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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1995
Thomas Baudel, Toronto, CA;
William A Buxton, Toronto, CA;
George W Fitzmaurice, Toronto, CA;
Beverly L Harrison, Toronto, CA;
Gordon P Kurtenbach, Toronto, CA;
Russell N Owen, Toronto, CA;
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountainview, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphical user interface with clickaround tools for enhanced user interaction with an application program utilizing 'two-handed' techniques. The 'tool-handed' technique provides two displayed cursors controlled by two distinct pointing input devices. Actuation of a secondary input device, corresponding a secondary cursor, provides a tool palette or menu near a displayed primary cursor. This technique allows a user to select and activate tools to perform substantive operations on displayed objects of the application program. The interface allows the user to invoke tools in a fluent and seamless fashion, thus maintaining the user's focus on the substantive operations and not the procedural motions of tool access.