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Inventors: Allen, Paul G.; Whitten, Arthur T.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Chin; Tommy P.
Assistant Examiner: Goon; Gin
Attorney, Agent or Firm: LaRiviere, Grubman & Payne

Method and apparatus for creating a navigation palette in response to simultaneous actuation of any two buttons on a pointing device in a computer system for creating multimedia slide presentations. The navigation palette allows the user to operate on and navigate to and among all of the slides within the presentation during playback.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION We claim: 1.
A method for using a navigation palette for creating and editing a multimedia slide presentation on a computer system, said computer system including a programmed computer, an input device coupled to said computer and selected from the group consisting of trackball and mouse, and a display device coupled with said computer, the method forming a programmed user interface and comprising the steps of: determining if two buttons on said input device are actuated substantially simultaneously; determining if said navigation palette is currently shown on said display means; if said navigation palette is shown on said display device, hiding said navigation palette; if said navigation palette is not shown on said display means, determining if said navigation palette was previously created; if said navigation palette is not shown on said display means and if said navigation palette was previously created, showing said navigation palette on said display device; if said navigation palette is not shown on said display means and if said navigation palette was not previously created, creating said navigation palette by a) creating a palette window, b) reading resource data from said computer, said resource data for defining portions of said navigation palette, c) creating graphical control symbols as specified in said resource data; d) adjusting the size of said navigation palette as required to include said graphical control symbols in said navigation palette, and; showing said navigation palette on said display device.

Description:
TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a User Interface (UI) for use with computer systems.
More particularly, the present invention provides increased functionality for computer system pointing devices used with a presentation graphics program which is used with a Graphics User Interface (GUI) for creating a multimedia slide presentation on a personal computer.
BACKGROUND ART In the context of the present invention, a presentation is a group of visual aids or slides that are designed and produced to deliver information, whether on a computer screen, a transparency, or overhead projector

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