Taxonomy of objects and a system of non-modal property inspectors
First Claim
1. A system for adapting an object for a plug-in environment comprisingan object having a hierarchical organization of attributes ordered into families with classes within the families, means for receiving said object and applying said object to a stream of data, a user interface for displaying said hierarchical organization of attributes of said object, launch means for launching an inspector, said inspector having means for displaying a setting of attributes of said object and having means for modifying said setting of attributes.
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Abstract
A system has a hierarchical organization for modifying and applying tools for manipulating data types. The system has a user interface for displaying the hierarchical organization, an inspector for viewing and modifying an internal structure of the tools and a button for launching each of the inspectors.
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40 Claims
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1. A system for adapting an object for a plug-in environment comprising
an object having a hierarchical organization of attributes ordered into families with classes within the families, means for receiving said object and applying said object to a stream of data, a user interface for displaying said hierarchical organization of attributes of said object, launch means for launching an inspector, said inspector having means for displaying a setting of attributes of said object and having means for modifying said setting of attributes.
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14. A user interface for rendering an electronic image, comprising:
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input means for defining the electronic image with at least one object the at least one object having hierarchical organization of properties each defining a display attribute of the object, the hierarchical organization comprising at least one property set, each said property set comprising a family of properties, each said family comprising at least one class of properties; and
a launcher responsive to said input means for launching an inspector, said inspector being configured to at least one of display and modify one of the properties associated with the at least one object. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method for adapting an object for a plug-in environment comprising
providing a hierarchical organization of attributes characterizing said object, displaying said hierarchical organization of attributes in a tree structure having a series of nodes corresponding to a family, a class within the family, and a property set of said object, launching an inspector for displaying a setting of attributes of said object, and modifying said setting of attributes.
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