Creating a theme used by an authoring application to produce...

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2003-12-20

2010-11-23

Bashore, William L (Department: 2175)

Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator i

Operator interface

On-screen workspace or object

C715S252000, C345S619000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07840905

ABSTRACT:
A menu theme is created using a menu theme description file that contains a general description of each object (such as a drop zone area, selectable menu buttons, menu title, theme background, etc.) contained in the menu theme. In addition, the menu theme description file contains a path to one or more patch files for each object in the menu theme, the patch file being used to render the object. The patch file contains a description of an arrangement of modules including a list of the modules and relationships between them. In some embodiments, a patch file is created using a composer application that displays a graphical representation of the patch file and translates the graphical representation to a textual representation.

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