RE: Open vs Appear, Yet Again (was: "RE: WG: Newbie question - GUI terminology")

[Maggie_Secara -at- capgroup -dot- com]

In that sense,  "displays" means the dialog is showing off, with intent to
mate.




Maggie
What do you mean it isn't magic?


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 Jeff Cross <Jeff -dot- Cross -at- desire2learn -dot- com> points out:

> What about "displays" used as an intransitive verb, in place of
> "appears" or "opens"? (As in, "The Add Participant window displays.")
>
> Personally this drives me nuts, but I see it used quite frequently.

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