公开(公告)号：US20020089538A1

公开(公告)日：2002-07-11

申请号：US09742510

申请日：2000-12-20

Applicant: National Instruments Corporation

Inventor： Lothar Wenzel ,  Subramanian Ramamoorthy ,  Greg Morrow ,  Mike Santori ,  John Limroth ,  Ram Kudukoli ,  Robert Dye

IPC: G09G005/00

CPC classification number: G06F8/34 ,  G05B2219/23008 ,  G05B2219/23258 ,  G05B2219/40099 ,  G11B25/043 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04L69/329 ,  Y10S715/967

Abstract: A system and method for programmatically generating a second graphical program based on a first graphical program. The first graphical program may be associated with a first programming development environment. For example, a user may have interactively created the first graphical program from within the first programming development environment, e.g., by using an editor to place various nodes on a block diagram, such that the nodes visually indicate functionality of the first graphical program. The method may operate to automatically, i.e., programmatically, generate a second graphical program based on the first graphical program, such that the second graphical program is associated with a second programming development environment. The method may generate the second graphical program programmatically, without relying on user input, or may prompt for user input to determine various options to use in generating the second graphical program. The second graphical program may implement the functionality of, or a portion of the functionality of, the first graphical program. The method preferably generates the second graphical program such that the second programming development environment is operable to treat the second graphical program identically to a graphical program interactively developed by a user using the second programming development environment. Thus, once the second graphical program has been generated, the user may use the second programming development environment to edit the second graphical program, execute the second graphical program, etc.

Abstract translation: 一种用于基于第一图形程序以编程方式生成第二图形程序的系统和方法。 第一图形程序可以与第一编程开发环境相关联。 例如，用户可以例如通过使用编辑器将各种节点放置在框图上，从而在第一编程开发环境内交互地创建第一图形程序，使得节点可视地指示第一图形程序的功能。 该方法可以自动操作，即以编程方式，基于第一图形程序生成第二图形程序，使得第二图形程序与第二编程开发环境相关联。 该方法可以以编程方式生成第二图形程序，而不依赖于用户输入，或者可以提示用户输入来确定用于生成第二图形程序的各种选项。 第二图形程序可以实现第一图形程序的功能或功能的一部分。 该方法优选地生成第二图形程序，使得第二编程开发环境可操作以将第二图形程序与使用第二编程开发环境的用户交互式开发的图形程序相同地处理。 因此，一旦生成了第二图形程序，用户可以使用第二编程开发环境来编辑第二图形程序，执行第二图形程序等。