Automatic hiding and revealing of a pointer during keyboard acti

Details Automatic hiding and revealing of a pointer during keyboard acti Automatic hiding and revealing of a pointer during keyboard acti

1986-06-13

1988-07-26

Brigance, Gerald L.

Communications: electrical

Land vehicle alarms or indicators

Internal alarm or indicator responsive to a condition of the...

340710, 340711, G09G 100

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047603860

ABSTRACT:
A pointer controlled by a pointing device, such as a mouse, is temporarily removed from a visual display screen when a first character is being updated on the screen. The pointer is left hidden from the screen until the event causing screen updating has been idle for a predetermined period of time. The pointer is not removed from the screen if the keystroke or other hiding event is invalid in the current context of the application program. The pointer is also immediately redisplayed if an event associated with the pointing device, such as either pointing device movement of pointing device button clicking, is detected.

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patent: 4565999 (1986-01-01), King et al.
patent: 4661810 (1987-04-01), Himelstein et al.
Research Disclosure, 243019, (Anonymous Publication), "Display Screen Touch Device", (Jul. 10, 1984), (abstract only).
Research Disclosure, 256036, (Anonymous Publication), "Run-Time Configuration of Device Dependent Screens", (Aug. 10, 1985), (abstract only).

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