如果你问十个不同的人，你可能会得到十个不同的答案，那么这八个白色的正方形到底叫什么？今天的超级用户Q&A帖子为那些想在文章中使用正确术语的沮丧读者提供了一些答案。

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问题

超级用户读者Omar Abdelhafiz想知道围绕可调整大小对象的八个白色正方形叫什么：

I recently became annoyed while writing a how-to article when I realized I did not know the name of the eight white squares that surround resizable objects. Here are some sample images for clarification.

Microsoft PowerPoint:

Mac Xcode:

What are they called?

围绕可调整大小的对象的八个白色正方形叫什么？

答案

超级用户贡献者Spiff、hBy2Py、Adrian、Cody Gray、user650881和iXo为我们提供了答案。首先，斯皮夫：

Terms for these may vary from platform to platform, but on the Mac I believe they are called the “handles” on the “selection box”.

hBy2Py的答案是：

I would refine Spiff’s answer a bit and say that they are “resize handles” since one typically uses them to resize the object of interest.

Per duplode’s comment, this appears to be the nomenclature used by Microsoft: “Use resize and rotation handles” [MSDN]

阿德里安的回答是：

Pretty much everywhere I have ever seen them named, they are called handles. Sometimes <thing> handles, like “selection handles”, but always some kind of handles.

科迪·格雷的回答是：

They were originally called “grabber handles” on the Mac, but I am not sure if this terminology has changed or not. Those of us who learned the tech many years ago still refer to them as “grabber handles”, but “selection handles” or “resize handles” sounds much more dignified.

I do not like just “handles” because the word is too overloaded and thus ambiguous. Do not use it unless it is very clear from the context what you are referring to.

用户650881的答案是：

I typically call them “control points”. Here are some web references that use similar terminology.

Apple’s Motion 4 Manual

• You can also use the ***creen control points to resize the rectangle.

An article on resizing graphics in CS5

• In the default scaling mode, the selection scales graphic elements from the control point opposite the one you are dragging.

From Microsoft Office 2003 in 10 Simple Steps or Less By Michael De**ond

• When you hover your mouse cursor over a cell or table edge, the boundary turns blue, indicating a layout area. Click this boundary and control points appear. You can click and drag these points to resize.

I agree with the comment by Steve Rind**erg that mentioned the preferred terminology might vary by application and will note that Microsoft’s documentation on PowerPoint appears to use “control points” for Bezier curves and “resize handles” (as suggested by hBy2Py) for resizing.

iXo的最终答案是：

To me, these are the anchors of the bounding box.

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