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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJames E. Fox, Joshua M. Hauser, Robert C. Leah, Scott J. Mcallister
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An analog to a gravitational force field is generated mathematically to operate between a displayed selection pointer and a graphical user interface (GUI) widget. Under this scheme, the widget has an associated mass value m that is user selectable. To select the mass value, the user can trigger an event, such as a predefined mouse click or pop-up menu, that presents a user interface for entering the widget mass value. By varying the mass value of the widget, a user can vary the effective force boundary surrounding the widget on a display screen, and thus, vary the degree of interaction between the widget and selection pointer.
A method of defining a widget displayable by a graphical user interface (GUI), comprising:
A computer system, comprising:
A computer program product stored in a computer-usable medium, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.