David F Stroud

US Patent:

8132115, Mar 6, 2012

Filed:

Feb 18, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/781307

Inventors:

John G. Beltran - San Rafael CA, US
Phillip D. Beymer - Berkeley CA, US
David Stroud - Santa Rosa CA, US

Assignee:

Autodesk, Inc. - San Rafael CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715763, 715764

Abstract:

A method, apparatus and article of manufacture provide for displaying per-instance dynamic properties of an object. A reference to an object instance having a dynamic property that is supplied at runtime for the object instance on a per-instance basis and is not stored with the object is received. A reference to a property source instance, that maintains knowledge of the dynamic property, associated with the object, is retrieved. The references are provided to a control that retrieves and displays the dynamic property. Additionally, the object may provide/specify a custom ActiveX control that defines a user interface for displaying and editing one or more properties. The custom control is instantiated and used to display the property in the defined user interface.