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A modal window creates a mode that disables user interaction with the main window but keeps it visible, with the modal window as a child window in front of it. Users must interact with the modal window before they can return to the parent window. This avoids interrupting the workflow on the main window. Modal windows are sometimes called heavy ...
Popover (GUI) This popover belongs to the status bar of gedit. It contains two checkboxes and a radio button. A popover is a container-type graphical control element that hovers over its parent window and blocks any other interaction until it is selected. It can contain various other graphical control elements such as checkboxes, radio buttons ...
t. e. The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent interface that treats an HTML or XML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document. The DOM represents a document with a logical tree. Each branch of the tree ends in a node, and each node contains objects.
A child window opens automatically or as a result of a user activity in a parent window. Pop-up windows on the Internet can be child windows. A message window, or dialog box, is a type of child window. These are usually small and basic windows that are opened by a program to display information to the user and/or get information from the user.
Modal window – a graphical control element subordinate to an application's main window which creates a mode where the main window can not be used. Dialog box – a small window that communicates information to the user and prompts for a response; Palette window – also known as "Utility window" - a graphical control element which floats on ...
Non-modal or modeless dialog boxes are used when the requested information is not essential to continue, and so the window can be left open while work continues elsewhere. A type of modeless dialog box is a toolbar which is either separate from the main application, or may be detached from the main application, and items in the toolbar can be used to select certain features or functions of the ...
Model–view–controller. Model–view–controller (MVC) is a software design pattern [1] commonly used for developing user interfaces that divides the related program logic into three interconnected elements. These elements are: the model, the internal representations of information. the view, the interface that presents information to and ...
An alert dialog box is a special dialog box that is displayed in a graphical user interface when something unexpected occurred that requires immediate user action. The typical alert dialog provides information in a separate box to the user, after which the user can only respond in one way: by closing it.