Patent ID: 6938260
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An object oriented computing system in an object oriented computing platform environment comprising: a computing platform; a plurality of objects residing on said computing platform, each of said objects including an object frame containing data attributes and at least one object method which performs actions on the associated object, said objects being arranged in an inheritance hierarchy of objects to define parent and child objects such that child objects inherit the data attributes and methods of parent objects and to further define objects in said inheritance hierarchy which are unrelated as parent and child objects such that unrelated objects do not inherit the data attributes and method of each other; an object manager which sends messages to said objects to perform actions on the associated object frame using the associated object messages; means, executing on said computing platform and responsive to a user request, for grouping selected ones of said objects in said inheritance hierarchy which are unrelated to each other as parent and child objects, into a plurality of Complex Objects; and a visual support means to display visually predefined aspects of the attributes and relationships of the objects and complex objects to allow programmatic support for data navigation, presentation and manipulation, the visual support means including a quick view means for selecting columns from one table to be included as columns in a second, viewed table, the quick view means including