Extensions to C for interface programming

Rhyne, James R.

doi:10.1145/62402.62405

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“…A variety of specification languages for describing WIMP and other previous generations of user interfaces has been developed, and user interface management systems have been built based on them [Myers 1995], using approaches such as BNF or other grammar-based specifications [Olsen 1992;Reisner 1981;Rhyne 1988;Shneiderman 1982], state transition diagrams [Jacob 1983a;Newman 1968], event handlers [Flecchia and Bergeron 1987;Hill 1986], declarative specifications [Olsen 1992], frames [Szekely 1987], and others [Foley et al 1989;Green 1985;Kasik 1982;Myers 1988;Sibert et al 1986;Yunten and Hartson 1985]. For example, although BNF had been a good match for programming languages or batch command interfaces, interactive, moded graphical interfaces were perhaps better captured by state transition diagram-based approaches [Jacob 1983b]; and modern modeless WIMP interfaces fit a coroutine-based model [Jacob 1986].…”

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A software model and specification language for non-WIMP user interfaces

Jacob

Deligiannidis

Morrison

1999

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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We present a software model and language for describing and programming the fine-grained aspects of interaction in a non-WIMP user interface, such as a virtual environment. Our approach is based on our view that the essence of a non-WIMP dialogue is a set of continuous relationships-most of which are temporary. The model combines a data-flow or constraintlike component for the continuous relationships with an event-based component for discrete interactions, which can enable or disable individual continuous relationships. To demonstrate our approach, we present the PMIW user interface management system for non-WIMP interactions, a set of examples running under it, a visual editor for our user interface description language, and a discussion of our implementation and our restricted use of constraints for a performance-driven interactive situation. Our goal is to provide a model and language that captures the formal structure of non-WIMP interactions in the way that various previous techniques have captured command-based, textual, and event-based styles and to suggest that using it need not compromise real-time performance.

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