Abstract: Embodiments relate to enabling users to provide feedback on resources displayed in user interfaces. A feedback tool is executed to allow a user to specify a resource displayed in a user interface. Context metadata about the user interface is captured and stored by the feedback tool. The context metadata corresponds to runtime activity such as loading executable modules, rendering the user interface, handling windowing/input events, etc. The tool is used to specify a resource displayed in the user interface. This triggers capture of the specified resource and the runtime context metadata. The resource and context metadata are searched for in a database of known resources and their respective properties and identifiers. If a match is found, then the source-level identity of the resource is known. The feedback is associated with the resource and used to directly supplement or modify the resource in a source code resource file.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to enabling users to provide feedback on resources displayed in user interfaces. A feedback tool is executed to allow a user to specify a resource displayed in a user interface. Context metadata about the user interface is captured and stored by the feedback tool. The context metadata corresponds to runtime activity such as loading executable modules, rendering the user interface, handling windowing/input events, etc. The tool is used to specify a resource displayed in the user interface. This triggers capture of the specified resource and the runtime context metadata. The resource and context metadata are searched for in a database of known resources and their respective properties and identifiers. If a match is found, then the source-level identity of the resource is known. The feedback is associated with the resource and used to directly supplement or modify the resource in a source code resource file.

Abstract: An extension of object-oriented programming languages enables the use of replaceable classes and virtual constructors, thereby allowing existing code that creates objects of a base class to be reusable for creating instances of a new class derived from the base class. A base class intended to be replaceable later is declared to be replaceable. In the case of a compiled language, the programming code defining and using the base class is compiled into a reusable module. Later, a new class derived from the base class is identified as a replacement for the base class and is used in new programming code that uses the existing reusable module. The replacement relationship between the old base class and the new class is registered. During execution of the program, when the old code of the reusable module indicates the creation of an object of the base class, the registered replacement information is referenced.