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    GLOSSARY

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    accelerator key

    A keystroke combination you use to quickly select a menu or button.
    Holding down ALT highlights the available accelerator keys.

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    align


    Orientation of a field's text or a button's name: left, right, centered.

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    attribute

    A foreground and background color combination used in conjunction with
    HyperPAD's painting tools to change the appearance of objects and pages.

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    authoring

    The fourth user level; you can modify pads by manipulating objects.

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    background

    A HyperPAD object that contains information shared by every page
    associated with it.

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    browse

    To use a pad by clicking on buttons and typing into fields.

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    browsing

    The first, user level; you're limited to clicking on buttons.

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    button

    A HyperPAD object that performs actions when selected.

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    capture utility (CAP)

    A program that grabs a screen image from a character-mode DOS program
    and saves it in a .GX2 file, which can be read by HyperPAD.



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    click

    Press and release the left mouse button.

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    click and drag

    Press and hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse.

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    clipboard

    An area in memory used to store marked blocks, text, buttons, fields,
    and pages after you cut or copy them.

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    command line

    A row of numbered commands located near the bottom of many pads.

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    controls

    Elements of dialog boxes used to give information to HyperPAD. Controls
    include text boxes, list boxes, and option buttons.

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    current

    Refers to the active page, background, or pad.

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    default

    A proposed value that HyperPAD presents for your convenience.

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    design

    To modify or create a pad.

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    dialog box

    A window that HyperPAD presents when more information is required to
    carry out a command.

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    double-click

    To press and release the left mouse button twice in rapid succession.



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    drag

    To move the mouse with the left mouse button pressed.

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    error message

    A dialog box that displays a message explaining why HyperPAD can't carry
    out your command.

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    field

    A HyperPAD object on a page or background into which you can type text.

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    focus

    The button or field on which the cursor is located.

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    handler

    A group of PADtalk commands in an object's script that get executed in
    response to a user's action.

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    help

    A group of pads that provide information about the current pad (Pad
    Help) or about HyperPAD (General Help).

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    highlight bar

    A horizontal bar that indicates the currently selected item in a list
    box.

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    hypertext

    A body of information containing links that you can select in order to
    browse the information in a nonlinear manner.

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    layer

    The order of a button or field relative to other buttons and fields
    located on a page or background.



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    link

    A connection between two different pages in the same pad or in different
    pads.

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    list box

    A scrollable field of choices from which you can select.


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    menu

    A window containing a list of commands from which you can select.

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    menu bar

    A line at the top of the screen containing HyperPAD's menus.

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    message box

    A popup window used to display messages, calculate expressions, and
    execute PADtalk commands.

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    message line

    A line at the bottom of the screen displaying a brief help message.

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    navigating

    Moving between the pages within a pad or between pads.

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    object

    The basic elements of a pad.

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    option button

    An dialog box control that can be turned on ([X]) or off ([  ]).



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    option button group

    An interconnected group of option buttons in a dialog box.

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    pad

    HyperPAD's basic file structure.

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    PADtalk

    The Englishlike language used to control the HyperPAD environment.

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    page

    A HyperPAD object that contains paint, buttons, and fields and is
    overlaid on a background.

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    painting

    The third user level; the painting tools become available.

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    popup

    A defined menu of choices from which you can make a selection.

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    properties

    The modifiable characteristics of HyperPAD objects.

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    script

    A property of a HyperPAD object that determines how the object behaves.

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    scripting

    The highest user level; the ability to write, edit, and print scripts.

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    scroll bar

    A component of a scrollable field that lets mouse users move through the
    field.



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    setup

    A pad that runs the first time you load HyperPAD.

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    shortcut key

    A keystroke or keystroke combination that invokes a menu command.

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    status bar

    A line at the bottom of a HyperPAD screen that displays the name of the
    current pad, the page number, and the currently selected tool.

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    text box

    A dialog box control into which you can type information.

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    title bar

    A line below the menu bar that displays the title of the pad and the
    Help button.

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    toggle

    To turn an option button, a menu, or the message box on or off.

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    tool box

    A popup for mouse users containing all of the available HyperPAD tools.

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    typing

    The second user level; you can select buttons and type into fields.

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    user level

    The extent to which you are currently permitted to access HyperPAD's
    tools, which is determined by a dialog box control.