Method of selection of a portion of a graphical user interface

A method to select a portion of a Graphical User Interface, the method being executed by an application embodied on an electronic device comprising a multi-touch display displaying said Graphical User Interface, said multi-touch display being capable of detecting more than one touch input simultaneously, the method comprising the acts of:

• detecting, by the multi-touch display, two simultaneous touch inputs performed by a user on the multi-touch display;
• and
• selecting, by the electronic device, a portion of the displayed Graphical User Interface according to the two detected touch inputs,
• wherein each one of the simultaneous touch inputs is a sliding touch input, the first of said sliding touch inputs being imparted from a first starting position to a first ending position on the Graphical User Interface, the second of the sliding touch inputs being imparted from a second starting position to a second ending position on the Graphical User Interface,
• wherein a line of displacement of the touch input is defined by the electronic device from each sliding input on the Graphical User Interface, the selecting act further comprising selecting, by the electronic device, a portion based on each line of displacement and deducing from said each line of displacement, by the electronic device, a horizontal line going through said first or said second starting position and a vertical line going through said first or said second ending position, or a vertical line going through said first or said second starting position and a horizontal line going through said first or said second ending position.