Interactive tooltip
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    发明申请
    Interactive tooltip 有权
    互动式工具提示

    公开(公告)号:US20050050470A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-03-03

    申请号:US10962361

    申请日:2004-10-08

    CPC分类号: G06F17/246 G06F9/453

    摘要: An interactive tooltip provides access to help information and enhanced editing capabilities. The interactive tooltip is especially useful for a user editing a function within a spreadsheet formula. The present invention integrates HTML-like interactivity with a conventional tooltip to provide a new interface for working with the associated data. The interactivity of the tooltip provides additional levels of help or documentation when requested and provides additional editing navigation functionality within the associated data. The present invention provides a tooltip in close proximity to the associated data, while the associated data is being edited. In the case of a spreadsheet, a tooltip will be provided when the user begins editing a function within a spreadsheet cell. The help facility of the present invention recognizes that the user has begun entering a function, when the user has entered an equals sign (identifying a formula), a known function name, and a parenthesis (indicating the beginning of an argument set). The help facility then references a function database and determines the required argument set. The help facility renders the function name and argument set in an HTML-like text, and provides an alternate method for selecting any argument. Finally, the help facility displays the HTML-like text to the user next to the point at which the user is editing the spreadsheet function.

    摘要翻译: 交互式工具提示可以访问帮助信息和增强的编辑功能。 交互式工具提示对于用户在电子表格公式中编辑函数特别有用。 本发明将HTML类交互性与常规工具提示集成,以提供用于处理相关数据的新界面。 工具提示的交互性在请求时提供额外的帮助或文档级别,并在相关数据中提供附加的编辑导航功能。 本发明提供了一个紧密关联数据的工具提示,同时正在对相关数据进行编辑。 在电子表格的情况下,当用户开始编辑电子表格单元格内的函数时,将提供工具提示。 本发明的帮助设施认识到,当用户已经输入等号(识别公式),已知功能名称和括号(指示参数集的开始)时,用户已经开始输入功能。 然后,帮助工具引用函数数据库并确定所需的参数集。 帮助功能将函数名称和参数设置为类似HTML的文本,并为选择任何参数提供了一种替代方法。 最后,帮助工具在用户正在编辑电子表格功能的点旁边向用户显示类似HTML的文本。