Navigating table data with mouse actions

摘要

Methods, computer program products and systems are provided for navigating a display of a table in a computer application that includes enabling a context sensitive action menu, detecting activation of the action menu in the displayed table, and executing a table display control instruction from the context sensitive action menu to reformat and redisplay the table in a collapsed or an expanded format around one or more selected cells of the table. The display instruction indicates which columns, etc. are to be reformatted. Further steps may include populating an array with data from corresponding cells of the table and executing an array display control instruction to display at least a portion of the array on an action menu display panel. Navigation tools provide selection of array elements and reformatting and redisplaying the table in the collapsed or the expanded format around a table cell corresponding to the selected array cell.

主权项

1. A method for controlling a display of a table in a computer application, comprising:
enabling a context sensitive action menu; detecting activation of the action menu in the displayed table; executing a table display control instruction from the context sensitive action menu to reformat and redisplay the table in a collapsed or an expanded format around one or more selected cells of the table; populating an array with data from the table, wherein each cell of the array corresponds to a corresponding cell in the table and wherein each cell of the array contains the data from each corresponding cell in the table; and executing an array display control instruction to display at least a portion of the array on an action menu display panel.