Patent ID: 8959476
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, executed by a processing unit, for providing content for information messages comprising the steps of: providing a central service that is operable to process tooltips and context menus for a plurality of applications, the central service maintaining properties of context menus and tooltips that are reusable from a plurality of software applications to generate context menus and tooltips; listening at the central service to a series of inputs and detecting whether a first event is fired, the first event being fired from code included in a particular application that is not part of the central service, the code being configured to access the central service, the central service being operable to fire a second event if the central service determines that content has been defined for a particular option in the particular application that is not part of the central service and determines that the central service is enabled for the particular option; detecting that the second event is fired, if the central service determines that the content for the particular option is a tooltip content, then retrieving the tooltip content and displaying it on a user interface as an information message to a user; and detecting that the second event is fired, if the central service determines that the content for the particular option is a context menu content, then retrieving the content menu content and displaying it on the user interface as at least one action that can be selected by the user based on a context of the particular option.