Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1997-05-27
2000-02-15
Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
395702, 345347, 707534, G06F 945
Patent
active
060262338
ABSTRACT:
An intelligent real time tool to assist a computer programmer during the writing and/or maintenance of a computer program. The tool generates assist windows that contain program related information that the programmer can use to construct a programming language statement and/or to obtain real time information about a programming language statement. An assist window can be automatically displayed as determined by the tool itself, and/or manually displayed on demand in response to a user input command. An assist window displays two general categories of information including but not limited to selection menu information based on a partial compilation of all programming language statements, and informational displays based on a partial compilation and a reverse parse of an immediate programming language statement. The statement generating tool assist windows are non-intrusive to programmer input and can be ignored by the programmer by merely continuing to type an immediate programming language statement without interacting with the assist windows that are proximate the programming language statement being constructed by the programmer.
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Cibulka Martin
Curland Matthew James
Shulman Matthew
Sobeski David Anthony
Microsoft Corporation
Sattizahn Brian
Todd Voeltz Emanuel
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