Dialogue Boxes

A dialogue box is a small windows that opens up in the main application windows when certain command are intiated. Typically , choosing a command in a menu or a button followed by an ellipsis (....) display a dialogue box. A dialogue box offer a variety of choices related to the command that was chosen. These choices are further accessible buttons and tabs. Tabs show sets of related options and are graphically shown as file folders in the dialogue window.Checking each tab display a set of each commands that are related to the main command. This help in organizing and accessing different options related to a command.In a dialogue box, if a label for a setting, group of setting or a button is grayed out, it that that setting option is not available. Available setting setting have black text labels. After settings the different option for a command in a dialogue box, it is necessary to click OK button to apply the changes, or cancel button to exit the dialogue box without applying the settings. When inside a dialogue box, windows does not let you access any other parts of the main application window unless the open dialogue box is first closed by either choosing OK or Cancel. This inaccessibility is reminded by a short beep.