Patent
1993-10-25
1996-05-28
Bayerl, Raymond J.
395157, G06F 314
Patent
active
055220258
ABSTRACT:
An object-oriented window manager provides coordination between window displays generated by separate application programs by computing and storing the visible area of each application window each time displayed windows are changed. Each application program directly communicates with the screen buffer memory in order to redraw portions of the screen corresponding to its display area using the visible area computed by the window manager. Each application program communicates with the object-oriented window manager by creating a window object which provides flexible display capabilities that are transparent to the application program. Several techniques are used to decrease the visible area computation time. First, as mentioned above a copy of the visible area is stored or "cached" in each window object. This copy can be used if the application program needs to redraw the window area and the visible area has not been changed. In addition, the window manager computes the visible area of each application window utilizing a routine that assumes that only a single window has been changed and compares the new visible area of the window to the old visible area to obtain the change area. This change area is then used to recompute the visible area of all windows which lie behind the changed window.
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Bayerl Raymond J.
dela Torre Crescelle N.
Stephens Keith
Taligent Inc.
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