Document overview scrollbar
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorRocky Downs
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Abstract
A document overview scrollbar renders a miniaturized replica of an entire document. The document overview scrollbar provides an efficient and expeditious tool for searching, navigating, and/or editing documents. A visual pattern in the document is easily identifiable in the replica in the scrollbar. This is particularly advantageous when the document is code being rendered by an integrated development environment (IDE), such as a code editor. Indentations, bookmarks, and/or breakpoints in the document are easily recognizable in the replica in the scrollbar, and vice versa.
Claims20
A display scrollbar comprising a rendered, miniaturized replica of a document to which said scrollbar refers.
A method, implemented at least in part on a computing device, for rendering a scrollbar on a display, said method comprising:
- rendering, on said display, at least a portion of a document;
- and
- rendering, on said display, said scrollbar, wherein:
- said scrollbar comprises a miniaturized replica of a document to which said scrollbar refers.
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable stored thereon for performing the acts of:
- rendering, on a display, at least a portion of a document;
- and
- rendering, on said display, said scrollbar, wherein:
- said scrollbar comprises a miniaturized replica of a document to which said scrollbar refers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.