Interface and application development management system based on a gene metaphor

摘要

A system for compiling and managing screen images on a stack or data base with attached fields, and application program objects. The system lets users compile programs from screen images and their attached objects, which if executed after the screen image and object parameters have been changed, will translate the same screen image with the same objects attached in the same places. This allows maintaining multiple formats each with different application for the same stack. The system can be used to (a) edit screen formats in the program's script language, (b) manage alternative user interfaces for a data base or stack, (c) provide multiple formats and application interfaces for the same data base, (d) have multiple user interfaces for the same data base depending on users sophistication, (e) solve the system update installation problem, and (f) allow copying user interface including functional capability from one stack and installing it in another.