>> Also, the Win32 concept of a "window" is not the same thing as what 
>> you or I would consider a "window". (E.g., a checkbox is a "window".) 
>> Makes things interesting...
> 
> *Everything* is a window.  That is, if it's somehow graphical and 
> something you might normally stick on a window, it's a subclass of 
> "Window."

The usual term is "widget". That way, if you mean "any component", you 
say widget, and if you mean "thing that looks like a window", you say 
"window".

Under the Win32 terminology, there's no way to talk about real windows 
specifically.

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