Object-drag continuity between discontinuous touch screens of a single virtual desktop

Abstract

Apparatus and process are provided wherein an object can be manipulated between multiple discontinuous screens which form a single continuous virtual display. Each screen is touch or input sensitive to a pointing implement or device, and a physical discontinuity separates each of the screens from the others, this continuity being non-touch sensitive. First, a pointing implement contacts the source touch-screen to select the object, storing parameters in the computers buffer. The pointing implement is moved to the target touch-screen where the pointing implement contacts where the first object is to be dragged to; then the object is released from the buffer so that the first object is pasted to the target touch-screen. Preferably, when the object is touched at the source screen, a timer starts, and if the target screen is touched before timeout, the object appears at the target. Optionally, displayed second and third objects a context menu, or buttons on a wireless stylus can be invoked to specify cut, copy and paste functions.

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