Method and apparatus for emulating an environment's drag and drop functionality in a host environment
US5767851A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 29, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jun 16, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 29, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/45537
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention supports allows an emulated environment to interface with a host environment, thereby enabling drag and drop functionality of the emulated environment to function in the host environment. The look and feel of an environment's drag and drop functionality is emulated in a host environment. A drag window is created from the emulated environment's drag image. Modifier keys of the host environment are mapped to those used in the emulated environment. Windows are registered for drag and drop in the emulated environment's registered windows database. The host environment's drag and drop database is updated to identify the registered windows of the emulated environment.
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