Screen building to facilitate later selection of portions thereof
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRichard E. Berry, Thomas M. Ruiz
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Abstract
A method of, and system for, building a screen and retrieving related portions of the screen through single button depression. The order with which various portions are built in building a screen is used upon recall of the screen and selection of one portion for controlling selection of related portions. Consider a wheel which is built by building a hub, spokes, rim, and tire in order. Later recall of the wheel and selection of the spokes will permit selection of either the hub or rim upon single button depression.
Claims8
In a device controlled display computer system including a device with a selection button, a method of selecting one of a plurality of closely-spaced portions of an object displayed on a display screen, said portions having an ordered relationship which corresponds to an order in which said portions were generated, said method comprising the steps of:
- a. positioning a selector coincident with a one of said plurality of portions of said object;
- b. causing, upon a first activation of said selection button, said one of said plurality of portions to be displayed in a more prominent manner on said screen relative to the remaining portions of said object;
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- c. causing, upon a second activation of said selection button, an adjacent portion of said plurality of portions to be displayed on said screen in a more prominent manner relative to the remaining portions including said one of said portions based on said ordered relationship between said portions without moving said selector.
In a device controlled display computer system including a device with a selection button, a method of generating a display screen having portions of an object displayed thereon such that a selective one of said portions may subsequently be selected and displayed in a prominent manner, said method comprises the steps of:
- generating in a sequential order said portions which define said object;
- storing said sequential order in which said portions are generated in said system;
- positioning a selector coincident with a one of said plurality of portions of said object;
- causing, upon a first activation of said selection button, said one of said plurality of portions to be displayed in a more prominent manner on said screen relative to the remaining portions of said object;
- and
- causing, upon a second activation of said selection button, an adjacent portion of said plurality of portions to be displayed on said screen in a more prominent manner relative to the remaining portions including said one of said portions based on said order between said portions without moving said selector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.