An object-oriented design for user interfaces

Author

Dodani, Mahesh ; Perng, J.-H.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Iowa Univ., Iowa City, IA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

28-31 Mar 1995

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

358

Abstract

The Object-Oriented (OO) design architecture for user interfaces presented in this paper, called IOWARE, is effective, does not violate OO principles, and promotes a high degree of reusability, extendibility, and portability. The innovative features of the design architecture are: [1] the decomposition of interactive applications into atomic and container interactive objects, [2] the use of dynamically manipulable resources to represent all interaction behavior, [3] a generic mechanism that facilitates communication between objects, and [4] a simple and elegant mechanism for composing complex interactive objects. A prototype implementation built on top of Smalltalk is presented

Keywords

object-oriented methods; user interface management systems; IOWARE; Smalltalk; extendibility; object-oriented design; portability; prototype; reusability; user interfaces; Cities and towns; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Computer science; Containers; Dynamic programming; Interactive systems; Object oriented modeling; Prototypes; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1995., Conference Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Fourteenth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2492-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1995.472469

Filename

472469