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Jeffrey Thomas Krauss

Christopher Hugh Pratley

Peter Loren Engrav

Owen Charles Braun

Stuart J Stuple

Ravindra K Agrawal

A user interface control is provided for navigating, selecting, and organizing document pages. The user interface control includes page tabs corresponding to document pages within an electronic document. The page tabs are organized and displayed adjacent to one another in a horizontal or vertical column. When any page tab is selected, such as with a mouse or keyboard, the document page corresponding to the selected page tab is displayed. A first page tab may be selected and a second page tab may be subsequently selected, such as for instance using a mouse or other pointing device. The selection may include dragging a mouse cursor from the first page tab across several page tabs and subsequently to the second page tab. When such a selection is received, the control displays the contents of each of the document pages corresponding to page tabs between the first and second page tabs. The user interface control may also include next page tabs displayed at either end of the column of page tabs or a new page tab displayed at either end of the column of page tabs. Page tabs may also be selected and moved to a new position between other page tabs.

User interface control for navigating, selecting, and organizing document pages

A Menu Building Component (MBC) builds menus during a computer's idle time. The MBC builds a menu for each menu title on a Menu Bar and stores each built menu in the computer's random access memory (RAM). The MBC requests an allocation of idle time by registering with a Component Manager. The Component Manager notifies the MBC of the availability of idle time by sending a notification signal to the MBC. When the MBC receives the notification signal, the MBC builds the next unbuilt menu corresponding to a menu title on the Menu Bar. When the last menu has been built, the MBC unregisters with the component manager. If a user makes a menu demand for an unbuilt menu, the MBC will build the demanded menu on demand, rather than during an idle time. If the user makes a menu demand for a built menu, the built menu is recalled from RAM and displayed for use by the user. Because the MBC builds menus during idle times, start-up delays and menu demand delays are minimized. By storing the built menus in RAM, the MBC can display menus instantaneously upon demand, with little or no delay perceivable to the user.

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