Inventors:
Michael Lane Gough - Ben Lomond CA, US
Stephanie Eva Koester - San Francisco CA, US
Brian Burnell McGhie - Santa Clara CA, US
James Ieyasu Miyake - San Jose CA, US
Richard Victor Nygord - San Jose CA, US
Samir Ranjan Tiongson Saxena - Santa Clara CA, US
Assignee:
Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA
International Classification:
G06F 3/048
US Classification:
715762, 715763, 715761, 715769, 715835, 715853
Abstract:
An editor for creating and editing user-guidance information employs multiple interrelated interfaces. One such interface allows the user to create a user-guidance sequence from a series of component script file module objects and panel display objects. Each object is assigned a graphical icon. The user constructs the sequence by stringing together the icons to implement the desired sequence. The user may maintain a customized file of frequently used component script files objects and panel display objects. The user may add an object from the customized file to a sequence currently being edited by “dragging” its associated icon from the file to the sequence. The user may perform editing on individual display objects within the above described sequence of display objects by “clicking” on one of the display objects. This invokes a separate editor which displays the contents of the display object. The editor operates on information in parse tree format.