Patent ID: 8850336

Claim:
A method of producing at least one of a graphic user and display surface on a display for a man/machine interface of a motor vehicle, the method comprising the acts of: forming a hierarchically structured menu displayable on the display of the man/machine interface, wherein the menu comprises a main group and at least one subgroup below the main group or below a subgroup ranking below the main group; assigning each of the graphic elements to the main group, or to one of the subgroups; and passing one or more display properties of the graphical elements across the hierarchically structured menu's subgroups of the man/machine interface to provide graphical changes to one or more corresponding display properties of each graphic element which is assigned to the hierarchically structured menu's subgroups, wherein the main group and the at least one subgroup each indicate properties of the graphic elements assigned thereto, a graphic element of a subgroup, in addition to the properties indicated in the subgroup, at least predominantly also having the properties indicated in the main group, and wherein at least one property of the display properties indicated in the main group is indicated in a subgroup in a manner deviating from the main group, and a graphic element assigned to the corresponding subgroup has the deviating property.