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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJason Yi Blakely, Robert Selby Sielken
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An expandable interactive user interface component. A method for expanding an interactive user interface control in a window without affecting the interactivity of other user interface controls in the window can include detecting when the interactive user interface control has been activated. Responsive to the activation, the interactive user interface control can be drawn in the window in either an expanded, magnified, or both expanded and magnified mode without regard to whether the interactive user interface control in the expanded mode obscures some of the other user interface controls. Finally, user interactivity can be accepted both in the interactive user interface control which has been expanded, and in the other user interface controls, regardless of the mode of the expandable interactive user interface component.
An expandable user interface component article of manufacture comprising:
A method for expanding an interactive user interface control in a window without affecting the interactivity of other user interface controls in the window, the method comprising the steps of:
A machine readable storage having stored thereon a computer program for expanding an interactive user interface control in a window without affecting the interactivity of other user interface controls in the window, the computer program comprising a routine set of instructions for causing the machine to perform the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.