Graphically navigating tree structures
OwnerDorian Birsan, Valentina Birsaninventors
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Abstract
Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product for graphically navigating tree structures. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises creating an outliner view of a tree view comprising the entire tree structure and determining whether an object has been selected from the tree view to create a selected object. The computer implemented method further, responsive to a determination that the object was selected, displays the entire tree view and further displays the selected object only, in a legible form, in the outliner view.
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A computer implemented method for graphically navigating a tree structure, the computer implemented method comprising:
- creating an outliner view of a tree view comprising the entire tree structure;
- determining whether an object has been selected from the tree view to create a selected object;
- responsive to a determination that the object was selected, displaying the entire tree view and further displaying the selected object only, in a legible form, in the outliner view.
A data processing system for graphically navigating a tree structure, the data processing system comprising:
- a bus;
- a memory connected to the bus;
- a display connected to the bus;
- a communications unit connected to the bus;
- a persistent storage connected to the bus, wherein the persistent storage having computer usable instructions tangibly embodied thereon;
- a processor unit connected to the bus, wherein the processor unit executes the computer program instructions to:
- create an outliner view of a tree view comprising the entire tree structure;
- determine whether an object has been selected from the tree view to create a selected object;
- respond to a determination that the object was selected and display the entire tree view and further displaying the selected object only in a legible form in the outliner view;
- otherwise, display a current portion of the entire tree view in the outliner view.
A computer program product for graphically navigating tree structures, the computer program product comprising a computer usable recordable medium having computer usable program code tangibly embodied thereon, the computer usable program code comprising:
- computer usable program code for creating an outliner view of a tree view comprising the entire tree structure;
- computer usable program code for determining whether an object has been selected from the tree view to create a selected object;
- computer usable program code responsive to an object being selected for displaying the entire tree view and further displaying the selected object only in a legible form in the outliner view;
- otherwise, displaying a current portion of the entire tree view in the outliner view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.