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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1992
Katsuhiko Yuura, Kodaira, JP;
Hisashi Takahashi, Sagamihara, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi VLSI Engineering Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A process for architecting a figure input/output interface of an instance is provided in an object-oriented design supporting system or the like. An applicable graphic editor is provided with a figure editor, which expands a function for defining a method to draw a user figure and also a function for defining a slot of a figure attribute when the user figure is designated; and furthermore expands a function to produce an instance when the user figure is drawn and also a function for coupling the instances when the figures are connected with each other. Then, input/output figures of a design component are defined and inputted with employment of this applicable graphic editor. In the output, a slot of the displayed instance is updated and then a display is deformed. As a result, the formation of the figure input/output for the instance such as the design component is available by only operating the screen of the applicable graphic editor. According to another aspect, a user figure corresponding to a class is formed by operating a screen of a figure editor, whereby a connection point and a slot of a figure attribute is designated. As a result, a program for inputting/outputting a figure, coupling the figures and deforming the displayed figure is automatically produced, so that it is possible to input a figure of an instance, couple the instances by the figure connections and to realize an animation description by updating the slot of the instance.