It would be interesting if you find them. To be useful for my purposes it would have to be demonstrable that they were shown in a public forum. This is the frustrating thing with the work I'm doing, you can know something was the case and a patent has been unfairly granted but find you are unable to prove it.
Paul
"Mark Schonewille" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:47155c1e$0$32263$dbd43001@news.wanadoo.nl... > Hi Paul, > > I am sure that there are stacks of 15 to 20 years old, which show > information about an object in a field while the mouse moves over that > object. There must be examples of stacks using the mouseEnter and > mouseWithin messages for this purpose. > > Two examples are a library stack and a contact database, which I > started to build about 18 years ago. The library stack was > available for download for a while. > > The two stacks had so many fields, that I deemed it necessary to > add another field, which displayed information about the object > that the mouse was hovering over. This had nothing to do with > animation, though > > The library stack contained a possibility to include pictures and movies, > but hovering over an object was not a way to access > these pictures and movies. > > I am sure I have several old stacks, which show some kind of animation in > response to aforementioned messages. If I find something that does what > you are looking for, then I'll post another message here. > > Best, > > Mark > > I just can't imagine that such a patent would be enforceable. > > Paul L. wrote: >> What is the earliest example of a rollover you can think of in a >> Hypercard application? >> >> By rollover I mean: >> >> A list of database entries, where moving a highlight or a mouse cursor >> over each entry results in some detail data relating to the entry being >> shown elsewhere on the display. >> >> I want to know this because there are some software patents which appear >> to me to be unfairly granted where I'm sure hypercard applications were >> available which predated the patent claims. >> >> I would appreciate any help with this and in fact examples don't have to >> be limited to hypercard, though I think hypercard apps are a good likely >> source. If you can point to commercially or publicly available software >> predating September 1990, fantastic. If you know of any such software >> including video - even better. Thought I think hypercard only started to >> include video/animation from 1992 (correct me if I'm wrong). >> >> If you know of any such applications I would very much like to hear from >> you. I would be grateful if you could also send your reply to >> news@infinitereason.com as well as this forum but if you would rather not >> do so, I will be checking back here regularly. >> >> Thanks >> >> Paul > > -- > > Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering > http://www.economy-x-talk.com > > eHUG coordinator > http://www.ehug.info > > Salery is the easiest way to set up your web store: > http://www.salery.biz/salery.html >
