Patent ID: 8130224

Claim:
A method to display a graphical user interface object, comprising: obtaining, in a run-time environment, a plurality of values associated with a graphical user interface object, each of the values associated with a display characteristic of a graphical user interface object; identifying, at run-time, a first value from the plurality of values as being associated with a first display resolution of a first attribute of the graphical user interface object wherein the first value affects a display characteristic of the first attribute when the graphical user interface object is displayed at the first display resolution; identifying, at run-time, a second value from the plurality of values as being associated with a second display resolution of the first attribute of the graphical user interface object wherein the second value affects a display characteristic of the first attribute when the graphical user interface object is displayed at the second display resolution; and causing the graphical user interface object to be rendered at the first display resolution by providing the plurality of values except the second value to a rendering engine through one or more application programming interface functions.