Patent ID: 6208337
Filing Date: 2001-03-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
In a computer system having a processor, a display device and an application development environment for developing application programs, a method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:providing a per property browser as part of the application development environment for displaying groups of identifiers of properties and values of the properties of objects on the display device for editing of the values of the properties by a user;providing a selected object having a first property of a first property type that the per property browser can display for editing and a second property of a second property type wherein the per property browser lacks functionality for displaying properties of the second property type for editing and, wherein the first property has an identifier and a value and the second property has an identifier and a value;providing functionality in the object for exposing the second property to the per property browser to enable the per property browser to display the identifier and the value of the second property for editing; anddisplaying the identifiers and the values of both the first property and the second property of the object as part of a selected list on the display device for editing following execution of the functionality.