Patent ID: 8286073

Claim:
A method for performing a load-on-demand operation, said method comprising: displaying first and second graphic objects on a surface of a computer operating environment; assigning by a user said first graphic object to said second object; activating a load-on-demand setting for said second graphic object at any time in response to said assigning, said activating being independent of any other load-on-demand settings for other assigned-to graphic objects in said computer operating environment; loading a computer file that includes at least one of said other assigned-to graphic objects and said second graphic object without said first graphic object to produce a computer environment having at least one of said other assigned-to graphic objects and said second graphic object; activating said second graphic object in said computer environment; and loading said first graphic object in said computer environment in response to said activating of said second graphic object without loading any graphic objects for said other assigned-to graphic objects.