Defining the visual appearance of user-interface controls

Systems and methods for defining at least one visual-display characteristic of at least one user-interface control are disclosed. In accordance with various embodiments of the invention, a dialog template specifies at least one style selector for the at least one user-interface control. A transforma...

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Hauptverfasser:	ZOU SONG, RASMUSSEN KATHRYN G, BOWER NATHAN W, VIRITHTHAMULLA GAMAGE I, SHAMBAUGH DIANE, KOENIG DOUGLAS, WESTCOTT DEREK R, CORRINGTON ROBERT E, RUGGE ROBERT D, YANG SEUNG M, LEONG MUN Y, BONI JALAYNE T, CUTSINGER PAUL L, LAYSON THOMAS J
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING COMPUTING COUNTING ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING PHYSICS
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Zusammenfassung:	Systems and methods for defining at least one visual-display characteristic of at least one user-interface control are disclosed. In accordance with various embodiments of the invention, a dialog template specifies at least one style selector for the at least one user-interface control. A transformation module extracts the at least one style selector from the dialog template. A style sheet defines at least one visual-display-characteristic value that is applicable to the at least one user-interface control and that is associated with the at least one style selector. A style sheet-parsing engine uses the at least one style selector to retrieve the at least one visual-display-characteristic value from the style sheet. And a user-interface-control-drawing module draws the at least one user-interface control in accordance with the at least one visual-display-characteristic value retrieved by the style sheet-parsing engine.