Unisys Corporation

Randy Alan Steuckrath

Mark Jeffrey Tadman

Kung Yi Lin

Douglas Marshall Tolbert

Subramaniam Ramamurthi

Vikki Mei-Whey Lai

Minh-Nguyet Tran

Jennifer Erin Kays

John Earl Pittaway

A specialized server holding a hierarchical database works with a Graphical User Interface to transform a hierarchical schema by utilizing an XMI file which is used with a modeling tool to develop a relational schema for display and use in a relational database in the Graphical User Interface.

Method and system for converting hierarchical database schemas into relational database schemas

A system and method for dynamically saving the properties of transient controls in a general screen dialog and enabling these properties to be restored at a later time. In a typical GUI based computer program, a number of user interface objects or &ldquo;controls&rdquo; are presented graphically to a user on a form to allow the user to input information by interfacing these controls. The activation of the various controls on the form by a user is referred to as the screen dialog. The present invention allows a user of the computer system to save the current properties of a form's transient controls to a database, where this form can later be restored with its transient controls having the same properties as when the form was saved. A screen dialog save procedure loops through all of the controls on a form and inserts a record of each control type along with its respective property values into a database. A user may browse through saved screen dialogs in the database and select a desired screen dialog to restore. A screen dialog restore procedure loops through all of the controls saved in the database for the selected screen dialog, where a record of the control information for each control is obtained and the property values for each respective control is set on the restored form. The present invention allows the properties of objects in a screen dialog to be saved and restored without the need for scripting.

Method and apparatus for dynamically saving/restoring the properties of controls in a screen dialog

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Laguna Niguel, CA, United States of America

Randy Alan Steuckrath