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Source code semantic zoom and spatial layout

  • US 8,561,015 B2
  • Filed: 06/15/2009
  • Issued: 10/15/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system having a processor comprising:

  • at least one artifact comprising data relating to entities and relationships between the entities;

    a diagramming surface to represent the entities and the relationships between the entities;

    the processor to render views of data relating to the entities and the relationships between the entities on the diagramming surface,a real-time viewer operably coupled to the diagramming surface, the real time viewer comprising;

    (a) at least one retrieval module to retrieve data from the at least one artifact comprising the data and the relationships to be rendered by the rendering engine, and(b) a plurality of controls to proportionally manipulate views of the data and the relationships to be rendered by the rendering engine, at least one of the controls comprising an in-place editor and at least one of the controls comprising a panning and zooming control, in which the proportionally manipulating comprises proportionally shrinking the data with the relationships, wherein the zooming control proportionally manipulates the views among a plurality of layers of abstraction of source code including an intermediate level view with details of object attributes and the source code reduced in size such that the source code is not shown.

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