Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device – Light pen for fluid matrix display panel
Patent
1994-02-18
1996-07-09
Kuntz, Curtis
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
Light pen for fluid matrix display panel
395159, G09G 514
Patent
active
055348874
ABSTRACT:
A display apparatus and method that provides a windowing interface that gives the user the capability to identify and locate the particular window associated with a bell tone emitted by an application program. When a particular application emits a bell tone, the system displays a locator icon on the display. The text associated with the locator icon contains the window title, which tells the user which window caused the tone to be emitted. To go directly to the window that issued the bell, the user positions the pointing device over the locator icon and activates it to bring the icon into focus. At this time the icon vanishes and the window that emitted the bell tone is prominently displayed so the user can attend to it. If the user does not activate the locator icon and no other bell tones are emitted from the same window, then the locator icon will be removed from the display after a time period, which may be set by the user. When a window emits another bell tone while a locator icon is displayed for that window, the timer for the locator icon is reset so that it will remain on the display for the time period from the last bell tone emitted from the window.
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Bates Cary L.
Ryan Jeffrey M.
Watts Byron T.
Chang Vivian W.
Gamon Owen J.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kuntz Curtis
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