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9780867204506

Languages for Developing User Interfaces

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  • ISBN13:

    9780867204506

  • ISBN10:

    0867204508

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-02-11
  • Publisher: A. K. Peters

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This book brings together a number of researchers and developers from industry and academia who report on their work. It is of interest to language designers and the creators of toolkits, UIMSs, and other user interface tools.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Workshop Participants
Contributors
Introductionp. 1
Programming Languages for End Users
The User Interface Is The Languagep. 21
A Component Architecture for Personal Computer Softwarep. 31
Design Support Environments for End Usersp. 57
The Use-Mention Perspective on Programming for the Interfacep. 79
Why the User Interface Is Not the Programming Language--and How It Can Bep. 91
Programming Languages for Programmers
General Goals
How Programming Languages Might Better Support User Interface Toolsp. 105
Requirements for User Interface Programming Languagesp. 115
Languages for the Construction of Multi-User Multi-Media Synchronous (MUMMS) Applicationsp. 125
Models for Objects and Interaction
Ideas from Garnet for Future User Interface Programming Languagesp. 147
Constraints
Constraint Imperative Programming Languages for Building Interactive Systemsp. 161
An Active-Value-Spreadsheet Model for Interactive Languagesp. 183
Properties of User Interface Systems and the Siri Programming Languagep. 211
Concurrency and Time
A Foundation for User Interface Constructionp. 239
User Interface Programming with Cooperative Processesp. 261
Constructing User Interfaces with Functions and Temporal Constraintsp. 279
Representations for User Actions
Different Languages for Different Development Activities: Behavioral Representation Techniques for User Interface Designp. 303
Syntax
Hints on the Design of User Interface Language Features--Lessons from the Design of Turingp. 329
Workshop Reports
Report of the "End-User Programming" Working Groupp. 343
Report of the "User/Programmer Distinction" Working Groupp. 367
Report of the "Linguistic Support" Working Groupp. 385
Future Research Issues in Languages for Developing User Interfacesp. 401
Bibliographyp. 419
Indexp. 447
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