METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING NAVIGATION AMONG SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS AND IMPROVED SCREEN VIEWING

摘要

A method for facilitating navigation among software applications and improving screen viewing in a window based environment comprising: providing a security based configurable primary menu system (20) in a foreground of a display screen (22) that contains graphic elements (18) representing software applications that receive an application related object (26) that is dragged and dropped to a selected one of the primary menu graphic elements (24) and the menu system authomatically 3705 כ" ח בשבט התשס" ב - February 10, 2002 starts an application associated with the selected one of the primary menu graphic objects and presents a running application window in response to receiving the dropped overlaid application related object; and clearing a screen viewing area by automatically minimizing the primary menu graphic elements into at least one graphic element and simultaneously removing corresponding running application windows from the viewing area.