9. Graphical User Interface

Task 1.

Tuning-in
A Graphical User Interface (GUI) makes computers easier to use. A GUI uses icons. Icons are pictures which represent programs, folders, and file. Can you identify any these icons?

Task 2.

Find the icons for the software which controls these items.
1. Date and time B
2. The mouse F
3. Fonts I
4. The keyboard A
5. a modem C
6. sounds H

Task 3.

Listening Dialog box
Study this dialog box, Tick (♫) the features you can identify
1. ♫ text box
2. tab
3. ♫ chechbox
4.♫ title bar
5. ♫ drop-down list box
6. ♫ command button

Task 4.

Now listen and check your answers

Task 5.

Listen again. match the features of a dialog box (1-4) with the examples from the screen (a-b).

1 command button B
2 dialog box A
3 tab C
4 drop-down list box D

a find
b advanced
c look in
d stop

Task 6

here are the steps for using this dialog box.put them in the correct order.
a enter name, location,and text requiret
b press find now command button
c choose tab
d open dialog box

Correct
D-B-A-C

Task 7

study this screen display.can you find these items?

1a window: screen you can contents
2 an icon: picture
3 a pointer: select icons options from a menu
4 a menu: list of choise

Task 8

find definitions in the text of these items
1 menu
2 interface
3 window
4 active window
5 pointer
6 ico

most computers have a graphical user interface.the interface is the connection between the user and the computer. the most common type of GUI uses a WINP system.WIMP stands for window,icon,menu (or mause), poinres (or pull-down/pop-up menu).

3) WINDOWS a window is an area of the computer screen where you can see the contents of a folder, a file, or a program. some systems allow several windows on the screen at the same and windows can overlap each other. the window on the top is the one which is 'active' the one in use.

6)Icons are small pictures on the screen. they represent programs, folders, or files. For example, the Reclycle Bin Icon represents a progarm for delering and restoring flies. Most system have a special area of the screen on which icons appear.

1)Menus give the user a list of choice. You operate the menu by pressing and releasing one or more buttons on the mouse.

5)The pointeris the arrow you use to select icon or to choose options from a menu. You move the pointer across the screen with the mouse. The you click a button on the mouse to use the object select by the pointer.

Task 9

Add to the statement (1-10) using the extra information (a-j)
Example A barcode is a pattern of printerd black lines which supermarkerts use for pricing.

1. A bardode is