Appeal No. 1996-0951 Page 2
Application No. 07/880,793
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue in this appeal is a software tool
for generating computer code in a message-based environment.
A user interacts with the tool, making selections to define a
graphical user interface (GUI). When the selections are
completed, the tool begins the process of defining connections
between GUI code and functional code. It analyzes the GUI
definition and displays a list of all messages that could be
produced thereby. On the same display, the tool lists blocks
of code from a code library. The user selects a message and a
block of code to be invoked by the message. If the code block
has any prerequisite requirements, the user is prompted to
meet them. A message identifier, a pointer to the code block,
and any prerequisite data are then stored in a linked list
structure. Once the connections are defined, the tool
generates code for producing the defined GUI.
Claim 20, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
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