AMENDING THE DISPLAY PROPERTY OF GRID ELEMENTS

• US 20100115390A1
• Filed: 11/04/2008
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wrp IP Management, LLC
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Desantis, Robert, Kickhofel, Robert, Ni, Jia Yuan
• Granted Patent: US 8,938,672 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/212
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for amending a display property of a grid element. The method for amending a display property of a grid element comprises: receiving a command to amend the display property of at least one grid element; searching grid elements associated with said grid element; amending the display property of said grid elements and said associated grid elements. The present invention improves the operation of adjusting the display property of the grid, and enhances the operational efficiency and feasibility

Claims

1. A method for amending a display property of a grid element, comprising:

receiving a command to amend the display property of at least one grid element;

searching grid elements associated with said grid element; and

amending the display property of said grid element and said associated grid elements.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

sending the received command to a server;

searching by said server grid elements associated with said grid elements; and

sending, by said server, the amendment to the property of the associated grid elements to a client.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein:

further making a statistics by said server for the number of the associated grid elements;

if the number of the associated grid elements exceeds a preset value, sending the whole grid with new property to the client; and

updating by the client the whole grid.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, when said grid is a multi-dimensional grid, searching members having the same name or meaning with members represented by the amended grid elements in the same dimension hierarchy as the associated grid elements.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when said property is a new size of the grid element, calculating a new position of a scrollbar according to the new size; and

updating the scrollbar according to the new position to keep user'"'"'s current window indicated by the scrollbar unchanged before and after amending the property.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when said grid is a multi-dimensional grid and said property is the size of the grid element, further calculating a new size of the grid element where the member of an upper dimension hierarchy in the same tuple lies; and

accordingly amending the size of the grid element where the member of the upper dimension hierarchy of the same tuple lies.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing a record of the amended property; and

when a grid is created or rebuilt, applying the stored property to the grid.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, designating the grid elements to be the associated elements.

9. A system for amending a display property of a grid element, comprising:

a receiving device, for receiving an command to amend the display property of at least one grid element; and

a searching device, for searching grid elements associated with said elements; and

an amending device, for amending the display property of said grid elements and said associated grid elements.

10. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a network interface device, for sending the received command to a server;

the searching device of said server further searching grid elements associated with said grid element; and

an updating device of said server amending the property of the associated grid elements and send it to a client.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein said updating device further determining the number of the associated grid elements, further comprising:

if the number of the associated grid elements exceeds a preset value, sending the whole grid with new property to the client; and

the amending device updating the whole grid.

12. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

when said grid is a multi-dimensional grid, said searching device searching members having the same name or meaning with members represented by the amended grid elements in the same dimension hierarchy as the associated grid elements.

13. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

when said property is a new size of the grid element, said updating device calculating a new position of a scrollbar according to the new size; and

the amending device updating the scrollbar according to the new position.

14. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

when said grid is a multi-dimensional grid and said property is the size of the grid element, said updating device further calculating a new size of the grid element where the member of an upper dimension hierarchy in the same tuple lies; and

the amending device accordingly amending the size of the grid element where the member in the upper dimension of the same tuple lies.

15. The system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a storing device, for storing a record of the amended property; and

when a grid is created or rebuilt, applying the property stored in the amending device to the grid.

16. The system according to claim 9, further comprising, an associating device, for designating the grid elements to be the associated elements.