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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2009
Mark E. Glotzbach, Granger, IN (US);
Brian N. Radford, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Mark E. Glotzbach, Granger, IN (US);
Brian N. Radford, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Bentor Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
An appliance includes one or more control boards having control software to control the cycle of operation, and a graphical user interface with one or more instances of a user interface control in communication with the control boards. The appliance also has a binding map for associating the user interface control instances with one or more locator objects or one or more binding objects associated with the locator objects. The locator objects are associated with addressing information used to find renderable data for user interface control instances. The appliance also has a software framework for acquiring the renderable data at runtime by resolving the location of the renderable data from the addressing information and retrieving the renderable data from the location for use by the graphical user interface. With this structure, the software framework dynamically renders the graphical user interface at runtime based on the associations and addressing information in the binding map.