MANAGING TRANSPARENT WINDOWS

摘要

Methods and arrangements to manage transparent windows are described herein. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to select one or more windows to make transparent and to switching the active window between source and target windows via the position of the mouse. Many embodiments provide a right click, pop-up menu (i.e., pressing the right mouse button generates a pop-up menu), a pull-down menu, or a button associated with windows. These features may allow a user to select individual or all windows to be transparent. A transparent window provides some view of windows or objects below the transparent window while providing some view of the contents such as graphics and/or text in the transparent window. Embodiments may also include management logic such as hardware and/or code to facilitate selection of a transparent window to make the window active.

主权项

1. A method comprising the steps of:a computer receiving an input to copy first content in a displayed first window that is open on a graphical user interface (GUI) and in which second content that was obscured by the first window was previously made, and has since remained, unobscured by the first window;in response to said receiving the input to copy the first content, the computer copying the first content; andin response to said copying the first content and before the copied first content is pasted into a displayed second window that is open on the GUI, the computer automatically activating the displayed second window.