Patent ID: 11875137
Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A method comprising:
installing a module in a menu driven program development environment on a digital device, wherein:
the menu driven program development environment includes a set of menu tags and a set of inline prompts;
each of the set of inline prompts is associated with a unique two byte code having a value between 0xE000 and 0xF8FF;
a set of remaining two byte code values includes values between 0xE000 and 0xF8FF that are not assigned to one of the set of inline prompts;
the menu driven program development environment includes a first inline prompt used by a first menu of a menu structure of the menu driven program development environment, the first inline prompt defined based on a first one of the set of menu tags and a first one of the set of inline prompts;
the module includes a definition of a second inline prompt and a definition of a second menu using the second inline prompt;
the second inline prompt is associated with a unique two byte code in the set of remaining two byte code values; and
the second inline prompt is different from the first inline prompt;

adding the second inline prompt to the first inline prompt to form a set of inline prompts;
adding the second menu to the menu structure of the program development environment;
displaying the first menu, wherein the first menu includes a first menu item definition referencing the first inline prompt; and
displaying the second menu, wherein the second menu includes a second menu item definition referencing the second inline prompt.