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US 5,946,485 AGranted
Enhanced graphical development environment for controlling program flow
AssigneeInterVoice Limited Partnership
InventorsEric Weeren, Myra Hambleton
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AssigneeInterVoice Limited Partnership
InventorsEric Weeren, Myra Hambleton
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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.
A computer system having a display means, said computer system providing a graphical development environment for users, said computer system comprising:
A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for graphically developing an application on a display means, the computer program product comprising:
A method of developing an application on a computer system having display means, comprising the steps of:
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