US Patent No: 5,740,444

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Symbol browsing in an object-oriented development system

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Abstract

A system of the present invention includes a development system having a language compiler for generating application and system software from source listings. The system includes an Integrated Development Environment having a browser. Methods of the present invention include inspecting symbols (e.g., classes, objects, methods, variables, and the like) dynamically, i.e., while retaining active scope of the symbol. More particularly, the browser of the present invention directly references symbol information stored in object code or executable modules, which are generated during compilation of the source listings. In this manner, the system provides symbol information directly relevant to the context (location in source listing) the user/programmer is currently working.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
CODEGEAR LLCSCOTTS VALLEY, CA34

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Frid-Nielsen, Lars Kristian Santa Cruz, CA 1 43

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