Method and system for automatic presentation of default-drop target icons at window borders
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Apr 28, 1998
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Nov 13, 1996
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A method and system for automatically presenting default-drop target icons displayed within a data processing system. Default-drop target icons are representative of data processing system events, and the data processing system includes containers within a graphical user interface border. An object within a container surrounded by a graphical user interface border is selected and in response to initiation of dragging the icon, default-drop target icons are identified which are representative of data processing system events appropriate for the selected object. Thereafter, if the selected object is dragged across the graphical user interface border; at least one default-drop target icon is automatically displayed at a location proximate a point where the selected object crosses the graphical user interface border, in response to the dragging, such that a data processing system event may be invoked by dropping the selected object upon the default-drop target icon. As a result, the distance a selected object is dragged to invoke a data processing system event is minimized. A data processing system event is thereafter invoked in response to the object being dropped upon the default-drop target icon.
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