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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2002
Brandon Brockway, Austin, TX (US);
Brandon Brockway, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method in which a graphical component determines its appearance and runtime behavior based upon the type of container to which it belongs is provided. The container type corresponds to an implementation construct such as a class in C++ and Java, or a struct in C. This implementation construct is referred to as the classtype. The graphical component determines the classtype of its parent container at runtime and dynamically alters its appearance and behavior based upon a programmatic heuristic or a configuration file. For example, a smart graphical component placed inside of a container with a classtype of 'desktop' may display descriptive text, however, the same component may not display the descriptive text when in a toolbar. Runtime behavior may also be determined based upon the classtype of the parent container. Component behavior resulting from user activation can also vary depending upon the parent container classtype.
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