Method, System and Program Product Supporting Customized Presentation of Toolbars Within a Document

• US 20080104505A1
• Filed: 10/27/2006
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Murillo, Jessica K., McBrearty, Gerald F., Mullen, Shawn P., Shieh, Johnny Meng-Han, Keohane, Susann M.
• Application Number:
  US11/553,712
• Publication Number:
  US 20080104505A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/246
• 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

In response to a user marking a plurality of regions within a document of the application program, the application establishes a corresponding plurality of sections of the document including at least a first section and second section. In response to user selection of one or more toolbars from among a plurality of toolbars available within the application program, the application associates a first customized toolbar view with the first section and a second customized toolbar view with the second section, where the first and second customized toolbar views include different sets of the plurality of toolbars. In response to user navigation of the document to cause the sequential display of multiple ones of the plurality of sections of the document, the application automatically presents the first customized toolbar view when the first section of the document is displayed and automatically presenting the second customized toolbar view when the second section of the document is displayed. In addition, the application persistently saves the first and second customized toolbar views in association with the document, such that the first and second customized toolbar views are presented automatically by the application program in association with the first and second sections, respectively, when a user subsequently views the document.

Claims

1. i an application program that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) with toolbars, a method comprising:

in response to a user marking a plurality of regions within a document of the application program, establishing a corresponding plurality of sections of the document including at least a first section and second section;

in response to user selection of one or more toolbars from among a plurality of toolbars available within said application program, associating a first customized toolbar view with the first section and a second customized toolbar view with the second section, wherein the first and second customized toolbar views include different sets of the plurality of toolbars;

in response to user navigation of said document to cause the sequential display of multiple ones of the plurality of sections of the document, automatically presenting the first customized toolbar view when the first section of the document is displayed and automatically presenting the second customized toolbar view when the second section of the document is displayed; and

persistently saving said first and second customized toolbar views in association with the document, such that the first and second customized toolbar views are presented automatically by the application program in association with the first and second sections, respectively, when a user subsequently views the document.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of establishing a corresponding plurality of sections comprises establishing a corresponding plurality of sections in response to a user inserting at least one section tag in said document for each section.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of establishing a corresponding plurality of sections comprises establishing a corresponding plurality of sections in response to a user inserting a section tag in said document at a beginning and end of each section.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of persistently saving further comprises persistently saving said first and said second customized toolbar views in a file attached to said document.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of persistently saving further comprises persistently saving said first and said second customized toolbar views as formatting information embedded within said document.

6. A data processing system comprising:

a processor unit; and

data storage communicatively connected to said processor;

an application program within said data storage that, when executed by the processor unit, causes the data processing system to perform a method including the following steps;

in response to a user marking a plurality of regions within a document of the application program, establishing a corresponding plurality of sections of the document including at least a first section and second section;

in response to user selection of one or more toolbars from among a plurality of toolbars available within said application program, associating a first customized toolbar view with the first section and a second customized toolbar view with the second section, wherein the first and second customized toolbar views include different sets of the plurality of toolbars;

in response to user navigation of said document to cause the sequential display of multiple ones of the plurality of sections of the document, automatically presenting the first customized toolbar view when the first section of the document is displayed and automatically presenting the second customized toolbar view when the second section of the document is displayed; and

persistently saving said first and second customized toolbar views in association with the document, such that the first and second customized toolbar views are presented automatically by the application program in association with the first and second sections, respectively, when a user subsequently views the document.

7. The data processing system of claim 6, wherein the step of establishing a corresponding plurality of sections comprises establishing a corresponding plurality of sections in response to a user inserting at least one section tag in said document for each section.

8. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the step of establishing a corresponding plurality of sections comprises establishing a corresponding plurality of sections in response to a user inserting a section tag in said document at a beginning and end of each section.

9. The data processing system of claim 6, wherein the step of persistently saving further comprises persistently saving said first and said second customized toolbar views in a file attached to said document.

10. The data processing system of claim 6, wherein the step of persistently saving further comprises persistently saving said first and said second customized toolbar views as formatting information embedded within said document.

11. A program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium;

an application program within said computer readable storage medium that, when executed by a data processing system, causes the data processing system to perform a method including the following steps;

in response to a user marking a plurality of regions within a document of the application program, establishing a corresponding plurality of sections of the document including at least a first section and second section;

in response to user selection of one or more toolbars from among a plurality of toolbars available within said application program, associating a first customized toolbar view with the first section and a second customized toolbar view with the second section, wherein the first and second customized toolbar views include different sets of the plurality of toolbars;

in response to user navigation of said document to cause the sequential display of multiple ones of the plurality of sections of the document, automatically presenting the first customized toolbar view when the first section of the document is displayed and automatically presenting the second customized toolbar view when the second section of the document is displayed; and

persistently saving said first and second customized toolbar views in association with the document, such that the first and second customized toolbar views are presented automatically by the application program in association with the first and second sections, respectively, when a user subsequently views the document.

12. The program product of claim 11, wherein the step of establishing a corresponding plurality of sections comprises establishing a corresponding plurality of sections in response to a user inserting at least one section tag in said document for each section.

13. The program product of claim 12, wherein the step of establishing a corresponding plurality of sections comprises establishing a corresponding plurality of sections in response to a user inserting a section tag in said document at a beginning and end of each section.

14. The program product of claim 11, wherein the step of persistently saving further comprises persistently saving said first and said second customized toolbar views in a file attached to said document.

15. The data processing system of claim 11, wherein the step of persistently saving further comprises persistently saving said first and said second customized toolbar views as formatting information embedded within said document.