Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Peter Freiling

Lindsay Ann Kubasik

Thomas W Olsen

Stephen Harry Wright

Mohamed A M Sadek

Ian Hanschen

Ramrajprabu Balasubramanian

Albert Peter Hwang

Harley Michael Rosnow

Baris Yazici

Nicolas J Brun

Krishnan Menon

Nathan P Pollock

Albert Hwang

Embodiments provide systems and methods for activating applications in a distributed asynchronous system based on detecting touches on a display. The system detects an input on a display. The input on the display may be, for example, from a human touch or a pointing device. An input state manager executes hit-testing on a visual tree to identify a selected view using the input on the display. The selected view is compared to an active view. A shell in the system is notified when the selected view does not match the active view. The input state manager is then notified if the selected view should be made a new active view. The system instructs an application activation service to activate an application associated with the selected view. An input state manager is notified when the application associated with the selected view has been made an active view.

View activation via hit testing in an asynchronous windowing system

User interface (UI) manipulations may be performed by eliminating noticeable process boundaries associated with or generated by different applications. The techniques herein describe dynamically splitting manipulations across multiple pieces of content without regard to various types and/or states of the user interface manipulations and/or without regard to whether the multiple pieces of content are associated with different individual processes. In at least one example, the techniques described herein enable quick, responsive, and seamless UI manipulations with complex configurations of content on a UI and/or with multiple pieces of content associated with more than one application. Additionally, the techniques described herein further enable content on a UI to 'stick' to the user input manipulation or move with the user input manipulation such that the content appears to stay directly in contact with the user input manipulation.

Computerized dynamic splitting of interaction across multiple content

A virtualized coordinate system is determined that describes an alternate monitor space. The virtualized coordinate system is provided to an application providing content to be displayed and the application provides virtualized rendering information including coordinates in the virtualized coordinate system. The virtualized rendering information is scaled for display on the monitor.

Virtualizing applications for per-monitor displaying

Embodiments provide systems and methods for activating applications in a distributed asynchronous system based on detecting touches on a display.

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