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Details

Inventors: Amro, Hatim Yousef; Dodson, John Paul;
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Primary Examiner: Bayerl; Raymond J.
Assistant Examiner: Thai; Cuong T.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sawyer Law Group, LLP

The present invention provides a method for providing user-defined dynamic help text which is displayed integrally with the application. The method includes utilizing a monitoring program to monitor a plurality of events for the application; determining if a current event of the plurality of events is a spy event; if the current event of the plurality of events is a spy event, then displaying a help text corresponding to the current event of the plurality of events. In the preferred embodiment, the method also determines if the current event of the plurality of events is a user event if the current event is not a spy event. If the current event is a user event, then the help text corresponding to the current event of the plurality of events is updated according to a user text update. The method of the present invention uses a monitoring program which allows users to create customized help texts for any application. In the preferred embodiment, the monitoring program of the present invention uses spy threads and thus is non-intrusive to the application. In the preferred embodiment, because the monitoring program is a separate application which runs in synchronization with the application, the present invention may be used with any application.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides a method and system for providing a user-defined dynamic help text which is displayed integrally with the application.
The following description is presented to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention and is provided in the context of a patent application and its requirements.
Various modifications to the preferred embodiment will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art and the generic principles herein may be applied to other embodiments.
Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiment shown but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and features described herein.
To more particularly describe the features of the present invention, please refer to FIGS.
2 and 3 in conjunction with the discussion below.
The present invention provides a method and system of providing help text which the user may create and which may be displayed integrally with the application.
This is accomplished through a monitoring program which runs synchronized with the application but in the background.
When the application running with the monitoring program running in the background, the monitoring program displays help text which corresponds to each event present by the application as part of the application.
If no help text exists for the event, the user may create help text.
If help text already exists for the event, the user may edit the text.
The help texts are stored in a separate help text file for portability.
FIG.
2 is a flow chart illustrating a preferred embodiment of the method of providing a user-defined dynamic help text which is displayed integrally with the application in accordance with the present invention.
The present invention uses a monitoring program which when initiated, starts the event spy thread, via step 202.
The spy thread is a process of the monitoring program which reads the event queue of the operating system.
The event queue holds the events of all of the applications currently running in the operating system

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