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Cursor is Latin for 'runner'. A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy. Cursor on a slide rule. On 14 November 1963, while attending a conference on computer graphics in Reno, Nevada, Douglas Engelbart of ...
The caret, text cursor or insertion point represents the point of the user interface where the focus is located. It represents the object that will be used as the default subject of user-initiated commands such as writing text, starting a selection or a copy-paste operation through the keyboard. Selection Selection of an area by using cursor.
Windows wait cursor. The Windows wait cursor, informally the Blue circle of death (known as the hourglass cursor until Windows Vista) is a throbber that indicates that an application is busy performing an operation. It can be accompanied by an arrow if the operation is being performed in the background. The wait cursor can display on programs ...
A typical throbber animation like that seen on many websites when a blocking action is being performed in the background. A throbber, also known as a loading icon, is an animated graphical control element used to show that a computer program is performing an action in the background (such as downloading content, conducting intensive calculations or communicating with an external device).
Gameplay A screenshot of Riven, showing the prison island where the non-player character Catherine is held captive Like its predecessor, Riven is a point and click adventure game played from a first-person perspective. The player explores immersive environments depicted through a large series of computer generated stills using mouse clicks for movement or to manipulate objects within reach. By ...
Hover your mouse cursor over the Favorite you wish to rename. Click on the pencil icon; Update the Favorite name in the Title field and click Save. You will then see your Favorite with its new name. Note: You can update the link in the URL field if necessary.
Alan Kay designed the 16-by-16 mouse cursor icon with its left edge vertical and right edge 45-degrees so it displays well on the bitmap. Inspired by PARC's Alto, the Lilith, a computer which had been developed by a team around Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zürich between 1978 and 1980, provided a mouse as well.
The Amstrad CPC character set (alternatively known as the BASIC graphics character set) [1] is the character set used in the Amstrad CPC series of 8-bit personal computers when running BASIC (the default mode, until it boots into CP/M ). This character set existed in the built-in "lower" ROM chip. It is based on ASCII -1967, with the exception ...