A New Windows Desktop Icon for Single Point-of-Control of the Application Window

  • Authors:
  • Kohei Sugawara;Rikio Maruta

  • Affiliations:
  • Sangikyo Corporation, Yokohama, 224-0053 Japan;Sangikyo Corporation, Yokohama, 224-0053 Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the Eighth SoMeT_09
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A new concept of the computer icon is presented, whose roles are expanded to have all control functions for the object window from the very limited original roles to show merely the existence and the kind of the object. The “control” icon uses the push-pin icon that consists of a push-pin image and its shadow as proposed by the authors' previously [6,7]. The main subject of this paper is how to apply the new “control” icon concept to the MS Windows environment. The paper describes that the control icon realized as an add-on software program on the MS Windows can control any existing application programs without requiring modifications. Also, a new intuitive method for resizing the displayed object window with a free aspect ratio is presented.