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Inventions On Tree Navigators Used In Graphical User Interface, Umakant Mishra
Inventions On Tree Navigators Used In Graphical User Interface, Umakant Mishra
Umakant Mishra
A tree view or tree navigator is used to display hierarchical data organized in the form of a tree. In a tree structure there are parent and child nodes. The child nodes may further have descendants to n levels. There are many methods to make the navigation easy. Some of these are expanding and collapsing branches, splitting the tree, displaying a parent node in a separate tree, zooming branches, scrolling in various directions etc. It is still a difficult exercise to handle large trees efficiently. The effort still continues to manage large number of nodes with faster speed, greater control, …
10 Inventions On Scrolling And Scrollbars In Graphical User Interface, Umakant Mishra
10 Inventions On Scrolling And Scrollbars In Graphical User Interface, Umakant Mishra
Umakant Mishra
Scrolling mechanism is used to display and edit large documents in a limited screen space or window. The scrolling mechanism may include a vertical scroll bar or a horizontal scroll bar or both to move the contents of the documents up and down or left and right. There may be navigation buttons on the screen representing the navigation keys on the keyboard. The user can click these buttons to scroll the screen. There may be very different methods of scrolling such as by using the “thumb”, as popularly used with a pdf document. Scrolling may be achieved through eyeball tracking …