公开(公告)号：US06300950B1

公开(公告)日：2001-10-09

申请号：US09054025

申请日：1998-04-02

申请人： David J Clark ,  Adam Alexander Dobson ,  Simon Peter Goodchild ,  Andrew John Smith ,  Raymond Trainer

发明人： David J Clark ,  Adam Alexander Dobson ,  Simon Peter Goodchild ,  Andrew John Smith ,  Raymond Trainer

IPC分类号： G06F300

CPC分类号： G06F9/453

摘要： Provided is a framework supporting presentation of help information via a computer system user interface in response to the proximity of an input device pointer to an interface area associated with a user interface component. The framework provides generic methods which remove from user interface components much of the task of managing the presentation of help information. The framework supports presentation of help information for a platform-independent component programming environment and supports presentations in a plurality of different styles (such as text, audio, animating graphics, etc) by means of selectable presentation methods.

摘要翻译： 提供了响应于输入设备指针与与用户界面组件相关联的接口区域的接近度而经由计算机系统用户界面来呈现帮助信息的框架。 该框架提供了从用户界面组件中删除大量管理帮助信息表示任务的通用方法。 该框架支持用于平台无关组件编程环境的帮助信息的呈现，并且通过可选择的呈现方法来支持多种不同风格（例如文本，音频，动画图形等）的演示。