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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1988
Barbara A Barker, Round Rock, TX (US);
Thomas R Edel, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey A Stark, Grapevine, TX (US);
IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for selectively accessing a particular one of a plurality of computer applications which are simultaneously active and displayed in a plurality of overlapping viewports or windows in a multi-tasking system. User inputs to the system are monitored to determine the position of a cursor within a window or the location of an attempted data input to a window and the particular window thus selected is displayed unencumbered by promoting it to the uppermost display position in accordance with the state of a display attribute associated with that window. Thereafter, the display attribute is utilized to determine whether or not the selected window returns to its previous display position or remains in the uppermost display position in response to the movement of the cursor or the attempt by a user to input data into a second selected window.