Visually aging scroll bar
First Claim
1. A computer system having a display and a scroll bar having a slider, said slider representing a position within a document, said computer system comprising:
- means for detecting a first position, wherein said first position is the current position of said slider;
means for creating a first region in said scroll bar, said first region having an upper boundary and a lower boundary and including said first position; and
means for incrementally changing the visual appearance of said first region in said scroll bar as long as said current position remains said first position.
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Abstract
A visually aging scroll bar is associated with a window or viewport on a computer display as part of a computer system, and contains a slider to indicate relative positioning in the window of a document, such as a data file, image file, audio file, text file, or spreadsheet. The current position of the scroll bar slider is monitored by the computer system. After a first predetermined sampling period has elapsed, a first region matching the current position of the scroll bar slider is created. The visual appearance of the region is determined by a predetermined region heating rate. For example, a newly created region starts at "cold", which can be indicated by a violet-indigo color. After a second sampling period has elapsed, the computer system again checks the current position of the scroll bar slider. If the current position still matches the first region, the visual appearance of the first region symbolically "warms up" as indicated by the region heating rate. This incrementally changing visual appearance (for example, from violet to indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and finally a deep red) continues for as long as the current slider position matches the first region, up until a maximum region symbolic "temperature" is reached.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer system having a display and a scroll bar having a slider, said slider representing a position within a document, said computer system comprising:
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means for detecting a first position, wherein said first position is the current position of said slider; means for creating a first region in said scroll bar, said first region having an upper boundary and a lower boundary and including said first position; and means for incrementally changing the visual appearance of said first region in said scroll bar as long as said current position remains said first position. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A program product having a scroll bar and a slider, said scroll bar having a slider, said slider representing a position within a document, said program product comprising:
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means for detecting a first position, wherein said first position is the current position of said slider; means for creating a first region in said scroll bar, said first region having an upper boundary and a lower boundary and including said first position; and means for incrementally changing the visual appearance of said first region in said scroll bar as long as said current position remains said first position.
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20. A method for creating a visually aging scroll bar, said scroll bar having a slider, said slider representing a position within a document, said method comprising the machine-executed steps of:
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detecting a first position, wherein said first position is the current position of said slider; creating a first region in said scroll bar, said first region having an upper boundary and a lower boundary and including said first position; and incrementally changing the visual appearance of said first region in said scroll bar as long as said current position remains said first position.
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