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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2008
David K. Grotjohn, Cary, NC (US);
Frank L. Jania, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jessica W. Ramirez, Danbury, CT (US);
Josef Scherpa, Fort Collins, CO (US);
David K. Grotjohn, Cary, NC (US);
Frank L. Jania, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jessica W. Ramirez, Danbury, CT (US);
Josef Scherpa, Fort Collins, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of selecting event handlers can include initiating a drag and drop operation for a source object and, responsive to detecting contact between the source object and a window of a graphical user interface (GUI), displaying a plurality of icons, wherein each icon represents an event handler for a drop target within the window. The method can include detecting contact between the source object and at least one of the plurality of icons while dragging the object, designating each event handler associated with a contacted icon to process the source object, and responsive to dropping the source object onto the drop target, invoking each designated event handler to process the source object for the drop target. Each designated event handler can output a process result.