Enhanced graphical development environment for controlling progr

Details Enhanced graphical development environment for controlling progr Enhanced graphical development environment for controlling progr

1999-05-12

2000-10-10

Chaki, Kakali

Data processing: software development, installation, and managem

Software program development tool

Translation of code

717 1, 345967, G06F 9445

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061311847

ABSTRACT:
A graphical development environment for developing the program flow of an application. The environment represents the program flow as an arrow between starting and end points. A developer can modify the program flow by adding an icon representing a subroutine to any point on the arrow. Loops and possible returns of a subroutine are graphically represented by the environment. If the developer modifies the API of a subroutine, the environment graphically represents the calling routines that are affected by the API change. The environment also allows functional components of subroutines to be overwritten by the caller. In such a case, the overwritten components are executing within the caller's environment space. Different overwritten instances of an overwritable subroutine may exist in the same program flow.

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