DISPLAY MANAGER, DISPLAY MANAGER FRAMEWORK AND HELP INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD

    公开(公告)号:JPH11110098A

    公开(公告)日:1999-04-23

    申请号:JP20936798

    申请日:1998-07-24

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To have a proper action and to evade the mismatching by capsulating the definition of an interface used for the UI entity and the information on the interface area and giving a notification to a display component when the display, change, shift or elimination is decided for the held information after a notification is received about a dialog of the relative users. SOLUTION: The 1st help information display shows a general-purpose UI entity definition component 20 including a part of a display manager framework and capsulates the details of an interface sensible area and the information on this area. The component 20 receives a notification when the display, change, shift or elimination is decided for the information including the received notification of a dialog of the relative users. The 2nd help information display shows a display component 30 which implements an interface of the display manager frame work that defines a general-purpose display method. The component 30 capsulates the details of a specific method for display of the information using a general-purpose method.

    Presentation of help information via a user interface

    公开(公告)号:GB2329042A

    公开(公告)日:1999-03-10

    申请号:GB9718582

    申请日:1997-09-03

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A framework supporting presentation of help information via a computer system user interface in response to the proximity of an input device pointer to an interface area associated with a user interface component. The framework provides generic methods which remove from user interface components much of the task of managing the presentation of help information. The framework supports presentation of help information for a platform-independent component programming environment and supports presentations in a plurality of different styles (such as text, audio, animating graphics, etc) by means of selectable presentation methods.

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