Patent ID: 6131103
Filing Date: 2000-10-10
Classification: G09G,H04W

Abstract:
A method for reducing graphic resources in a base station manager of a cellular telephone system, said method changing a font size of a widget including fonts having different sizes, comprising the steps of:(a) detecting a change in size of the widget;(b) measuring the current size of the entire size-changed widget;(c) measuring the size of fonts associated with the size-changed widget;(d) multiplying the horizontal length of the fonts by the horizontal length of a string in the size-changed widget to obtain a multiplied value;(e) checking if the multiplied value of (d) is less than the horizontal length of the entire size-changed widget;(f) multiplying a vertical length of the fonts by the vertical length of the string in the size-changed widget to obtain a multiplied value;(g) checking if the multiplied value of (f) is less than the vertical length of the entire size-changed widget;(h) selecting a smaller font of the font that satisfies (e) and the font that satisfies (g); and(i) changing the font in the size-changed widget to the smaller font from step (h).