Determining when to evaluate program code and provide results in a live evaluation programming environment

• US 9,582,400 B1
• Filed: 06/08/2015
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
• Original Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
• Inventors: Bienkowski, Joseph R., Wey, Claudia G., Erickson, Michelle D., Hinkle, Benjamin V., MacDonald, Jared D., Booker, John E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Khatri, Anil
• Application Number:
  US14/733,544
• Time in Patent Office: 631 Days
• Field of Search: 717123-129, 717140-142
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0489 using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/33 Intelligent editors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells

Abstract

A device may provide a user interface that includes a first section for displaying multiple portions of program code and a second section for displaying multiple results of evaluating the multiple portions of program code. The device may detect an evaluation trigger associated with an unevaluated portion of program code of the multiple portions of program code. The device may determine one or more portions of program code to be evaluated based on detecting the evaluation trigger. The one or more portions of program code may be less than the multiple portions of program code. The device may cause the one or more portions of program code to be evaluated to generate one or more corresponding results. The device may provide the one or more corresponding results for display via the second section of the user interface.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

one or more processors to;

provide a user interface for displaying program code and results of evaluating at least a portion of the program code;

detect an evaluation trigger associated with the program code;

evaluate one or more portions of the program code based on the evaluation trigger; and

provide results from evaluating the one or more portions of the program code for display in the user interface while the program code is displayed in the user interface.

2. The device of claim 1, where the evaluation trigger comprises input indicating that a user has navigated to a different portion of program code other than the one or more portions of the program code.

3. The device of claim 1, where the evaluation trigger comprises input indicating that one or more keyboard inputs have been received.

4. The device of claim 1, where the evaluation trigger comprises a determination that user input has not been received for a threshold amount of time.

5. The device of claim 1, where the evaluation trigger comprises a determination that the one or more portions of the program code are error-free.

6. The device of claim 1, where the evaluation trigger comprises input indicating that a user has navigated away from the one or more portions of the program code.

7. The device of claim 1, where the evaluation trigger comprises input received from an eye tracking device.

8. A computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

provide a user interface for displaying program code and results of evaluating at least a portion of the program code;

detect an evaluation trigger associated with the program code;

evaluate one or more portions of the program code based on the evaluation trigger; and

provide results from evaluating the one or more portions of the program code for display in the user interface while the one or more portions of program code are displayed in the user interface.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the evaluation trigger comprises user input.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the evaluation trigger is detected without explicit user input.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the evaluation trigger comprises a determination that a function has been input.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, where the evaluation trigger comprises a determination that one or more required arguments of the function have been input.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, where the evaluation trigger comprises a determination that the one or more required arguments are valid for the function.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the evaluation trigger comprises a determination that an evaluation trigger value satisfies a threshold.

15. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

providing, by a device, a user interface for displaying program code and results of evaluating at least a portion of the program code;

detecting, by the device, an evaluation trigger associated with the program code;

evaluating, by the device, one or more portions of the program code based on the evaluation trigger; and

providing, by the device, results from evaluating the one or more portions of the program code for display in the user interface while the one or more portions of program code are displayed in the user interface.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, where the evaluation trigger comprises a determination that a calculated evaluation trigger value satisfies a threshold.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, further comprising:

determining that the one or more portions of the program code are associated with an error after detecting the evaluation trigger;

detecting another evaluation trigger, associated with the one or more portions of the program code, based on determining that the one or more portions of the program code are associated with the error; and

evaluating the one or more portions of the program code based on detecting the other evaluation trigger.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, where the evaluation trigger is based on a program code type of the one or more portions of the program code.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, where detecting the evaluation trigger comprises detecting a plurality of evaluation triggers.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 19, where the evaluation trigger is detected based on an evaluation trigger value that is calculated based on the plurality of evaluation triggers.