Abstract: A method for a user interface includes selecting information from a current location and placing the information in a queue for later placement at a destination, and then selecting a destination and placing the information at the destination. Responsive to the placing of the information in the queue, and until the placing of the information at the destination, the information is displayed in the current location and an appearance of a user display pointer shows that the queue has an entry. The queue is capable of holding second information concurrent with the first information.

Abstract: Visualizing and modifying the scope of the on-screen pointed, e.g. mouse controlled cursor. The user is enabled to readily modify the scope of his on-screen pointer to a scope which is optimum for any particular icon selection tasks and functions. There is provided a scope of display screen area adjacent said moving pointer within which scope said items are enabled for user selection, and an implementation for enabling a user to interactively modify the scope of said moving pointer. The scope may modified by exposing the normally hidden scope of the pointer and then using the pointer itself to modify the scope. Upon the completion of the modification, the scope may be returned to its hidden state.

Abstract: Items such as icons are modified in high icon density environments on the display screen. An implementation combines rendering a set of said items unmodifiable, and then enabling the modifying of a selected item in said set of unmodifiable items. In effect, all of the icons in the high icon density region or sector of the display screen are “frozen” so as to be unmodifiable, and then only a selected or “target” icon is made modifiable or “hot” while the other icons in the sector remain unmodifiable. The rendering of the target icon to be modifiable may involve a simple point and click cursor movement which still is not an easy task in a crowded icon environment. However, once this is accomplished, then the rest of the icon modification is simplified in that the adjacent icons remain frozen in the unmodifiable state.

Abstract: A method for a user interface includes selecting information from a current location and placing the information in a queue for later placement at a destination, and then selecting a destination and placing the information at the destination. Responsive to the placing of the information in the queue, and until the placing of the information at the destination, the information is displayed in the current location and an appearance of a user display pointer shows that the queue has an entry. The queue is capable of holding second information concurrent with the first information.