Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Graphical user interface (GUI)
has now become the de-facto standard for most of the software applications.
Gone are the days of the crude character based interfaces of UNIX and DOS
applications. Today’s software applications and products provide the users with
intuitive, graphical and easy to use interfaces. Now the users do not have to
remember the cryptic system commands or shortcut keys that were a must in the
character based era. Now almost any task can be accomplished by a mouse click.
For example, in a DOS environment, to copy a fie one needs to know the command
for copying files, exact syntax and so on, whereas in Windows environment, you
just have to drag the files you want to copy form the source to destination.
Similarly, almost all the tasks could be performed by mouse clicks.
