Patent ID: 6437810
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of generating a property sheet having at least a shell supported property sheet page and at least an application supported property sheet page in a data processing system having a video display and a processor running an operating system that includes a shell, the method comprising:providing at least one object associated with an application installed under the operating system, each object belonging to an object class; providing a shell supported property sheet page defined by the shell in association with the object class, the shell supported property sheet page presenting a shell supported property; providing at least one application supported property sheet page defined by the application in association with the object, the application supported property sheet page presenting at least one application supported property; integrating the application supported property sheet page and the shell supported property sheet page into the property sheet; and in response to a request to display one or more properties associated with the object, displaying the property sheet to provide access to the shell supported property sheet page and the application supported property sheet page.