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Method and apparatus for providing improved type compatibility and data structure organization in a graphical data flow diagram

  • US 5,734,863 A
  • Filed: 08/17/1994
  • Issued: 03/31/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for improved type compatibility in a computer system including means for creating a virtual instrument, said virtual instrument comprising a graphical program and a graphical front panel, the method comprising the steps of:

  • the computer system displaying on the screen a graphical front panel of a first virtual instrument;

    the computer system displaying on the screen an original control in said graphical front panel of said first virtual instrument that references a first variable, wherein said original control displays data in said first virtual instrument, wherein said original control has a first type;

    the computer system placing one or more copies of said original control in various places in one or more graphical front panels of one or more virtual instruments as directed by the user, wherein said one or more copies of said original control display data in respective ones of said one or more virtual instruments, wherein said one or more copies of said original control have said first type;

    the computer system changing the type of said original control to a second type as directed by the user; and

    the computer system automatically updating the type of said one or more copies of said original control to said second type.

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