CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface 1 Introduction 1.1 What Are Windows? 1.2 Interacting with DECwindows 1.3 DECwindows Components 2 Using DECwindows 2.1 Using the Mouse 2.1.1 Mouse Techniques 2.2 Starting a Session 2.3 Using Session Manager's Menu Bar 2.4 Getting Help 2.4.1 Invoking Help 2.4.2 Navigating in Help 2.4.3 Listing Help Topic Titles 2.4.4 Exiting from Help 2.5 Working with Menus 2.5.1 Selecting Menus 2.5.2 Choosing Items from Pull-Down Menus 2.5.3 Choosing Items from Pop-Up Menus 2.5.4 Choosing Items from Customize Menus 2.5.5 Choosing Items from Submenus 2.6 Managing Windows 2.6.1 Parts of a Window 2.6.2 Making Windows Active 2.6.3 Moving Windows 2.6.4 Sizing Windows 2.6.5 Minimizing Windows 2.6.6 Restoring Icons to Windows 2.6.7 Maximizing Windows 2.6.8 Restoring Maximized Windows 2.6.9 Additional Ways to Manage Windows 2.6.10 Arranging Windows 2.7 Working with Dialog Boxes 2.7.1 Supplying Information in Dialog Boxes 2.7.2 Moving and Changing Settings in a Dialog Box 2.7.3 Saving Your Settings 2.7.4 Making Selections from List Boxes 2.7.5 Using File Selection Boxes 2.8 Scrolling 2.9 Editing Text 2.9.1 Selecting Text 2.9.2 Copying Text 2.9.3 Moving Text Between Windows 2.10 Implementing Drag-and-Drop Functionality 2.10.1 Using Drag and Drop 2.11 Using Tear-off Menus 2.12 Printing Files 2.12.1 Printing Files from Applications 3 Using Session Manager 3.1 Running Applications 3.1.1 Creating a FileView Window 3.1.2 Creating a Message Window 3.2 Keeping Track of Work in Progress 3.2.1 Canceling a Task 3.3 Pausing a Session 3.4 Ending a Session 3.5 Customizing Your DECwindows Session 3.6 Changing Your Keyboard Type 3.7 Setting Another Session Language 4 Using FileView 4.1 Updating the File List 4.2 Selecting and Filtering Files 4.2.1 Selecting a File from Your File List 4.2.2 Selecting Adjacent Files 4.2.3 Selecting Scattered Files 4.2.4 Selecting All Files in a Current Directory 4.2.5 Selecting File Names in Other Windows 4.3 Keeping Track of Work in Progress 4.4 Working with Files 4.5 Working with Directories 4.6 Customizing FileView 5 Hyperapplication Features 5.1 A Simple Example 5.2 Hyperapplication Objects 5.3 Creating Links 5.4 Following Links 5.5 Adjusting the Highlighting 6 DECwindows Applications 6.1 Bookreader 6.1.1 Opening a Book 6.1.2 Locating Topics in the Navigation Window 6.1.3 Opening a Topic 6.1.4 Summary of other features 6.2 Calculator 6.2.1 Entering Data 6.2.2 Summary of other features 6.3 Calendar 6.3.1 Moving around in Calendar Displays 6.3.2 Creating a Timeslot Entry 6.3.3 Summary of other features 6.4 Cardfiler 6.4.1 Creating or Opening a Card File 6.4.2 Creating Cards 6.4.3 Summary of other features 6.5 CDA Viewer 6.5.1 Viewing Files 6.5.2 Specifying Supported File Formats 6.5.3 Summary of other features 6.6 Clock 6.6.1 Summary of other features 6.7 DECterm 6.7.1 Summary of DECterm options 6.8 LinkWorks Manager 6.8.1 Using the Environment Window 6.8.2 Relationship Between Environment and Linkbase Windows 6.8.3 Using the Linkbase window 6.8.4 Creating a New Linkbase 6.8.5 Creating Linkbase Objects 6.8.6 Copying Objects into Your Hyperinformation Environment 6.8.7 Using Paths 6.8.8 Following a Path 6.8.9 Summary of other features 6.9 Mail 6.9.1 The Main Window 6.9.2 Drawers and Folders 6.9.3 Creating a Message 6.9.4 Sending a Message 6.9.5 Selecting Messages 6.9.6 Reading Messages 6.9.7 Reading a New Message 6.9.8 Reading an Old Message 6.9.9 Summary of other features 6.10 Notepad 6.10.1 Using Journal Files 6.11 Paint 6.11.1 Choosing Tools 6.11.2 Saving a Painting 6.11.3 Summary of other features 6.12 Print Screen 6.12.1 Capturing the Entire Screen 6.12.2 Summary of other features 6.13 Puzzle 6.13.1 Playing with Puzzle A Composing Characters FIGURES 2-1 Session Manager's menu bar 2-2 The Overview topic 2-3 Pull-down menu 2-4 Pop-up menus 2-5 Customize menu 2-6 Submenu 2-7 Parts of a window 2-8 The Window menu 2-9 The Workspace menu 2-10 Dialog box 2-11 List box 2-12 File selection box 3-1 The Work in Progress dialog box 3-2 The End Session dialog box 3-3 The Keyboard Options dialog box 3-4 The Language Options dialog box 4-1 The FileView window 5-1 The Link menu 5-2 Links dialog box 6-1 The Bookreader library window 6-2 The Bookreader navigation window 6-3 The Bookreader topic window 6-4 The Calculator 6-5 The Calendar month display 6-6 The Calendar day display 6-7 The Cardfiler window 6-8 The CDA Viewer window 6-9 The Clock 6-10 The DECterm window 6-11 The Environment window 6-12 The Linkbase Window 6-13 The Mail main window 6-14 The Create-Send window 6-15 The Read window 6-16 The Paint window 6-17 The Print Screen window 6-18 The Puzzle window TABLES 2-1 Drag-and-Drop supported widgets 6-1 Tool Palette A-1 Composing Characters in Multinational Character Mode