Claims
- 1. A method for operating a graphic user interface in a windowing operating system comprising the steps of:
- determining from information stored in the operating system a value representing a mapping of logical inches to real measurement units;
- determining from information stored in the operating system a physical size in real measurement units of a display device used to display the graphic user interface;
- asking a user viewing the display device to identify a displayed graphic image having a preselected dimension in real measurement units;
- displaying a plurality of graphic objects, wherein each of the graphic objects have a different size;
- asking the user viewing the plurality of graphic object to select one of the graphic objects;
- storing the size of the selected graphic object as a first user-defined size.
- 2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:
- displaying a plurality of graphic objects, wherein each of the graphic objects have a different size;
- asking the user viewing the plurality of graphic object to select one of the graphic objects; and
- storing the size of the selected graphic object as a second user-defined size.
- 3. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:
- storing the value representing a mapping of logical inches to real measurement units, the physical size in real measurement units of the display device, and a value representing the first user-defined size in persistent storage.
Parent Case Info
The present invention relates to and claims priority from U.S. Provisional application Ser. No. 60/038,387 entitled "SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS AS DATA" filed on Feb. 14, 1997, U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/037,941 entitled "CRUCIBLE QUERY SYSTEM" filed on Feb. 14, 1997, and U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/038,390 entitled "DEVICE INDEPENDENT WINDOW LAYOUT FOR GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF INFORMATION" filed on Feb. 14, 1997.
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