International Business Machines Corporation

Robert P Hoffmann

John D Montgomery

Jerry Walter Malcolm

Steve S Stone

John P Barrett

A method of defining, creating, or editing a menu bar in a graphical user interface panel file for a graphical user interface panel. The method includes opening a graphical user interface source code file, and entering at least one menu bar defining tag file. The menu object tag file is then edited and compiled to form an edited graphical user interface object code file including a menu bar.

Method of creating, defining, or editing a graphical user interface

A method of defining, creating, or editing a graphical user interface panel. According to the method, a user opens a graphical user interface source code file. This source code file contains an entry for the user interface panel and for each object, as an icon, an action bar, or the like, within the panel. The object entries include the size and location of the object. The user edits the source code file in a dynamic sizing, What You See Is What You Get environment. A compiler compiles the graphical user interface source code file to form a graphical user interface object code file. The compiler also updates the size and location object entries of each graphical object, dynamically sizing the size and location object entries.

Graphical user interface including dynamic sizing and spacing

A method of defining, creating, or editing a graphical user interface panel file. The graphical user interface panel contains a plurality of nested graphical objects. According to the disclosed method the end-user opens a graphical user interface source code file and operates on an object that contains at least further nested object. For example, the nesting object may be a box, and the nested objects may be pushbuttons. The nested object file is a linked list that includes an object start identifier, an object end identifier, and included object pointers therebetween for the included objects. Each included object has an included object pointer. The enables the end-user to perform an operation on the object start identifier, which initiates a search for included objects having pointers between the object start identifier and the object end identifier. This allows the same operation to be performed on the included objects.

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Endwell, NY, United States of America

Robert P Hoffmann