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An animated toggle switch widget, demonstrating the ambiguous state problem. Early research on touchscreen interfaces has identified usability issues with toggle switches. [2] A common problem is ambiguous state indication: for example does the label "on" indicate the current state of the switch or the resulting state after interacting with it.
A cycle button. A cycle button or toggle button is a graphical control element that allows the user to choose one from a predefined set of options. [1] It is used as a button, the content of which changes with each click and cycles between two or more values; [1] the currently displayed value is the user's choice.
Tasker is an Android application which enables performing user-defined actions based on contexts (application, time, date, location, event, state) in user-defined profiles, activated by click- or timer-based home screen widgets. It was originally developed by a developer known as "Pent", [1] and later purchased by João Dias.
An embedded system on a plug-in card with processor, memory, power supply, and external interfaces. An embedded system is a specialized computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system.
The website was created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008. [5] The name for the website was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of Coding Horror, Atwood's programming blog. [18]
Diagram of interactions in MVC's Smalltalk-80 interpretation. Model–view–controller (MVC) is a software design pattern [1] commonly used for developing user interfaces that divides the related program logic into three interconnected elements.
The term magic number or magic constant refers to the anti-pattern of using numbers directly in source code. This has been referred to as breaking one of the oldest rules of programming, dating back to the COBOL, FORTRAN and PL/1 manuals of the 1960s. [1]
A takeoff/go-around switch (TO/GA; / ˈ t oʊ ɡ ə /) is a switch on the autothrottle of modern large aircraft, with two modes: takeoff (TO) and go-around (GA). The mode is dependent on the phase of flight; usually, on approach to land, the autopilot will be set to approach mode, therefore if the TO/GA switch is pressed it will activate the go-around mode of the autothrottle (about 90–92% ...