Object set property viewer

A method for displaying objects and properties of the objects in a computer object set, the method comprising:

• capturing an input of an object to view;
• determining if the object has a content adapter and if so, retrieving the content view generated by the content adapter;
• determining if other objects in the content view have a same property adapter;
• retrieving the same property adapter;
• determining that the same property adapter has not been modified;
• inheriting the functions of the same property adapter;
• selecting those objects in the content view of interest;
• obtaining at least one property descriptor and its corresponding property value of the objects from the property adapter;
• selecting those property descriptors and corresponding property values of interest;
• and
• selecting those functions of interest of the same property adapter.

A computer program product for displaying objects and properties of the objects in a computer object set, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to receive inputs of a selected object in a computer object system;
• computer readable program code configured to retrieve a content adapter of the selected object;
• computer readable program code configured to determine the content of the selected object;
• computer readable program code configured to determine if the content has one or more children objects having the same property adapter;
• computer readable program code configured to retrieve the same property adapter for the children objects;
• computer readable program code configured to obtain the property descriptors and the property values of a plurality of properties of the children objects;
• computer readable program code configured to create a view wherein selected ones of the children objects and selected ones of the plurality of properties for each of the selected child objects are displayed.

An object set property viewer in a computer system having an object system, comprising:

• means for selecting an object by a user;
• means for retrieving the children of the object;
• means for determining which children of the object have the same properties;
• and
• means for displaying the objects and the properties.