Patent ID: 8250486
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a computer controlled user interactive display system, a display interface implementation for accessing graphic tools for creating graphic objects with minimal display pointer movement comprising: means for displaying a set of graphic tools in a primary container location on the display; means responsive to the creation of said graphic object providing a secondary container containing a duplicate of said selected tool proximate the location of the graphic object, said secondary container being displayed during the creation of said graphic object and dynamically moveable responsive to said graphic object creation; means for determining the center of activity of said creation of said graphic object; said changeable display location of said graphic object is determined by the center of activity of said creation of said graphic object; means for establishing an exclusion perimeter enclosing the graphic object being created; and means for preventing said secondary container containing the duplicate of said selected tool from crossing said perimeter, whereby said secondary container does not encroach upon said object being created.