Chameleon graphic user interface

• US 20080134077A1
• Filed: 12/05/2006
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Liang, Bing, Cheng, Bavi
• Application Number:
  US11/634,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20080134077A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A Chameleon graphical user interface (GUI) is adaptive to a display environment of a requesting application. In one embodiment, a process includes, but is not limited to, receiving a request from a requesting application, the request indicating a display environment of the requesting application; in response to the request, receiving a document from a system hosting the document, the document having a first display; and transforming the document from the first display style to a second display style, the second display style being associated with the display environment of the requesting application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for a graphic user interface (GUI), the method comprising:

receiving a request from a requesting application, the request indicating a display environment of the requesting application;

in response to the request, receiving a document from a system hosting the document, the document having a first display; and

transforming the document from the first display style to a second display style, the second display style being associated with the display environment of the requesting application.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

parsing the requested document to identify keywords associated with the first display style; and

replacing definitions of the keywords with definitions of corresponding keywords associated with the second display style.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

embedding a default browser window in a form by the requesting application for displaying the requested document on the GUI; and

overwriting a first setting of the default browser window with a second setting, the second setting corresponding to the display environment of the requesting application.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

creating a default browser window on the GUI, the default browser window having a first setting; and

executing a script in the default browser window to create a second browser window on the GUI for displaying the requested document, the second browser window having a second setting that corresponds to the display environment of the requesting application.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the second setting includes a frame style of the second browser window.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the requested document is a hypertext markup language (HTML) compatible document.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

replacing a first display object having the first display style with a second display object having the second display style, the second display object reacting to a cursor movement differently from the first display object.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

defining the second display style in a style sheet, the style sheet including definitions of a static appearance of the requested document.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

defining the second display style in a script, the script including definitions of actions performed by display objects in the requested document in response to cursor movements.

10. A graphical user interface (GUI) platform comprising:

a parser to receive a request from a requesting application, the request indicating a display environment of the requesting application; and

a transformation unit coupled to the parser to transform a first display style of a requested document into a second display style, the second display style being associated with the display environment of the requesting application.

11. The GUI platform of claim 10 further comprising a rendering engine to render a default browser window in a form created by the requesting application, the rendering engine overwriting a first setting of the default browser window with a second setting corresponding to the display environment of the requesting application, wherein the default browser window is for displaying the requested document on the GUI.

12. The GUI platform of claim 10 further comprising:

a rendering engine, which;

creates a default browser window on the GUI, the default browser window having a first setting;

executes a script in the default browser window to create a second browser window on the GUI for displaying the requested document, the second browser window having a second setting that matches the display environment of the requesting application.

13. The GUI platform of claim 12, wherein the second setting includes a frame style of the second browser window.

14. The GUI platform of claim 10, wherein the request is in a style sheet, including definitions of a static appearance of the requested document.

15. The GUI platform of claim 10 further comprising a script, the script including definitions of actions performed by display objects in the requested document in response to cursor movements.

16. A machine-readable medium having instructions, when executed, cause a machine to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a requesting application, the request indicating a display environment of the requesting application;

in response to the request, receiving a document from a system hosting the document, the document having a first display; and

transforming the document from the first display style to a second display style, the second display style being associated with the display environment of the requesting application.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprising:

parsing the requested document to identify keywords associated with the first display style; and

replacing definitions of the keywords with definitions of corresponding keywords associated with the second display style.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprising:

embedding a default browser window in a form by the requesting application for displaying the requested document on the GUI; and

overwriting a first setting of the default browser window with a second setting, the second setting corresponding to the display environment of the requesting application.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the method further comprising:

creating a default browser window on the GUI, the default browser window having a first setting; and

executing a script in the default browser window to create a second browser window on the GUI for displaying the requested document, the second browser window having a second setting that corresponds to the display environment of the requesting application.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the second setting includes a frame style of the second browser window.