Setting a Clock Using a Mouse
Original Publication Date: 1992-Sep-01
Included in the Prior Art Database: 2005-Mar-24
Publishing Venue
IBM
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Abstract
Disclosed is a fast, simple, easily remembered mechanism for setting a clock by positioning the hour and minute hands with a mouse.
Setting a Clock Using a Mouse
Disclosed is
a fast, simple, easily remembered mechanism for
setting a clock by positioning the hour and minute hands with a
mouse.
Create a
standard analog clock face, and when the user chooses
to set the clock, detect the position of mouse button clicks over
this window. Assign one mouse button to
the hour hand, one mouse
button to the minute hand, and (optionally, for a three button mouse)
one mouse button to the second hand. As
each mouse button is
depressed, place the clock hand corresponding to it accordingly.
This is
easier for a user to do than direct manipulation, via
drag hands and drop, to the desired position.
It is also easier for
a user than using spin buttons, or numerically entering the time.
Anonymous.