Displaying help sensitive areas of a computer application
US8261190B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 24, 2009 |
| Grant date | Sep 4, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 7, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/0481
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A window of a computer application on a display device is controlled through associating a pop-up window with the screen window of the computer application, wherein the computer application provides more than one screen window and a pop-up window is associated with each screen window of the computer application, and at least one mouse-sensitive area is defined for each screen window of the computer application, such that a mouse click on a mouse-sensitive area causes the appropriate pop-up window to be displayed on the display device.
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