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Lesson 8: Elements of A Window: in This Lesson You Will Learn

The document discusses the elements of a window. It describes the title bar, which appears at the top of the window and displays the name of the file or application. It also discusses the three buttons that appear in the title bar - the close button (X), minimize button (-), and resize button. The minimize button shrinks the window and places it on the taskbar, while the close button closes the window completely.

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Lesson 8: Elements of A Window: in This Lesson You Will Learn

The document discusses the elements of a window. It describes the title bar, which appears at the top of the window and displays the name of the file or application. It also discusses the three buttons that appear in the title bar - the close button (X), minimize button (-), and resize button. The minimize button shrinks the window and places it on the taskbar, while the close button closes the window completely.

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Lesson 8: Elements of a Window

AIM

In this lesson you will learn:

The elements of a window --- title bar

LESSON OUTCOME

After you have studied this lesson, you will be able to:

Recognize the title bar of a window

To open and close a window

When you open a file, you or start an application, the screen which

opens up is called a window. Just as when you open a window of a

closed room, you get a peek into what is inside, similarly, while using

a computer, the window you see will tell you what is inside the file or

application.

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Just as you can open and close your room window, you can open

and close the computer window as well. You can also minimize it!

Let us learn more about the computer window.

The top bar of the computer window is called the title bar. As the

name tells you, this bar gives the file name or the name of the

application that is running. This usually appears on the top left hand

corner.

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For instance, if you open a music player, the title bar will tell you that

you are using a particular media player application. Similarly, if you

open a particular game, the title bar will tell you the name of the game

application that you are using. The title bar also acts as a handle for

dragging the window.

Notice that at the top right hand corner that are three buttons. The

following figure illustrates this.

Close button (X)

When you click on this button, it will close the window.

Minimize button (-)

When we want to clear the desktop of the open window, the minimize

button is used. When a window is open you will see a rectangular

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button on the taskbar that displays the windows title and maybe an

icon. When you click on the minimise button, the window will shrink

and go to the taskbar at the bottom of the desktop screen. The

following figure shows how a minimized window looks.

The minimized window carries the name of the file or the application

you are running. A minimized window can be brought back to its

original size by simply clicking the shrunk application on the task bar.

Resize button ( )

When you click on this button, the window will become a little smaller

than its original look. It will not shrink completely. You can see its

contents but the window is slightly smaller. Now you can also resize

the window, by pulling the edges of the window. When you click on it

again, the window gets restored to its original size.

Why do we need minimize button?

Sometimes, when need to use more than one file or applications at

the same time. For example, you may be drawing a picture using the

paint application and want to listen to music at the same time. You

can minimize the paint window and play the music using the media

application. After you have played the song of your choice, you can

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resize the window of paint application that you had minimized earlier

and continue painting.

Worksheet

1. Identify the title bar in the following window:

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2. Rakesh is playing a computer game. He wants to

listen to music at the same time. Help him find the

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steps he needs to follow for this. (Number the correct

order.)

Now if Rakesh wants to play the game again, what

are the steps he should follow?

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3. Smita wants to close the file she is working on.

Which button should she click?

4. Match the column:

You do this This is the result


1. Click on X button in the Minimize the file or application

title bar
2. Click on button in the Close the file or application

title bar
3. Click on - button in the The window shrinks slightly

title bar

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5. Reema wants to minimize the drawing she painted in

the paint application. Which button should she click?

6. Rearrange letters to identify the word and match the column

1 RBALEITT FILE
2 SELCO WINDOW
3 INIMIEZ TITLE BAR
4 XMAIZEIM CLOSE
5 ETORSER MAXIMIZE
6 DWNDOI MINIMIZE
7 ELIF RESTORE

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For the Teacher
 Let the Icons of different applications kept on the desktop be the starting point
to this class. First, ask the students show the different icons kept on the
desktop. Show them how to open a window. Show them the different ways of
opening the application. You can double click on the icon (if double click is
familiar) or select the icon, right click and select “open” from the drop down
menu or the easiest of them all select the icon and press “Enter”. To make
the topic more interesting play a music file. Then show them the name of the
application on the title bar.

 Open two or three windows and arrange them in such a way that the title bars
of each window are visible. Now we can introduce the concept of a title bar.
Explain that the title bar is like the name of a person. It is used to identify one
window from another. Give a window name and ask the children to pick that
window.

 Once they understand the significance of the title bar, go to the buttons
located on the right hand side. Give the name of each buttons and show them
how each one of them works.

 Minimise all the open windows using the minimise buttons. Ask them where
all of them went. Some children who are familiar with the application may be
able to show it. Now show the task bar and the minimised windows. Click on
each of the buttons on the task bar to restore the windows.

 Now close all the open files, stress using the window title bar button with the
“X” sign to close the files. So they will be through with the use of this button.
If possible, open a window and allow them to play around. While leaving the
class ask them to close all the open windows.

 For evaluation, draw the maximise/ minimise/ close buttons on the black
board and ask the name of each button. After the students are seated in front
of the computer, you may open two or three windows. Give the name of a
specific window and ask to pick that. Question them on how they identified the
window and ask them to move a window using the title bar.

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