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Andrew V Fomichev

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Jensen Michael Harris

Mirko Mandic

Alex Mogilevsky

David Andrew Morton

Preethi Ramani

Savraj Singh Dhanjal

Andy Chung-An Chang

Dien Trang Luu

Eric Michael Faller

A region menu is used to easily access menu items. Generally, the region menu includes a number of regions with associated menus that are located close to an initial mouse position from where the region menu is evoked. Hovering over any of the regions of the region menu displays the menu item that is associated with the region. Additionally, hovering over a menu item within one of the regions of the displayed region menu may activate a live preview showing a projected result of what would occur should that menu item be selected. During a live preview, a portion of the region menu becomes translucent such that content beneath the menu becomes visible.

Menus with translucency and live preview

Methods, systems, and computer products are provided for exposing the programming of an application user interface to allow modification of the associated user interface to include adding, removing, disabling, enabling and repurposing new or existing user interface components.

Markup based extensibility for user interfaces

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Andrew V Fomichev