View model aspects of component objects

US8516364B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Hilmar Demant · Neustadt an der Orla, DE
• Sebastian Droll · Heidelberg, DE
• Joachim Fitzer · Schriesheim, DE
• Ioannis Grammatikakis · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE
• Jan Heiler · Walldorf, DE
• Juergen Sattler · Wiesloch, DE
• Frank Schertel · Mannheim, DE
• Markus Viol · Walldorf, DE
• Thorsten Weber · Mannheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 30, 2010
• Grant date: Aug 20, 2013
• Expiry date: May 25, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2203/04803
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Displaying a plurality of objects on a grid. Metadata indicates an object's display column and span. A lowest position is determined from objects displayed in the same column span. The object is displayed in the column span at the lowest position. A lowest position is determined after the last object is displayed. The grid is resized to minimize whitespace beyond the lowest position to border whitespace. Display overlay of first and second graphical objects. When the first object is directly manipulated in a GUI, the second object is automatically manipulated the same way. When the first object is scrolled in a first direction by a first amount, the second object is automatically displaced opposite the first direction by the first amount. When the first object is resized in a first dimension by a first amount, the second object can be automatically resized by the first amount in the first dimension.