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US 2006/0224992 A1Published application
Graphical user interface management
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRobert Rossi, Trent Swanson
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Abstract
A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented on a display including a parent window and a number of child windows rendered within the parent window according to a display scheme. When the size of one of the child windows is changed, the size of one or more of the other child windows is changed, so that the display scheme is maintained.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- displaying a plurality of child windows in a parent window in accordance with a display scheme, each child window being displayable in one mode of a group of ordered modes associated with the child window, each mode specifying a display size for the child window with which it is associated;
- and
- in response to a change in the display size of a first child window of the plurality of child windows, changing the mode of a second child window of the plurality of child windows so as to maintain the predetermined display scheme.
One or more computer-readable media embodying processor-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, implement a method comprising:
- presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display, the GUI comprising visual elements including a parent window and a plurality of child windows within the parent window, each child window being displayed in one visual mode of a plurality of visual modes associated with the child window, each child window being ranked relative to the other child windows in a child window ranking order;
- and
- in response to a change in a display size of one of the visual elements, changing a display size of one of the child windows based on the child window ranking order and a pixel pool indicating an amount of display real estate allocated to the child windows.
A system comprising:
- a computing device including a display;
- means for presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display, the GUI comprising visual elements including a parent window and a plurality of child windows within the parent window, each child window being displayed in one visual mode of a plurality of visual modes associated with the child window;
- and
- means for changing, in response to a change in a display size of one of the visual elements, the size of a child window based on a ranking order of the child windows.
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