MODIFYING APPLICATION BEHAVIOR

• US 20120185767A1
• Filed: 06/22/2011
• Published: 07/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Schlegel, Eric Charles
• Application Number:
  US13/166,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20120185767A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for modifying application behavior. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from an application, a command to present an element of a graphical user interface. One or more previously received commands is received from the application. An operation that should be performed on a document is identified. The operation is performed instead of presenting the element of the graphical user interface.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, from an application, a command to present an element of a graphical user interface;

identifying one or more previously received commands from the application;

determining that an operation should be performed on a document; and

performing the operation instead of presenting the element of the graphical user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein performing the operation comprises saving the document.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein saving the document comprises writing the document to a file.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the element of the graphical user interface is a save dialog box.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a response to the application that the element was successfully presented.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

performing a second operation on the document after the application is reopened.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein performing the operation comprises providing instructions to the application with a scripting interface.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the operation should be performed based on attributes of the document and the application.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein determining that the operation should be performed comprises determining that the document is not a read-only document.

10. A method comprising:

receiving, from a process, a request to read a file corresponding to a document open in an application;

determining that the document has been modified since a time that the document was most recently saved;

issuing a command to the application to save the document; and

after the document has been saved, providing read access to the process.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the process is a different process than a process running the application.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

after issuing a command to the application to save the document, receiving a corresponding request from the application to write the contents of the document to a file.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein issuing a command to the application to save the document comprises providing instructions to the application using a scripting interface.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein after the document has been saved, contents of the document as open in the application match contents of the document as stored in a file.

15. A system comprising:

one or more computers; and

a computer-readable storage device having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

receiving, from an application, a command to present an element of a graphical user interface;

identifying one or more previously received commands from the application;

determining that an operation should be performed on a document; and

performing the operation instead of presenting the element of the graphical user interface.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein performing the operation comprises saving the document.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein saving the document comprises writing the document to a file.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the element of the graphical user interface is a save dialog box.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

providing a response to the application that the element was successfully presented.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:

performing a second operation on the document after the application is reopened.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein performing the operation comprises providing instructions to the application with a scripting interface.

22. The system of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the operation should be performed based on attributes of the document and the application.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein determining that the operation should be performed comprises determining that the document is not a read-only document.

24. A system comprising:

one or more computers; and

a computer-readable storage device having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

receiving, from a process, a request to read a file corresponding to a document open in an application;

determining that the document has been modified since a time that the document was most recently saved;

issuing a command to the application to save the document; and

after the document has been saved, providing read access to the process.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the process is a different process than a process running the application.

26. The system of claim 24, further comprising:

after issuing a command to the application to save the document, receiving a corresponding request from the application to write the contents of the document to a file

27. The system of claim 24, wherein issuing a command to the application to save the document comprises providing instructions to the application using a scripting interface.

28. The system of claim 24, wherein after the document has been saved, contents of the document as open in the application match contents of the document as stored in a file.

29. A computer-readable storage device having stored thereon instructions, which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from an application, a command to present an element of a graphical user interface;

identifying one or more previously received commands from the application;

determining that an operation should be performed on a document; and

performing the operation instead of presenting the element of the graphical user interface.

30. The storage device of claim 29, wherein performing the operation comprises saving the document.

31. The storage device of claim 30, wherein saving the document comprises writing the document to a file.

32. The storage device of claim 30, wherein the element of the graphical user interface is a save dialog box.

33. The storage device of claim 29, wherein the operations further comprise:

providing a response to the application that the element was successfully presented.

34. The storage device of claim 33, wherein the operations further comprise:

performing a second operation on the document after the application is reopened.

35. The storage device of claim 29, wherein performing the operation comprises providing instructions to the application with a scripting interface.

36. The storage device of claim 29, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the operation should be performed based on attributes of the document and the application.

37. The storage device of claim 36, wherein determining that the operation should be performed comprises determining that the document is not a read-only document.