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Subject:Re: Windows Interface Terminology From:Walter Hanig <wdh -at- NETMANAGE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:53:11 -0800
Courtesy of the Microsoft Style Guide...
Property sheet refers either to a secondary window that displays the properties of an object after carrying out the Properties command or to a collection of tabs or property pages that make up a dialog box.
In general, do not use the terms property sheet and property page in end-user material; use tab or dialog box instead. If your product uses property sheets, see your project style sheet for specific usage of the term.
Walter
At 10:46 PM 2/19/98 +0000, Gail Gurman wrote:
>As part of the Win95 interface, there are some dialog boxes that
>have what I call "pages"; that is, multiple screens of information,
>generally used for setting properties, accessed by tabs.
>
>So, what's the verdict? Page? Screen? Something else?
>
>Thanks!
Walter Hanig
NetManage, Inc.
12651 High Bluff Drive
San Diego, CA 92130, USA
