-screen hotspots- - -KINGDOM OF JOGA-

-as of [14 APRIL 2024]–

-in [computing], a ‘screen hotspot’ provides a ‘special area’ on the ‘display screen’ of a ‘computer’ for ‘hyper-linking’ or for other [GUI-based activity]-

(such as re-direction, pop-up display, macro execution, etc.).

Hotspots may not look visually distinct

however, a mouseover operation over elements such as

hyperlinks

buttons

idle windows

will often reveal them by changing the shape of the pointer

Hotspots are used extensively in Windows 8

The corners and edges of the whole screen may also act as hotspots.

According to Fitts’s law, which predicts the time it takes to reach a target area, moving mouse and trackball pointers to those spots is easy and fast.

As the pointer usually stops when reaching a screen edge, the size of those spots can be considered of virtual infinite size, so the hot corners and edges can be reached quickly by throwing the pointer toward the edges