Patent ID: 7603624
Filing Date: 2009-10-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system for dynamically displaying a user interface element according to a dynamically selected style based on a user-entered property value, comprising: one or more user interface controls that are part of a software application, the user interface controls having associated data objects of one or more different content types; one or more style resources having user-entered property values associated with a computer user to be assigned to the user interface control and to the data object of the user interface control, the user interface controls being dynamically updateable and separately updateable from any style resources, such that changes to the user interface controls can be made without affecting the style resources; a styling engine for: a rendering engine operably coupled to the styling engine for rendering a display representation, in accordance with the dynamically selected style determined to be appropriate for the user interface control's data object's content type, of the user interface control with the data object for presentation on a user interface display, the user interface control and the data object each including the dynamically selected style resource corresponding to the user-entered property value, the rendering engine being configured to perform the following: