Abstract: An expandable interactive user interface component. A method for expanding an interactive user interface control in a window without affecting the interactivity of other user interface controls in the window can include detecting when the interactive user interface control has been activated. Responsive to the activation, the interactive user interface control can be drawn in the window in either an expanded, magnified, or both expanded and magnified mode without regard to whether the interactive user interface control in the expanded mode obscures some of the other user interface controls. Finally, user interactivity can be accepted both in the interactive user interface control which has been expanded, and in the other user interface controls, regardless of the mode of the expandable interactive user interface component.

Abstract: A method and graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying information in accordance with an associated locale. The method includes the steps of associating each of a plurality of sets of information with one of two or more locale designations and displaying and manipulating information in accordance with properties of the associated locale designations. The GUI includes display areas for displaying information associated with the locale designations. The present invention also encompasses a system and computer program product for associating locale designations with display information and displaying and manipulating the information in accordance with properties of the associated locale designation.