Patent ID: 7549126

Claim:
An apparatus for finding objects in a computer including a display and a pointing device with which a user drags a pointer on the display, comprising: an input that receives an input signal to indicate a drag operation; memory that stores a plurality of objects including enclosures in the memory, wherein enclosures comprise objects which may enclose other objects; window opening logic, coupled with the display, that draws windows on the display corresponding to opened enclosures, wherein a window for an opened enclosure includes identifiers within the window corresponding to objects enclosed by the opened enclosure; and temporary window logic, coupled to the display and the pointing device, that opens a temporary window for a particular enclosure, which is within another enclosure, to display identifiers within the temporary window corresponding to objects enclosed by the particular enclosure, in response to a drag during a drag operation of the pointer over an identifier corresponding to the particular enclosure.