Patent ID: 7376906

Claim:
A computer-readable storage medium having a data structure stored thereon with one or more theme data sections for providing a theme property for a graphical component in a themeable windows environment of a computer system, the graphical component being associated with a target class comprising: a class data section having one or more first theme properties, each first theme property being associated with a class of a component; a global data section having one or more second theme properties, each second theme property being associated with any class of graphical component; and a jump-to-parent entry storing a reference into the global data section to provide access to a second theme property if a first theme property for a target class does not exist in the class data section, the reference including an offset to an entry in the global data section; wherein a single binary file stored on the computer-readable storage medium includes the class data, the global data, and the jump-to-parent entry.