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Unified program for simultaneously displaying graphically-editable graphics presentation and linguistically-editable linguistic definition of the graphics presentation and for synchronizing the graphics presentation and the linguistic definition to one another

  • US 7,237,193 B1
  • Filed: 09/25/2002
  • Issued: 06/26/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for generating a descriptor language representation of a graphics presentation through use of a presentation development application, comprising:

  • (a) using the presentation development application to generate a display of the graphics presentation;

    (b) using the presentation development application to generate a simultaneous display of a descriptor language source view corresponding to the displayed graphics presentation; and

    (c) using the presentation development application to maintain an optimized meta-structure for representing said graphics presentation, said optimized meta structure including;

    a text storage component for containing text characters of said graphics view;

    an HTML object array containing at least one object that is shared by a series of said text characters; and

    a line array for representing a screen layout said line array including a character offset of last character in a given line, a pixel height of the line and a pointer to an entry in a line layout cache.

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