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Fri 14 Apr, 2006 12:30 pm
A computer genius:
"He worked the keys of his computer, toggling back and forth between three screens, closing windows, opening new ones and shrinking or enlarging others."
Later: "he closed out one of his screens".
Is it a computer with three monitors?
Or is a screen and a window the same here?
Plus: shrinking - does it mean to send the minimized window to the bar at the bottom?
A screen is the monitor screen.
A window is a square or rectangular 'box' which can be expanded or contracted up-down, side to side, or diagonally, or minimised to the bottom or task tray, or closed altogether.
Shrinking only means making smaller; from a tiddy bit down to fully collapsed.
So in the description we have three monitor screens on which windows are being made smaller by an undefined amount.
Some people may have virtual descktops and refer to these as 'screens'; I don't know.
Closing out sounds as though all windows (programs or apps) were closed in the one window, leaving just the taskbar etc.
Could someone from the US confirm this?
Rhymer is correct, but the context sure sounds like the writer is using "screen" to mean "window." And if we allow him to get that sloppy, then "shrinking" and "enlarging" could beam "minimize" and "maximixe."
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