Graphical user interface including user control of what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor objects

摘要

Disclosed is a method of defining, creating, or editing a graphical user interface panel file for a graphical user interface panel having at least one object, i.e., one icon, control box, or the like. The graphical user interface editor contains a user modifiable graphical user interface source code control file. This file contains graphical user interface defining tag files. These tag files describe the graphical user interface panel objects. The method includes opening the control file, and editing an object tag file within the panel control file. According to the disclosed method, additional attribute tag files may be added to an object tag file, or an existing attribute tag file of an object tag file may be edited.