RE: A92: IDEA
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RE: A92: IDEA
You could call it "Visual Asm 68k" or something like that.
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>From: Anton Ivanov[SMTP:ivanova@ucs.orst.edu]
>Reply To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 10:11 PM
>To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: A92: IDEA
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>Boy I just had a weird idea. Could someone write a Windows program that
>would read an asm file and create a flowchart based on labels that begin
>with, say, capital letters or that do not begin with "/". That would be
>so cool! But that's not all. It should be more like a development
>environment, where you would start with an object (a box) called
>"_main", you would double-click on that object, and a window would pop
>up, allowing you to attach code to that object (the code that goes under
>the label _main). Then you would press a button, and bang! a new object
>created, and you name it Sub1. With a movement of a mouse you connect
>"Sub1" to" _main" with a line! Clicking on the line changes the nature
>of the link (bsr or bxx, in the case of the latter, you choose on the
>pop-up menu which one). The appropriate bsr, bra, rts statements are
>automatically inserted at the current cursor positions. And thus you
>create a program, first constructing the sceleton of objects, then
>attaching code to them, having several child windows open only for the
>objects you're working on.
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>Such an interface would greatly facilitate deciphering other peoples
>code, creating modular, bugless, easy to maintain programs, cutting
>development time greatly, etc.
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>I would take a shot at it, but unfortunately my knoweledge of Windows
>programming is very shallow, to put it mildly. I know however, that
>many people on this list are very talented Windows programmers. If this
>environment could be integated with B. Scherrer's upcoming development
>kit, it would be super!
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>So, any takers?
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