Talk:Window (computing)

message: Can someone elaborate more on what the actual window consists of? There is a section at the wiki which describes, what the window consists of, but there are no links / picture to actually what i. e. controls are or dialog boxes are.
The section is:
Windows usually include other graphical objects, possibly including a menu-bar, toolbars, controls, icons and often a working area. In the working area, the document, image, folder contents or other main object is displayed. Around the working area, within the bounding window, there may be other smaller window areas, sometimes called panes or panels, showing relevant information or options
The list of topics I'd really like to read about right now:
window control
dialog-box
class of the window
handle of the window etc.
Maybe this comment will motivate someone to create the new pages (especially with pictures describing the window parts), because I'm not literate enough to do so. I've looked on the internet and although you can find a definition of what a window control is, there are no examples, how an example window control / dialog box looks like. And I'm not a native speaker / a programmer, so it is hard for me to understand concepts like 'dialog-box'. 
Regards  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.17.240.177 (talk) 15:25, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kind request 

message: * The visibility of the toolbars that the window may have. -- Wouldn't this be a property of the toolbar widget and not the window itself?  --tonsofpcs (Talk) 08:07, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I don't think so. In Mac OS X, the show/hide toolbars button is on the same level as the traffic light buttons, and it exists on every window, regardless of whether it supports the function. So it must be part of the window manager. --Baryonic Being 12:17, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Properties

message: The viewport article redirects here, but this article does not define what "viewport" is. I don't think it's the same thing as a window but I can't define it (which is why I'm looking here). Can someone familiar with this stuff please define it in the appropriate place? Please? Thanks.  Elf | Talk 00:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Please define "viewport"

message: IIRC bell labs developed a series of windowing terminals and the first proactical implementation of overlapping windows.  later there was some contravery regarding the associated patents which inclueded a patent on the "backing store" technique used to to store the hidden portions of overlapping windows.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.253.239.161 (talk) 18:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  history: bell labs 

message: Rehashed the article ;). I'd like to know whether someone knows something more about Smalltalk & ObjectOriented going "hand in hand" with people at PARC developing "windows". I know that team of Alan Kay developed this "visual windowing programming program" while Alan Kay was busy coining the term ObjectOriented ;). 86.61.232.26 (talk) 19:09, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Object Oriented & Cleaned 

message: Proposal to merge Window decoration into Window (computing). 'Window decoration' previously was noted for potential lack of notability. 104.228.101.152 (talk) 02:34, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This makes sense to me. Window decoration has some good pieces of info (like specifics on each piece of a window border) that seem more appropriate here than in their own article. TripleShortOfACycle (talk) 22:12, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Window decoration 

message: I propose Active window be merged into Window (computing) and Window manager. Added merge templates. 104.228.101.152 (talk) 16:58, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  1 & 2--Editor-1 (talk) 07:45, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Active window