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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2005
John Gossman, Seattle, WA (US);
John Gossman, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A style model implementation that is applied to objects within a user interface to define any attributes of the objects. The model is divided into two parts: a 'runtime' which uses a style definition to affect the look and feel of the user interface, and a 'design-time' which is the experience presented by WYSIWYG tools used to define the look and feel of the user interface. The design-time may be implemented in terms of the run-time objects. Properties associated with the styles can be set on the objects using the design-time UI and enforced at runtime. Styles may be grouped into themes to provide an easy mechanism to apply changes to many objects.