Patent ID: 7725826

Claim:
A method for displaying a control panel view useable to monitor and control an audio-related device in a computing system having a graphical user interface, the method comprising: the computing system retrieving a stored predefined graphical user interface control panel view from a control panel library of the audio-related device, the stored predefined graphical user interface control panel view comprising a plurality of pre-defined graphical user interface components that have been visually placed and interrelated in the stored predefined control panel view to enable monitoring, configuration, and control of the audio-related device, at least one of the graphical user interface components corresponding to a first component in an audio node structure, where the first component in the audio node structure comprises a first changeable control value and a first changeable indication value indicative of functionality of the audio-related device; the computing system retrieving a graphical user interface aspect representative of a second component of the audio node structure when at least a portion of the audio node structure is unrepresented with the stored predefined graphical user interface control panel view in the control panel library, the second component of the audio node structure comprises a second changeable control value and a second changeable indication value indicative of functionality of the audio-related device; the computing system integrating the graphical user interface aspect into the stored predefined graphical user interface control panel view to interrelate the graphical user interface aspect with the pre-defined graphical user interface components within the stored predefined graphical user interface control panel view so that the stored predefined graphical user interface control panel view is configured to receive and display to a user an actual value of the first changeable indication value and the second changeable indication value, and receive from the user an update to the first changeable control value and the second changeable control value for application to the audio node structure; and the computing system storing the graphical user interface control panel view that includes the integrated graphical user interface aspect to be instantiated on a display as a new graphical user interface control panel view associated with the audio-related device.