Spiral scrollbar
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorJohnny Accot
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Abstract
A method and structure for a graphic user interface comprising a non-linear path region that corresponds to a list of items in a computer application, wherein a length of the path region is directly proportional to an amount of items in the list, a rotatable handle region that corresponds to a subset of the items in the list, a display region that displays the subset, and a handle manipulator for maneuvering the handle region, wherein the non-linear path region comprises a spiral, square, or rectangular configuration, wherein each of the items in the list is represented by a fixed proportion of the path region, wherein the handle region is proportional to a fixed proportion of the path region, and wherein the fixed proportion is a fixed angle.
Claims35
A graphic user interface comprising:
- a non-linear path region that corresponds to a list of items in a computer application;
- and
- a rotatable handle region that corresponds to a subset of the items in the list.
A non-linear scrollbar comprising:
- a non-linear trough that corresponds to a list of items in a computer application;
- a rotatable thumb that corresponds to an accessed portion of the list of items;
- and
- a partition region that corresponds to predetermined transitions between items in the list.
A method of manipulating data through a graphical user interface, said method comprising:
- corresponding a non-linear scrollbar to a list of items in a computer application;
- corresponding a rotatable region to an accessed portion of the list of items;
- and
- corresponding a partition region to predetermined transitions between items in the list.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.