Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jesse Bishop

Ling Tony Chen

Orry Wijanarko Soegiono

Leonardo Esteban Blanco

Brendan Joseph Clark

Blake Douglas Pelton

Silvana Patricia Moncayo

Terry A Adams

Ruurd Johan Boeke

Todd A Torset

Joseph Stork Smith

Sam J George

Benjamin J Smith

Jeff West

Ana Lilia Otero Diaz

Steven Abrahams

Geoffrey T Ebersol

Joshua Warren Priestley

Hamid Mahmood

Kshitij Mehta

Bede Jordan

Stefan Wick

William D Carr

Aleksandar Antonijevic

Ramona Canan

Yang Liu

Susmitha Kothari

Vidhya Sriram

Meng Yang

Meghan McNeil

Daniel C Rischar

Bede A Jordan

Leah M Keegan

Adrian A Mascarenhas

A timing function that distributes progressive start times of a series of target animations, or staggers animations, is disclosed. The timing function includes a set of selectable parameters that are used to create a customized staggering animation in the user interface. The set of selectable parameters includes a user interface geometry for each of the target animations.

Staggered animation scheduling

A graphical user interface for a computer includes a dial control. The control can be implemented, for example, as a touch-based, pointer-based, pen-based and/or keyboard-based mechanism. The dial control is intended for manipulating a large range of values, such as a menu of items from which a user makes a selection, or a range of continuous or discrete values. A dial control can replace other control types such as a slider, drop down menu or text field. The graphical elements of the dial control include one or more displayed rings and a handle for each ring. Inside the ring, or in another area adjacent the ring, a value can be displayed. The ring can be manipulated by the user to change the value selected by the dial control. In the case of multiple rings, each ring can be manipulated independently.

Graphical user interface with dial control for a parameter

The subject disclosure relates to applying layout changes and/or animations in a computing system by statically defining unknown visual layout positions of elements within a user interface. Changes that are to be applied to the elements in a user interface are intercepted by mechanism as described herein that applies the changes as a function of a static reusable component. The static reusable component can be applied across various platforms. Animation is performed on a first element as described herein based at least in part on layout input properties of the first element or layout input properties of a second element that is associated with the first element. As additionally described herein, a dynamic graphical layout position can be described based on a definition of an initial layout position and calculation of a resultant layout position, wherein the positions are defined relative to an element or set of elements.

Static definition of unknown visual layout positions

A multi-touch plug-in system is described herein that exposes multi-touch data for web application developers to consume in a platform independent way. The multi-touch plug-in system receives platform-specific touch data from an operating system or touch hardware, interprets the platform-specific touch data to convert the platform-specific touch data to generic touch data, and provides the generic touch data to a hosted application running within a plug-in sandbox. Often, sandboxed environments only allow identified, trusted plug-ins to execute. By managing multi-touch data within a trusted plug-in, the plug-in can ensure that hosted applications are properly restricted to well-defined behavior, while still allowing rich features such as multi-touch interaction. Thus, the multi-touch plug-in system brings rich multi-touch interaction to a web browsing environment.

Touch input for hosted applications

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