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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1992
John P Barrett, Austin, TX (US);
Robert P Hoffmann, Endwell, NY (US);
John D Montgomery, Binghamton, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
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.