Abstract: A user at a first computer system with a defined block of native text/graphics on a clipboard supported by the first computer system is enabled to provide this same block of marshalled native text in its precise format on a clipboard supported by a second computer system that has a different platform or operating system, wherein the marshalled native text on the clipboard of the second system is ready to be unmarshalled and pasted into a text document stored in the second computer transparently, without losing the format or any of the other attributes of the cut native text and graphics, as if it were a simple cut and paste routine on the same computer system.

Abstract: This is a system (as an example) to prevent an undesirable condition of a second application GUI interface window blocking the first application GUI interface window, while the user's focus is on the first window, and causes an unintended input into a wrong application. This is accomplished (as an example) by temporarily discarding the inputs while the Graphical cursor is located on the 2nd application's GUI interface for a predetermined amount of time and gives the user enough time to refocus on this new application GUI interface.

Abstract: In a data processing system having an associated display device and a graphical user interface presented therein, a focus change request is received from an application of the data processing system requesting focus of the graphical user interface. In response to receipt of the focus change request, granting of the focus change request is delayed for a predetermined interval following a last user-generated keyboard event. Following elapsing of the predetermined interval, the focus change request is granted, such that the requesting application is awarded focus of the graphical user interface.