Manipulating preview panels in a user interface

摘要

Methods, machine media, and systems that can manipulate preview panels are disclosed. In one embodiment, a preview panel can be transformed, in response to user interaction with the preview panel, into an icon representing the file containing the content displayed in the preview panel. The preview panel can, in one embodiment, be opened from a user interaction with a first icon and the preview panel can be transformed into a second icon that represents the file and can be manipulated as if it were the first icon.

主权项

1. A machine readable, non-transitory, tangible storage medium storing executable instructions that when executed cause a data processing system to perform a method comprising:
presenting, in response to a first input on a first icon, a preview panel which presents a content of an object represented by the first icon, wherein the preview panel is user manipulatable and is presented by a non-native application or service; receiving a second input which is applied to the preview panel; saving the contents of the preview panel into a second icon in response to the second input, the second icon being user manipulatable in a user interface and representing the object.