Integration of procedural and object-oriented user interfaces

Details Integration of procedural and object-oriented user interfaces Integration of procedural and object-oriented user interfaces

1998-06-11

2000-08-15

Bayerl, Raymond J.

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Display driving control circuitry

Controlling the condition of display elements

345338, 345339, 345348, 345967, G06F 300

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061043931

ABSTRACT:
A technique, system, and computer program for integrating procedural user interfaces and object-oriented user interfaces. This integration enables the useful features and advantages of task wizards to be available to a user of an object-oriented user interface, and vice versa. The prompting approach of wizards is used during modification, as well as during creation, of objects and their components. A graphical canvas, depicting these components and their interrelationships, is built incrementally during the object creation process. This same graphical canvas is used during modification, enabling direct selection and manipulation of components to be changed. Efficient use is made of the display screen, enabling information to be viewable without a proliferation of windows, and presenting relevant information to the user at the time he needs it. Nested wizards may be used, which allow the user to access a different wizard that will facilitate creation of a complex object or component referenced by the create process of a first wizard.

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