User interface with scroll bar control

• US 20060136836A1
• Filed: 12/13/2005
• Published: 06/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Harris, Robert, Clee, Scott John
• Application Number:
  US11/301,941
• Publication Number:
  US 20060136836A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars

Abstract

A user interface is provided for displaying content supplied by a content provider in a view window. When the user interface detects user selection of zoom view mode, display settings of the view window are saved and a resized form of the document is displayed in the view window. When user selection of a location in the document is next detected, the user interface displays a portion of the document corresponding to the selected location, according to the previous display settings, such as display resolution/font size.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a document in a view window, the method comprising:

displaying a first portion of a document in a view window;

detecting user selection of a zoom view mode;

saving display settings of the view window;

resizing and displaying the document in the view window;

detecting user selection of a location in the document; and

using the saved display settings, displaying a second portion of the document corresponding to the selected location.

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

displaying a scroll bar control, the scroll bar control having a slider to enable scrolling of the document displayed in the view window;

wherein the step of detecting user selection of zoom view mode comprises detecting a selection of the slider.

3. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a scroll bar control, the scroll bar control having a slider to enable scrolling of the document displayed in the view window; and

repositoning the slider corresponding to the selection of the location in the document.

4. A method according to claim 2, further comprising repositoning the slider corresponding to the selection of the location in the document.

5. A method according to claims 1, wherein the step of resizing and displaying the document in the view window comprises changing the resolution of the displayed document so as to display the whole of a current page of the document in the view window.

6. A computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured to:

display a first portion of a document in a view window;

detect user selection of a zoom view mode;

save display settings of the view window;

resize and display the document in the view window;

detect user selection of a location in the document; and

using the saved display settings, display a second portion of the document corresponding to the selected location.

7. The computer-usable medium of claim 6, wherein the embodied computer program code further comprises computer executable instructions configured to:

display a scroll bar control, the scroll bar control comprising a slider to enable scrolling of the document displayed in the view window;

wherein the computer executable instructions configured to detect user selection of zoom view mode further comprises instructions to detect a selection of the slider.

8. The computer-usable medium of claim 6, wherein the embodied computer program code further comprises computer executable instructions configured to:

display a scroll bar control, the scroll bar control comprising a slider to enable scrolling of the document displayed in the view window; and

repositon the slider corresponding to the selection of the location in the document.

9. The computer-usable medium of claim 7, wherein the embodied computer program code further comprises computer executable instructions configured to repositon the slider corresponding to the selection of the location in the document.

10. The computer-usable medium of claim 6, wherein the computer executable instructions configured to resize and display the document in the view window further comprises instructions configured to change the resolution of the displayed document so as to display the whole of a current page of the document in the view window.

11. A system comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to the processor;

a memory coupled to the data bus; and

a computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured to;

display a first portion of a document in a view window;

detect user selection of a zoom view mode;

save display settings of the view window;

resize and display the document in the view window;

detect user selection of a location in the document; and

using the saved display settings, display a second portion of the document corresponding to the selected location.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the instructions are further configured to:

display a scroll bar control, the scroll bar control comprising a slider to enable scrolling of the document displayed in the view window;

wherein the computer executable instructions configured to detect user selection of zoom view mode further comprises instructions to detect selection of the slider.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the instructions are further configured to:

display a scroll bar control, the scroll bar control comprising a slider to enable scrolling of the document displayed in the view window; and

repositon the slider corresponding to the selection of the location in the document.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the instructions are further configured to reposition the slider corresponding to the selection of the location in the document.

15. The sytem of claim 11, wherein the computer executable instructions configured to resize and display the document in the view window further comprises instructions configured to change the resolution of the displayed document so as to display the whole of a current page of the document in the view window.