A PLATFORM INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OF SPECIFYING AN EMBEDDED USER INTERFACE

摘要

A platform independent system for specifying an embedded user interface has source code that comprises elements and parameters. These elements and parameters describe the user interface including presentation to the user and response to events. In addition, the system has a compiler for tokenizing the elements within the source file; parsing the tokenized elements; and generating one or more databases. A user interface engine resides within a target and serves to monitor events within the user interface engine and the target platform. The user interface engine also will respond to events through the execution of tokenized elements within the database by performing platform specific actions.