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Subject:Open windows From:Robert Maxey <Bob_Maxey -at- MTN -dot- 3COM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 2 Feb 1999 20:50:15 -0700
>>I'm having this debate with a co-worker. Does a window "open" or
"appear"?
I say open because appear sounds too "magical". What do people think?
It opens, I should think. After all, it "Just Appears" when it is opened,
it must logically disappear when it closes. All my windows are still in my
software, right where they should be.
