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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDavid James Hetherington, David Bruce Kumhyr, Stanford Louis Yates
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A rotate user control is provided to selectively change the current display item within a group of display items. Each actuation of the rotate control changes the current display item from one item to a next item within an internally nonrepeating, ordered sequence loop of all candidate display items. Each display item within the group is therefore displayed in turn, and a user may quickly review all available display items for a desired display item. An indicator provides a visual cue to the user of which display item is currently selected for display. With small groups of display items, such as a multi-field text string object having separate fields each containing a different representation of a text string, the rotate control provides faster switching between views than conventional display change controls such as drop-down boxes. The rotate control also provides a fixed view of the newly selected display field, unlike flyover pop-up box displays.
A method of changing display, comprising:
A system for changing a display, comprising:
A computer program product within a computer usable medium for changing a display, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.