Patent ID: 7827496

Claim:
A method for generating a multimonitor user interface on at least one target system for an application, the method comprising: accessing a configuration file without accessing the application, the configuration file describing at least a visual component and a configurable control event of a layout for the user interface to be generated, with the visual component relating to presenting objects in the user interface and the configurable control event relating to defining the objects; generating the user interface by at least one of reading in and interpreting the configuration file, where the generating separately generates the visual component and the configurable control event of the configuration file, wherein the generation of the user interface is isolated, in terms of data processing, from the target system and the application, the configuration file includes a mapping which assigns the configurable control event to an event handler, the mapping assigning generically and independently of the application and the target system, and the at least one target system and the application are configured to run on different systems, each of the different systems including different platforms.