Abstract: A system and process for providing adaptable controls to computing applications to facilitate interaction by an operator with displayable content. In a computer system running a computing application, it is advantageous to provide adaptable controls that have the ability to reflect content or feature preferences of operators of computing applications. These dynamic computing application controls cooperate with computing applications to provide additional features to the operator.

Abstract: A system and process for providing adaptable controls to computing applications to facilitate interaction by an operator with computing application content. In a computer system running a computing application, it is advantageous to provide adaptable controls that have the ability to reflect content or feature preferences of operators of computing applications. These dynamic computing application controls cooperate with computing applications to provide additional features to the operator. However, unlike conventional computing application controls that have their parameters hard-coded within the computing application itself, the present invention provides a system to update the control parameters remote to the computing application to reflect changes in operator's preferences. In an illustrative implementation, these dynamic controls may take the form of an add-on toolbar having drop down menus that have the form of panes.

Abstract: A system and process for providing adaptable controls to computing applications to facilitate interaction by an operator with computing application content is provided. The present invention provides a system to update the control parameters remote to the computing application to reflect changes in operator's preferences. In an illustrative implementation, these dynamic controls may take the form of an add-on toolbar having drop down menus that have the form of panes. In operation, the computing application launches and retrieves the parameters of these controls through messaging from a remote server computer. When launched, the computing application will display the add-on toolbar, maintaining Web-in-Web panes, having the latest updated parameters (i.e. content, look, and feel of the toolbar and panes) as found on the remote server computer.