METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN APPLICATION

• US 20090037890A1
• Filed: 08/01/2008
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Smartmicros USA LLC
• Original Assignee: Smartmicros USA LLC
• Inventors: Kazmi, Syed Zafar
• Application Number:
  US12/184,852
• Publication Number:
  US 20090037890A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/142
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/48 Incremental compilation software reuse G06F8/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44557 Code layout in executable memory

Abstract

Methods and systems for generating an application are described. In one embodiment, source code associated with an application may be accessed. A header section of a main segment may be generated based on the compiling. The header section may describe the application. A user interface section of the main segment may be generated based on the compiling. The user interface section may be capable of being used to draw screens, display information, and receive user input. A procedures section of the main segment may be generated based on the compiling. The user interface section may be capable of being used to draw screens, display information, and receive user input. A text resources segment of the application may be generated based on the compiling. The text resources segment may include textual data. A binary resources segment of the application may be generated based on the compiling. The binary resources segment may include binary data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing source code associated with an application;

compiling the source code;

generating a header section of a main segment based on the compiling, the header section describing the application;

generating a user interface section of the main segment based on the compiling, the user interface section capable of being used to draw screens, display information, and receive user input;

generating a procedures section of the main segment based on the compiling;

generating a text resources segment of the application based on the compiling, the text resources segment including textual data; and

generating a binary resources segment of the application based on the compiling, the binary resources segment including binary data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the user interface section comprises:

generating a plurality of visual components of the user interface section, a particular visual component capable of being utilized to generate an event corresponding to an action of a user of the application.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a particular visual component of the plurality of visual components may be in a hierarchical relationship with another visual component of the plurality of visual components.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the plurality of visual components include the basic component data and a particular visual component of the visual components includes additional data beyond the basic component data.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the event includes an OnEnter event, an OnInput event, an OnExit event, an OnInit event, or an OnClear event.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the particular visual component includes at least one of a component size field, a component type field, a component caption field, a general proprieties field, an event field, a popup menu command field, a component specific data field, or combinations thereof.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of visual components include a textedit component, a textview component, an options component, a form component, an image component, a date and time component, or combinations thereof,

wherein the textview component is configured to display textual data with or without special formatting, the textedit component is configured to gather text as the user input, and the options component is configured to present a plurality of options to the user and receive a particular selection of the plurality of options.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the options component includes a specific properties field, an additional properties field, an options group, an options item, or combinations thereof,

wherein the options group includes a grouping of a plurality of options items that may be expanded to display the grouping when the options grouping is selected.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the grouping of the plurality of options items includes an additional options group.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of visual components are organized in a hierarchical manner.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the procedures section comprises:

generating a plurality of procedures for the procedures section, a particular procedure of the plurality of procedures being capable of accessing input data, processing the input data, and providing a result based on the processing of the input data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the particular procedure includes a plurality of actions, a particular action of the plurality of actions representing a low-level machine instruction.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the plurality of actions are in a sequential order for the particular procedure and are capable of being referenced by an index number based of the sequential order.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the plurality of actions include a set action, an addition action, a subtraction action, a multiplication action, a division action, a remainder action, a not action, an equals action, a not equals action, a greater than action, a less than action, a greater than or equal to action, a less than or equal to action, a goto form action, a call procedure action, a relative jump action, an absolute jump action, an insert action, an update action, a select action, a delete action, a send action, a receiver action, a send asynchronous action, a message action, an error message action, an exit action, a dial action, or combinations thereof.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the header section includes at least one of a standard version field, a header size field, an application size field, an application identifier field, an application version field, an application name field, an application icon field, a number of categories field, a category name field, a category icon field, an additional data field, or combinations thereof.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the textual data is referenced in the text resources segment by number based on order.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the binary data is implicitly indexed in binary resources segment by number based on order.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the binary data and the textual data are defined based on a data representation scheme, the data representation scheme including a numeric representation of numbers using a variable number of bytes.

19. A method comprising:

determining an occurrence of an event during execution of an application;

identifying a procedure from a procedures section of an application based on the determining of the occurrence of the event;

loading a plurality of actions associated with the procedure based on the identifying of the procedure;

accessing textual data from a text resources segment of the application based on a particular action of the plurality of actions;

accessing binary data from a binary resources segment of the application based on the particular action;

performing a function of the particular action based on the instruction specified in the particular action, the textual data, and the binary data; and

proving a result of the performing of the function.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

accessing a main segment of the application based on the determining of the occurrence, the main segment including a header section, a user interface section, and a procedures section, the procedures section including the plurality of action items;

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

generating the event corresponding to an action of a user of the application, wherein the determining of the occurrence is based on the generating of the event.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the event includes an OnEnter event, an OnInput event, an OnExit event, an OnInit event, or an OnClear event.

23. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

identifying a visual component based on the determining of the occurrence,

wherein the identifying of the procedure is based on the identifying of the visual component.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the identifying the visual component comprises:

identifying a textedit component as the visual component,

wherein the result of the performing of the function includes displaying textual data with or without special formatting.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein the identifying the visual component comprises:

identifying a textview component as the visual component,

wherein the result of the performing of the function includes presenting a plurality of options to the user.

26. The method of claim 19, wherein the event is associated with a user action, a system event, or combinations thereof.

27. The method of claim 19, wherein a particular action of the plurality of actions may be performed uniformly regardless of a data type associated with the particular action.

loading a plurality of actions associated with the procedure based on the identifying of the procedure;

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the plurality of numeric representations associated with the particular action may be represented differently.

29. A method comprising:

receiving a data item of a data type in a textual format;

identifying the data type of the data item as a numeric data type;

determining a number of bytes for a numeric representation of the data item based on the identifying of the data type; and

storing the numeric representation of the data item.

30. The method of claim 29, further comprising:

identifying inclusion of the data item in a value range of a plurality of available value ranges,

wherein the determining of the number of bytes is based on the identifying of the inclusion.

31. A machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more processors perform the following operations:

access source code associated with an application;

compile the source code;

generating a header section of a main segment based on the compiling, the header section describing the application;

generating a user interface section of the main segment based on the compiling, the user interface section capable of being used to draw screens, display information, and receive user input;

generating a procedures section of the main segment based on the compiling;

generate a text resources segment of the application based on the compilation, the text resources segment including textual data; and

generate a binary resources segment of the application based on the compilation, the binary resources segment including binary data.

32. The machine-readable medium of claim 31, wherein the binary data and the textual data are defined based on a data representation scheme, the data representation scheme enabling uniform interpretation and processing of the binary data and the textual data.

33. A machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more processors perform the following operations:

determine an occurrence of an event during execution of an application;

identify a procedure from a procedures section of the application based on the determination of the occurrence of the event;

load a plurality of actions associated with the procedure based on identification of the procedure;

access textual data from a text resources segment of the application based on a particular action of the plurality of actions;

access binary data from a binary resources segment of the application based on the particular action;

perform a function of the particular action based on the instruction specified in the particular action, the textual data, and the binary data; and

prove a result of performance of the function.

34. The machine-readable medium of claim 33, wherein the plurality of actions include a set action, an addition action, a subtraction action, a multiplication action, a division action, a remainder action, a not action, an equals action, a not equals action, a greater than action, a less than action, a greater than or equal to action, a less than or equal to action, a goto form action, a call procedure action, a relative jump action, an absolute jump action, an insert action, an update action, a select action, a delete action, a send action, a receiver action, a send asynchronous action, a message action, an error message action, an exit action, a dial action, or combinations thereof.

35. A system comprising:

a processor;

a data access module coupled to the processor to access source code associated with an application;

a compiler module to compile the source code;

a main segment generation module to generate a main segment of an application based on the compiling by the compiler module, the main segment including a header section, a user interface section, and a procedures section, the header section describing the application, the user interface section capable of being used to draw screens, display information, and receive user input;

a text resources segment generation module to generate a text resources segment of the application based on the compiling by the compiler module, the text resources segment including textual data; and

a binary resources segment generation module to generate a binary resources segment of the application based on the compiling by the compiler module, the binary resources segment including binary data.

36. The system of claim 35, further comprising:

an occurrence determination module to determine an occurrence of an event during execution of the application;

a procedure identification module to identify a procedure from the procedures section based on the determining of the occurrence of the event by the occurrence determination module;

an action loading module to load the plurality of actions associated with the procedure based on the identifying of the procedure by the procedure identification module;

a textual data access module to access textual data from the text resources segment generated by the text resources segment generation module based on a particular action of the plurality of actions;

a binary data access module to access binary data from the binary resources segment generated by the binary resources segment generation module based on the particular action;

a function performance module to perform a function of the particular action based on the instruction specified in the particular action, the textual data, and the binary data; and

a result provider module to prove a result of the performing of the function by the function performance module.