Toolbar Button Size Adaptation for Uniform Layouts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing graphical user interface toolbars and buttons lack a seamless method for moving and docking buttons between different toolbars, often resulting in unbalanced layouts due to varying button sizes and constraints.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for receiving user input to move or dock buttons between toolbars, calculating an adapted presentation that adheres to both button and toolbar constraints, ensuring uniform size and consistent layout by determining the button size based on the destination toolbar's modified presentation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If buttons are moved between toolbars with different size constraints, then user customization flexibility is improved, but layout consistency and visual uniformity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the size parameter of buttons dynamically based on the destination toolbar's constraints. When a button is moved to a different toolbar, its presentation size is automatically adjusted to match the destination toolbar's size scheme, ensuring visual consistency while allowing flexible movement between toolbars of different sizes.
Solution Approach 2:
The button size is made dynamic rather than fixed. The system calculates and applies modified presentations of buttons that adapt to the destination toolbar's characteristics, allowing the same button to display at different sizes depending on which toolbar it resides in, thus maintaining layout consistency across different customization scenarios.
2Stability of the object's composition
If button sizes are standardized within a toolbar, then visual consistency is improved, but adaptability to different toolbar configurations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The button presentation system is designed to be universal, where a single button can adapt its size and presentation based on the toolbar it is placed in. The system calculates modified presentations that work across different toolbar configurations, allowing buttons to maintain visual consistency within each toolbar while adapting to different toolbar sizes and layouts.
3Reliability
If buttons retain their original sizes when moved, then button identity is preserved, but toolbar layout balance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the size parameter of buttons when they are moved to different toolbars. Instead of retaining their original sizes, buttons have their presentations modified to match the destination toolbar's size constraints, ensuring layout balance is maintained while the button's functional identity remains preserved.
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AI summary
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for docking toolbars and moving buttons from one toolbar to another toolbar on a graphical user interface. In calculating an adapted presentation for the destination toolbar, the destination toolbar constraints determine the size of moved buttons such that the destination toolbar size does not change and all the toolbar buttons on the destination toolbar are a uniform size.