National Instruments Corporation

Darren M Nattinger

Darshan K Shah

Philippe G Joffrain

Joel Sumner

A system and method for visually indicating one or more problems in a graphical program. The graphical program may be programmatically analyzed to discover a problem (or potential problem) in the graphical program. The problem found during the programmatic analysis of the graphical program may then be visually indicated on a display device. Visually indicating the problem may comprise visually indicating one or more objects in the graphical program to which the problem corresponds. Visually indicating the graphical program object(s) may comprise displaying information or altering the appearance of the object(s) in order to call the user's attention to the object(s).

Programmatic analysis of graphical sub-programs within a graphical program

Automatically correcting problems found during programmatic analysis of a graphical program

A system and method for programmatically analyzing and modifying a graphical program. The graphical program may be stored in a memory. The graphical program may then be programmatically analyzed. In various embodiments, the graphical program may be a graphical program that performs any function for any application, and the graphical program may be analyzed to determine any information or characteristics regarding the graphical program. One or more suggested modifications to the graphical program may be displayed based on the programmatic analysis performed on the graphical program. The user may be able to select which of the suggested modifications to automatically apply to the graphical program. The graphical program may then be programmatically modified to implement the one or more suggested modifications selected by the user.

Automatically analyzing and modifying a graphical program

A system and method for programmatically analyzing and modifying a graphical program via a network. The graphical program may be stored on a memory medium at a first location. A program may be executed on a computer system at a second location. The computer system at the second location may be coupled via a network to the memory medium at the first location or may be coupled to a computer system or device which includes or has access to the memory medium at the first location. The program on the computer system at the second location may execute to programmatically analyze the graphical program via the network. In one embodiment the program on the computer system at the second location may also execute to programmatically modify the graphical program via the network, based on the programmatic analysis of the graphical program.

Automatically analyzing and modifying a remote graphical program via a network

A system and method for enabling programmatic analysis of a graphical program, where the programmatic analysis includes user-defined tests. A software program referred to herein as a graphical program analyzer may be operable to programmatically analyze a graphical program by programmatically performing various tests on the graphical program. Some of the tests may be built in to the graphical program analyzer. The graphical program analyzer may also allow a user to add various user-defined tests. Adding user-defined tests to the graphical program analyzer may allow the functionality of the graphical program analyzer to be extended. When programmatically analyzing a graphical program, the graphical program analyzer may be operable to perform the user-defined tests in addition to the built-in tests.

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Darren M Nattinger