Patent ID: 7478364
Filing Date: 2009-01-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining a message quantity for computer program code, comprising: providing computer program code; parsing and analyzing the computer program code to determine if display messages need to be inserted into the computer program code, wherein the display messages are designed to support the computer program code during execution of the computer program code by providing information to an end-user of the computer program code, and wherein the messages include information messages not related to performance information; uniquely formatting sections of the computer program code based upon types of display messages determined to be needed by at least color-coding the sections wherein at least two types of unique formatting are used; determining a quantity for each of the types of display messages by summing the uniquely color coded sections for each of the types of messages to provide the quantity for each of the types of messages; and outputting the quantity.