Object-oriented view-system for displaying information in a windowing environment

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PATENT NO 5465362
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08175851

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A view system is disclosed which provides support polymorphic initialization and finalization of objects. This mechanism is used by the view system to support virtual method invocation at construction/destruction time for objects that require the needed behavior. The C++ language does not support the invocation of virtual methods from within the constructor/destructor of a given object. The view system provides a mechanism whereby an initialization method is invoked after the object construction is completed, but before any methods are invoked on the constructed object. A similar mechanism is used to invoke a virtual finalization method before the object destruction is started. This mechanism is not view system-specific, but is provided and used by the view system to support such behavior.

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  • APPLE INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Gibbons, Bill Los Altos Hills, CA 4 478
Orton, Debra L San Jose, CA 15 734
Rollin, Keith A Sunnyvale, CA 2 80

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