Using Windows / Working with Window & View Menus
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As I've been moving windows around and showing you these various applications and their windows I've used some of these standard menu commands that affect windows. Now I'm going to take a look specifically at some of those commands and we'll see a little bit more about how you can work with windows from the menu bar. I'm going to this one in DVD player if you'll notice I have when I make this window active, this one still stays on top, that's a special feature in DVD player and that type of application I can place the viewer above other applications so that I can't bring another window forward. Now I turn that off so I can bring the text edit window forward. I'm going to create a couple of new text edit windows and from the application menu I always have the ability to hide the active application or I can hide other applications. I can always come down to the dock, here's the text edit icon here and bring that forward and now I'll hide the others so we're just going to work with the text edit windows for now. I can switch back and forth between windows. If I go into preview I can change the sidebar, change the size of the main image, I have here this icon is the same icon as the one in front of your windows, it shows me actions I that I can take for whatever is selected within that window. Notice here there are changes that I can make to documents but all of the things that I've done, involving sidebars, toolbars and so forth they don't dirty the document. So the things that I do here, let's say switching windows back and forth, will not dirty a document, I only dirty a document by making the change to the underlining data and if I save this document, notice here watch what happens. I will go through a save dialog, where it asks me what I want to save it as, I will save it, watch the close button. There are now no unsaved changes, if I hit one key I'll press the space key once, notice the document is now dirtied as we say. If I backspace the document is still dirtied, I took out the change that I made but it's still marked as dirty so I can save it, the save command is enabled and if I try and close it I will get a warning. Let me come back and show all the application windows here that are opened. I showed you how to open and close the drawer here, some applications that have drawers will sense where they are with regard to the edge of the screen and they will open the draw on the other side if there isn't space. In the case of DVD player that can't happen, but notice what happens if I come up to the controls window and try to open the control draw, it will open it and push the controller on so that the whole thing is visible. Those are some of the standard window commands that you will find, you open windows by usually by creating or opening new documents and the window command let's you bring within an application, various windows forward, show and hide windows and you have the buttons up here, close, minimize and zoom that correspond to the buttons in windows.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Mac OS X Leopard |
| Author: | Jesse Feiler |
| SKU: | 33838 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-43-7 |
| Release Date: | 2007-12-28 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 111 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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