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Using an embedded interpreted language to develop an interactive user-interface description tool

  • US 5,696,914 A
  • Filed: 03/22/1994
  • Issued: 12/09/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An interactive interface description tool comprising:

  • a library of interactive objects;

    a library of command objects;

    a library of graphical objects;

    an interface description program enabling the generation of an interface;

    an interpreted language; and

    an object oriented interpreter for said interpreted language embedded within said interface description program wherein said interface description program works with said library of interactive objects, said library of command objects and said library of graphical objects and wherein dynamic behavior of the interactive objects is defined by a set of call back procedures written in said interpreted language that designate application functions called by said library of command objects upon receipt of an entry flag by one of the interactive objects of said library of interactive objects, wherein said interactive interface description tool further comprises a program that allows a user to display a base menu for invoking an edit function, a create function and a geometry function, wherein the edit function allows the user to edit interactive object attributes in a separate window, as well as edit attributes of respective interactive parent objects, and wherein the edit function allows the user to display an editing window for interactive object attributes, said window divided into two areas, a first of said areas including called functions of a callback application procedure, and a second of said areas including attributes displayed by a set of sub-editors associated with said edit function.

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