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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2004
Craig Henry Becker, Austin, TX (US);
Jimmy Ming-der Hsu, Austin, TX (US);
Craig Henry Becker, Austin, TX (US);
Jimmy Ming-Der Hsu, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Rendering GUI widgets with generic look and feel by receiving in a display device a master definition of a graphics display, the master definition including at least one graphics definition element, the graphics definition element including a reference to a protowidget and one or more instance parameter values characterizing an instance of the protowidget, the protowidget includes a definition of a generic GUI object, including generic display values affecting overall look and feel of the graphics display, and rendering at least one instance of the protowidget to a graphics display in dependence upon the generic display values and the instance parameter values.