Electronic document style matrix

A computer-implemented method for displaying a gallery of potential styles for an object comprising:

• receiving an object selection;
• looking up one or more attribute values for each of a plurality of potential styles;
• generating at least one property bag corresponding to each of the plurality of potential styles using said one or more attribute values;
• and
• rendering an object indicated by said object selection in each of the plurality of potential styles using said at least one property bag.

A system for rendering electronic document objects comprising:

• a lookup module for looking up one or more actual attribute values using one or more attribute references;
• a property bag module operable to create one or more property bags using the one or more actual attribute values, each of the one or more property bags corresponding to a style for rendering an object;
• a render module operable to render one or more objects using the one or more property bags;
• and
• a gallery module operable to render a gallery of styles for rendering the one or more objects.

A computer-implemented method for associating a style matrix with an electronic document application comprising:

• associating one or more style matrices with an application;
• receiving a signal to load an object;
• and
• mapping one or more object attribute references to one or more positions in said one or more style matrices.

A computer storage medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing system to:

• receive an object selection;
• retrieve at least one attribute value and at least one attribute type from a style matrix, the style matrix comprising:
• one or more rows, each row corresponding to an attribute type;
• and
• one or more columns, each column corresponding to an attribute value;
• generate at least one property bag using the at least one attribute value and the at least one attribute type;
• and
• render an object identified by the object selection using the at least one property bag.

A computer storage medium accessible to a computing system and encoding a computer program for displaying a gallery of potential styles for an object comprising:

• receiving an object selection;
• retrieving one or more attribute values for each of a plurality of potential styles;
• generating at least one property bag corresponding to each of the plurality of potential styles using said one or more attribute values;
• and
• rendering an object indicated by said object selection in each of the plurality of potential styles using said at least one property bag.

A computer system for rendering an electronic document chart in an electronic document application, comprising:

• at least one processing unit;
• and
• at least one memory, communicatively coupled to the at least one processing unit and containing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing unit, cause the computer system to:
• receive an object selection;
• retrieve at least one attribute value for each of a plurality of potential styles;
• generate at least one property bag corresponding to each of the plurality of potential styles using the at least one attribute value;
• and
• render an object identified by the object selection in each of the plurality of potential styles using the at least one property bag.