Window split system and method

• US 20060020903A1
• Filed: 07/26/2004
• Published: 01/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Corel TW Corporation (Corel Holdings LP)
• Original Assignee: Corel TW Corporation (Corel Holdings LP)
• Inventors: Wang, Shih-Yang, Yen, Louis
• Application Number:
  US10/898,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20060020903A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/792
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A window split system and method. The window split system includes a window, a splitter, and a module. The splitter is set on the window to split the window into a first part and a second part according to the split direction and the position of the splitter. The module changes the split direction of the splitter in response to a direction, such that the window is then split by the splitter in the changed split direction. The split direction is changed if the splitter touches the border of the window, if the splitter is double clicked by a pointing device, and if a control object connected to the end of the splitter and set around the border of the window moves across the corner of the window.

Claims

1. A window split system, comprising:

a window;

a splitter set on the window to split the window into a first part and a second part in a split direction; and

a means for changing the split direction in response to a direction, such that the window is split by the splitter in the changed split direction.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the split direction is changed if the splitter touches the border of the window.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the split direction is changed if the splitter is double clicked by a pointing device.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a control object connected to the end of the splitter and set around on the border of the window to control the position of the splitter.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the split direction is changed if the control object moves across the corner of the window.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the window is split according to the split direction and the position of the splitter.

7. The system of claim 1 further comprising an image displayed in the window, wherein the image is split into a first sub-image and a second sub-image displayed in the first part and the second part of the window respectively.

8. The system of claim 7 further comprising a means for applying an image effect on the first sub-image or the second sub-image.

9. The system of claim 1 further comprising a means for displaying different data in the first part and the second part of the window respectively.

10. A window split method, comprising the steps of:

splitting a window into a first part and a second part by a splitter set on the window in a split direction; and

changing the split direction in response to a direction, such that the window is split by the splitter in the changed split direction.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising changing the split direction if the splitter touches the border of the window.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprising changing the split direction if the splitter is double clicked by a pointing device.

13. The method of claim 10 further comprising changing the split direction if a control object connected to the end of the splitter and set around the border of the window moves across the corner of the window.

14. The method of claim 10 further comprising splitting the window according to the split direction and the position of the splitter.

15. The method of claim 10 further comprising displaying an image in the window, wherein the image is split into a first sub-image and a second sub-image displayed in the first part and the second part of the window respectively.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising applying an image effect on the first sub-image or the second sub-image.

17. The method of claim 10 further comprising displaying different data in the first part and the second part of the window respectively.

18. A machine-readable storage medium storing a computer program which when executed causes a computer to perform a window split method, the method comprising the steps of:

splitting a window into a first part and a second part by a splitter set on the window in a split direction; and

changing the split direction in response to a direction, such that the window is split by the splitter in the changed split direction.

19. The storage medium of claim 18 wherein the method further comprises changing the split direction if the splitter touches the border of the window or if the splitter is double clicked by a pointing device.

20. The storage medium of claim 18 wherein the method further comprises changing the split direction if a control object connected to the end of the splitter and set around the border of the window moves across the corner of the window.

21. A set of application program interfaces embodied on a computer-readable medium for execution on a computer in conjunction with an application program that performs a window split, comprising:

a first interface to display a window split into a first part and a second part by a splitter set on the window in a split direction, and receive at least one direction enabling the split direction change; and

a second interface to display the window split by the splitter in the changed split direction.

22. The set of application program interfaces of claim 21 wherein the split direction is changed if the splitter touches the border of the window or if the splitter is double clicked by a pointing device.

23. The set of application program interfaces of claim 21 wherein the split direction is changed if a control object connected to the end of the splitter and set around the border of the window moves across the corner of the window.