IRIX^® Interactive Desktop User Interface Guidelines

Table of Contents

About This Guide

What This Guide Contains

What You Should Know Before Reading This Guide

Suggestions for Further Reading

Conventions Used in This Guide

I. Integrating With the IRIX Interactive Desktop

1. Overview of the IRIX Interactive Desktop

Overview of the Desktop

How Users Interact with Desktop Icons

Mouse and Keyboard Hardware

2. Icons

Designing the Appearance of Icons

Defining the Behavior of Icons With FTRs

Making Application Icons Accessible

3. Windows in the IRIX Interactive Desktop Environment

The IRIX Interactive Desktop Look: Graphic Features and Schemes

Application Window Categories and Characteristics

Keyboard Focus Across Windows

Minimized Windows

Desks

Session Management

4. IRIX Interactive Desktop Services

Software Installation

Online Help

Online Documentation

Desktop Variables

File Alteration Monitor (FAM)

5. Data Exchange on the IRIX Interactive Desktop

Supporting the Clipboard Transfer Model

Supporting the Primary Transfer Model

Data Types Supported for Inter-Application Transfer

Data Exchange Guidelines

II. Interface Components

6. Application Windows

Application Models

Main and Co-Primary Windows

Support Windows

Pointer Behavior in a Window

7. Focus, Selection, and Drag and Drop

Keyboard Focus and Navigation

Selection

Drag and Drop

8. Menus

Types of Menus

Menu Traversal and Activation

The Menu Bar and Pull-Down Menus

Popup Menus

9. Controls

Pushbuttons

Option Buttons

Checkboxes

Radio Buttons

LED Indicators

Lists

Text Fields

Scrollbars

IRIX Interactive Desktop Scales

Labels

File Finder

Thumbwheels

Dials

10. Dialogs

Types and Modes of Dialogs

Designing Dialogs

Invoking Dialogs

11. User Feedback

Types of Feedback

Pointer Shapes and Colors

III. 3D Style Guidelines

12. Introduction to 3D Style Guidelines

Making 3D Functionality Available

Pointer Shapes for 3D Functions

Resizing the 3D Viewing Window

13. Interactive Viewing of 3D Objects

Introduction to 3D Viewing

3D Viewing Functions

3D Viewing Interface Trade-Offs

14. Selection in 3D Applications

3D Selection Concepts and Models

Selection Feedback for 3D Objects

Lead Objects in 3D Applications

15. Manipulating 3D Objects

Basic 3D Manipulation Techniques

Translating 3D Objects

Rotating 3D Objects

Scaling 3D Objects

Changing the Center of Rotation and Scaling for 3D Objects

Object Manipulation for Multiple Selected 3D Objects

A. Summary of Guidelines

Guidelines for Integrating With the IRIX Interactive Desktop

Interface Component Guidelines

3D Style Guidelines

Index