Abstract: A graphical user interface allows a user to create an image having a pop-up menu which is exportable to a target computer without the creating user being required to know how to program in JAVASCRIPT™. Using menu selection in the application in which the image is running, the creating user may insert a pop-up menu instruction associated with an object and positioned at a desired location within the image. The inserted pop-up menu instruction then causes the creating computer to invoke its own routines that construct an exportable JAVASCRIPT™ file that allows for a pop-up menu associated with the desired object to be displayed on the screen of a target system.

Abstract: The present invention is for a system and process for simplifying complex graphical paths. The process first analyzes individual curve and straight line segments of the path, possibly splitting curved segments at local extrema points. Next, the process creates a list of points which includes the endpoints of all the original curve and straight line segments, as well as generating intermediate points along the curve and straight line segments. The process also flags each point in the list indicating what kind of point it is, or what the original path looks like at each point. Thereafter, the process flags any and all extrema points of the types the user specified. Then, the process uses a curve fitting routine for refitting each section of the path with new curves. The process tries to find a minimum set of curves which will reproduce the original path into a simplified version within the tolerances the user has specified.