DYNAMIC MOUSE OVER HANDLING FOR TIGHTLY PACKED USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS

• US 20080276172A1
• Filed: 05/03/2007
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Pagan, William G.
• Application Number:
  US11/743,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20080276172A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/711
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• 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

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to mouse over sensitive user interface components and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for dynamic mouse over handling for tightly packed user interface components. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamic mouse over handling for tightly packed user interface components can be provided. The method can include determining whether a mouse over enabled user interface component is tightly packed, and adding a delay to mouse over handling for the mouse over enabled user interface component if the mouse over enabled user interface component is determined to be tightly packed.

Claims

1. A method for dynamic mouse over handling for tightly packed user interface components, the method comprising:

determining whether a mouse over enabled user interface component is tightly packed; and

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adding a delay to mouse over handling for the mouse over enabled user interface component if the mouse over enabled user interface component is determined to be tightly packed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether a mouse over enabled user interface component is tightly packed, comprises comparing a number of mouse over enabled portions of the user interface component to display space allocated to the user interface component to determine a density and whether the density exceeds an acceptable threshold value.

3. A user interface data processing system configured for dynamic mouse over handling for tightly packed user interface components, the system comprising:

a user interface;

a plurality of user interface components disposed in the user interface;

a mouse over event handler for one of the user interface components;

a layout manager configured to identify a tightly packed mouse over enabled one of the user interface components; and

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tightly packed user interface component handling logic comprising program code enabled to add a delay to mouse over handling for the identified tightly packed mouse over enabled user interface component.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the tightly packed mouse over enabled one of the user interface components is a tightly packed cascaded menu.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the tightly packed mouse over enabled one of the user interace components is a hotspot enabled image in a markup language defined user interface.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the tightly packed mouse over enabled one of the user interace components is a hyperlink in a markup language defined user interface.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the tightly packed cascaded menu is a start menu.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein the tightly packed cascaded menu is a context menu.

9. The system of claim 4, wherein the tightly packed cascaded menu is a menu item from a menu bar.

10. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for dynamic mouse over handling for tightly packed user interface components, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for determining whether a mouse over enabled user interface component is tightly packed; and

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computer usable program code for adding a delay to mouse over handling for the mouse over enabled user interface component if the mouse over enabled user interface component is determined to be tightly packed.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the computer usable program code for determining whether a mouse over enabled user interface component is tightly packed, comprises computer usable program code for comparing a number of mouse over enabled portions of the user interface component to display space allocated to the user interface component to determine a density and whether the density exceeds an acceptable threshold value.