The oval menu-evolution and evaluation of a widget

Author

Lyons, P.J. ; Pitchforth, M. ; Page, D. ; Given, T. ; Apperley, M.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Massey Univ., Palmerston North, New Zealand

fYear

1996

fDate

24-27 Nov 1996

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

259

Abstract

This paper describes the development and heuristic evaluation of the oval menu, a widget for use in applications for drawing networks and similar linked structures. It is a variety of pie menu, capable of being organised as a hierarchy and of having its contents updated dynamically. Thus it is suitable for environments where libraries of components are created and used. Care has been taken to optimise it for use as a direct manipulation tool. The oval menu has been implemented for use on PC and PC-compatible computers running Windows and Windows95. It is written in Microsoft Visual C++ and uses the Microsoft Foundation Classes. It is a DLL, and the component libraries it uses are also DLLs, so it is easily adaptable for use by other applications

Keywords

computer graphics; graphical user interfaces; software libraries; visual languages; visual programming; DLL; Microsoft Foundation Classes; Microsoft Visual C++; Windows; Windows95; direct manipulation tool; drawing; heuristic evaluation; oval menu; personal computer; pie menu; software libraries; widget; Application software; Circuit simulation; Collaboration; Design automation; Electronics packaging; Induction motors; Libraries; Microprocessors; Page description languages; Power supplies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Human Interaction, 1996. Proceedings., Sixth Australian Conference on

Conference_Location

Hamilton

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7525-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OZCHI.1996.560018

Filename

560018