Re: To click on, or just to click?

["Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM>]

Well, sometimes you do click off something, when you want to de-select
it.
But it's a fairly odd thing to do, and looks so much like "click on"
that, in the one instance where I had to document it, I went with a
longer and more obvious version, along the lines of

"... click somewhere on the window other than the selected frammitz..."

Usually, I write "click the frammitz." It's How Things Are Done Here.

Mike Huber
mike -dot- huber -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Parks, Beverly [SMTP:ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL]
>
>2.  Another way to look at it is to ask what else you can do with click.
>Can you click off something? No. Can you click in something?
>Possibly...but wouldn't that be the same as clicking on, where a screen
>is concerned? If there is really only one type of click action (not
>counting single and double clicks), then isn't "click on" being a bit
>redundant or at least excessive?
>

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