41. The apparatus of claim 38, comprising: a plurality of dialogs each constructed and arranged to control display of and interaction with an associated dialog box; and a dialog manager constructed and arranged to selectively provide selected ones of said plurality of dialogs with dialog box control requests generated by the graphical user interface, and to cause the generation of selected system calls to the operating system to implement said selected dialog launch modality, each said system call causing the operating system to process certain user inputs.
41. The apparatus of claim 38, comprising: a plurality of dialogs each constructed and arranged to control display of and interaction with an associated dialog box; and a dialog manager constructed and arranged to selectively provide selected ones of said plurality of dialogs with dialog box control requests generated by the graphical user interface, and to cause the generation of selected system calls to the operating system to implement said selected dialog launch modality, each said system call causing the operating system to process certain user inputs. 63. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein each of said plurality of dialogs comprise one or more object classes in an object-oriented software language.