Showing papers by "Libera! published in 1994"

Method for providing maximum screen real estate in computer controlled display systems during software application navigation

Abstract: A method for maximizing the amount of screen display real estate without sacrificing the user's ability to navigate through graphic and other data. The CPU is capable of accessing and executing a computer program which includes a first event handler including events, each of which is selectively paired with a different set of screen coordinates, the set of screen coordinates comprising a first hot spot file. A user moves a pointer around on the screen display by using a pointer control device. The position of the pointer is monitored by the first event handler, which then determines whether the position of the pointer corresponds to a set of screen coordinates in the first hot spot file which, in turn, corresponds to an event, most preferably, the display of a navigation tool. The CPU executes the first event handler thereby causing a navigation tool to appear on the screen display, but only when the position of the pointer corresponds to a set of screen coordinates in the main event table paired with a pre-selected event, most preferably a navigation tool displaying event which launches the navigation tool. Then and only then is the screen display encumbered by the presence of the navigation tool. In accordance with the invention, it is not necessary to press a mouse button to initiate a navigation event.

Method for providing maximum screen real estate in computer controlled display systems

Abstract: A method for maximizing the amount of screen display real estate without sacrificing the user's ability to pan graphic and other data is disclosed which has application for use in computer controlled display systems. The CPU is capable of accessing and executing a computer program which includes a first event loop handler. The first event loop handler includes events, each which are selectively paired with a different set of screen coordinates, said set of screen coordinates comprising a first hot spot file. A user moves a pointer around on the screen display by using a pointer control device. The position of the pointer is monitored by the first event loop handler. The first event loop handler determines whether the position of the pointer corresponds to a set of screen coordinates in the first hot spot file which, in turn, corresponds to an event, most preferably, the display of a horizontal, vertical or diagonal scrollbar. The CPU executes the first event loop handler thereby causing a horizontal, vertical or diagonal scrollbar, most preferably, to appear on the screen display, but only when the position of the pointer corresponds to a set of screen coordinates in the main event table paired with a pre-selected event, again, most preferably the scrollbar displaying event which launches a panning means such as a horizontal, vertical or diagonal scrollbar. Then and only then is the screen display encumbered by the presence of scrollbars. Accordingly, it is not necessary to press a mouse button to initiate an event.

Index-Linked Bonds from an Academic, Market and Policy-Making Standpoint

Abstract: The view put forward in this paper is that the index-linking of long-term public debt today represents a financial instrument that fosters a low average rate of inflation In particular, bonds that are fully linked to the prices of a representative basket of goods and services permit a reduction in the inflation volatility risk premium, which weighs significantly on the nominal cost of the public debt and, ex post, gives rise to substantial real costs that distort the mechanisms of allocation and distribution and, ultimately, could lead to the debt becoming unsustainable After re-examining the reasons for the orthodox aversion to index-linking - notably on the part of the monetary authorities of the more stable countries and especially the Bundesbank - the case is put for the leading industrial countries, and notably Italy, to issue index-linked government bonds By issuing such bonds, the Treasuries of the various countries would send a strong stabilizing signal to the markets because recourse to the inflation tax in the future would no longer be advantageous, reduce the real cost of government borrowing by eliminating the inflation risk premium that currently has to be paid on issues with fixed nominal interest rates, benefit from the positive correlation between the quality of revenue and expenditure, and obtain valuable information on forward inflation rates and the real interest rates implicit in the prices of the bonds The long-term real interest rate offered by index-linked bonds would act as a sort of lighthouse set up by the monetary authorities to illuminate the path of economic growth and enable operators and markets to coordinate their actions more effectively

Shift versus no-shift in local regularizations of Chern-Simons theory

Abstract: We consider a family of local BRS-invariant higher covariant derivative regularizations of $SU(N)$ Chern-Simons theory that do not shift the value of the Chern-Simons parameter $k$ to $k+\,{\rm sign}(k)\,\cv$ at one loop.