Source code generating device

• US 20080244424A1
• Filed: 02/20/2008
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sakamoto, Koichi, Fukuda, Hidenori
• Application Number:
  US12/071,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20080244424A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/763
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming

Abstract

It is an object of this invention to improve the efficiency in software development, modification, and maintenance by efficiently designing a user interface with designs which differ among a plurality of execution environments and efficiently outputting source code and GUI display data from the editing result, in a source code generating device for generating source code and GUI display data for displaying a GUI. Positions, sizes, component attributes, and event actions which differ among execution environments are managed for each of user interface components and are allowed to be independently edited. With this configuration, a piece of information which varies according to execution environment and a piece of information common to execution environments are edited, and pieces of source code and pieces of GUI display data for a plurality of execution environments are generated.

Claims

1. A source code generating device for generating source code of a program to be executed by a computer and GUI display data for displaying a user interface component on a display screen, comprising:

first means for editing user interface components with different pieces of component element information including positions, sizes and component attributes, each of the user interface components corresponding to execution environments of the computer; and

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second means for generating and outputting GUI display data for the user interface components corresponding to a designated one of the execution environments based on pieces of component information obtained by the result of editing and source code for displaying the user interface components using the GUI display data.

2. The source code generating device according to claim 1, further comprising means for previewing the user interface components on an editing screen using the GUI display data.

3. The source code generating device according to claim 1, further comprising means for receiving an instruction of switching the execution environments to switch to an editing screen, a user interface component in an execution environment designated by the instruction.

4. The source code generating device according to claim 2, further comprising means for receiving an instruction of switching the execution environments to switch to an editing screen, a user interface component in an execution environment designated by the instruction.

5. The source code generating device according to claim 1, further comprising means for excluding at least one of the user interface components from a list of objects for which one of source code and GUI display data is to be output, depending on execution environment.

6. The source code generating device according to claim 2, further comprising means for excluding at least one of the user interface components from a list of objects for which one of source code and GUI display data is to be output, depending on execution environment.

7. The source code generating device according to claim 3, further comprising means for excluding at least one of the user interface components from a list of objects for which one of source code and GUI display data is to be output, depending on execution environment.