Mobile communication terminal and method therefore

摘要

A method, an electronic apparatus and a computer program product for controlling a cursor in a graphical user interface are disclosed. A direction signal is received from a cursor control device. Thereafter, a current mode is determined for said electronic apparatus in response to an actuation of an element of said GUI. After that, said direction signal is related to a set of predetermined directions, wherein said set of predetermined directions depends on said current mode. Next, said direction signal is classified into one direction of said set of predetermined directions, and, thereafter, said cursor is moved according to said one direction.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a cursor control device of an electronic apparatus having a display, a direction signal indicating cursor movement to be performed across the display; determining, with a controller, a current mode of the apparatus, wherein the mode has a set of predetermined directions associated therewith, the set of predetermined directions being restricted to a subset of directions of the cursor movement, the set of predetermined directions still allowing for cursor movement to enable user-selection of one or more functions provided by the current mode; relating the direction signal to the set of predetermined directions associated with the current mode by classifying the cursor movement, as indicated by the direction signal, into a corresponding one of the predetermined directions; and performing cursor movement in the corresponding one predetermined direction in response to continued detection of cursor movement corresponding to the classified predetermined direction so as to enable the user-selection of the one or more functions provided by the current mode.