Data processing system and method

• US 20060130027A1
• Filed: 11/21/2005
• Published: 06/15/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hutchison, Gordon Douglas, Winchester, Joseph Robert, Schaller, Rebecca
• Application Number:
  US11/284,122
• Publication Number:
  US 20060130027A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/141
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/315 Object-oriented languages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/33 Intelligent editors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/427 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management

Abstract

A data processing method comprises receiving a user input, the user input corresponding to at least a portion of a programming language statement, displaying the portion of the programming language statement, detecting the requirement for a string component in the programming language statement portion, identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion, and displaying string components of the identified type.

Claims

1. A data processing method, comprising:

receiving a user input, the user input corresponding to at least a portion of a programming language statement;

displaying the portion of the programming language statement;

detecting a requirement for a string component in the programming language statement portion;

identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion; and

displaying string components of the identified type.

2. A data processing method according to claim 1, further comprising

receiving a further user input, the further user input corresponding to a displayed string component;

and

inserting the selected displayed string component in the portion of the programming language statement.

3. A data processing method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving further user input; and

manipulating the display of the displayed string components according to the received input.

4. A data processing method according to claim 2, further comprising:

receiving further user input; and

manipulating the display of the displayed string components according to the received input.

5. A data processing method according to claim 1, wherein the step of identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion comprises accessing metadata relating to the programming language statement portion.

6. A data processing method according to claim 2, wherein the step of identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion comprises accessing metadata relating to the programming language statement portion.

7. A data processing method according to claim 3, wherein the step of identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion comprises accessing metadata relating to the programming language statement portion.

8. A data processing system, comprising:

a user interface device for receiving a user input, the user input corresponding to at least a portion of a programming language statement;

a display device for displaying the portion of the programming language statement; and

a processor, the processor arranged to detect the requirement for a string component in the programming language statement portion, to identify the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion, and to control the display device to display string components of the identified type.

9. A data processing system according to claim 8, wherein the processor is further arranged, in response to a further user input, the further user input corresponding to a displayed string component, to insert the selected displayed string component in the portion of the programming language statement.

10. A data processing system according to claim 8, wherein the processor is further arranged, in response to a further user input, to manipulate the display of the displayed string components according to the received input.

11. A data processing system according to claim 9, wherein the processor is further arranged, in response to a further user input, to manipulate the display of the displayed string components according to the received input.

12. A data processing system according to claim 8, wherein the step of identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion comprises accessing metadata relating to the programming language statement portion.

13. A data processing system according to claim 9, wherein the step of identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion comprises accessing metadata relating to the programming language statement portion.

14. A data processing system according to claim 10, wherein the step of identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion comprises accessing metadata relating to the programming language statement portion.

15. A computer program product on a computer readable medium for controlling a data processing system, the computer program product comprising instructions for:

receiving a user input, the user input corresponding to at least a portion of a programming language statement;

displaying the portion of the programming language statement;

detecting the requirement for a string component in the programming language statement portion;

identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion; and

displaying string components of the identified type.

16. A computer program product according to claim 15, further comprising instructions for:

receiving a further user input, the further user input corresponding to a displayed string component; and

inserting the selected displayed string component in the portion of the programming language statement.

17. A computer program product according to claim 15, further comprising instructions for:

receiving further user input; and

manipulating the display of the displayed string components according to the received input.

18. A computer program product according to claim 16, further comprising instructions for:

receiving further user input; and

manipulating the display of the displayed string components according to the received input.

19. A computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the step of identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion comprises accessing metadata relating to the programming language statement portion.

20. A computer program product according to claim 16, wherein the step of identifying the type of string component required in the programming language statement portion comprises accessing metadata relating to the programming language statement portion.