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Interface Design

The Interface Quiz

Think you're an interface geek? Let's find out

Issue: 3.1 (September/October 2004)
Author: Toby Rush
Author Bio: Toby Rush is a music instructor, consultant, freelance programmer, web designer, husband, and Dad in Greeley, Colorado.
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Article Length (in bytes): 5,172
Starting Page Number: 44
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As REALbasic Developer begins its third year, the editors can look back with the journalistic satisfaction of never publishing one of those pithy, unscientific, quasi-self-analytical quizzes that seem to be so popular nowadays.

Well, until now, anyway. Put away the code windows for a minute and test yourself to see if you can hold your own against the interface nerds out there. No cheating! The answers are on the next page.

Easy

1. In the OS X Finder, Command-M is the keyboard shortcut for the "Minimize" command, which places the frontmost window in the dock. What was this keyboard shortcut used for in OS 9?

A. Move to Trash

B. About this Macintosh

C. Sleep

D. Make Alias

2. Where should the default button appear in a Macintosh dialog box?

A. The lower left-hand corner

B. The lower right-hand corner

C. Anywhere near the bottom

D. Wherever it fits

3. Which of the following is a modifier key?

A. Escape

B. Option

C. Enter

D. F10

4. Which of these controls can be used to allow the user to choose from a mutually exclusive list?

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