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Cursor (user interface) A blinking text cursor while typing the word " Wikipedia". In human–computer interaction, a cursor is an indicator used to show the current position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input.
This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer. The first public demonstration of a mouse controlling a computer system was done by Doug Engelbart in 1968 as part of the Mother of All Demos . [1]
In computer science, a database cursor is a mechanism that enables traversal over the records in a database. Cursors facilitate subsequent processing in conjunction with the traversal, such as retrieval, addition and removal of database records.
Arrow keys or cursor movement keys are keys on a computer keyboard that are either programmed or designated to move the cursor in a specified direction.
Caret navigation. A caret flashing in a text entry box. In computing, caret navigation (or caret browsing) [1] [2] is a kind of keyboard navigation where a caret (also known as a ‘text cursor’, ‘text insertion cursor’, or ‘text selection cursor’) is used to navigate within a text document.
ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators. Certain sequences of bytes, most starting with an ASCII escape character and a bracket character, are embedded into text. The terminal interprets these sequences as ...
The wait cursor is a shared resource in the system across applications and windows. By default, when the mouse cursor is in a window, the cursor shown is controlled by the window's registered window class and handling of WM_SETCURSOR .
Cursor, a value that is the position of an object in some known data structure, a predecessor of pointers. Cursor (slide rule), indicates corresponding points on scales that are not adjacent to each other. Cursor Models, made for the Mercedes Benz Museum, and as promotional models.
Mouse tracking (also known as cursor tracking) is the use of software to collect users' mouse cursor positions on the computer. This goal is to automatically gather richer information about what people are doing, typically to improve the design of an interface.
Its roots lie in the earliest days of visual editors when line and column navigation was controlled with arrow keys . Today, mouse keys usually refers to the numeric keypad layout standardized with the introduction of the X Window System in 1984. [1] [2]