an object oriented computing system in an object oriented computing platform environment . the computing system comprises a computing platform , and a plurality of objects residing on said computing platform . each of these objects includes an object frame containing data attributes and at least one object method which performs actions on the associated object . the objects are arranged in an inheritance hierarchy of objects to define parent and child objects , such that child objects inherit the data attributes and methods of parent objects , and to further define objects in the inheritance hierarchy which are unrelated as parent and child objects , such that unrelated objects do not inherit the data attributes and method of each other . visual support means are provided to display visually predefined aspects of the objects and complex objects .