even if there is no user input for an extended period.
Filter Keys: An accessibility feature that allows configuration of keyboard input characteristics such as acceptance delay, repeat rate, and bounce rate, to filter out accidental keypresses.
Input Method Editor (IME): An application that is used to enter characters in written Asian languages by using a standard 101-key keyboard. An IME consists of both an engine that converts keystrokes into phonetic and ideographic characters and a dictionary of commonly used ideographic words.
marker window: A server-side window that is not remoted to the client and is used to manage the activation of RAIL windows.
notification icon: An icon placed in the notification area.
protocol data unit (PDU): Information that is delivered as a unit among peer entities of a network and that may contain control information, address information, or data. For more information on remote procedure call (RPC)-specific PDUs, see [C706] section 12.
RAIL notification icon: An icon placed in the notification area of the client machine by the remote applications integrated locally (RAIL) client.
RAIL window: A local client window that mimics a remote application window.
remote application: An application running on a remote server.
remote applications integrated locally (RAIL): A software component that enables remoting of individual windows and notification icons.
screen coordinates: Coordinates relative to the top-left corner of the screen, which has the coordinates (0,0).
Snap: A window management feature in Windows that resizes a window to fill a portion (usually one half or one quarter) of the screen when the user drags the window title bar to the edge or corner of the screen, uses a keyboard shortcut, or selects the window from the Snap Assist interface. When the window is moved away from the edge of the screen, it returns to its previous size.
Sticky Keys: An accessibility feature that allows users to enter key combinations by pressing modifier keys (SHIFT, CTRL, or ALT) and then other keys in sequence, rather than at the same time.
system command: A message that is sent to a window or notification icon via its system menu, or via a keyboard shortcut. Common system commands include minimize, maximize, move, and so on.
tabbed application: A feature of Windows, introduced in Windows 7, that allows a multiple-document interface (MDI) or tabbed-document interface (TDI) application to display a separate tab on its taskbar group flyout for each document it manages.
taskbar: A window, anchored to an edge of the screen, that contains the Start button and buttons for all open programs.
text scale: A setting that controls the size of text in Windows.
Toggle Keys: An accessibility feature that causes the computer to emit audible tones when CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK, or SCROLL LOCK are switched on or off.
tooltip: A window displaying text that is created when the mouse is moved over a window or notification icon.
Unicode character: Unless otherwise specified, a 16-bit UTF-16 code unit.
window coordinates: Coordinates relative to the top-left corner of the window.
window visible region: The portion of the window that is not obscured by other user interface elements.
z-order: The rendering order of an object on a z axis.
MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.