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Building a timeline editor from prefab parts: the architecture of an object-oriented application

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 21, Issue 11

Pages 202 - 213

https://doi.org/10.1145/960112.28717

Published: 01 June 1986 Publication History

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This article describes InterVal, a software tool that allows authors to create dynamic timelines. It is one tool in Intermedia, a framework developed at Brown University's institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) that allows professors and students to create linked multimedia documents and encourages exploration, connectivity, and visualization of ideas. The system was written using an object-oriented extension to C, MacApp, and a set of underlying building blocks, or functional groups of objects. This paper describes InterVal and discusses the architecture of the InterVal application, focusing on the design of the object-oriented architecture and on the use of appropriate building blocks. Concluding sections evaluate object-oriented programming and outline future work.

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Building a timeline editor from prefab parts: the architecture of an object-oriented application
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 21, Issue 11

Proceedings of the 1986 conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

Nov. 1986

495 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/960112

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OOPSLA '86: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
June 1986
508 pages
ISBN:0897912047
DOI:10.1145/28697
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Norman Meyrowitz

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