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Cursor is Latin for 'runner'. A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy. Cursor on a slide rule. On 14 November 1963, while attending a conference on computer graphics in Reno, Nevada, Douglas Engelbart of ...
HUD (video games) The Nuclear Dawn HUD (largely in yellow) displays the character's health, weapon ammunition, and compass heading, while also including a map of the area in the top-right corner, and a circular marker pointing to the player's destination. In video gaming, the HUD ( heads-up display) or status bar is the method by which ...
Different cursors appear over portions of the screen to show the player what will happen when it is clicked on. Gus' notebook is used to collate both the menu system of the game and the place to view documents obtained within the game. Development history. Microïds developed and completed Post Mortem in ten months using Virtools Dev. An in ...
Mouse tracking. Mouse tracking (also known as cursor tracking) is the use of software to collect users' mouse cursor positions on the computer. [1] This goal is to automatically gather richer information about what people are doing, typically to improve the design of an interface. Often this is done on the Web and can supplement eye tracking in ...
The other eight tokens are: a computer desktop (tower, monitor and keyboard), a pointing hand (such as the icon that appears in many web browsers when the mouse pointer hovers over a hyperlink), a surfboard, a flat panel monitor, a mouse (made to look like a real mouse, instead of a computer mouse), another hand holding an envelope (supposedly ...
Addressable cursor. In computing, an addressable cursor is a cursor which can, through use of either software or firmware, be moved (at least theoretically) to any given point on the computer screen. [1] [2]
The Powder Toy (abbreviated TPT ), like most falling sand games, is a sandbox video game that allows users to create things in-game to share using TPTs online level sharing system, which includes a Front Page ( FP ), Recent tab, Favorite tab and a My Own tab. A public server for sharing in-game creations is provided as part of the game itself ...
A close-up of the dots produced by an inkjet printer at draft quality. Actual size is approximately 14 by 14 inch (6 by 6 mm). Individual coloured droplets of ink are visible; this sample is about 150 DPI. Dots per inch ( DPI, or dpi [1]) is a measure of spatial printing, video or image scanner dot density, in particular the number of ...