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Systems and methods for creating and managing graphical user interface lists

  • US 7,603,627 B2
  • Filed: 02/05/2002
  • Issued: 10/13/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system, comprising:

  • an application configured for execution on one or more processors included in the system;

    a data source locally accessible to the application that includes a plurality of data elements;

    software to select a configuration and an appearance of a list of data items from the data source to be presented; and

    a list manager to be instantiated by the software to;

    act as an interface between the data source and the list;

    receive the configuration and the appearance from the software, access the data source, and populate the list of data items according to the configuration and the appearance; and

    wrap one or more display controls that are attached to the list with a property that stores a unique identifier that specifies which said data element a particular said display control is currently displaying, the unique identifier identifying an additional property of said data element from the data source without listening to a data item corresponding to said data element.

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