Patent ID: 6157380
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method, in a data processing system having a display screen and means for manipulating display items on the display screen, of transferring a user application having a plurality of data and visual attributes from an original user environment employing a first set of visual attributes to implement a user interface for objects in the original user environment to a new user environment employing a second, different set of visual attributes to implement a user interface for objects in the new user environment, comprising:displaying the original user environment on the display screen;displaying the new user environment on the display screen;displaying a graphical image representative of the user application on the display screen in the original user environment;responsive to the graphical image being dragged from the original user environment and dropped in the new user environment, automatically creating an object in the new user environment having data attributes of the user application in the original user environment and inheriting visual attributes employed for other objects in the new user environment.