Transparent Controls for Interactive Graphics
Joel F. Bartlett · 1999
The graphical user interface for a workstation application is often composed of working areas containing text or drawings surrounded by controls like buttons, menus, or sliders. Users must constantly move the mouse between the work areas and the controls. Previous methods to decrease this motion have relied on keyboard shortcuts or popup menus. This paper demonstrates an alternative, transparent controls, that allows the entire display surface to be used as a working area, with the controls arranged anywhere on the working area. Copyright 1992 Digital Equipment Corporation d i g i t a l Western Research Laboratory 250 University Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301 USA Table of