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Subject:Re: What do you call these things?? From:Geoff Lane <geoff -at- GJCTECH -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:40:46 +0100
Linda Michaels wrote:
[snip]
>
> For example, if users want to enter a name in the "Name" box,
> they have to
> click a small box (within the Name box) to bring up a new
> window. (They
> can't just type the name.) This small box is not a drop-down
> menu, because
> there is no arrow on it, just a horizontal line. (Sort of
> looks like the
> "minimize" button in Windows.)
---
You don't say on which operating systems the software runs. That said, I'd
probably use "browse button" or similar, and qualify this by describing the
position of the small box. For exampe, "click the browse button to the
right of the Name box." If nothing else fits, you could call it a "small
box", as in, "click the small box to the left of the Name box."
HTH,
Geoff Lane
Cornwall, UK
geoff -at- gjctech -dot- co -dot- uk
