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[[Category:Encyclopedia]]A '''GUI''' or '''Graphical User Interface''' is a way of [[User Output - graphical|graphically organizing information]] and accepting user input, typically from a keyboard and a pointing device such as a mouse. Another acronym for this concept is WIMP--Windows, Icons, and Mouse Pointing. GUI's can have [[Simple Windowed Application|buttons]], text fields, pictures, or tables (among many other things).
==Common GUIs==
*Microsoft Windows
*OS X
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Revision as of 04:38, 20 June 2008
A GUI or Graphical User Interface is a way of graphically organizing information and accepting user input, typically from a keyboard and a pointing device such as a mouse. Another acronym for this concept is WIMP--Windows, Icons, and Mouse Pointing. GUI's can have buttons, text fields, pictures, or tables (among many other things).