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Subject:Re: What do you calliut From:John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> Date:Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:39:17 -0400
As it is for internal documentation, I'm going with "widget". Does anyone
have a violent objection?
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 2:47 PM Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> Looks like TechSmith gives Snagit's its own name "OneClick"
>https://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-snagit-oneclick.html
>
> Faststone calls theirs a "Capture Panel"
>https://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
>
> I've also seen it called "Toolbar", "Contols", and "Floating Panel".
>
> -Tony
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:10 AM John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> There are applications (such as some Snagit and Jabber applications) that
>> when loaded, place a little dropdown widget at the top of the screen.
>>
>> Is widget the correct term?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> John Posada
>>
>
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John Posada
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