Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1997-04-01
1999-08-24
Sax, Steven P.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345340, G06F 300
Patent
active
059430532
ABSTRACT:
A method for expanding and contracting a window panel to uncover the panel's content to the user without resize other panels and without reformatting their content, is described. A user chooses a window panel by moving a pointer to that panel. If there is content in that panel not shown to the user, the panel expands to show the entire content. If expansion is not necessary initially, the system waits to see if any actions by the user require expansion. Upon expansion at any stage, portions of neighboring window panels are covered instead of the neighboring panels contracting and reformatting their content. Once the pointer is moved out of a window panel, the panel contracts to its default or original size and the expansion process occurs for a newly entered panel. Also described is the process of determining the maximum expansion size of a window panel and the "rolling out" and "rolling in" characteristic of the expansion and contraction process.
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Ludolph Frank E.
Ryan Chris J.
Swanson Sara J.
Sax Steven P.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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