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A two-view approach to constructing user interfaces

Authors:

Gideon Avrahami,

Kenneth P. Brooks,

Marc H. BrownAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '89: Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Pages 137 - 146

https://doi.org/10.1145/74333.74347

Published: 01 July 1989 Publication History

Abstract

This paper describes a system for constructing graphical user interfaces following a two-view paradigm: one view contains a textual representation of the interface in a special-purpose, "little" language, and the other view contains a direct manipulation, interactive editor for the user interface. The user interface can be edited in either view, and the changes are reflected in the other view. The language allows dialog boxes to be expressed in a simple and natural way, and has a well-defined mapping into the interactive editor. A base set of interactors is currently available, but the system can be easily extended with more interactors. We believe this approach to building user interfaces combines the advantages of the direct manipulation, WYSIWYG approach with the advantages of the textual, descriptive approach, and does not suffer from the limitations of either approach.

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SIGGRAPH '89: Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

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DOI:10.1145/74333

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July 1989
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DOI:10.1145/74334
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