Patent ID: 7681117

Claim:
A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions for generating a user interface on a display device, using a computer, having a processor, that executes the computer-executable instructions, the user interface comprising: a grid, displayed using the processor, having a plurality of cells arranged in a plurality of aligned rows and columns, the cells in each of the plurality of rows in the grid being aligned with one another horizontally and the cells in each of the plurality of columns being aligned with one another vertically, each cell in the grid having a visual border that distinguishes it, visually, from the other cells in the grid; and a visual affordance presented on the grid, using the processor, and visually connected to a selected one of the plurality of cells, the visual affordance exposing properties of the selected one of the plurality of cells to which it is visually connected, the visual affordance having a border that is only displayed when the selected one of the cells is selected, the border having a cell portion that coincides with part of the visual border of the selected one of the plurality of cells and an extension portion that extends around a remainder of the visual affordance to visually indicate that the selected one of the plurality of cells is part of the visual affordance, the visual affordance being different from, and displayed over, a plurality of cells in the grid, other than the selected one of the plurality of cells.