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Throbber. A throbber, also known as a loading icon, is an animated graphical control element used to show that a computer program is performing an action in the background (such as downloading content, conducting intensive calculations or communicating with an external device). [1] [2] [3] In contrast to a progress bar, a throbber does not ...
Transparency (graphic) GIF animation of an Apollonian sphere packing with transparent background. Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible.
File:Mouse-cursor-hand-pointer.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 750 × 563 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 240 pixels | 640 × 480 pixels | 1,023 × 768 pixels | 1,280 × 961 pixels | 2,560 × 1,922 pixels. Original file (SVG file, nominally 750 × 563 pixels, file size: 2 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.
SVG images can interact with users in many ways. In addition to hyperlinks as mentioned below, any part of an SVG image can be made receptive to user interface events such as changes in focus, mouse clicks, scrolling or zooming the image and other pointer, keyboard and document events.
Portable Network Graphics ( PNG, officially pronounced / pɪŋ / [2] [3] PING, colloquially pronounced / ˌpiːɛnˈdʒiː / [4] PEE-en-JEE) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. [5] PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)—unofficially, the initials PNG stood for the recursive acronym "PNG's not GIF ...
X PixMap ( XPM) is an image file format used by the X Window System, created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors. [2] [3] It is intended primarily for creating icon pixmaps, and supports transparent pixels.
The Windows wait cursor, informally the Blue circle of death (known as the hourglass cursor until Windows Vista) is a throbber that indicates that an application is busy performing an operation. It can be accompanied by an arrow if the operation is being performed in the background.
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.