Re: Tear off... prior art?
Re: Tear off... prior art?
- Subject: Re: Tear off... prior art?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:18:37 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,
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From: Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Tear off...
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Date: May 20, 2002
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A patent is not valid, if it's about something intuitive or obvious, I amongst
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others have done that back in '92 on AmigaOS.
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and THIS is HOW it was achieved: Mike Beam {
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I've never tried this, but it seems that you could track the location of a
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mouse drag that originates over a tab, and when the mouse is beyond the
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window containing the tab view (or past someother threshold) you could
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create a window whose content view is the content view of the tab in
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question. Undoubtedly there are a lot of details to work out, but this is
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how I would start. Good luck!
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Where does one find prior art on this? I'd like to see this being using on some AmigaOS computer using a program from 1992 or before that.
Thanks,
-Esteban
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Yours Sincerely,
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Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
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"I m just sitting here listening to the scream of the butterfly"
On mandag 20. mai 2002 15:59, Esteban <email@hidden> wrote:
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You mean kind of how Photoshop does it?
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http://www.adobe.com/adobefacts/examples_a.html
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If so, I think Adobe has a patent on that.
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http://www.adobe.com/adobefacts/patent.html
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They just won a lawsuit against Macromedia for that...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/03/020241&mode=thread&tid=123
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-esteban
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On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 06:38 AM, Albert Atkinson wrote:
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> Hello!
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> How hard would it be to implement tear off tab items? What I would
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> like is the user to be able to move the tabs to different places in the
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> tab pane by command+dragging it to another spot in the tab pane. I
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> would also like if they dragged it out of the window to make another
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> window and then if they dragged that window back into the tab pane or
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> closed the window then that tab would appear back in the pane. Is this
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> possible?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Albert
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