Method Engineering: State-of-the-Art Survey and Research Proposal

摘要

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.