Drop down checklist control

• US 20040001109A1
• Filed: 06/27/2002
• Published: 01/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Slubicki, David M., DeCandio, George P., Blancett, Brad L., Schaller, Rebecca J., Santos-Gomez, Lucinio, Rich, L. Scott
• Application Number:
  US10/185,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20040001109A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/843
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

A drop down checklist control. The drop down checklist control can include an activatable label and a drop down list visually coupled to the label. The drop down list can be collapsed from view until the activatable label has been activated. A checklist of mutually non-exclusive checklist entries can be disposed in the drop down list. Finally, a selectable submit control can be disposed in the drop down list, wherein the drop down list control can become collapsed from view upon selection of the submit control.

Claims

1. A drop down checklist control article of manufacture, comprising:

an activatable label;

a drop down list visually coupled to said activatable label, but collapsed from view until said activatable label has been activated;

a checklist of mutually non-exclusive checklist entries disposed in said drop down list; and

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a selectable submit control disposed in said drop down list, said drop down list becoming hidden from view upon selection of said submit control.

2. The drop down checklist control article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein each of said activatable label, drop down list, checklist and submit control can be referenced in network distributable markup which can be processed in a content browser.

3. The drop down checklist control article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein each of said activatable label, drop down list, checklist and submit control can be referenced in a standalone application which can be processed by a personal computer.

4. The drop down checklist control article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein said activatable label denotes a characteristic common to all of said checklist entries disposed in said drop down list.

5. A method for applying selected parameters to the operation of a computer application, said method comprising the steps of:

responsive to the selection of an activatable portion of a label, configuring a checklist with a plurality of checklist entries, and further configuring a drop down list with said checklist and with a submit control;

positioning said configured drop down list adjacent to said label;

displaying said positioned drop down list;

selecting individual ones of said checklist entries; and

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responsive to the selection of said submit control, providing said selected individual ones of said checklist entries to the computer application and collapsing said configured drop down list.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said collapsing step comprises the step of hiding said configured drop down list from view.

7. A machine readable storage having stored thereon a computer program for applying selected parameters to the operation of a computer application, said computer program comprising a routine set of instructions for causing the machine to perform the steps of:

responsive to the selection of an activatable portion of a label, configuring a checklist with a plurality of checklist entries, and further configuring a drop down list with said checklist;

positioning said configured drop down list adjacent to said label;

displaying said positioned drop down list control;

selecting individual ones of said checklist entries; and

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responsive to the selection of said submit control, providing said selected individual ones of said checklist entries to the computer application and collapsing said configured drop down list.

8. The machine readable storage of claim 7, wherein said collapsing step comprises the step of hiding said configured drop down list from view.