Anticipating drop acceptance indication
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHelmut Windl, Helmut Fritz, Larry Constantine
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Abstract
Permitting or prohibiting a drop is executed at the beginning of the drag-and-drop action initiated by the user, by mouse-clicking on the object to be dragged, for example. Thus, the drag-and-drop action is shown as a visual drop permission or prohibition in the relevant drop areas, such as a visual queue, for example, check mark, etc. In the preferred embodiment, and upon initiation of the action, the surface components display which areas, parts, elements or substructures can or cannot accept a given object or data element before a mouse pointer, arrow or cursor reaches or moves over the relevant areas, parts, elements or substructures.
Claims15
A computer program method for driving a computer processor for use with a graphics display device and for graphically representing, and facilitating a user in configuring, automation equipment, the automation equipment including a support having a plurality of receiving locations as well as a plurality of modules each capable of being coupled to the support in at least one of the receiving locations, the methods comprising the steps of:
- displaying on the display in a graphics window device images and in a text window text information, each representative of the receiving locations of the automation equipment;
- automatically visually indicating, immediately upon selection of a module, all receiving locations in said graphics window and respective text representations in said text window with which a module is capable of being associated;
- wherein, the selection of a module triggers the indication of said all receiving locations to facilitate the user's relation of the selected module with an associated location in either said graphics window or said text window, and
- wherein a graphical link between a selected receiving location in the graphics window and the text window is displayed.
A computer implemented program apparatus for use with a graphics display device and for graphically representing, and facilitating a user in configuring, automation equipment, the automation equipment including a support having a plurality of receiving locations as well as a plurality of modules each capable of being coupled to the support in at least one of the receiving locations, the modules comprising means for:
- displaying on the display in a graphics window device images and in a text window text information, each representative of the receiving locations of the automation equipment;
- automatically visually indicating, immediately upon selection of a module, all receiving locations in said graphics window and respective text representations in said text window with which a module is capable of being associated;
- wherein, the selection of the module triggers the indication of said all receiving locations to facilitate the user's relation of the selected module with an associated location in either said graphics window or said text window, and
- wherein a graphical link between a selected receiving location in the graphics window and the text window is displayed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.