US 2014/0181735 A1 · ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LOCATION OF TOOLTIP DISPLAYED ON DISPLAY SCREEN

Abstract

In a method for controlling a location of a tooltip of a user interface, the user interface is displayed on a display screen of an electronic device, and the tooltip is displayed in a display location of the display screen when a target item is selected from the user interface. The method calculates a shortest distance between the tooltip and the target item displayed on the display screen when the target item is fully presented on the display screen, and scrolls a scrollbar of the user interface within the shortest distance for displaying the tooltip presented on the display screen. The method triggers scrolls the scrollbar to display the tooltip beside the target item when there is a spare space beside the target item.

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Dependent claims

A electronic device, comprising:

a display screen and at least one processor;
and
a storage device storing a computer-readable program including instructions that, which when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to:
display a tooltip on an initial display location of the display screen when a target item is selected from a user interface displayed on the display screen;
calculate a shortest distance between the tooltip and the selected target item which are fully displayed on the display screen;
scroll a scrollbar of the user interface within the shortest distance for displaying the tooltip on the display screen;
control the tooltip to display the initial display location on the display screen;
determine whether there is a spare space beside the target item to display the tooltip on the display screen;
scroll the scrollbar of the user interface for displaying the tooltip beside the target item if there is the spare space beside the target item;
and
scroll the scrollbar of the user interface for displaying the tooltip overlapping least the target item if there is no spare space beside the target item.

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A method for controlling a location of a tooltip of a user interface displayed on a display screen of an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying the tooltip on an initial display location of the display screen when a target item is selected from a user interface displayed on the display screen;
calculating a shortest distance between the tooltip and the selected target item which are fully displayed on the display screen;
scrolling a scrollbar of the user interface within the shortest distance for displaying the tooltip on the display screen;
controlling the tooltip to display the initial display location on the display screen;
determining whether there is a spare space beside the target item to display the tooltip on the display screen;
scrolling the scrollbar of the user interface for displaying the tooltip beside the target item if there is the spare space beside the target item;
and
scrolling the scrollbar of the user interface for displaying the tooltip overlapping least the target item if there is no spare space beside the target item.

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A non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of an electronic device, causes the processor to perform a method for controlling a location of a tooltip of a user interface displayed on a display screen of the electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying the tooltip on an initial display location of the display screen when a target item is selected from a user interface displayed on the display screen;
calculating a shortest distance between the tooltip and the selected target item which are fully displayed on the display screen;
scrolling a scrollbar of the user interface within the shortest distance for displaying the tooltip on the display screen;
controlling the tooltip to display the initial display location on the display screen;
determining whether there is a spare space beside the target item to display the tooltip on the display screen;
scrolling the scrollbar of the user interface for displaying the tooltip beside the target item if there is the spare space beside the target item;
and
scrolling the scrollbar of the user interface for displaying the tooltip overlapping least the target item if there is no spare space beside the target item.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Electronic device and method for controlling location of tooltip displayed on display screen

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Electronic device and method for controlling location of tooltip displayed on display screen

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Abstract

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