Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Karen K Wong

Matthew Jay Kotler

Ilan Berker

Dawn Marie Wright

Scott A Sherman

Crystal L Hoyer

Brent Gilbert

Cynthia Christine Shelly

Michael Jay Gilmore

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Samuel J Moreau

Gary Allan Pritting

Stephen Hoefnagels

Richard J Wolf

Andrew John Howe

Kim Tapia St Amant

David M Gerton

Ramona Pousti

Mikko T Mannisto

Ankur Patel

Gerrit H Hofmeester

Janet L Schorr

Shailesh Saini

Kuei-Chih Sun

Jason Churchill Costa

Leslie Christine MacNeil

Caitlin Kehoe

Keywon Chung

Derek Scott Armstrong McNeill

Swee Chee Pang

Jonathan J Wang

Dawn Wright

Kim Tapia Stamant

Gary A Pritting

Cynthia C Shelly

A method and system for rendering graphics based on user customizations in a computer graphics application are disclosed. The customizations relate to various properties of one or more graphical elements in the graphic. Such properties include positioning, size, formatting and other visual attributes associated with the graphical elements. These properties may be defined as either semantic properties or presentation properties. Semantic properties are persistent across all graphic definitions. Presentation properties are specific to the graphic definition to which each particular graphic belongs. Thus, a customization to a semantic property of a displayed graphic is preserved in memory for application not only to the currently displayed graphic, but also to all other graphic definitions that may be displayed in the future. In contrast, a customization to a presentation property is only preserved for the currently displayed graphic, and thus not preserved for all other graphic definitions.

Maintaining graphical presentations based on user customizations

When using graphical diagrams, cutting and pasting operations may take advantage of predefined relationships to intelligently insert and remove items from the diagram. A text data model may be interpreted sequentially or hierarchically to construct various diagrams. Pasting operations will bring new data into the diagram and data model while conforming the new data to the diagram definition. Cutting operations may cause the data model and diagram to be healed to conform to the diagram definition.

Smart copy/paste of graphical nodes

Techniques for filtering and promoting application store applications are described that can be employed to provide filtered application information and/or application promotions to client devices. The filtering and promoting can be based at least in part upon system information that describes configurations and capabilities of the client devices. In one or more embodiments, various system information for a client device is detected. The detected system information for the client device is used to filter application data in an application catalog. Page information to be provided to the client device for interaction with the application catalog is then ascertained using the filtered application data. The page information is sufficient to enable the client device to render targeted application store pages having filtered application information and/or promotions that are selected based on the detected system information.

Filtering and promoting application store applications

Display screen with graphical user interface

Managing data across a semantic data view and a presentation data view may be provided. A semantic model may be represented in a semantic data view and a presentation model may be represented in a presentation data view. The presentation model may correspond to a graphical representation of the semantic model. In addition, a command may be received directed toward the semantic data view or the presentation data view. The semantic model and the presentation model may be operated upon according to the received command. Furthermore, the semantic model represented in the semantic data view and the presentation model represented in the presentation data view may be updated in response to operating on the semantic model and the presentation model according to the received command. The semantic model and the presentation model may be simultaneously maintained in a volatile memory in a computer.

Managing data across a semantic data view and a presentation data view

Color animated image for a portion of a display screen

A method and computer-readable medium are provided for fitting text to shapes within a graphic. According to the method, initial constraints are defined that comprise initial values describing how a shape and text within the shape should be laid out. Constraint rules are also defined for use in modifying the initial constraints when application of the initial constraints to the text in a shape results in the text overflowing the boundaries of the shape. A change may be detected to the graphic that would affect the size or position of one or more of the shapes or the text within one of the shapes. If such a change causes text to overflow when laid out using the initial constraints, the constraint rules are applied sequentially to modify the constraints. The modified constraints are then reapplied to the shapes to create a new layout for the graphic.

Method and computer-readable medium for fitting text to shapes within a graphic

Animated image for a portion of a display screen

Dynamic routing of 1D and 2D connectors is provided in a connected diagram. 2D connector shapes, end-shapes, content such as text or images are dynamically adjusted as objects are placed onto the diagram canvas. Connection points for connectors are determined using cardinal points, shortest distance between objects, or by generating additional cardinal points with a virtual object. Connectors are routed using a boundary box placed between cardinal points and a relationship between imaginary vectors pointing away from the objects at the connection points.

Providing 1D and 2D connectors in a connected diagram

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