Method and apparatus for at least partially instantiating an object in a compound document using the object's parent class configuration data when the object's configuration data is unavailable
US5499333A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 20, 1995 |
| Grant date | Mar 12, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 20, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/131
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
When an original object is created by a user, the invocation of an object of a given class initiates storage of the load information for an object of that class in the compound document specification. In addition, the document creation process must include a process for checking whether objects of the desired class have hierarchical parents, i.e. superclasses, defined to exist, and if they do, these one or more superclass load information sets must also be loaded with the load information for the object created by the user. It is this information which is utilized at a displaying user's computer system when a failure to instantiate and display a part of a given class or type occurs, so that the display process can resort to the hierarchical superclass definitions and use the superclasses instantiation load information instead.
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