公开(公告)号：GB2350990A

公开(公告)日：2000-12-13

申请号：GB9925012

申请日：1999-10-25

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BURKETTINSKI CHARLES ,  LECTION DAVID BRUCE

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G06F9/445

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for initializing, via a computer operating system, graphical user interface (GUI) controls for an application program running within the computer operating system GUI. An Extensible Markup Language (XML) document associated with the GUI control is retrieved via initialization code stored within the computer operating system. The XML document includes at least one string of text that indicates how the GUI control is to be displayed within the GUI. The retrieved XML document is parsed by the computer operating system to identify each string of text contained therewithin. The GUI control is then initialized within the GUI using each identified string of text.