Method and system for designing a graphical user interface for an electronic consumer product

A system for developing a graphical user interface comprising:

• a. at least one target device comprising a target processor for maintaining an arrangement of graphical and control components, using a first computer language;
• b. at least one host device comprising a host processor for maintaining a duplicate arrangement of duplicate graphical and control components, using a second computer language, different from the first computer language;
• and
• c. means for linking the components and duplicate components and keeping them fully equivalent, the linking means comprising:
• i. a compiler for compiling first component specification code from the first environment to the second computer language;
• and
• a procedure for generating second component specification code conversion from the second environment to the first computer language.

A computer method for establishing a development environment for an application for a target processor, using a host processor, the method comprising:

• maintaining a development platform on the host processor, using a first computer language;
• maintaining a runtime platform on the target processor, using a second computer language, different from the first computer language;
• coordinating the platforms so that application functions on both remain fully equivalent, including:
• automatically compiling first code sets from the target processor to the host processor;
• and
• automatically converting second code sets from the host processor to the target processor.