Name conventions in this documentation

In the users’ manual a certain conventions have been adopted for names and terms used. In some fragments it is compliant with generally accepted rules, however in other parts it differs a little from them. The description below provides the explanation of terms used in the following part of the manual.

• The master executive program is called uplook.
• Monitor programs which are installed at users’ computers are called Agents..
• To click a mouse means to press the left key of the mouse once.
• To double click the mouse means to press the left key of the mouse twice.
• To indicate an object using the mouse means to move the cursor of the mouse to a position above the object.
• To select an object using a mouse and highlight an object means to move the cursor of the mouse to a position above the object and press the left key of the mouse.
• To highlight an object or an element means to change its status by clicking a mouse or, for example, by clicking the space bar.
• To press the button means to click the mouse on a selected button or to press any key combination which results in a change of the button status.
• Element means any object in a program. It can be an edit field, list, drop-down list, button etc. It was intended not to use the term „window” here, although each element is just a window as for an operating system.
• Focus element means an object to which commands from the keyboard are addressed at a given moment (professionally speaking: a focus object or an object having a user’s focus). Focus of an element is indicated by a blinking cursor in an edit field or by a pointed frame around a button text.
• Document means any set of data maintained by the program. It can be, for example an album or a collection.
• Active document means a document, the window of which is active at a given moment and to which all menu, tool bar commands and keyboard characters are addressed.
• Focus object (or having a focus) means an object receiving all characters entered using a keyboard. A focus is indicated by means of a blinking cursor in an edit field or a narrow frame around the element in a list.