Cascading menu with automatic cursor relocation
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBrian David Nelson, Michael William Panico, Hypatia Rojas
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Abstract
A GUI is configured to automatically shift the position of mouse pointer, upon activation of a menu selection that invokes a cascading child menu, to a location on or adjacent to the invoked child menu. This minimizes the need to move the mouse pointer horizontally to access a cascading menu and thus reduces the inadvertent selection of an incorrect menu item.
Claims19
In a computer program, a method of reducing the amount of mouse movement required to access menu selections from a cascading menu invoked by selection of a cascading menu item in a parent menu using a mouse pointer at a designation point in said parent menu, comprising the step of:
- automatically positioning the mouse pointer to a location closer to said cascading menu than said designation point upon selection of said cascading menu item.
A Graphical User Interface (GUI), comprising:
- determining means for determining if a cascading menu item has been selected from a parent menu of said GUI;
- repositioning means for automatically repositioning a mouse pointer from a designation point in said parent menu to a location closer to a cascading menu displayed upon selection of said cascading menu item.
A system for reducing, in a computer program, the amount of mouse movement required to access menu selections from a cascading menu invoked by selection of a cascading menu item in a parent menu using a mouse pointer at a designation point in said parent menu, comprising:
- means for automatically positioning the mouse pointer to a location closer to said cascading menu than said designation point upon selection of said cascading menu item.
A computer program product recorded on computer readable medium for reducing the amount of mouse movement required to access menu selections from a cascading menu invoked by selection of a cascading menu item in a parent menu of a computer program using a mouse pointer at a designation point in said parent menu, comprising:
- computer readable means for automatically positioning the mouse pointer to a location closer to said cascading menu than said designation point upon selection of said cascading menu item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.