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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1994
John R Matheny, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher White, Mountain View, CA (US);
David R Anderson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Object Technology Licensing Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for a dialog processing system is disclosed. Dialogs include variables that reflect the system's current state. This includes status information determinative of a command's state (enabled/disabled), its name, its associated graphic, and whether its appearance is currently valid. The invention creates a dialog including an object's data structure containing a command sequence. The command is added to a list of commands, and a dialog box is presented to the user. Later when the dialog is processed, the appearance state is recomputed based on the system state.