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