METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REALIZING A DYNAMICALLY TYPED FILE OR OBJECT SYSTEM ENABLING A USER TO PERFORM CALCULATIONS OVER THE FIELDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FILES OR OBJECTS IN THE SYSTEM
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1. A method for calculating the value of a first path of a first entity in a data system comprising a calculation device and a storage device with said first path stored thereon, said method comprising the step of said calculation device calculating said value as all entities:
- that are descendants of said first entity; and
that are members of said first path.
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Abstract
According to the invention there is provided a method for retrieving the value of a first path of a first entity in a data system comprising a calculation device and a storage device with said first path stored thereon, said method comprising the step of said calculation device calculating said value as all calculated entities: that are descendants of said first entity; and that are members of said first path.
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1. A method for calculating the value of a first path of a first entity in a data system comprising a calculation device and a storage device with said first path stored thereon, said method comprising the step of said calculation device calculating said value as all entities:
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that are descendants of said first entity; and that are members of said first path. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 41, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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46. A method for calculating the content of a first folder of a first file in a data system comprising a calculation device and a storage device with said first folder stored thereon, said method comprising the step of said calculation device calculating said content as all files:
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that are children of said first file; and that are contained by said first folder. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48)
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- 57. A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying information indicative of computer executable instructions embodying a method that creates a new class in response to a user declaring a field, whose return type is a collection type, on an existing class, in order to let said user create new fields on said newly created class.
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61. A computer readable medium embodying information indicative of computer executable instructions embodying a method of displaying, by means of a tree widget, the files and folders present in the variation of a conventional file system, said method comprising
when in said tree widget a folder gets expanded, displaying file names under the name of said expanded folder; - and
when in said tree widget a file gets expanded, displaying folder names under the name of said expanded file, wherein said displayed folder names are the names of the subfolders of the folder in which said expanded file resides. - View Dependent Claims (62)
said file has a numeric field; and said parent file has a numeric field whose value is configured to be the sum of the values of said numeric field for all files that are child files of said parent file; and reside in the same folder as said file.
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