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graphical user interface
graphical user interfacen. See GUI.graphical user interface n (Computer Science) an interface between a user and a computer system that involves the use of a mouse-controlled screen cursor to select options from menus, make choices with buttons, start programs by clicking icons, etc. Abbreviation: GUI graph′ical us′er in′terface
n. a software interface designed to standardize and simplify the use of computer programs, as by using a mouse to manipulate text and images on a display screen featuring icons, windows, and menus. Also called GUI. graph·i·cal user interface (grăf′ĭ-kəl) See GUI.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | graphical user interface - a user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text; uses a mouse as well as a keyboard as an input deviceGUIdialog box, panel - (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with `okay' or `cancel'user interface, interface - (computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the systemicon - (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface |
TranslationsGUIinterfaccia graficaграфический интерфейсGraphical User Interface
graphical user interface[¦graf·ə·kəl ‚yü·zər ′in·tər‚fās] (computer science) A user interface in which program features are represented by icons that the user can access and manipulate with a pointing device. Abbreviated GUI. Graphical User Interface (operating system)(GUI) The use of pictures rather than justwords to represent the input and output of a program. Aprogram with a GUI runs under some windowing system(e.g. The X Window System, MacOS, Microsoft Windows,Acorn RISC OS, NEXTSTEP). The program displays certainicons, buttons, dialogue boxes, etc. in its windows onthe screen and the user controls it mainly by moving apointer on the screen (typically controlled by a mouse)and selecting certain objects by pressing buttons on the mousewhile the pointer is pointing at them. This contrasts with acommand line interface where communication is by exchange ofstrings of text.
Windowing systems started with the first real-time graphicdisplay systems for computers, namely the SAGE Projectnd Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad (1963). Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation of Human Intellect project atSRI in the 1960s developed the On-Line System, whichincorporated a mouse-driven cursor and multiple windows.Several people from Engelbart's project went to Xerox PARC inthe early 1970s, most importantly his senior engineer, Bill English. The Xerox PARC team established the WIMP concept,which appeared commercially in the Xerox 8010 (Star) systemin 1981.
Beginning in 1980(?), led by Jef Raskin, the Macintoshteam at Apple Computer (which included former members of theXerox PARC group) continued to develop such ideas in the firstcommercially successful product to use a GUI, the AppleMacintosh, released in January 1984. In 2001 Apple introducedMac OS X.
Microsoft modeled the first version of Windows, releasedin 1985, on Mac OS. Windows was a GUI for MS-DOS that hadbeen shipped with IBM PC and compatible computers since1981. Apple sued Microsoft over infringement of thelook-and-feel of the MacOS. The court case ran for manyyears.
[Wikipedia].AcronymsSeeGUIgraphical user interface
Synonyms for graphical user interfacenoun a user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of textSynonymsRelated Words- dialog box
- panel
- user interface
- interface
- icon
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