Application specific GUI components

A GUI of an application contains one or more of the listed GUI elements:

●      Application Window – Most application windows uses the constructs supplied by operating systems but many use their own customer created windows to contain the contents of application.

●      Dialogue Box – It is a child window that contains message for the user and request for some action to be taken. For Example: Application generate a dialogue to get confirmation from user to delete a file.

●      Text-Box – Provides an area for user to type and enter text-based data.

●      Buttons – They imitate real life buttons and are used to submit inputs to the software.

●      Radio-button – Displays available options for selection. Only one can be selected among all offered.

●      Check-box – Functions similar to list-box. When an option is selected, the box is marked as checked. Multiple options represented by check boxes can be selected.

●      List-box – Provides list of available items for selection. More than one item can be selected.

Other impressive GUI components are:

●      Sliders

●      Combo-box

●      Data-grid

●      Drop-down list