Graphical user interface for creating a new notebook with a dragged page

An apparatus for increasing the capabilities of an object, linking and embedding (OLE) graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in a GUI system, said GUI system including a personal computer consisting of a display, a user input device for control of a display cursor, and a central processing unit (CPU), said apparatus comprising:

• (a) means for representing said GUI on said display as a first notebook consisting of at least one page with a tab, said page representing an OLE object of a loaded application;
• (b) means for initiating a drag drop operation of a selected page of said first notebook by using said user input device;
• (c) means for dragging the selected page to a location outside of said first notebook, said location of the selected page determined by the position of the cursor on said display;
• (d) means for releasing the dragged page onto an area outside of said first notebook and within a second notebook;
• (e) means for displaying the dragged page in said second notebook and removing the dragged page from said first notebook;
• (f) means for maintaining said first notebook as an active window;
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• wherein the means of releasing the dragged page further comprises means for creating a new notebook containing the dragged page if the dragged page is released outside of the window's boundary of said first notebook and outside of a window of any other user created notebooks.

A computer program product for increasing the capabilities of an object, linking and embedding (OLE) graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in a GUI system, said GUI system including a personal computer consisting of a display, a user input device for control of a display cursor, and a central processing unit (CPU), said computer program product comprising:

• (a) means for representing said GUI on said display as a first notebook consisting of at least one page with a tab, said page representing an OLE object of a loaded application;
• (b) means for initiating a drag drop operation of a selected page of said first notebook by using said user input device;
• (c) means for dragging the selected page to a location outside of said first notebook, said location of the selected page determined by the position of the cursor on said display;
• (d) means for releasing the dragged page onto an area outside of said first notebook and within a second notebook;
• (e) means for displaying the dragged page in said second notebook and removing the dragged page from said first notebook;
• (f) means for maintaining said first notebook as an active window;
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• wherein the means of releasing the dragged page further comprises means for creating a new notebook containing the dragged page if the dragged page is released outside of the window's boundary of said first notebook and outside of a window of any other user created notebooks.