Method for seamlessly crossing GUI toolkit boundaries

Details Method for seamlessly crossing GUI toolkit boundaries Method for seamlessly crossing GUI toolkit boundaries

2005-04-19

2009-11-03

Zhou, Ting (Department: 2175)

Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator i

Operator interface

User interface development

C717S136000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07614005

ABSTRACT:
A method, computer program product, and data processing system for facilitating the traversal of a hierarchy of GUI components containing components and/or containers from disparate GUI toolkits is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, auxiliary associative data structures relating parent components in one toolkit to children in another toolkit are defined. When examining a component to determine if it has children, an appropriate associative data structure is consulted to determine if that component has a child from a disparate toolkit. In accordance with this preferred embodiment, additional associative data structures are defined, which also record the reverse “child-parent” relationship, so as to allow the GUI component tree to be traversed in both directions.

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