Method and apparatus for zoom control with a scroll bar

Details Method and apparatus for zoom control with a scroll bar Method and apparatus for zoom control with a scroll bar

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G09G 5/373 (2006.01) G06F 3/00 (2006.01) G06F 3/14 (2006.01) G09G 5/34 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2351907

The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling display zoom in a graphical user interface. The preferred embodiment uses a modified scroll bar to adjust the displayed zoom. The scroll bar of the preferred embodiment includes two zoom icons that can be used to dynamically zoom the display size of the graphical user interface. In particular, by clicking and dragging on the zoom icon the user can dynamically adjust the display size. As the user drags the zoom icon, the view is dynamically updated such that the user can view zoom occur and stop when the desired amount of zoom is reached. In the preferred embodiment, the zoom icons are associated with the scroll bar slider. Thus, the modified slider can used both and zoom in and out of displayed document. The slider of the preferred embodiment can also be used as a traditional slider, i.e., by clicking and dragging the slider the document view is moved.

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