The Avionics Program Expert (APEX) is an automatic code generation tool for the Ada programming language (MIL-STD 1815A). It provides the programmer using APEX with the ability to quickly create a graphical representation of his initial program design. The graphical representation used by APEX is akin to a flowchart, but the interactive capabilities of the tool make design creation much faster and more efficient. Once the programmer has created his complete (or even partial) representation of a ...

System and method of designing and developing table translation software in which an operation is performed on input data provided in the form of tables, and data resulting from the operation is also provided in the form of tables. The system includes an item input section for inputting items representative of attributes of data, a relation input section for inputting inter-item relations for the inputted items, an item and relation managing section for holding and supplying the inputted items a...

Apparatus and method are disclosed for automatically generating computer programs for use in parallel processor arrangements from a user generated block diagram of the program. The system includes a library of parallel program modules and parallel program interface modules, a background manager (glue), a virtual shared memory, and a visual programming interface. Using the visual programming interface, the user selects parallel program modules and program interface modules and specifies operating...

A program generating method in which a program for performing again a series of user operations for an application program is generated as one which can be executed taking synchronization with a response message issued from a system program to the application program. A user operation for a window being used by an application is stored together with that window generation information issued for a request (for example, a request for window generation) from an application program which is issued f...

A programmable computer which operates by executing rules, each including a rule name, and optionally: input parameters, a set of conditions, a set of actions associated with each condition, and a set of exception handlers. A condition is a logical expression which evaluates to a true or false boolean value, while an action is an executable statement. An exception handler contains executable statements. The computer includes text entry and display means for programming of rules. A rule is displa...

An object-oriented system and method for visually generating software applications. The object-oriented system for visually generating software applications includes a visual interface for defining and linking control objects and corresponding services to create an intermediate command instruction file. Any control object or command instruction file can be edited and/or modified at any time. Also included is a run-time program for interpreting the intermediate command instruction file and genera...

A utility with a windows interface with which a single original-equipment-manufacturer (OEM) programmer can generate firmware compatible with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification. The firmware includes an ACPI name space, i.e., a hierarchical tree structure in operating system-controlled memory containing data objects, control method objects, and bus/device package objects. The hierarchical name space is constructed using a "click and drag" methodology, and is repr...

A technique, system, and computer program for enabling workstation software applications to efficiently and reliably use legacy host application data streams, without requiring change to the host applications. This is achieved by defining attributes of presentation spaces (screens or parts of screens) that are of interest to the workstation application, defining target objects to process the legacy host data, registering these attribute definitions and corresponding target objects with a screen ...

A visual programming aid for object-oriented programming provides high level visualization for domain experts of the entire object-oriented program to permit understanding of the program on a macro level and to permit the domain expert to participate in the programming. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by visually arranging objects in flow charts, each object having a block number. The entire flow chart system represents the flow of events, not the flow of time. This permits concurrent ex...

Disclosed is a programming aid for enabling a computer program in source code form to be viewed using a general purpose document browser, which browser is responsive to a defined set of control tags determining the appearance of a document thereon, the programming aid comprising: a parser for generating a symbol table from an input file in which the program is stored; means to derive control tag locations from the symbol table; and an output file generator for inserting control tags into the pro...