Window
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A Window is a enclosed rectangular area of display on a computer monitor. A window is also commonly referred to as a form or screen. A window presents its contents (e.g., the contents of a directory, a text file or an image) seemingly independently of the rest of the screen. Windows are one of the elements that comprise a Microsoft Windows Operating System graphical user interface (GUI).
The graphical user interface (GUI) lets the user display several windows which are running different programs all at one time. To switch between windows the user just clicks on the desired window to make it the foreground process. The title bar of the active Window is a darker color than the title bar of the inactive windows. The title bar of the inactive window is "grayed out". The Windows can be arranged so that they do not overlap (tiled windows); they do overlap (cascading windows) and resemble a stack of pieces of paper lying on top of one another; only the topmost window is displayed in full. You can move a window on top of the other windows by clicking on the window with the mouse. You can expand a window to fill the entire screen by selecting the window's zoom box. In addition to moving windows, changing their size, and zooming them, you can also replace an entire window with an icon (this is sometimes called minimizing).
Every window in a Microsoft Windows compliant program - like zMaxOneClick™ - consists of a number of different areas. The main ones are:
Status Bar
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