Patent ID: 7075555

Claim:
In a computer system, a method of displaying information, comprising: a) accessing a flag indicating a display mode of a display screen of a computer system, wherein said display mode indicates a display capability of said display screen; b) an application program of said computer system making a call to request a display attribute for an object to be displayed on said display screen; c) in response to said request, indexing a table with said flag and an object identifier to obtain a display attribute, wherein said object identifier identifies said object, and wherein said table is located in said computer system externally of said application program and comprises a list of said object identifiers and a plurality of display attribute lists, each of said display attribute lists having a display attribute associated with each of said object identifiers, wherein at least two of said display attribute lists correspond to different potential display capabilities of said display screen; and, d) said application program displaying said object on said display screen with said display attribute, wherein said display capability of said display screen is transparent to said application program.